Spong.com says they have confirmation from both European and American sources, Gotham 4 will carry a vast array of motorcycles from the world's leading manufacturers. Right now, licensing deals are under way and as such, the code recently seen by their spies was displaying bikes on tracks with little in the way of official livery.
Perhaps the best news is that bikes and cars will be competing head-to-head in both on and offline versions of the game. Spong was told the bikes can crash, though this element of the code was not complete so unfortunately, everyone can only imagine the marvellous Road Rash-style mishaps that will result.
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.
Even the most basic ninja bike is much faster and more agile than any racer short of a serious exotic. You would be hard pressed to find a ferrari that could keep up with any high end bike.
Please don't put bikes in a car game, they don't mix well.
If true bikes and cars can be a blast if done right; cars and bikes can mix well. I play TDU all the time and bikes with cars make great racing in my opinion if done right. Atari got it right with Test Drive Unlimited.
Ahhhh this is sooo awesome!!! Why r u all complaining?! Dude this game will look amazing and so will the bikes and it will be fun to race bikes online. Plus u can have duels with friends to see if u can beat them in a car this is really cool! I want this badly cause motogp was so lame
- Leave it up to the developer to balance bikes and cars without making it feel too arcade-like. You'll have the option to choose between bike and car. If Dev makes this balanced, shouldn't be an issue ... more of a preference.
- Makes things fresh ... almost Motostorm-like but on the streets minus the chaos. Weather effects are nice but PGR needs an update.
- PGR is a racing game. Its not NASCAR, its not Mariokart, its a RACING game. Its not limited to cars. Heck if they gave me nitro-infused shopping carts, I'd race it.