360 Gamer writes:
"Bizarre Creations has said that it is still working on downloadable content for Project Gotham Racing 4, but has refused to say when it will be made available."
"As we reported back in November, Bizarre's community and web lead Ben Ward let slip that the Liverpudlean developer had 'picked the majority of vehicles for [PGR4's] first DLC pack', and was busy coding them."
Luke Plunkett of Kotaku writes, "I think we all took the Xbox 360 for granted. Other all-time greats like the SNES and PS2 seem to be remembered more fondly than Microsoft’s console, which tends to be recalled as more of a thing that happened than a platform to be treasured."
A Kotaku writer pining for Xbox's golden years. I'm guessing there will be some good comments here.
“WE”didn’t take it for granted, M$ did.
What happened prior to launch of the One up through current day with their marketing and focus away from games and consumers. The failure of the One has nothing to do with the 360 being great. In fact backward compatibility and the 360 is about all the One had/has going for it. Now M$ is dumping money into fornite articles to try and be seen as more than they are, a company that doesn’t give a damn about its fan boys or products.
Clickonline writes "To many, cars are simply a way of getting from point A to point B. But to gamers they are a way of doing so as quickly as possible, while leaving opponents trailing in your wake. The racing genre’s grid has always been full of fierce competitors. And there’s no indication that this will change any time soon with Gran Turismo 6 taking to the start/finish straight and next-gen exclusives such as Driveclub and The Crew."
Jalopnik - I'd just taken over as Tesla's PR guy and had been contacted by old friends at Microsoft Game Studios about including the Tesla Roadster in Project Gotham Racing 4. Darryl Siry, my boss, took me into Martin Eberhard's (Tesla's Co-founder/then CEO) office to broach the topic. That's when it went very wrong.
This game is very slept on! DLC will be good but won't help to put this game on the radar.
I bought the game day one, a fantastic racing experience with great singleplayer and multiplayer with some of the best graphics ever seen in a game. I'll buy the DLC the day it comes out without question.
Seriously with Burnout released and how amazing it is... Really right now for me at least all other racing games pale. The speed, control, scale, pace and online are all just amazing... Nothing out right now comes close. So why do I care about DLC for this. Best part is Burnout is multiplat too.
I've been enjoying PGR3 in over 6000 races (singleplayer and multiplayer), and PGR4 is also a good racing game. I didn't play it too much online to begin with because of Halo 3 and then COD4, but when they updated the game with Daily Tournaments on Xbox Live, I got hooked. If I have a night off, I'm qualifying for a tournament =)
I didn't think that Bizarre would be working on DLC for PGR4 since they got bought by Activision, but it seems I'm wrong. I have a few things that I would've liked to be changed in the game itself. Things like being able to see your friends' times in the tournaments leaderboard (like pressing X to see your friends' score, X again to see worlds best etc). They should also update the Ranked racing on XBL. Too often is it Speed Challenge, Hot Lap and Elimination when racing in teams. More Street Races would be nice. Also not the same tracks in the same cities in one specific class all the time in ranked racing.
I should write a mail to Bizarre and see if they would do anything about it. Changes like tournament leaderboard and the playlist in ranked races should be easy to adjust in a patch. Changes in the playlist/matchmaking doesn't require a patch even. Bungie and Infinity Ward changes the matchmaking, so I don't see why Bizarre shouldn't do it if it would make the game experience better.