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Project Gotham Racing 4 Video And Screens - Xbox 360

12th May 2007, 10:35am
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Over on the official Xbox site, Microsoft has released some preliminary details, a few screenshots and a couple of videos from Project Gotham Racing 4. Probably the biggest enhancement in terms of the game engine at the moment is the addition of real-time weather, including individual rain drops.

Two videos are available on the Xbox site:

Lowres PGR4 video, or
Highres PGR4 video

Here are some details:

  • Dynamic weather system: Now racing through a track can mean facing an unexpected rain storm or snow flurries in the middle of a race. This results in changing physics when powering around a corner on the wet or icy surface in Shanghai and St. Petersburg or any of the game’s 10 other locations.

  • Flair and driving style: Pass your opponent at full speed as you pump your fists and exhibit more emotion as you earn recognition with the revised Kudos system. The Kudos will be worthwhile too, because the new A.I. personalities will be able to perform bold new driving maneuvers as they race side by side with other drivers.

  • Iconic cars: New vehicles are lined up and ready to be driven, including the 2004 TVR Sagaris, 1965 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray, 2005 Vanwall GPR V12, 1993 Toyota Supra Turbo, 2005 Gumpert Apollo, 1997 Panoz GTR-1 Coupe, 2006 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, and 1957 Maserati 250F.


Sliced Comments:
Not a whole heap to see from the video, but the individual rain drops on the vehicles gives definitely give that extra element of realism.

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