Each city's courses are recognisably that city, from speeding over Tower Bridge to taking off every time you hit one of San Francisco's steep hills. As you'll see from the screenshots, PGR Mobile looks great. So what's it like to actually race? Spiffing. Each has stats for acceleration, drifting, top speed and grip, enabling you to choose the one that suits your driving style best. There's a broad range of real life cars to buy, from the weedy Honda NSX that you start with, up to the 690,000-credit Toyota GT-One, taking in Lambos, Mercedes and Aston Martins in between. 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. Know your side streets and prepare to shake the cops at any moment.Project Gotham on a phone? It'd never work. Mix it up across Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Miami in both closed-circuit and perilous open-city races.Pay for repairs with your hard earned cash. Blow a turn or bump a fellow racer and incur damage in real time.Earn the affections of 18 real-life models from the world of import racing Burn the competition to win cash, street cred or better yet, your opponent’s wheels.Cherry your ride with a variety of real-world decals and graphic upgrades. Modify over 40 authentic licensed cars - including the signature Nissan Skyline - with aftermarket parts from over 15 licensed manufacturers. Street Racing Syndicate is one of the most realistic street racers ever to grace PC.With masses of perfectly tuned, nitrous-stoked horses under the hood, the only thing between you and victory is the distance from the pedal to the floor. Lay it all on the line - your wallet, your woman, your pride and your wheels. Trick out over 40 authentic licensed cars with parts from over 15 real-world manufacturers, then turn your customized ride loose on the streets of 3 cities across the USA. The raw, high-stakes world of illegal street racing comes to life in Street Racing Syndicate.
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