You set the difficulty level for each race, choosing from five levels, Novice to Hardcore, which also defines how many credits you can trouser if you succeed. You gain kudos points for daredevil driving antics, which mostly means drifting around corners, but also takes in overtaking, 'drafting' (lurking in the slipstream of rivals), gaining air, and generally driving without hitting things. Yes, another key element of the console game has made it into the mobile version. The events are varied, including straight street races, one-lap time trials, one-on-one duels, and a bunch of others revolving around kudos. The meat of the game is the Solo Career mode, where you compete in multi-race Championships in each location, winning medals for your trophy cabinet and credits to buy faster and better cars. PGR Mobile follows its console parent's structure, sending you street racing in London, Paris and San Francisco. They even squeezed in the connectivity.īut let's start with the basics. In spades.Īnd while it's important to stress that we're reviewing here the all-singing all-dancing 3D version for high-end handsets, this game represents a new high for mobile racing games, in terms of presentation AND gameplay. Well, now it's here Project Gotham Racing proves the point. The end result would only be disappointing, I tell ya. Want more? Okay, who wants to see the graphical horsepower of Xbox 360 shoehorned into a handset anyway? Plus there won't be any of the cool Xbox Live connectivity. A console racer that's so dependent on its super-tight handling, with pinpoint corner-drifting essential to progressing through the game, it could surely only turn out disappointing after the translation to mobile.

Project Gotham on a phone? It'd never work.

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