The Project Gotham Racing 4 demo has been unleashed on Xbox Live. The demo allows players to race three exotic cars and two bikes through the streets of Macau and a snowy Nürburgring. It also includes a Nürburgring Snow Challenge and PGR Arcade Events.
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With the Wii and DS crowd set for a whole new Geometry Wars experience, the hardcore Xbox 360 owners who made the series so popular in the first place might be feeling a little left out.
Well, suck it up people - Bizarre Creations are preparing a new Geometry Wars game, based on Retro Evolved, for inclusion in the upcoming Project Gotham Racing 4 - due for release in October this year.
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A spokesperson from Bizarre Creations has posted some unfortunate news on their official forums:
You won’t see different times of day per city because this involves recreating all the textures again (one for day and one for night). Whilst this wasn’t a problem for our dev team, it was a problem fitting all this data onto a single DVD. So we’ve worked around the problem by providing different lighting models per city. For example, Macau is always in the daytime, but if you play it during a storm everything looks darker and more foreboding. If you play during a blizzard then things are slightly tinged blue and everything seems more frozen. Of course, playing this track in sunshine will make everything appear bright and yellowy.
