History VideoGame / ProjectGothamRacing

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

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

*** Alot of these cars have yet to see an appearance in most sim racing games.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: See Rubber Band AI above.
* 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.

* ''Project Gotham Racing'' (2001, {{Xbox}})
* ''Project Gotham Racing 2'' (2003, {{Xbox}})
* ''Project Gotham Racing 3'' (2005, {{Xbox 360}})

* ''Project Gotham Racing 4'' (2007, {{Xbox 360}})

** Class B: exotics ([[BadAss Lamborghini Murcielago]], [[InfinityMinusOneSword Ferrari Enzo]], [[{{Expy}} Maserati MC12]])

* AllInTheManual: The manuals for ''3'' and ''4'' are chock of infos about the game, but the former is more comprehensive: it even goes as far to talk about the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic huge soundtrack]], with even a few examples from each playlist.

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

Unfortunately, the series' fate is [[LeftHanging uncertain]], due to Creator/{{Activision}} buying Bizarre Creations, and the eventual closing of the latter. Though it's highly believed that Turn 10 Studios, creator of the VideoGame/ForzaMotorsport series, has picked up ''PGR'' and a ''[=PGR5=]'' might be in the works. These rumors, unfortunately, have been long since debunked, so technically the series is now over.

* BoomTown: Almost all scenarios are actual real life cities such as {{London}}, [[BigApplesauce New York City]], UsefulNotes/LasVegas and {{UsefulNotes/Tokyo}}, to name a few.
** ''4'' adds in St. Petersburg, Quebec City, Shanghai and Macau
* CameraScrew: The fourth game does this in the form of the in-car/helmet camera. Specifically, how it impedes your ability to drive some of the cars properly from that view. Unlike the 3rd game, in which the game always provided you with its own gauges/readouts of vehicle speed, gear selection, and engine speed no matter what view you were in, in the 4th game, it does not do so for the cockpit view (which incidentally was introduced into the series in the 3rd game), instead making you reliant on the interior model's gauges and readouts to get the info you need. How the camera screws with you here is that either the interior point-of-view is usually a bit too far back from the gauges and makes them hard to read, or it's mis-elevated (too high/low) and allows the steering wheel to block a part of the instrument panel or, in extreme cases, ALL of it. What makes this worse is that these screws made some cars returning from the 3rd game undrivable when using the helmet cam to various degrees, due to a change in seating position from their [=PGR3=] counterparts.

** 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.

'''''Project Gotham Racing''''' was a racing game series developed by Creator/BizarreCreations. All games in the series were published by Creator/MicrosoftStudios. The series was a SpiritualSuccessor to the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast game ''Metropolis Street Racer'', also developed by Bizarre.

-> [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Life starts at 170 mph."]]

'''''Project Gotham Racing''''' was a racing game series developed by Creator/BizarreCreations. All games in the series were published by Creator/MicrosoftStudios. The series was a SpiritualSuccessor to the SegaDreamcast game ''Metropolis Street Racer'', also developed by Bizarre.

* 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.

* 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).

* 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.

* KillerApp: ''3'' was definitely one of them at the launch of the Xbox 360. ''4'' could've been one of them, if it wasn't for ''VideoGame/ForzaMotorsport 2'', which has exited at around the same time as [=PGR4=] and stripped the killer app title from the game.

''Project Gotham Racing'' is a racing game series developed by 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.

List of PGR games released:

* PGR (2001, {{Xbox}})
* [=PGR2=] (2003, {{Xbox}})
* [=PGR3=] (2005, {{Xbox 360}})
* [=PGR4=] (2007, {{Xbox 360}})

Unfortunately, the series' fate is [[LeftHanging uncertain]], due to Creator/{{Activision}} buying Bizarre Creations, and the eventual closing of the 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. These rumors, unfortunately, have been long since debunked, so technically the series is now over.

* KillerApp: ''3'' was definitely one of them at the launch of the Xbox 360. ''4'' could've been one of them, if it wasn't for ''ForzaMotorsport 2'', which has exited at around the same time as [=PGR4=] and stripped the killer app title from the game.

-> [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Life starts at 170 mph."]]\\
'''Tagline of [=PGR3=].'''

!!This game series provides examples of the following tropes:

-> "Life starts at 170 mph."\\
'''Tagline of ''[=PGR3=]''.'''

-> "Speed is not enough. You need [[DrivesLikeCrazy style]], too."\\
'''Tagline of ''[=PGR4=]''.'''

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

-> "For being the Number 1, [[SuperSpeed speed]] alone is not enough. You need [[DrivesLikeCrazy style]], too."\\
-> '''Series tagline.'''

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

** Class G: old and new city cars ([[GlassCannon Austin Mini Cooper]], [[AwesomeYetPractical Mazda MX-5]], [[Film/BackToTheFuture DeLorean DMC-12]])

** Class A: hypercars and race cars ([[InfinityMinusOneSword Mclaren F1 LM]], [[AwesomeYetPractical Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR Supersport]], [[GameBreaker Ferrari F50 GT]])

** Class G: old and new city cars ([[GlassCannon Austin Mini Cooper]], [[AwesomeYetPractical Mazda MX-5]], [[BackToTheFuture DeLorean DMC-12]])

* KillerApp: ''3'' was definitely one of them at the launch of the Xbox 360. ''4'' could've been one of them, if it wasn't for ''ForzaMotorsport 2'', which has exited at around the same time as [=PGR4=].

'''Series tagline.'''

** 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=])