Project Gotham Racing 3 (Xbox 360)

CONCLUSION - a must have for all racing fans: gorgeous, fast, ingenious multiplayer. its got it all. just dont expect it to be forza or Gran turismo in terms of variety of cars. PGR 3 only has one trump card(very fast), but it plays it so damn well that you won't care.


'Boring' ? No !!!   February 25, 2006
P. GODFREY
17 out of 24 found this review helpful

I finally recieved my 360 in late January with the games Perfect Dark Zero, Kameo and PGR 3. For me, Kameo was instantly playable and it was finished within a week clocking up just over 20 hours of play. Superb!!

I reluctantly tried PGR 3 again having been frustrated at my inability to go around a corner without smashing the side barriers. I purchased a ferrari testarossa - one of the slowest cars in the game - and merely enjoyed driving around the same tracks again and again. Before I knew it I had found the racing line and was e-braking an RUF R Turbo cleanly through new york. This helped me achieve all silver trophies. I then purchased the Enzo Ferrari and I am still busy trying to achieve the last couple of Gold trophies. Initially I thought that completing the gold championship would be impossible but alas! Tis not. Yesterday I pulled out the F-50 GT and attempted the street race around nurburgring in gold medal, I trailed for most of the way but smoked the mclaren F1 on the last corner. My palms were sweaty, my heart was beating. It was exhilarating!! Now Platinum might just be within reach.

In response to those that write PGR 3 off as 'boring'; you clearly have not persevered, or if you have persevered but still dont enjoy it you ust be crap at gaming - you are the type of person that believes they have 'completed' Perfect Dark when they have finished the 14 levels on 'agent' setting.

PGR3 has superceded Kameo as my 360 game of choice and I whole heartedly recommend it, but not of course, if you dont like games that require skill and determination.


Xbox 360 saviour.   January 5, 2007
Mr. D. Bell (Northampton, England)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful


I was always going to buy a PS3 so I could play the next version of Gran Turismo in glorious HD. I then heard the price of the console and thought "that's a hell of a lot for something I won't use for anything other than games". I then heard that Gran Tursimo 5 will be virtually the same game just with more cars on the track at once, and obviously much improved graphics. This time I thought "what a con!" I therefore defected to the arch enemy of the Xbox 360. My hopes of driving game heaven now rested on Project Gotham Racing 3 and I am pleased to announce "goodbye Gran Turismo". This game is astonishing. The detail on the cars is fantastic inside and out. The graphics and frame rate is so smooth and there are no annoying flickers or jumps. (You only have to play need for speed most wanted for 10 minutes to wonder how they made PGR3 so flawless). The game is simple to get started, unlike Gran Turismo which seems to take half of your life away before you are allowed to drive a car. I hated having driving lessons in real life and hated even more having to do them on a game before I was allowed to drive a fast car. Car handling in PGR3 is excellent and there is real sense of speed in all of the cars. In fact, put it on the "in car view" and if you look really closely in your rear view mirror you can just about see Gran Turismo disappearing into the distance! I could go on but I think you probably get just how good this game is by now. An essential purchase for all lovers of car games.





Incredible!   March 8, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful

This game is unbelieveable to play. I got a 360 a month ago and got kameo with it (a good game) and I thought that it was as good as the 360 games were, fortunatly I was wrong as I got PGR3 after playing it in a demo pod. The graphics are amazing and so is the sound so the only reason for not liking this game is the handling. It takes some geting used to but once you've mastered it the game gets even better.

The game does have it's faults of course, but they are few. There are hardly any weather effects (if that matters to you), but it is also can be hard to see a corner coming as the game is so fast- you might not have this problem with a larger TV though as my TV is 15inches and isn't in HD and it still looks fantastic.

My advice is that you should get this game, but try a demo on one of the pods that are in the stores in case you hate the handling too much.


Its no Gran Tourismo .......   December 5, 2005
A. J. Pascoe (Bracknell)
10 out of 14 found this review helpful

.....However for their first attempt at a 360 game it does insprire you with confidence as to what the future will hold. The real noises of the cars plus the actual feel make this game very involving. Being a new Microsoft fan i loved the ps2 and the GT series, they in my opinion made Project Gotham on the xbox seem very arcade like and as a result made it easy to ridicule my few friends that owned one. However having played the 360 version and eagerly awaiting my other half's permission to open my xmas present early i can assure you that you will not be disappointed with this game especially when you take it online (once enough people have their Xbox 360s). Still lacks the depth of Gran Tourismo but a huge step in the right direction. Graphically and gameplay wise - stunning