It is truly unfortunate. I would even jump on a PGR 1-4 (with MSR as a bonus) remaster in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, I think getting any of these games as BC would be a licensing nightmare, and I don't use nightmare lightly. The amount of licensed music in each single game was astronomical.
Both this and PGR4 look (and sound) absurdly good for their age - and better still, they're terrific fun to play. I've still not played an arcade racer that got so much right with it's handling.
sceptical legend It also had accurate tire scrub, understeer and oversteer, variable power steering and weight shift! It was incredibly advanced for a PS2 game... Ironically enough, its creator disappeared off the face of the earth! It still holds up incredibly well as a sim-racer to modern generation games.
This game brings so many memories, this game came free with the 360 my brother bought, when he left to live to Texas, he left me the 360 with all his games, I remember spending hours playing this
I remember when i was 6, i got home from school and my dad just finished setting up the 360 . First game i played was PGR3! Having played pgr2 on the original xbox, this games visuals blew my mind back then. Looking at it now, its aged pretty well. Here's hoping they can revive the PGR series eventually.
danteasdfgh they don’t have much city driving though. It’s more off-road focused with each game and with Horizon 4 there’s not even any London. I was disappointed about that. I wanted to do some midtown madness driving too but sadly I’ll have to wait longer for another spiritual successor. Maybe watch dogs legion will be like that
A lot of the Bizarre Creations team went on to work on the Forza Horizon series. It is very much the spiritual successor to Project Gotham racing, with a "kudos" system well intact.
This whole series is the absolute pinnacle of "simcade" racing. The physics are tight enough to make sense and feel believable, but still be controlled with a gamepad.
Project Gotham Racing 3, a game I remember well, but that I haven't played much off; It blew me away, and it looked about as photoreal as they could possibly have gotten it to look, at the time. I used to compare this game to real life, more often than not... it also had a spectacular motion blur effect that I loved so much; this was before I began despising motion blur in video games. ...and you know what? Motion blur still looks so nice in this game, so smooth... what about that? What technique did they make use off, I wonder, cuz it looks really damn good.
yep that garage. that garage. man that looked PERFECTLY REAL on a crt tv. there was nothing to give away that it was a video game. it's the moment of my life i always go to when people ask what was the time you were wowed the most by a game's graphics. to me that was the first moment ever that i felt "we've got there". that i looks real. then when i got an HD tv it kinda dispersed the magic a bit, but still looked hella good.
@@GraveUypo , I played a lot of X360 on a CRT too and man do I miss payin' games on that... I got myself an HD LCD TV later on; but was, in all honesty, somewhat disappointed at the my new acquisition; I noticed a bit of a drop in image quality; things looked more washed out than before and it was lacking in colours... image quality was less defined amongst other things. Man, do I miss CRTs.
Motion blur works great here because it isn't so aggressive, it only blurs the edges and in this game, there really isn't that many obstacles that would be affected by motion blur, so all motion blur does here is to add more flavor and make you feel really fast (as if it already wasn't), also helped to hide the fact that it is only 30fps
Hell, YESS!! this and PGR4 bring back big memories of my childhood, and ill never forget that when my uncle used to fly down from New York that the first thing we would do when he unpacked his bags was fire up the Xbox and race!
Also can you you review Sega GT 2002 for the original Xbox? Some copies come with Jet Set Radio Future on the same disk as well. It was a lot of people's first game for the original Xbox, mine included
I absolutely adored this game! Being able to drive across the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges at over 200 mph never gets old! As someone who lives in ny, they got the location and some of the surrounding areas 100% right! Love it!!
Enjoyed this, cheers. I was on the testing team at BC for PGR3 and PGR4, after spending an unhealthy amount of time on PGR2 and BC's forums (which were unfortunately killed off a good while ago now)
The biggest issue with Flatout is the inconsistent environmental props physics. Sometimes hitting telephone poles and cardboard boxes are fine and they bounce right off, other times they send you careening through the air. That and the ridiculous rubber banding. You can be in the fastest car, fully upgraded, using boost, and the AI will go careening past you with so much horsepower they literally can't control it and fishtail into the nearest object. And then other times they're just so far behind you're basically racing by yourself. You don't really get a chance to rub up on opponents like the Burnout games. You're either in first, or you're restarting the race.
@@thisemptyworm4677 Wouldn't know. Haven't tried Wreckfest. I finished Flatout 2, but randomly flying through the air was pretty frustrating in a lot of races. Also it's pretty limited in locations, even compared to other titles at the time.
This was the first game i ever played online with my 360. It was amazing at the time. Played as part of a big group that was organised by a guy with the Gamertag TOBY CRACKERS. Also had an online rivalry with someone who went by Shiny Disco Panda. Good times.
Some of my best memories are back then on 360. Burnout Revenge and PGR3 gave me fantastic memories. Like you, I remember the people I played with and still wonder about them sometimes. Blue Dewayne, I'm looking at you, buddy!
The 4th game is BY FAR the best one in the franchise. I really really like the 2nd one, but there are a few things that I don't like about it that make me prefer the 4th game, that for me, it's almost the perfect racing game
@@blakecooper669 PGR3 was tons of fun. it did help me get back into the series as i skipped out on PGR2 unfortunately. I wasn't to fond of PGR1, which lead to skip the next game in the series.
This game and Colin McRae dirt was my introduction to Motorsport and I’m so glad I played both those game. The circuit creator feature made me love this game and I loved the ability to chose your opponent cars in the playtime feature.
16 years laters i'm still more hyped for this than most actual racing games, if not for assetto corsa(even if it's not the same type of racing game). I wish this was on pc, it would be glorious. It was on this game i learned the ring, and i still remember every turn and it served me well in a lot of games.You could even get the replays of the best time to see how they did it, for the time it was really great. Also: geometry wars. AND NO geometry wars 2 is not on pc, it's another game, a pretty bad one compared to gw 2 missing a lot of modes, i had it on xbox live arcade long ago, and it's not on pc, the first one and another travesty only are on pc, but not gw 2.
Revisiting this game after playing PGR 4 makes it feel a bit barebones. I've been spoiled by the weather options (snowy Nurburgring baybeeeeee), slightly expanded selection of cities/tracks, and the inclusion of bikes (though I still prefer using cars). Still, I wish they had kept some of the concept cars from this game in PGR4. I loved the Ford Indigo and Mustang GTR.
On the other hand, PGR4 was missing the garages, which made me feel like I owned the cars. Selecting a car from a list isn't the same as walking up to it among all the others.
This was a great and amazing game, nostalgia come to me ... I don't know why they buried this saga, what a great games it was. Forza Horizon is its substitute so to speak but open world
Graphics, graphics, graphics, that's all you care about, plus lazy development. This game still has unbeatable car sounds, and it looks and feels great
I wish the PGR series would come to backward compatibility. I understand if licensing would be a problem due to music or whatnot, but couldn’t Microsoft just let someone play it if they have the disc and not sell it on the digital marketplace?
Forza Horizon was sort of a way to reboot the PGR series for Microsoft. a spiritual successor if you will. but wouldn't mind like a 4k remaster for 20 euros or something.
@@LBEvideo Driving model is completely different. PGR4 is more arcade yet more in depth. Cars feel more unique, you can feel its weight, its characteristic... In Forza everything seems to be one model with oversimplified stats copied and pasted. It's fun. But PGR is better in case of "smoothness" and casual rivalry online.
This is the only entry in the series where the sound design took a huge hit. It has a wonky sound mix that just makes everything sound so weird and awful!
I played this game so freaking much back then. It was my first foray into online multiplayer gaming, and I was hooked. Fifteen years later, it's still a source of so many great memories. Good times, man.
I guess I mess with BeamNG and other sims too much, because the speeds you approach corners in this game give me cardiac problems, and yet, you make it.
This guy has literally just reviewed possibly the 3 most influential car games I've ever played one after another, Forza Motorsport 4, Driver2 & now PGR3
PGR3 sold me on X360. Nobody believed it looked like that when Bizarre showed it off earlier in 2005. It launched. It looked like that. Easy purchase. it was a fantastic game, played beautiful, looked amaing. It only actually ran 1024 x 600 but had some nice 2x MSAA to smooth a lot of edges, locked solid at 30FPS though and the motion blur made everything feel so smooth.
“Perfect for anyone who doesn’t have much time to spend on games…” - to be be fair it’s more accurate to describe it as “accessible” rather than casual. Like many others in the online community I sunk a ridiculous number of hours into PGR 2, 3 and 4, and the online gameplay was anything but casual. The career mode was as much preparation for online play as it was a solo experience. The days of PGR online are gone but they were great while they lasted.
from the way you worded it, it makes it look like you haven't played pgr4. well, it's "pgr3, but more" in every way. it's just a superior game all around. and the best looking racing game of the 7th generation. i miss it :(
The garage walkaround feature is sorely missed in every single game since it. I'd walk around my garage for hours, sorting and showcasing my favorite cars. I wish more games had that. It's such a fun bonus.
A racing game well ahead of it’s time, such a classic, and still pleasing to the eye graphically in todays era of games, i completed this again on Platinum only a few weeks ago, still play it on 360 from time to time, shame there is no backwards compatibility for it on Xb1 due to licensing!
I usualy play racing game until I get a skyline or impreza sti... Instead of starting with boring car, pgr3 already let you drive a skyline or ariel atom as a base car... thats a win. Great game.
The 4th game personally was the worst in my opinion and I hated it after a few races compared to the 3rd title. The 2nd remains my favorite game of the series, and it's a shame Activision killed off the studio that made this game... I was hopeful for a 5th installment to fix the issues with the 4th game.
This great game is better than Forza 5. You can't be too hard on the game not having enough cities to drive in, to add that many cities you'd have wanted would have broke the game as far as memory space and rendering was concerned.
