Customer Reviews

Project Gotham Racing 4

5 star:		(21)
4 star:		(18)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Some racing games are a little too sim for me, like Gran Turismo and Forza. I don't care about adjusting gear ratios.

Some racing games are a little too arcade for me, like Burnout.

Some racing games just aren't my style, like the NFS street racing games of the last few years. I don't want to lower my car and get a huge wing on my Eclipse.

I still enjoy those racing games, but for me, PGR 4 (and PGR 3) is a perfect combination of simulation and arcade racing. The feel is "sim" enough to require a lot of practice to get really good, but forgiving enough to be fun from the start. The graphics are fantastic, the online play is great, and even the music is diverse and entertaining.

Also, You can drive amazing cars from the beginning, unlike GT, Forza, and NFS. I don't like being stuck with a Mazda Miata for the first few days. I see a lot of Miata's in real life. This is a videogame. I want to drive a Ferrari.

Get this game if you're looking for a great all-around racing game.

I got this from Gamefly on Saturday, and I've been playing it all weekend. This is definately the most beautiful racing game I've ever seen, and really shows what the 360 is capable of.

The racing is solid, the sounds are great, and the cockpit view is as immersive as it gets. I'm a big Forza fan, and the differences in the driving is clear after your first powerslide, but Gotham does a good job of accenting some of your favorite things about cars and driving without going over the top, and leaving you with a believable and visually appealing experience. The driving in Forza is still more rewarding, as far as the cars go. But the BIKES!! I ride an SV 650 myself, and I've been waiting for a serious motorcycle racing game. The motoGP series is decent, but its lacking a lot in excitement. Gotham integrates the motorcycles into the races almost perfectly. Their performance is balanced, and shows strengths and weaknesses everywhere they should, except for the crashing. The bikes are more resistant to impact then they would be in reality, to prevent the cars from just ramming them off the roads...and the weather system was really a suprise. I wasn't very enthusiastic to hear that all of the hype behind it, but it really adds some serious depth to the came.

I could go on and on about how [...] COOL this game is, but if you don't at least rent it, you won't be able to appreciate it.

pgr 4 is a game i rented to see how i liked it and was addicted after the first race. i love this game and will never give it up, unless they come out with a new one of course, online play is easy to do, the game is so realistic, the driving in the game is so realistic. the only minor draw back is extra content ie cars and extra tracks have to be purchased through microsoft, however the game has more than enough cars and tracks for you to race on. the graphics are killer, to top it all off you can ride a bike aswell, some of the fastest street bikes on earth. great game!! i am hard to pleaase when it comes to games, if they suck i get rid of them fast.

When I bought this game I had no previous experience with the PGR series, in fact the only other "racing" games I had played were Need for Speed games, which is more or less what I was expecting out of PGR4 when it game arrived. It did not take long, however, for me to realize that this game is so much different than NFS that they might as well not even be in the same type of game category. Where in NFS you don't really need to be good to win the races, just make your car so fast that borders on being just plain stupid, and you can slam into the wall a dozen times and still win the race 30 seconds ahead of the number two car. In PGR4, however, they take driving dead seriously, even if you are in first place, if you hit the wall more than twice you might was well restart the race because you aren't going to win. The level of frustration this causes me is almost unbearable at times, and yet once I start playing it's hard to stop, even after restarting the same race for the twentieth time. I suppose maybe I am just not cut out to play driving/racing games, but this is all the more reason why I can recommend it, as I am able to have fun playing this game even while getting passed within a mere seconds by all of my opponents after slamming into a wall going 200+ miles an hour for the hundredth time. Another feature this game has that NFS does not have is the ability to start off driving the fastest cars in the game in the single player mode as soon as you start playing, though I wouldn't recommend it. The weather feature is also a nifty little game mechanic that brings further realism to the game-play, and is usually pretty fun... except for the ice, the ice sucks.

I don't know what Bizarre Creations is gonna be doing from now on.
but i still think their PGR series that started back in the Dreamcast days with Metropolis Street Racer
is probably ending with this title and they did it right. This version of the game reminds you of the first PGR for the original Xbox
in its fluidity and pick-up&play style. the graphics are amazing for Xbox 360 standards. only thing I'm kinda missing is the music selection.
this game used to be known for its great music stations that you had while driving.
but all in all, it's a great half-sim/half-arcade racer that takes you around the world and does it all amazingly well.
if you like driving games, you ought yourself to try this one! won't be dissapointed.

I waited months for this game, and it was time wasted.
Nowhere does this game compare to PGR2 or PGR3.
PGR2 was groundbreaking and was quite the competion when Gran Turismo was at the top of the charts. PGR3 looked great and had all the fancy cars, but it lacked the attention to detail that the previous game had. This was probably due to the fact that Microsoft was pushing to get the game released simulataneously with the Xbox 360 launch. The game suffered because of it. Nonetheless, it was a much better game than this one.

Many of the gaming world was hoping that PGR4 would be the next-gen level of racing.
There are too many things to cover for this short review, but I will mention a few that really made it a downer for me.

First of all, the biggest problem of the game is that they have completely destroyed "Career Mode". It plays more like an arcade racer, and you don't have any opportunities to retry tracks that you have not done well on. If you got 4th place...well "sorry" next event. It loses the excitement about the game and you wind up playing Arcade mode instead.

Another problem with the game is the way they have packaged the car buying process. Instead of going to the dealers, looking at cars, driving them, etc. You buy what I like to think of as "Hot Wheels" car packs where you dump all your Kudos into a bunch of cars that you may not really want.

Also, the addition of motorcycles really doesn't do anything for the game. It adds a useless gimmick that doesn't really improve the gameplay. It kind of feels like an after thought that ultimately makes the rest of the game suffer as well.

The design of the game is "ok". Definitely not the best I've seen. The cars don't look as good as "Forza Motorsport 2". Forza looks and handles great, but it lacks the "fun" that Gotham once had. The only thing that does look very nice is the city renderings. They do have a very photo realistic feel to them.

So, unless you want to drive slowly in Tokyo to look at the neon signs. I would stay away from this racer.

PGR4 seems to have been lost in all the great games that have been coming out for the 360 lately. I have had time to play around with it now for a few weeks and have a pretty good feel for it. It plays the same as the last PGR game on the 360 but now it has a lot of weather effects. The weather will change from rain to snow in the middle of a race and the conditions affect handling drastically. The game also features a sort of World tour as the single player. You play through the calender with races several days through the months. While playing the single player you increase your world rank against the other computer players. As you get to the higher ranks, you open new events to compete in. I really enjoyed this new addition to the game.

Overall, if you liked the last PGR or if you are a racing game fan, this is a game you should definitely pick up.

This game is a blast! Amazing graphics and sound. Just way too much fun!

There are so many cars and bikes to choose from. The physics and handling of each vehicle is unique and adds to the challenge and re-playability of the game. And they're not all the latest either - lots of classics, as well as very special cars such as the DeLorean, the Atom, and even the Tesla.

A car lover's dream wrapped in a really fun package. Can't wait to get back to racing!

Great game, the controlls are superb, the graphics are sweet! I didn't give it 5 stars because it lacks at home multiplayer!

A very solid racer that is just a blast to play... doesn't make you learn a bunch of crap about cars that one might care less about, but isn't nonsensical in nature (ala burnout). The best of both worlds, it's one heck of a ride. Not... a lot of depth due to the nature of it's versatility, but still provides an easy pick up and play experience that very few games can match.