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Ste Riley · 27-11-2003, 02:35

It's time for me to speak the truth, as a race fan and a veteran Project Gotham gamer its time to sound out just what has happened here.

PGR2: I got this game home on Tuesday home at about 2pm ready to **** my plank with excitement. Booted it up and shot right into some single player action to warm up.

The graphics, Superb, the handling superb, gameplay superb. It was what I've dreaming of all this time. I then got online to give it a spin, 30 cars already unlocked, quite a few **** ones and a couple of corkers. Just what you'd expect so newbies can get right into the action.

The first gripe I noticed as I got online was the game is too centralised on the brilliant Kudos system. When you race online you want to improve on your personal best lap times, here you dont do that, you just collect points (Kudos) every time you race.

Anyway, not to worry it'll be ok trying to get the highest amount of Kudos on each track instead right? Wrong.

Tonight I've ended a marathon session on the game and its almost complete to Silver medal, meaning that most of the tracks and best cars are unlocked. In the original PGR this would have taken me days and days. It's been made easier so that its more accessable to all, again I think this is another downfall to the game as a whole.

So I went back online again tonight and started to race all the different classes of car, then began to wonder, whats the point to this? What am I trying to beat?

I can aim to win the race, but after you've done that a couple of times who gives a monkeys who wins, it dont mean nothing. How did I compare to last time I raced on this track, you cant tell!

In the end there's no lasting appeal to this game, the scoreboards like on Moto GP are what makes racing games. The scoreboards provided by Gotham cannot even be accessed in the lobby.

I must repeat this is a great game, but for lasting appeal online it just wont cut the mustard because its to bland. A dissapointing end to such a hyped realese. It could have been so much and it almost is but has failed by lacking a few simple but vitial features like time logging and scoreboard access on the fly.

If only them scoreboards was there this game wouldnt have left my machine till after Xmas. Without them it just feels like a lifeless experience, maybe rushed out to soon without much thought by Microsoft.

RENT FOR A WEEKEND... NOT THE ONLINE CLASSIC WE HOPED FOR!

27-11-2003, 02:35	#73
Ste Riley Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Greater Manchester Posts: 122	Re: Project Gotham Racing 2 It's time for me to speak the truth, as a race fan and a veteran Project Gotham gamer its time to sound out just what has happened here. PGR2: I got this game home on Tuesday home at about 2pm ready to ** my plank with excitement. Booted it up and shot right into some single player action to warm up. The graphics, Superb, the handling superb, gameplay superb. It was what I've dreaming of all this time. I then got online to give it a spin, 30 cars already unlocked, quite a few ** ones and a couple of corkers. Just what you'd expect so newbies can get right into the action. The first gripe I noticed as I got online was the game is too centralised on the brilliant Kudos system. When you race online you want to improve on your personal best lap times, here you dont do that, you just collect points (Kudos) every time you race. Anyway, not to worry it'll be ok trying to get the highest amount of Kudos on each track instead right? Wrong. Tonight I've ended a marathon session on the game and its almost complete to Silver medal, meaning that most of the tracks and best cars are unlocked. In the original PGR this would have taken me days and days. It's been made easier so that its more accessable to all, again I think this is another downfall to the game as a whole. So I went back online again tonight and started to race all the different classes of car, then began to wonder, whats the point to this? What am I trying to beat? I can aim to win the race, but after you've done that a couple of times who gives a monkeys who wins, it dont mean nothing. How did I compare to last time I raced on this track, you cant tell! In the end there's no lasting appeal to this game, the scoreboards like on Moto GP are what makes racing games. The scoreboards provided by Gotham cannot even be accessed in the lobby. I must repeat this is a great game, but for lasting appeal online it just wont cut the mustard because its to bland. A dissapointing end to such a hyped realese. It could have been so much and it almost is but has failed by lacking a few simple but vitial features like time logging and scoreboard access on the fly. If only them scoreboards was there this game wouldnt have left my machine till after Xmas. Without them it just feels like a lifeless experience, maybe rushed out to soon without much thought by Microsoft. RENT FOR A WEEKEND... NOT THE ONLINE CLASSIC WE HOPED FOR!