Project Gotham Racing 2 is Awesome, Little Review Inside.

[SFDMALEX]

Ok, I got it today and all I can say is that this game is the best arcade racer in the history of video games.

First of the Graphics. The graphics are so damn good that even if you hate racing games but you have an Xbox you need to get this game to show your friends the capability of Xbox. The reflections are simply amazing in this game. The level of detail in this game is spectacular. When racing at night the lighting effects are awesome. It supposed to rain also in this game but it did not happen to me yet.

If there is a radio antena on the car it moves arcoding to your driving. WHen you crash you can see the glass flying of your car.

You should also see the cars in action, you can really see the suspension working. The car pitches and rolls very realisticaly. Its a pleasure to watch the cars corner.

The damage is pretty amazing. Your hood can get open in the middle of the race is you crash, the dents and so on forming in the car are awesome. This game got to have one of the best crash engines.


Now the sounds. Well each car in the game has an individual sound which is very close to the real thing. I like how the got the Ferrari 360 sound in the game. Its very close to the real thing, but with my golden ears its not the same. Its 90% accurate but something is missing. The Porshce Cayen Turbo is pretty spot on, they got the sound just right. I love the sound of the waste gate going off on lift -of s and gear changes.

So the cars sound great and accurate, bur what about the music? Well its very Grand Theft Auto like, each city has there own 3 or so individual stations which really play what is usualy played in that city. In Hong Kong you get Asian pop, and in RUssia you get some Euro style cheap house music.
In general this game has the best audio ever due to its accuracy.



The Cars. NOw this has to be the best selection of cars EVAAAA! Just look at the Ferrari line up. Ferrari 575M, 360CS, 360Modena, Testarossa, 250GTO, F50, F40, Enzo, 355, 275GTB, Dyno....Im not sure if there are any more since I just started playing the game. Apart from the Ferraris there are also plenty of Porshces. 911Carrera, the Old CAreera Rs, CAYEN TURBO LOL, Carrera GT and the list goes on. You are also treated to some american muscle, there are Camaros, GTOs......Stangs..... There are lotus, BMWs, Fuck!!!!The list just keeps going and going. Ohh each there also is an ARNAGE T in this game.


The Tracks- Okay the detail on these tracks makes your eyes pop out. Every building is a peace of 3d art. I can just imagen how long it took to do all that. The tracks look spectacular, when my friend was playing the game I just enjoyd looking at around. The level of detail is amazing. I dont know what Yokahoma looks like but I sure know what moscow looks like and all I can say its pretty damn accurate. For example the sings etc actually make sense when driving around moscow, its not just writing in cyrilic. There are a shit load of city's in this game. Stockholm, Moscow, Yokohoma, Hong Kong, Nurburgring and more, I just dont remember the list which I still dont know since I just started playing. As far as the amount of track goes, Im not sure, PGR1 had around 200, so I dont think PGR2 would have any less. The tracks are really works of art, you gotta see it to beleave it.




Physics- Now I am a sim racer. For me to play an arcade racer it has to be damn good and fun. The physics in the game are a mix between between simulation and arcade and they got the balance just perfect. Each car is very accurate to the real thing. Each car handles differently and it handles in the way that the real thing would. I've seen plenty of car vids, magazine car reviews, and I raced plenty of accurate computer replicated cars in sims to confirm this.

The game has some very nice sim touches which are really hard to explain. You really need to wait for the turbos to spool up to feel the boost, when you get the car over the curbing its does not want to turn that much little things like that which build up to make a great experiance.
From the arcade side power slides and drifts are hell lotta fun and are easy to achive, now thats no NFS Underground drifts and slides, these actually take skill to save and look and feel real.
This game has the best ever mix of sim/arcade I would say its 60%sim and 40arcade, or even 70/30.
Each car is very accurate, and really has its own character.



Conclusion- This game gets 95 out of 100 just because there never will be a perfect game, and there is one thing that still pisses me off. NO cockpit view. I just hate that, I get used to it but I need a cockpit view which no console game ever had.

Now Grand Tursimo has absolutly nothing againts this game. Even my friend who only has a PS2 and loves GT3aspec said that PGR2 is the king. Its just the combination of great audio, video, and gameplay which make GT3 look bad in comparison.

I know that GT3aspec by now has a big reputation, and lots of fans, and people are calling it the King, but the King is dead so long live the new King PGR2.

I dont think PGR2 will get the King crown just because of GT3s huge fan base, but still PGR2 is da king.

BTW- The screenshots you find online dont look anything like they do on my TV.



Now I dont know if anybody botherd to read this but I just had to write this. What do you people think about this game?