Project Gotham Racing 2

Here are 26 official images of the Long Beach PGR2 download pack. I gave that DLC a try yesterday and I'm kinda disapointed. The cars are very good, but Long Beach was boring and uninspired as far as I can tell.

Microsoft just put online the first screens of the 2nd pack for Project Gotham Racing 2. 8 tracks in Long Beach near Los Angeles and some very nice cars : Ariel Atom 2, Porsche 911 GT2 Club, Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, Dodge Ram SRT-10, Radical SR3 Turbo, Volkswagen Nardo W12, Dodge Challenger RT Hemi, Mercedes SL65 AMG Subaru Impreza WRX Sti WR1 (not 100% sure yet).

The great SnakeX made a great effort yesterday and went out of his cave to do these photo comparison of PGR2's Paris versus the real one. Quite interesting !

Bizzare Creations announced a few minutes ago the content of the first DLC pack for Project Gotham Racing 2 : Paris and 8 cars : TVR Cerbera Speed 12 (The one you unlock with all platinums, but racing green), Ferrari 288 GTO, BMW 645Ci, Ferrari 365 GTS4 (Daytona) - Miami Vice, Porsche 356A Carrera Speedster, Ferrari 250TR, Chevrolet Corvette C6, et la BMW M3 CSL. No indication on a price or even if it will be free or not. More informations today, especially the release date.
Update : First images of Paris in PGR2 added !

Surprise in the latest french Xbox Live newsletter, in the downloadable content column, under Project Gotham Racing 2... Paris ! Not a total surprise, but it's finally a confirmation ! Woohoo :)

If you read a gaming forum daily you certainly have already seen the word Render when a very or almost too beautiful image of a game was published. In this article I'll try to explain what a render is, how to create one and will make a comparison between renders and ingame images of 4 games (PGR2, DOAX, MM3)

Here is another nice hack with Project Gotham Racing 2. By tweaking the camera files I was able to record a few laps with a view very much like Micro Machines. It's surprisingly playable and quite nice looking even with the graphical glitches.

A PGR2 fan living in Edinburgh just had the excellent idea of doing a comparison between the real life city and the one in Project Gotham Racing 2, just like someone did for Hong Kong. Here are some very impressive shots !

A PGR2 fan from Hong Kong has posted a comparison between PGR2's and the real life Hong Kong on gamehit's forum. Some of the shots are really impressive ! The images are mirrored here, gamehit is not always very fast.

I was working on the cockpit hack (video to come soon) to browse the DVD a bit. And to my surprise I found all of the sound files for Paris already there, along with french music and french DJs ! The city itself is not on the disc, so it seems that the rumor was true and Bizarre planned for the city all along, but could/would not finish it for the game release. We'll just have to wait for the official word from MS. I certainly can't wait to play in a realistic Paris !
Edit : Looks like I missed the directories with the _LA suffix. Paris and Los Angeles will be in PGR2 ! :)
Edit 2 : Listing of the music tracks and DJ names for both cities added.
Edit 3 : : Long Beach will be the city used for the LA download