While its flaws are next to nothing, The Great amount of PGR4's strong points make you want to hug Bizarre Creations.
There are lots of cars and bikes in the game which you can race in more than 10 cities across the world, each one containing a handful of tracks. Each car and bike handle differently, but they all handle realistically and fun.
You can change the camera view during races and even go inside the vehicles. When you are inside the car that's when PGR teaches you how a racing game should be. The car interiors look good and the awesome sound of engines and tire screeching really put you inside of that car. From there, the great controls give you all the fun you can expect when taking turns and trading paints with enemies.
The cool thing about this game is that it's not just a point A to B racing game like lots of racing titles. With the Kudo system, the game encourages you to drive with style. Kudos are points given to you whenever you get a good drift, Pass over a car for the first time, having clean sections, Draft a car, burnout and take off, or in motorcycles case do wheelies and endos and stuff. the better you do the trick the more kudos you get. You can also chain these tricks together to build massive combos and if you do it all right you can chain tricks for the whole race, making the most points in a level. This not only gives each level lots of replayability, it makes the gameplay lots of fun. After you've gained those kudos you can spend them in PGR store for cars and some other things. You can do little customizations for your car but it's not that much but who cares? I won't.
Another nice thing is that motorcycles and cars get to race together. While cars are normally faster and safer (because you may fall if you crash hard on a bike), bikes are better for gaining kudos and better for taking hard turns. In other words, Cars have more acceleration and top speed, but bikes have more average speed than a car at the end.
while tracks look good and are fun to drive in, PGR brings weather effects to take your driving experience even further. every track in the game looks different in days, nights or in rain, snow or sun. The track gets wet when it rains, making you vehicle less stable. The snow blocks your view and make handling even harder. Every weather effect looks good and is lots of fun to get used to and play. When you are in your car, raindrops hit your windshield and wet your car. It all looks so good and real.
Gotham Career is a fun mode where you start as a rookie driver and must build your way up to the top by winning races, earning kudos, buying cars and winning more races. You start on a calender. Each days has its own events: Races, tournaments and invitational events, which are races which you are given a special vehicle and must do an objective to get a reward and you can choose to play them or not. There are lots of race modes and objective in the game so the action remains fresh till the very end. Every day you enter the race and compete. It doesn't matter if you lose because it's not the kind of game where you always have to win. So what happens if you lose? you get to try again next season. Arcade mode is lots of fun too when you finished the gotham career. Online mode is Awesome, too.
Bizarre creations did a great job on both the soundtrack and sound effects of the game. Engine and tires and crashes and everything else sound great and real. There's not much damage modeling in the game but the crashes sound just right.
To sum it all up, PGR4 is a complete experience and it's highly addictive. Nothing in this game will frustrate you a bit. If you are a racing fan, Be sure to buy this game and be sure that you'll love it. If you're not, there's a lot of chance PGR4 makes one out of you.