PGR 3 News from Japan

This week, Bizarre Creations' Nick Davies was shipped out to Japan to give the press some info on Project Gotham Racing® 3. Talking at the Xbox Japan Summit, Nick outlined some further details on the third Project Gotham Racing title in the series, and he revealed a new trailer of the game.

Some points that Nick covered at the Summit:

• The new Route Creator allows you to design your own tracks, and share them online over Xbox Live®.
• It's now possible to drive any car, at any time. You can buy your favorite super car at the beginning of your career, and use it right through to the completion of the game if you wish
• Eighty high-powered automobiles are featured in PGR™ 3. You can drive the most desirable collection of super cars ever featured in a game, such as the Ferrari 430, the Lamborghini Gallardo, and the McLaren F1 LM.
• Fully motion-captured, 3-D crowds react to your racing. They cheer the cars as they race past, and move away from the barriers if you crash.
• Our new sound engine uses 30 individual samples; this is three times more than in PGR™ 2.
• On average, each car is rendered using 80,000 polygons. This consists of approximately 40,000 for the interior and 40,000 for the exterior. To put this in perspective, PGR 2 used only 10,000 polygons per car.
• Along similar lines, the geometry of the Brooklyn Bridge structure alone uses the same number of polygons as an entire city from the original Project Gotham Racing.

We look forward to giving out more information on PGR 3 in the future. Keep checking back for more updates.