longbough

Anybody here playing PGR 3 on the XBOX 360?

It has this nifty screencap feature which allows you to move a camera about during the pause menu and even zoom tight enough to get nice images of the badges (e.g. the Shelby GT-500 above).

Here are screencaps I took. If you play the game feel free to post some of your own.








I hope you like the classics ...

Daniel_

I don't have it, but those are some awesome pictures.

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hulk

*sigh* If only it wasn't so jaggy while playing

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bookerV

Those screenshots have peeked my interest. I was always curious about PG3. How is the actual gameplay?

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hulk

Largely unsatisfactory. The Ferraris and so-forth are available right from the start, and after a few races you'll find a car that will pretty much handle everything you throw at it. The AI has not been improved in the slightest - cars will ram you from the racing line, spin you out and keep driving straight, block you in at the starting grid and so on. The control is workable enough, though it has some strange behaviors with RPM and gear changes. The much-vaunted powerslides are next to useless in the races, and the Kudos challanges have been reduced to Extreme Drivers Ed - kudos are only used to unlock concept cars, which must be purchased on top of that with the yawn-worthy credits you get after each race. Online they may have well been labelled Microsoft's F50 GT Challenge, because you won't see much else.

Overall, it's an average racer with a high polycount and very little in the way of other graphical glamour. You can spin your tyres for as long as you like and you won't get anything more than a few measly puffs of smoke, for example. It's passable if you can find it cheap but nothing screams 'must buy' if you want anything particularly deep.

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longbough

Aww. It ain't that bad ...
Graphics are nice ... doesn't lag as much as some games do. I would like a larger selection of cars and a longer solo campaign mode ... but overall PGR3 is well rounded. While it's not the DEFINITIVE racing experience it doesn't actually FLOP in any areas IMO.

I can think of many games that are much worse ... and few as good as PGR3.

... still, I confess if the game didn't look as good as it does I probably wouldn't be playing it.

... but it's not that bad.

hulk

It's not bad, there's just not enough depth to it

What are you using for those screen caps, longbough?

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Arachnid

Awesome pics there

thanks for the insight into the game


Ta

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longbough

PGR3 has probably the best screencap tool I've ever used on ANY game - PC, 360 or other console.

When you pause any game you can enter a "photo shoot mode" which allows you to walk around the paused scene and and snap photos. You can adjust shutter speed, apeture, focus etc. It's neat to pause in the middle of a collision and then walk around snapping photos ... it makes screencaptures fun. I'm wasting hours just taking screencaps.

The other aspect is that you can upload your photos to the project gotham 3 website and access them there. That's where I download them onto my PC.

All action games ... heck ... any 3-d game should have a photoshoot mode like this game.

hulk

I knew about the photos, but didn't about the uploading! That's very cool. I'll be back in a moment

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THGL

This is serious nit-picking but if the game makers are putting so much time into detail they could at least get the car names correct. Those Shelby GT500s are actually that god-awful "Elenor" GT500-E from the remake of "Gone in 60 Seconds" (which aren't "real" Shelbys anyway).

I'll stick with Gran Turismo.

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longbough

Yeah ... I noticed their Shelby error, too. I'm a fan of those machines and the GT-500s should be based off of the '67-68 Mustangs. The one they have is based off of the '65 or '66 which makes it more of a GT-350 with a few "modern" appointments.

Still .... I actually do like the GT-500E (the modernized Shelby) from the film. The PGR folks just got it wrong.

But that's not enough to spoil the game for me.

Jimellow

Apparently Fry's has PGR3 for $20 through Wednesday. There are none around here, but I figured the information may be of use to someone that lives in a part of country that hosts the retailer.

I've never played the game, or 360, but the graphics are very impressive. The capture of the Porsche is beautiful.

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hulk

Alright, I figured it's time I put longbough's photographs to shame *grin*

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