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Chris Leigh
16 Sep, 2005

Project Gotham 3 crowds out the competition

360 News | 35,000 spectators! Doesn't help the actual racing! Who cares! 35,000 spectators!
Those crazy kids at Bizarre Creations have developed a rather neat spectator system for their forthcoming Xbox 360 racer Project Gotham Racing 3, according to a recent update at the bizarreonline site. What's more, brags Bizarre, it's capable of displaying 35,000 individuals at once, all in glorious, non-cardboard-cut-out 3D. Very swish.

This isn't just idle boasting though, oh no. They've actually given us a screenshot of said spectators in action, and we have to admit it does look mightily impressive. However, there's a catch, as Bizarre is keen to point out that this is merely 'a test to show how crazy our crowd rendering system actually is,' before adding, 'it's not representative of the crowd size which will be present in the final build of PGR3'.

But still, we can expect 'many thousands (yes, thousands) of spectators per track', and they're all painstakingly motion-captured as well (not individually obviously - that would be pure stupidity). Thus, some wave flags, others merely wave, others point cameras at the track, others chat amongst themselves; you get the idea.

We're aware of course that this does nothing to actually enhance the gameplay in any discernible way, but heck, we needed something to do whilst we sat around waiting for Tokyo Game Show news, so we thought we'd write about something quirky and entertaining. [And yet you didn't, did you? - Ed]

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11 Comments
6 years ago
Chris, as you are the EU editor. Do you add the comments from "ed" yourself?
6 years ago
It is about time the Project Gotham Racing series had some spectators. As in the previous installments, each city felt like a ghost town.
6 years ago
I never could understand the complaints regarding the tracks in PGR 2 being like a ghost town. Maybe I was too busy enjoying the game's beauty, the game's brilliance and the game's kick arse soundtrack to care. icon_biggrin.gif

Still, spectators are a nice addition. Gran Turismo 4 proves this. (even if they aren't what they were supposed to be)
6 years ago
NismoR34 wrote
I never could understand the complaints regarding the tracks in PGR 2 being like a ghost town. Maybe I was too busy enjoying the game's beauty, the game's brilliance and the game's kick arse soundtrack to care. icon_biggrin.gif
Amen to that brother. I was playing this with my mates yesterday and gosh is it damn fun. I love taking the rocks route with my own car in the game - the 240Z icon_razz.gif The graphics are supurb for its time and the controls are really good and the soundtrack is really good like you said. Yep Yep cant wait for the third.
6 years ago
Well to put my enjoyment into perspective here, I am now nearing the 500 hour mark on the game. What does that tell you? icon_razz.gif
6 years ago
Tells me it's not half as good as FFXI. (1000 hours+ game play) icon_razz.gif
6 years ago
35,000 spectators in corner is just insane! Imagine if they took a photo at the same time! icon_surprised.gif
6 years ago
GTPod wrote
Tells me it's not half as good as FFXI. (1000 hours+ game play) icon_razz.gif
Or Perfect Dark for that matter. (2000 hours) icon_wink.gif
6 years ago
GTPod wrote
(1000 hours+ game play) icon_razz.gif
Thats like 3 staight months of gaming icon_eek.gif

You need to: [insert generic "get a" quip here]
6 years ago
--alex-- wrote
GTPod wrote
(1000 hours+ game play) icon_razz.gif
Thats like 3 staight months of gaming icon_eek.gif
From 16th Jan - 31st August. icon_wink.gif
6 years ago
...@ 12 hours a day.
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