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There are many different kinds of events including your street races, your Time Against Kudos, which is you trying to win the race, creating Kudos to stop the clock so you have the time. There are elimination races, which will eliminate the last car at the end of each lap as well, and you still have modes where you must pass up a certain amount of cars. You get a jumble of these in the different tracks you traverse in each city. If you want to talk Kudos though, the Cone Challenges in the game are where you want to be. This center around you going through two cone ways, connecting to another cone, powersliding down a curve, and making sure you don’t bump into a cone. The cones aren’t as brightly colored as I’d like, but they serve to add more difficulty to it. There is plenty of variety here in the game’s career mode, but it is also surprisingly short. I managed to beat it in ten hours, and earned plenty of credits, medals, and achievements, but there is even more to go back and do. Even though you beat the game on say, Silver, you get the Steel, Bronze, and Silver achievements, there is more to do, such as doing Gold, or earning more medals. The AI in the game has also improved vastly, and it really shows when playing in Hard or Hardcore mode. They will try to push you out of the way, block your car from passing, and move more aggressively than before. They still aren’t to terribly difficult, but it is nice that they move much more realistically.
Then there is the Online Career, which has a set amount of challenges that you can do against other people online. The online system overall works good, with the connection, and who it puts you up against, only matching you with people at your skill or around your skill. Basically here you continuously do races on and on again, advancing your rank to show everyone who’s boss. You also have to actually select a car from a certain class for the races in here. Then there are your garages. I say garages because you start off with a small one, then you go up to a even bigger one, than an even bigger one, so and so forth. You can walk around in these garages, look at your cars, select cars, and even play the highly addictive games Geometry Wars and Geometry Wars Retro Evolved. The garages, like the rest of the game are a sight to behold, but I will go into the rest of that later in the article. Then you have Leaderboards, which just lets you go on and see where you place overall in the world.
The buildings actually look this good!
If you haven’t already figured it out, there is a reoccurring theme with Project Gotham Racing 3, and that is Xbox Live, and taking advantage of online play, and competitiveness. This game is extremely competitive, stacking you up against other players any chance it gets. You will even see a little ticker on the bottom of the game in the menu screens to give you the latest leader board news. So this takes us to the Playtime section of PGR3. Under there you have option to play with up to two people on one Xbox 360, have up to four Xbox 360 systems hooked up for system link, race against the clock, create a route, or play online. At review time, I had very few opponents to actually go up against, but what was there was awesome. You can have a street race, eliminator match, team street race, team eliminator, or capture the track. The team games basically have you getting the most of your team in front, and the capture the track has you capturing track sections for your team. The quicker you are, the more you own, it is pretty simple, but very fun.
There are more things that help expand the replayability of the game such as Gotham TV. In Gotham TV you can watch the best of PGR3 race against others, or on career by tuning into the Heroes Channel. Gotham Heroes are people that are in the top rankings, they have a lot of Xbox 360 Achievements, and so on. It helps give you an idea of how good, good can be. The Friends Channel just basically shows you what your friends are doing, sometimes letting you watch them. You can also look at your saved replays, and photos you have taken. You can also look at ghosts, or watch how people have completed a certain task in the game, helping you to better yourself as a player. You also can create your own tracks, taking one of the three cities, and creating your own routes with a simple map editor. You don’t literally get to make buildings, and tracks, but you can make some pretty interesting routes, and even use them online. Something else that adds replayability, which I mentioned before, is the fact that you can earn Xbox 360 Achievements. These will figure into your overall Gamescore, which is transmitted over Xbox Live, and they range from getting an achievement for playing the arcade games, to owning all of a certain car, to beating the game.
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