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Best Arcade Racer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all there's no tuning, parts, shops, or car altering. It's just all about driving with skill and comparing with everyone else. There are 3 types of playing, racing, cones, and time run. There's also multiplayer thru splitscreen, lan, and online. You unlock cars by earning kudos and you get kudos by winning medals. If you have Xbox LIVE then everything you do will be ranked online. This is very exciting feature if you are the type that wants to be the best. The game physics are great and the game is very fun. Get this game and then buy GT4 next year.

+ best graphics
+ more than 100 cars
+ great sound
+ 100s of songs
+ radio stations
+ many tracks
+ improved kudos trick system
+ damage models
+ detailed environment
+ real car sounds
+ download ghosts
+ lots of replay value
+ world ranking on each race/cone/time
+ FUN! VERY FUN! ADDICTIVE!

- no car number specs displayed
- could use more cars still
- can't see ghosts driving by itself
- can only change car color
- no people, trash, or debris
- car garage needs some hot girls
- very little advantage for manual drivers

Overall: Must have game for xbox. The only negatives are small ones. Lots of work was put into this game, it's high quality racer with tons of extras that keep you playing for a very long time.

Better than the original

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

So far I have only been playing this game for a couple hours but I already like it better than the original. The sound, especially of the cars, is a lot better. The graphics are a tad better also. Controlling the cars is a little harder compared to PGR but I think more realistic. I also love the showrooms and garage, how you can walk around in them looking at the cars you have or are for sale. You can even test drive some cars in the showroom... nothing like taking a brand new Ferrari and blowing some donuts as you redline it. I also like having Chicago in the game now, from what I can see it looks like a pretty acurate representation, seeing many places I have been. Great game. I am sure it will give me countless hours of enjoyment like the first one did. Can't wait to get online after I practice some and see how I rank and what will be available for download. So basically if you really enjoyed playing the first one like I did, I am pretty sure you will like this one.

best racing game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this racing game is far better than the first which was also a great game. with more cars and better variety and more immersion into the gameplay, this game truely lives up to its predcessor. and the graphics....best car models i have seen ANYWHERE and the backgrounds are very well-done as well. control is tight, and when you are flying down the track in a brand new enzo going 180 and try to take the upcoming 90 degree true....be prepared to use the handbrake and smack the wall. this game also has diffuculty settings for the first time....the harder you play the more chance for earnings of course. overall, this game is top-notch and microsoft has put together one smooth game that is the best i have ever seen.

Finally a Gran Turismo for the Xbox - with multiplayer!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: November 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First the good news: you finally get rewarded for driving a good line. All us Gran Turismo 3 drivers used to be mighty confused about being rewarded for sliding through a turn when a well-executed line is faster and more elegant! So now you can slide, or nail the apex, and still get points. (You still get more for sliding though.)

It's a great racing game. The physics are good, and the vehicles respond as you'd expect them to. The AI is much better than the GT3 AI.

It's easier to unlock new cars, and you pay for them with Kudos tokens, rather than virtual money. You cannot upgrade the cars as you could in GT3, and I will miss that.

Playing against others is fun, just mute some of the trash talkers - or beat them.

Fabulous

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the best racing game on any system. The attention to detail is incredible. The various courses taken from various cities around the world are second to none. I like the kudos program with the opportunity to earn tokens and advance forward to new tracks and classes. The best thing about this game is the online features. The always live scoring is very cool. Be WARNED, this game is highly addictive. You will lose hours of sleep playing it.

It doesn't get any better than this

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I brought this game early last week, and already tis is a must have title for Xbox Live. The cars look much better, the kudo system makes you imrpove your driving skills, and the new cities like Yokohama, Hng Kong, Barcelona, Moscow, Chicago, DC...these have some the best tracks I've ever used in a racing game, in particular the River crossing course in Chicago, the DC Capital Thrills course, and the Hong Kong courses Ive unlocked so far. Time for me to take that Enzo for a few races!

The most ambitious racing game ever created!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 50 / 55
Date: November 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

While I am not a racing purist, I loved the first Project Gotham racing and enjoy playing most racing games on my Xbox and PS2. It also appears that I'm the only reviewer at this point who has completed Project Gotham 2.

For newbies and PG1 players, progressing through the game has been made considerably easier than the first game and you can easily teach yourself the ropes of each track and car class by playing for a bronze medal. Also you can jump into the super cars even if you haven't "unlocked" them in the single player game yet by visiting your garage.

If you're familiar with the series, or have read the other reviews, you know that Microsoft has taken everything that was great in PG1 and upped the ante. For newbies, you'll find Project Gotham 2 is the most intense street racing game ever created. The game begins as a solid "race for place" competition against computer opponents, and adds variety events like cone solemn racing, vehicle overtake and photo radar gun top speed contests. In each event, you can select the award level you want to try for, which establishes the difficulty and the specific objectives. Aside from the career mode (which PG2 calls the "Kudos World Series") there are also three arcade modes, two time attack modes and numerous online challenges.

Aside from the mere thrill of racing against human opponents, the online component has a few innovative features that set PG2 apart from any other racing game ever made. With online scoreboards you can see how you compare on each single player race you complete against everyone else in the world. Your rank, for each and every level is shown, along with the other gamers around you and the number 1 player. In addition, you can download "ghosts" which show you how the other people got their scores. And special trials are offered in the "ghost challenges" arena, where you can download the best performances from players around the world and try to beat them.

Technically, this game is perfect. The load times are extraordinarily fast and the game instantly returns you to the starting line if you restart the level (where many games would require lengthy reload time). There's also a seamless line between online and single player game play.

There are 10+ things about this game which are absolutely amazing:

1. Online features and functionality (see above)
2. Graphics. (This game looks best on a 480i HDTV)
3. Music. (And I'm a tough critic, but I really enjoy the songs on this game)
4. Vast number of tracks, well designed and well detailed.
5. Vast number of game modes
6. The environment has detailed elements, like leaves blowing across the track or birds flying in the foreground. Animations (like a ferris wheel) are in the background to provide even more graphic realism.
7. Your vehicle sustains incredible damage as you drive and while the performance is not affected, knocking out your headlights on a dark level makes it tough to drive!
8. Spectacular lighting effects!
9. Replayability
10. Achievable unlockable vehicles and accomplishable tasks
11. VERY cool secret unlockable cars!

There are 3 things that could have used improvement:
1. Often, the competitors will fall into two packs. If you get behind the second pack, they will intentionally slow you down or crash into you so that it is almost impossible to reach the front pack.
2. Some of the levels are so tight (one/two lane tracks) that playing the same level at easier difficulty is a negligible advantage.
3. In the final car circuit, (called the "Ultimate Series") the tracks are considerably longer and require an extended number of laps for no apparent reason other than to delay game completion.

There are 3 things about this game which are absolutely ridiculous:

1. Apparently the AI drivers all have PhDs in automotive physics because they know EXACTLY where to hit your car to send it into a spin. And they will do this to you more often then not.
2. When YOU hit a wall it's a reverse/back-up/steer out/gas procedure, but when an AI competitor hits the wall (or, OK, I run them into a wall), they somehow miraculously recover and are instantly behind you.
3. AI cars will often "take the line" while driving, meaning that they plow into you if you're already in the optimal apex.

All-in-all, this game suffers many of the flaws that all racing video games have, and while this game isn't absolutely perfect, it is -by far- the best racing game available on any platform.

Super Sweet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This might be the best racing game xbox has..finally something that is as fun as the Gran Turismo games were for PS/PS2. The graphics are amazing and all the cars are gorgeous. Probably the best part about this is the Xbox Live fun you can have...like 8 guys flying around a track talking trash and running into eachother..you can't beat it. Must buy

Best Racing game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have to say this is the best racing game ever.

+Great gameplay, setup well so you play lots of cars and build your way up
+Race up to 8 people on xbox live
+Compete against the best players ghost
+Great even you you don't have xbox live
+Lots of options and races
+Over 100 cars to choose from
+Create custom sound tracks

-Can't tweek cars (I don't mind with the selection of cars)
-No in car view

If you like driving games you must get this game
I will probably end up playing this game more than any other I own

Great Racing Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed PGR1, and found this sequel to be very similar to it. The graphics and gameplay are pretty much the same, which is a good thing. There are new tracks/countries/cities to drive in, with opportunities to drive in both directions depending on which part of the game you're at (again, same as in PGR1). The radio is controlled the same as PGR1, so you can customize it to your liking, or else listen to the "radio", which is mostly that generic hip-hop crap and Durst-style yelling (as opposed to singing). The new cars are the best part of the game, of course. You start with only one class of vehicle, such as "sports coupe" or "roadster", and can only use/purchase other vehicles in that class until you win each challenge to advance to the next class. One downside is that in each class, there is generally one car that is marginally but clearly better than the rest, and so one just buys that car, wins the rest of the races, and does the same thing again in the next class. There is no incentive to buy any car except the one with the best stats in each class, and the difference in price ("kudos tokens") from the lamest to the best cars in each class is negligable. It would have been better to make the best cars in each class harder to earn. Still, after passing up on a much-wanted BMW Z4 and Nissan 350Z in real life, it was pretty cool to "own" them and drive around Italy recklessly with them thanks to this game.

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