![]() ![]() Unlike playtime matches, racing in your online career is for keeps, as these are ranked matches. The other half of your career in PGR 3 will take place online in the appropriately named online career. Obviously, there's an incentive to earn even better medals, as well as more credits, achievements, and badges but with only 23 trophies available in solo career mode, it won't be long before you begin to explore other options in the game. We wrapped up the solo career mode with all silver medals in approximately eight hours of play. There's just enough variety to keep things moving forward, and it won't take you much time to get through either solo mode or the online career mode. Motion blur effects and solid frame rate contributes to the game's thrilling sense of speed. ![]() It can be frustrating or invigorating, depending on your mindset. At the hardest difficulty level, these races require not only improvisation on the course, to ensure your combo chain isn't broken, but a sniper's accuracy behind the wheel, to navigate the tough placement of the cones. As easy as kudos are to earn, however, you won't just breeze your way through the kudo-centric cone challenges. In some timed runs, earning kudos will temporarily pause the countdown clock that you're running against thus, these kudos versus time races are challenges that require a fine balance of race speed and skillful touch. If you've got some touch behind the virtual wheel, for example, you can slalom your way down long straights, spinning your back wheels practically the entire time, racking up massive kudos along the way. Like the cash in PGR 3, kudos seem to be easier to earn this time around-though that could be a function of the incredible power of the cars in the game, which are at once very agreeable to drift-style driving, and fairly easy to control in the process. So the kudos system is back, serving as a measure of your ability to feather your car around corners, maintain awesome drifts around tight turns, and avoid the ever-present walls and other barriers. There's more to do than simply drive fast-in the PGR world, driving with style is just as important as stomping on the accelerator and pointing your nose at the finish line. You'll have your straight-ahead street races, of course, which will pit you against one or more other opponents in a fight to the checkered flag, and elimination races-multilap sprints in which the last driver over the finish line is eliminated on each successive lap. ![]() When it comes to mission variety, PGR 3's solo career mode will feel very familiar to anyone who's played the PGR series before. By completing events over a variety of difficulty levels (like in PGR 2, difficulty is noted by medals ranging from tin to platinum), you earn credits that pile up quickly and let you fill your garages (yes, note the plural) with the coolest collection of performance autos imaginable. The mode's been split into two subsections-a solo career that has you take on artificial intelligence-controlled drivers, and an online career mode that pits you against real-life drivers in a number of online events. Luckily, money comes quick in PGR 3, thanks to the game's centerpiece, the career mode. Models from elite makers such as Ferrari, TVR, RUFs, Mercedes, Lotus, and Shelby are available to you from the get-go-provided you have the credits to pay for them, of course. Instead of starting you out in a modest VW Corrado or Honda CRX, right off the bat in PGR 3 you'll have access to some of the hottest high-performance rides in the world. That number has been pared down considerably in PGR 3, to around 80 vehicles. One of the hallmarks of the PGR series has always been its volume-the large numbers of tracks set in a variety of exotic locales, and a list of drivable cars that, based on sheer numbers alone, set the mouths of car aficionados agape. Now Playing: Project Gotham Racing 3 Video Review By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's ![]()
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