Product Description

'Project Gotham Racing 4' boasts a dramatic new weather system, revamped career mode, revised Kudos system, new tracks and locations as well as the world's most iconic vehicles. As well as a huge line up of exciting new features, for the first time in 'PGR' history, drivers will have the option of racing a variety of motorcycles from top manufacturers, such as Ducati, BMW and Honda. Whether on two wheels or four, players must perform daring and stylistic moves to win over their fans, who will cheer them on as they follow their road to racing notoriety. In addition, through a new content server, drivers can save their favourite races and search over Xbox LIVE for race content that is specific to their interests. Players can find out who has the longest slide or wheelie in Shanghai or St. Petersburg, for example, through the innovative new content server.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #242 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Microsoft
• Released on: 2007-10-12
• Rating: Universal, particularly children
• Platform: Xbox 360

Features

• Dynamic Weather System: Now racing through a track can mean facing an unexpected rain storm or snow flurries in the middle of a race. This results in changing physics when powering around a corner on the wet or icy surface in Shanghai and St. Petersburg or any of the game's 10 other locations.
• Flair & Driving Style: Pass your opponent at full speed as you pump your fists and exhibit more emotion as you earn recognition with the revised Kudos system. The Kudos will be worthwhile too, because the new A.I. personalities will be able to perform bold new driving maneuvers as they race side by side with other drivers.
• 120+ Iconic Vehicles: More than 120 iconic vehicles, including motorcycles, from the world's top manufacturers. PGR4 puts gamers behind the wheel of the world's most iconic cars, including the 1957 Maserati 250F, 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray, 1978 Lamborghini Countach LP400, 1993 Toyota Supra Turbo, and 2006 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano. In addition, for the first time motorcycles from top manufacturers, such as Ducati, BMW and Honda, will be included in the game. Whether in single-player mode or playing with a team of up to seven other drivers, players can choose to race two motorcycles side by side or race with a combination of cars and motorcycles. The game's unique physics engine enables drivers to pull off incredible driving maneuvers not found in any other racing game.
• Xbox LIVE gameplay: PGR4 sets a new standard for racing on Xbox LIVE, allowing drivers to build a global racing community through team-orientated gameplay while making it easy to find their favorite races or images.

Customer Reviews

Simple fun
The big dilemma is whether to buy PGR 4 or Forza motor sport. Well I can tell you now that PGR 4 is no were as realistic as Forza. It also isn't for the hardcore racing fans who like to tune cars and buy accessories and rims and such like. However the graphics are great and it is really good fun on career mode. The online play is also good but the lobby's take quite a long time to load and the different varieties of modes you can play is not amazing. Having said all this I really do like this game and the feature of moving your way up the leader board in single player is a nice touch. If you want a good solid enjoyable racing game that does not have to many frills such as tuning facilities then thins is the game for you!

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Not as good as i hoped
Basically PGR4 is pretty good but...
I thought this game would be as good as all the videos I've seen, but for some reason the graphics don't look as good as they do during replay. Also it starts you off in a Ford Sierra on tracks that are flat and square, just one after another, god it's very monotonous, so I wasn't very pleased about that, I mean, I just got bored - what's wrong with some curves? Maybe a bit of variation? I mean is it like that all the way through?
Anyway i played a demo of Race Driver GRID and that seems much much better, with curves and hills and cooler cars and realistic crashes and everything (which PRG4 should have had), so I'm going to get that one, once the price comes down a bit...

Something different.....
This took a bit of getting used to after moving from various rally games but it doesn't disappoint, almost endless single player career and arcade modes and Xbox live is just a tap of the button away, really fun and competitive at times with plenty of options to make things more interesting- some snow and ice thrown in tests your skills. Great to have bikes too with the R1 being a favourite, just a pity the cars and bikes are all production based, some rally and track cars and bikes would be a great addition for PGR5!