Project Gotham Racing 2 - Page 5

Zorilla · 26-11-2003, 12:32

I Usually order from Play.com, and my account currently says processing PGR2, so I'm expecting them to ship today, and I'll receive it on Friday.

(This has happened in the past, but then who can predict what Royal Mail will do with your package)

Caspar · 26-11-2003, 12:34

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Originally Posted by Zorilla

I Usually order from Play.com, and my account currently says processing PGR2, so I'm expecting them to ship today, and I'll receive it on Friday.

(This has happened in the past, but then who can predict what Royal Mail will do with your package)

Hey don't diss royal mail!!!....Someone did that once on here and got a lashing from a postie who posts here!

the Royal Mail!

...saying that they go on strike a bit the lazy gits!!! :p

manowar68 · 26-11-2003, 16:05

got my copy of PGR2 about half hour ago.
Rang game up again and they said yes we are selling them now

Can't wait to get online with this game,i think it's what we have all been waiting for................a good online racing game

XiceWolf · 26-11-2003, 16:17

Moto GP wasnt even a full online game and it has so far been the best racing game. Ill get pgr2 tommorow i think

HornetUK · 26-11-2003, 18:38

Got mine from GAME today also.

26-11-2003, 19:05

Roll on friday. :p

ic14 · 26-11-2003, 19:08

bah damn my lack of funds.... This games seems excellent from playing the demo in GAME and getting thrashed by one of my friends lol.

hmm have to try and convince the 'rents about it....

Jarandco · 26-11-2003, 19:32

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Originally Posted by NEONKNIGHT

Roll on friday. :p

Yeah

Or thursday if we are lucky!

manowar68 · 26-11-2003, 22:55

Mantrid,Caspar and myself had some good races tonight and it was awesome.
This game lives up to everything,the graphics,sound,single player and most of all xbox live.
It's what we have all been waiting for.If you have an xbox get it and if your lucky enough xbox live.....well what can i say.......GET IT you will not be disapointed thats for sure

26-11-2003, 23:19

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Originally Posted by manowar68

Mantrid,Caspar and myself had some good races tonight and it was awesome.
This game lives up to everything,the graphics,sound,single player and most of all xbox live.
It's what we have all been waiting for.If you have an xbox get it and if your lucky enough xbox live.....well what can i say.......GET IT you will not be disapointed thats for sure

Sounds real cool. Does playing the game in single player unlock cars for when playing on LiVE? Who won the most games out of the three of you ? Hopefully be able to join you guy's on Friday if my copy arrives from GAME.

Jarandco · 26-11-2003, 23:35

Yeah ill be joining you on friday (fingers triple crossed!), its good to hear i cant wait now!!!

HornetUK · 27-11-2003, 00:42

Agree with everything said by manowar68. Only thing I've found annoying is my joypad seems to constantly vibrate when driving?

Can i join your races please? Are your gamertags as above post?

Cheers

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!

Reddevil63 · 27-11-2003, 02:46

I think having a kudos based scoring system online is a great idea and detracts from the usual obligatory 'getting a faster lap than everyone else'.

This makes for more skilled driving rather than tearing around a track as fast as you can.

The whole premise of PGR is driving style rather than lap times and they have taken this element and transfer it to the online game rather than sticking to the generic lap times which every racing game today has.

A big thumbs up to Bizarre for doing something different!!!

Jarandco · 27-11-2003, 08:17

Well mine has been dispatched, got the email today, did you get it aswell neon? So i should be online tomorrow!