The Demo Site

A quick guide to help you get started on Project Gotham Racing 3
on the Xbox 360.

Controls
Left Stick – Steer the vehicle
Right stick – change your camera angles/ looks around car
RT – Accelerate
LT – Brake / Reverse
LB – Change camera
RB – Toggle driver names on/off
Y – Look behind
X – Shift down a gear / reverse
B – Shift up a gear
A – e-brake (hand brake)

Kudos Points
kudos points are awarded in the game for various things such as
performing a stylish manoeuvre or linking together a combination
of moves. Moves such as overtaking, going up onto two wheels,
hand brake slides, power slides and full 360 degree turns will
reward you with kudos points. These points can then be used to
unlock additional cars later in the game. You can obtain more
kudos points in each race by combining moves together.


Race Types

Hot Lap: With this race type you race in a single lap with the
aim to finish the lap within the specified time limit.

Timed Run: With this race type you must race through the course
before the time runs out.

Breakthrough: Here you must race through a series of checkpoints
which will add on additional time to the clock. You have to
complete the course before the time runs out.

Time Vs kudos: You must complete the course before the time runs
out. You can also stop the clock at times by performing moves
that will earn you kudos points.

Street Race: Race against opponents while trying to achieve the
appropriate target position.

One on one: Race against a single opponent and be the first to
cross the finish line.

Eliminator: Race against a group of opponents. At the end of each
lap the car in last place is eliminated. The aim is to win the
race and not get eliminated.

Cone Challenge: Here you must navigate through a series of cones
within a specified time limit – you have to earn a certain number
of kudos points to complete the race. You lose your kudos points
if you crash or make contact with any of the gates.

Drift Challenge: You have to earn over the required number of
kudos points by doing drifts within the set time limit.

Overtake Challenge: Here you have to overtake the specified
number of cars within the time limit.

Speed Challenge: Here you have to drive past the speed camera
travelling faster than the required speed.


Cars
There is a whole range of cars ranging from top of the range
Ferrari's to concept super cars, I'll not bore you with the pros
and cons of each car though. I will however recommend a few cars
to help get you started.

The Ultima GTR is a great car to get started with as its great to
control and also quite fast – will certainly get you through the
steel and bronze levels. It is also particularly useful for the
time Vs kudos, drift and cone challenges as it is much easier to
control that most of the other cars allowing you to link together
series of moves and obtain loads of kudos points.

In some of the harder levels you'll probably need a faster car,
the enzo Ferrari is good for this, if you really want to master
the game you'll have to get used to the controls of the F50 GT. I
also found the Ferrari 288 GTO useful for some of the harder
levels as it was fast but also a bit easier to control than some
of the more powerful cars.


Getting Started
The key to winning each race is working out just how your chosen
car handles and getting to know the tracks, if you can work out
how late you can break to still allow you to drift safely round a
corner and accelerate away then it is simple enough to keep ahead
of the other racers or beat the clock.
It is also useful to work out the best places to perform kudos
moves, which parts of the track are wide enough to perform huge
drifts and slides is particularly useful.


Tracks
The tracks in the game all come from specific locations: London,
Las Vegas, New York, Tokyo and the Nurburgring.
Once you play through a few tracks from each location you will
notice certain parts are repeated for different tracks and
circuits. You should be able to quickly learn the trickiest parts
of each location and the parts when you can travel at top speed
etc.


Online Play
Racing online is a little different. You are no longer playing
against AI controlled racers – now you are up against real people
with different levels of skills and most importantly different
tactics. You'll find some players will play fair and let you
overtake if you are screaming past and not try barge you around.
Others will make efforts to ram you off the track at any given
opportunity.
So you may have to focus more on what is going on around you and
not just on what you are going to do yourself.


Achievements
The following is the list of achievements in the game and how to
unlock them:

Arcade Player - Play Geometry Wars 1 and 2 in the garage (15
Gamerpoints)
Steel Champion - Complete all championships at Steel level (30
GamerPoints)
Bronze Champion - Complete all championships at Bronze level (50
GamerPoints)
Silver Champion - Complete all championships at Silver level (60
GamerPoints)
Gold Champion - Complete all championships at Gold level (75
GamerPoints)
Platinum Champion - Complete all championships at Platinum level
(100 GamerPoints)
Rank 10 - Get to Rank 10 in single player mode (20 GamerPoints)
Rank 5 - Get to Rank 5 in single player mode (50 GamerPoints)
Rank 1 - Get to Rank 1 in single player mode(80 GamerPoints)
Gotham Hero - Be featured on Gotham TV (30 GamerPoints)
Gotham TV Sports Fan - Watch Gotham TV 10 times and also save a
Replay of a race (15 GamerPoints)
Track Builder - Create and save 10 Custom Routes (10
GamerPoints)
Photographer - Take and save a picture in each of the different
cities (10 GamerPoints)
Ferrari Owners Club - Buy all the Ferrari cars (45 GamerPoints)
Lamborghini Owners Club - Buy all the Lamborghini Cars (45
GamerPoints)
Exotic Car Club - Buy the following cars: McLaren F1 LM; Shelby
GT 500; Ford GT-40 MK 1; Corvette ZR1; TVR Cerbera Speed Twelve;
RUF CTR "Yellow Bird"; Callaway Sledgehammer Twin Turbo (45
GamerPoints)
Race Against The Clock - Set a lap time for every circuit in Race
Against The Clock mode (50 GamerPoints)
Style Racer Badge - 25m powerslide; 10x Combo; 25k Online Kudos;
1k Kudos in a race; Kudos for every maneouvre (50 GamerPoints)
Pro Racer Badge - Earn a Platinum medal using manual transmission
(60 GamerPoints)
Online Professional – Take part in 50 online races; start
last/finish first; 3-event win streak; clean race; win each
scenario (60 GamerPoints)


Unlock able Cars
The following is the list of hidden cars that can be unlocked by
earning the required amount of kudos points in single player
mode:

Cadillac Concept - 90,000K - Cadillac Sixteen
Ford Concept - 10,000K - Ford Mustang GT-R Concept
Ford Concept - 120,000K - Ford Supercar Concept Indigo
Ford Concept - 160,000K - Ford Shelby GR-1
Ford Concept - 300,000K - Ford GT90 Concept
Ford Concept - 390,000K - Ford Shelby Cobra
Nissan Concept - 50,000K - Nissan GT-R Proto
RUF Concept - 475,000K - RUF R50
Toyota Concept - 230,000K - Toyota GT-One


Play geometry Wars 1 & 2
Go to view cars, then choose to walk around in your garage. If
you look around most of the garages you will see two arcade games
set up, called Geometry Wars 1 and 2. By walking close to each
and pressing A you are able to play full versions of both these
games.


Playing your own music
It is possible to play your own music through the 360 while
playing the game. Just press the guide button during the game and
then use the music player to play the required songs you have
stored on your hard drive.