Your Kudos Points build up in a score in the upper right hand corner of the screen, and stay there for three seconds. If you manage to go through that time without making any significant contact with anything, they get banked and figure into your final score.
If you trick some more you'll build up even more points, and if you can manage to avoid crashing you'll get a combo bonus, which earns you even more Kudos. Racing itself is pretty simple. You can take a manual or an automatic vehicle, and each car has a handbrake that's damn useful for taking tight turns.
Brakes are always an option, but hey, this is a racing game, who wants to use those? The car you choose can and will be one of the major deciding points in a race. Don't worry, though, as the game compensates for the kind of car you're racing by changing the vehicles that your opponents use. Each one has a rating for acceleration, handling and top speed, as well as many different colors.
Collecting vehicles is one of my favorite activities, and unlocking the different models through gameplay is very enjoyable. Once you finally get into the game, you'll have plenty of choices for gameplay.
Arcade mode pits you against a series of the different race styles in an effort to gain as many Kudos as possible. If you manage to place at least Bronze in every race four for each of the four cities -- Tokyo, San Francisco, London and New York you'll get to go onto the next set of Arcade challenges.
Place Gold in all of them, and you'll unlock a new car. The Quick Race mode lets you enter a race against computer-controlled opponents to see who can place in the top three. Third place merits a Bronze medal, you get Silver for second place, and Gold for first place. Arcade and Quick Race are entertaining, but you'll be spending most of your time in the Kudos Challenge.
Each of these games lets you earn Kudos and Medals that let you unlock new items at each level. By far the most interesting mode, the Kudos Challenge has one-on-one, style challenge, and even speed races. The style challenge is one of my favorites, as you've got to make it through a series of cones, racing around the track while pulling off as many tricks as possible. The higher you push the Kudos score, the bigger the prize you get.
You can also alter the difficulty on any of these games by increasing the Kudos needed to win, placement you'll need for a street race, or the amount of head start you've got in a one-on-one challenge. This is the part of the game I really enjoyed, as there are many different styles of race, each requiring different tactics. I can't really explain how well the cars handle, as each one is both subtly and overtly different. The most surprising thing I found is how the computer handles each car and demonstrates its overall quality.
There will be times when you have to push your skills to the limit to beat an opponent, only to unlock the car he was using and find that it really does perform that well.
After a while, I realized what this meant. The computer players weren't getting incredibly smart, even though they were skilled in their own right - rather, they were able to take advantage of the better car -- much the same way you can. Project Gotham Racing lets you race split-screen, with up to four friends. You can choose to win by speed or by Kudos, and the wide selection of tracks to choose from gives you a good variety of racing locales.
Project Gotham Racing is quite the looker. Although each map is relatively small, you'll get to see a lot of backgrounds, from Tokyo and San Francisco, to Big Ben in London. These backgrounds are realistic and show the attention to detail that we've been seeing a lot more in next generation titles. The cars are equally impressive, showcasing multiple different colors of both matte and gloss finish, and mimic their real-life counterparts down to the last detail.
Without a lot of obtrusive advertising logos, you can really appreciate the small make and model logos visible on some of the cars. One of my favorite effects is your car's paint job. If you've chosen a fairly reflective color or one of the gloss colors, you can see a reflection of the passing city in your roof and sides.
These include cone gates, speed challenges, elimination challenges, and Kudos challenges. Speed challenges require you to put your speedometer to a certain level once you pass a mark. Kudos challenges are tasks that gets you to rack up a lot of kudos while you race to the finish line. If that does not get you excited about the game, then check this out.
In addition to creating an amazing drifitng system with incredible handling, Bizarre Creations the developers of PGR4 created 3 major additional changes:. Motorcycles- While motorcycles are indeed a lot of fun to ride, it is often not the best choice to add it in with a racing game that is primarily for cars. Otherwise, you would choose to play Mario Kart 64 instead. Dynamic Weather System- Very similar to what other simulation games are doing. The weather system provides an added layer of realistic graphics and experience to the players when driving through the terrain.
While the game is incredibly detailed, pitting motorcycles against cars might not have been the best move. However, the added game modes and handling more than makes up for it.
Simple as that. Browse games Game Portals. Project Gotham Racing 4. Install Game. Click the "Install Game" button to initiate the file download and get compact download launcher. Locate the executable file in your local folder and begin the launcher to install your desired game.
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