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-> "For being the Number 1, [[SuperSpeed speed]] alone is not enough. You need [[DrivesLikeCrazy style]], too."\\
'''Series tagline.'''
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* LevelGrinding: ''3'' suffered from this. While grinding for money wasn't a big deal at all, the real problem was Kudos grinding.

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* LevelGrinding: ''3'' suffered from this. While grinding for money MoneyGrinding wasn't a big deal at all, all (one can acquire the [[GameBreaker Ferrari F50 GT]] within a few hours of playing!), the real problem was Kudos grinding.
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* CharacterTiers: InvokedTrope. The series constantly divides cars into classes. Here are the car classes in ''4'', with a few examples:
** Class G: old and new city cars (Austin Mini Cooper, Mazda MX-5, [[BackToTheFuture DeLorean DMC-12]])
** Class F: old sport cars (Aston Martin [=DB4=], Lamborghini Miura, Lancia Stratos)
** Class E: new high-end cars and old supercars (Ferrari 250 GTO, Audi [=RS4=], [[LethalJokeCharacter Subaru Impreza]])
** Class D: mid-end supercars (Aston Martin [=V8=] Vantage, Lamborghini Diablo, Audi [=R8=])
** Class C: recent supercars (Ford GT, Ferrari 599, Lamborghini Gallardo)
** Class B: exotics (Lamborghini Murcielago, Ferrari Enzo, Maserati [=MC12=])
** Class A: hypercars and race cars ([[InfinityMinusOneSword Mclaren F1 LM]], [[AwesomeYetPractical Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR Supersport]], [[GameBreaker Ferrari F50 GT]])
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* InfinityMinusOneSword: In ''3'', the Mclaren [=F1=] LM, the Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR Supersport and the Panoz Esperante GTR-1 are this to the [[GameBreaker godlike]] Ferrari [=F50=] GT.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: There is a car in ''3'' and ''4'' called the Callaway '''Sledgehammer''' Twin Turbo. The thing is essentially a tuned fourth-gen Corvette: [[DifficultButAwesome it is really, really fast, but has very touchy handling.]]
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* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: When you listen to your music in ''3'', you can see the song title and the artist appearing in the game.

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* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: When you listen to your music in ''3'', you can see the song title and the artist appearing in the game. The feature has been dropped in ''4'' for unknown reasons.

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* LevelGrinding: Subverted. In some cases, you earn enough kudos to buy certain car packs containing a set amount of cars including Ferrari FXX, Lamborghini Murcielagos, and even a FREAKING Mclaren F1!

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* LevelGrinding: Subverted. In ''3'' suffered from this. While grinding for money wasn't a big deal at all, the real problem was Kudos grinding.
** Fixed in ''4''. The championships in the Career mode can net you several thousands of Kudos, and in
some cases, you earn enough kudos Kudos to buy certain car packs containing a set amount of cars including the Ferrari FXX, Lamborghini Murcielagos, Murcielago, and even a FREAKING Mclaren F1!



* NintendoHard: Platinum difficulty. Oh god: in this difficulty setting, the AI will always be on the back of your neck, and the objectives in solo challenges require nigh-inhuman skills to beat. The latter example is much stronger in ''3'': in style challenges (where you have to gain a determined amount of Kudos with certain moves to win), in Gold difficulty you sometimes have to reach a few thousand Kudos, but not that much to be NintendoHard. In Platinum? You have to beat an objective which is '''10 TIMES BIGGER''' than the Gold difficulty one!

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* NintendoHard: Platinum difficulty. Oh god: in this difficulty setting, the AI will always be on the back of your neck, and the objectives in solo challenges require nigh-inhuman skills to beat. The latter example is much stronger in ''3'': in style challenges (where you have to gain a determined amount of Kudos with certain moves to win), in Gold difficulty you sometimes have to reach a few thousand Kudos, but not that much to be NintendoHard. In Platinum? You have to beat an objective which is '''10 '''FROM 3 TO 10 TIMES BIGGER''' than the Gold difficulty one!
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** LighterAndSofter: ''4'' has a more colorful and poppy design than ''3''.
* DiscOneNuke: In ''4'', Quick Race mode and the DrivingTest will give you all of the hundreds of cars in the game right off the bat, so you can test them all and find the ones that fit your style... And even test out the [[GameBreaker Ferrari F50 GT.]]
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* NintendoHard: Platinum difficulty. Oh god: in this difficulty setting, the AI will always be on the back of your neck, and the objectives in solo challenges require nigh-inhuman skills to beat. The latter example is much stronger in ''3'': in style challenge, in Gold difficulty you sometimes have to reach a few thousand Kudos, but not that much. In Platinum? You have to beat an objective which is '''10 TIMES BIGGER''' than the Gold difficulty one!

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* NintendoHard: Platinum difficulty. Oh god: in this difficulty setting, the AI will always be on the back of your neck, and the objectives in solo challenges require nigh-inhuman skills to beat. The latter example is much stronger in ''3'': in style challenge, challenges (where you have to gain a determined amount of Kudos with certain moves to win), in Gold difficulty you sometimes have to reach a few thousand Kudos, but not that much. much to be NintendoHard. In Platinum? You have to beat an objective which is '''10 TIMES BIGGER''' than the Gold difficulty one!
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** While the Project Gotham Racing didn't contain as much cars as Gran Turismo and Forza had, PGR4 managed to make wade variety of car production years with more than 130 cars from the 1950s to 2008.

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** While the Project Gotham Racing didn't contain as much cars as Gran Turismo and Forza had, PGR4 [=PGR4=] managed to make wade variety of car production years with more than 130 cars from the 1950s to 2008.


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* NintendoHard: Platinum difficulty. Oh god: in this difficulty setting, the AI will always be on the back of your neck, and the objectives in solo challenges require nigh-inhuman skills to beat. The latter example is much stronger in ''3'': in style challenge, in Gold difficulty you sometimes have to reach a few thousand Kudos, but not that much. In Platinum? You have to beat an objective which is '''10 TIMES BIGGER''' than the Gold difficulty one!
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* TheDevsThinkOfEverything: When you listen to your music in ''3'', you can see the song title and the artist appearing in the game.

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* TheDevsThinkOfEverything: TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: When you listen to your music in ''3'', you can see the song title and the artist appearing in the game.
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* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: See Rubber Band AI above.

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* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: See Rubber Band AI above.above.
* TheDevsThinkOfEverything: When you listen to your music in ''3'', you can see the song title and the artist appearing in the game.
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* AllOrNothingAllOrNothing: The Arcade challenges provide an example: either you achieve the objective and you gain Kudos (the higher the difficulty, the higher is the Kudos quantity received), or you go home with nuthin'.
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* BoomTown: Almost all scenarios are actual real life cities such as {{London}}, [[BigApplesauce New York City]], [[VivaLasVegas Las Vegas]] and {{UsefulNotes/Tokyo}}, to name a few.

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[[IReadThatAs Despite the name]], the game has no connection to [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]]. Although, if it did, it would be awesome.

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[[IReadThatAs Despite the name]], the game has no connection to [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]]. Although, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen if it did, it would be awesome.
awesome.]]



** [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Loads and Loads of Cars]] While the Project Gotham Racing didn't contain as much cars as Gran Turismo and Forza had, PGR4 managed to make wade variety of car production years with more than 130 cars from the 1950s to 2008.
** Alot of these cars have yet to see an appearance in most sim racing games.

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** [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Loads and Loads of Cars]] While the Project Gotham Racing didn't contain as much cars as Gran Turismo and Forza had, PGR4 managed to make wade variety of car production years with more than 130 cars from the 1950s to 2008.
** *** Alot of these cars have yet to see an appearance in most sim racing games.



* ShaggyDogStory: There is a pack in ''4'' which costs 1 million kudos, [[spoiler:which turns out to be a gamer picture, and an achievement]].

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* SceneryPorn: The city buildings in [=PGR4=] look absolutely stunning even by today's standards.
** 3 and 4 both detain a Guinness World Record: "Most Complex Scenery in a Racing Game", with New York City. Just the Brooklyn Bridge ranks up at over a million polygons and an half.
* ShaggyDogStory: There is a pack in ''4'' which costs 1 million kudos, [[spoiler:which turns out to be a gamer picture, and an achievement]]. It counts also as BraggingRightsReward.
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* AllOrNothing
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* CoolCarCoolCar: The A car class breathes this trope. Nothing else than non-road-legal race cars and hypercars. If you ever race in this class, get ready to see a free-for-all brawl of badass race cars to see who's the best on the track.



* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In [=PGR4=], the AI on career mode have human names.

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In [=PGR4=], the AI on career mode have human names.names, and they all have different personalities: some are more aggressive and concentrate on pulling out tricks to get more Kudos, others are more focused on true racing.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: ''3'' has a much darker, more minimalist and more streamlined design than the first two installments.

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* DrivingTest: The Michelin Test track for trying out any cars in [=PGR4=].

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* DrivingTest: The Michelin Test track for trying out any car in [=PGR4=]. From the straightforward oval circuit to the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Ultimate Test]], the player can measure any of the cars and bikes in [=PGR4=].the game (in this mode, all of the vehicles in the game are available from the very beginning) in three tests: a time trial in any of the five layouts of the test track, a speed run in the oval circuit, and a solo drift contest.


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* LevelEditor: ''3'' interpreted it in a different way: there is a special mode called "Route Creator" where the player is able to create his own circuit by putting checkpoints in the various roads in the 4 main scenarios of the game (London, Las Vegas, Tokyo, New York City).
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''Project Gotham Racing'' is a racing game series developed by Bizarre Creations. All games in the series were published by Creator/MicrosoftStudios. The series is a SpiritualSuccessor to the game ''Metropolis Street Racer'', also developed by Bizarre.

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''Project Gotham Racing'' is a racing game series developed by Bizarre Creations.Creator/BizarreCreations. All games in the series were published by Creator/MicrosoftStudios. The series is a SpiritualSuccessor to the game ''Metropolis Street Racer'', also developed by Bizarre.
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Unfortunately, the series' fate is [[LeftHanging uncertain]], due to Creator/{{Activision}} buying Bizarre Creations, and the eventual closing of the latter.

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Unfortunately, the series' fate is [[LeftHanging uncertain]], due to Creator/{{Activision}} buying Bizarre Creations, and the eventual closing of the latter.
latter. Though it's highly believed that Turn 10 Studios, creator of the ForzaMotorsport series, has picked up PGR and a [=PGR5=] might be in the works.

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''Project Gotham Racing'' (PGR) is a racing game, the first in its series, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by [[MicrosoftStudios Microsoft Game Studios]] for the {{Xbox}} gaming console, and released on 9th November 2001 in North America, and 14th March 2002 in Europe.

MetropolistStreetRacer, also developed by Bizarre Creations, came out on 2001 for the SegaDreamcast.

The sequels ([=PGR3=], [=PGR4=]) for the series were developed and published for the Xbox360 after [=PGR2=].

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''Project Gotham Racing'' (PGR) is a racing game, the first in its series, game series developed by Bizarre Creations and Creations. All games in the series were published by [[MicrosoftStudios Microsoft Game Studios]] for Creator/MicrosoftStudios. The series is a SpiritualSuccessor to the {{Xbox}} gaming console, and released on 9th November 2001 in North America, and 14th March 2002 in Europe.

MetropolistStreetRacer,
game ''Metropolis Street Racer'', also developed by Bizarre Creations, came out on 2001 for the SegaDreamcast.

The sequels ([=PGR3=], [=PGR4=]) for the series were developed and published for the Xbox360 after [=PGR2=].
Bizarre.



* PGR (2001)

* [=PGR2=] (2003)

* [=PGR3=] (2005)

* [=PGR4=] (2007)

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* PGR (2001)

(2001, {{Xbox}})
* [=PGR2=] (2003)

(2003, {{Xbox}})
* [=PGR3=] (2005)

(2005, {{Xbox 360}})
* [=PGR4=] (2007)
(2007, {{Xbox 360}})

Unfortunately, the series' fate is [[LeftHanging uncertain]], due to Creator/{{Activision}} buying Bizarre Creations, and the eventual closing of the latter.

[[IReadThatAs Despite the name]], the game has no connection to [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]]. Although, if it did, it would be awesome.



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!! Examples !!This game series provides examples of Tropes:the following tropes:
* DrivesLikeCrazy: InvokedTrope - you are ''encouraged'' to do powerslides and grab air.



* RealityIsUnrealistic: Almost every game in this series warned players that the depictions of the game is unrealistic despite the fact that each game showed semi-realism such as breaking for turns instead of speed-turns, etc.

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* RareVehicles: The Caparo T1 in ''4''. The thing is a street-legal ''FormulaOne'' car, basically. Only 25 are churned out a year. As of 2012, only 16 have been sold.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Almost every game in this series warned players that the depictions of the game is unrealistic despite the fact that each game showed semi-realism such as breaking for turns instead of speed-turns, etc.etc.
* ShaggyDogStory: There is a pack in ''4'' which costs 1 million kudos, [[spoiler:which turns out to be a gamer picture, and an achievement]].
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Metropolis Street Racer'', as noted above.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: See Rubber Band AI above.
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The sequels (PGR3, PGR4) for the series were developed and published for the Xbox360 after PGR2.

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The sequels (PGR3, PGR4) ([=PGR3=], [=PGR4=]) for the series were developed and published for the Xbox360 after PGR2.
[=PGR2=].



* PGR2 (2003)

* PGR3 (2005)

* PGR4 (2007)

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* PGR2 [=PGR2=] (2003)

* PGR3 [=PGR3=] (2005)

* PGR4 [=PGR4=] (2007)



* DrivingTest: The Michelin Test track for trying out any cars in PGR4.

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* DrivingTest: The Michelin Test track for trying out any cars in PGR4.[=PGR4=].



* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In PGR4, the AI on career mode have human names.

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In PGR4, [=PGR4=], the AI on career mode have human names.
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* LevelGrinding: Subverted. In same cases, you earn enough kudos to buy certain car packs containing a set amount of cars including Ferrari FXX, Lamborghini Murcielagos, and even a FREAKING Mclaren F1!

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* LevelGrinding: Subverted. In same some cases, you earn enough kudos to buy certain car packs containing a set amount of cars including Ferrari FXX, Lamborghini Murcielagos, and even a FREAKING Mclaren F1!
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** Alot of these cars have yet to see an appearance in most sim racing games.

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There are also ''MetropolisStreetRacer'', ''PGR 2'', ''PGR 3'', ''PGR 4'', ''PGR Mobile'', and ''PGR: Ferrari Edition''.

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There are also ''MetropolisStreetRacer'', ''PGR 2'', ''PGR 3'', ''PGR 4'', ''PGR Mobile'', The sequels (PGR3, PGR4) for the series were developed and ''PGR: Ferrari Edition''.
published for the Xbox360 after PGR2.

List of PGR games released:

* PGR (2001)

* PGR2 (2003)

* PGR3 (2005)

* PGR4 (2007)

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MetropolistStreetRacer, also developed by Bizarre Creations, came out on 2001 for the SegaDreamcast.



* DrivingTest: The Michelin Test track for trying out any cars in PGR4
* CoolCar: Class A in PGR4
* RacingGame: Well this is Project Gotham Racing after all.

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* DrivingTest: The Michelin Test track for trying out any cars in PGR4
PGR4.
* CoolCar: Class A in PGR4
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* LevelGrinding: Subverted. In same cases, you earn enough kudos to buy certain car packs containing a set amount of cars including Ferrari FXX, Lamborghini Murcielagos, and even a FREAKING Mclaren F1!
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In PGR4, the AI on career mode have human names.
** [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Loads and Loads of Cars]] While the Project Gotham Racing didn't contain as much cars as Gran Turismo and Forza had, PGR4 managed to make wade variety of car production years with more than 130 cars from the 1950s to 2008.
* RacingGame: Well this is Project Gotham Racing after all.all.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Almost every game in this series warned players that the depictions of the game is unrealistic despite the fact that each game showed semi-realism such as breaking for turns instead of speed-turns, etc.
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* DynamicDifficulty: On normal and hard difficulty, beating the AI will be nearly impossible if you mess up too much in career mode.
** RubberBandAI: On the other hand, you have to be nearly perfect to beat most of the AI in higher difficulty if you want to win the races.
* DrivingTest: The Michelin Test track for trying out any cars in PGR4
* CoolCar: Class A in PGR4
* RacingGame: Well this is Project Gotham Racing after all.
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''Project Gotham Racing'' (PGR) is a racing game, the first in its series, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by [[MicrosoftStudios Microsoft Game Studios]] for the {{Xbox}} gaming console, and released on 9th November 2001 in North America, and 14th March 2002 in Europe.

There are also ''MetropolisStreetRacer'', ''PGR 2'', ''PGR 3'', ''PGR 4'', ''PGR Mobile'', and ''PGR: Ferrari Edition''.

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