This is an interesting one, though. The original comments that DVD space was affecting the game weren't rumors, they were posted by a dev. team member on the official forums. It largely had to do with texturing buildings, since (for example) Vegas casinos at day look drastically different than at night. After that, we get an effective retraction by the company itself, saying it was planned all along. So, as Kotaku put it, who do we believe: Bizarre Creations or Bizarre Creations?
It was recently reported that PGR4 was hampered by the limited capacity of the DVD used on the 360. This was picked up by Sony to vindicate its position with regards to the Blu Ray choice. Bizarre have not refuted these rumours and say they are in now way hampered by the DVD and the choice of Day and Night was theirs and not the DVD restrictions.
PGR4 will not allow the player to choose day or night for each track because the amount of textures this requires don't fit on a single DVD. Instead each track is either daytime or nighttime singularly.
"Bizarre Creations' Brian Woodhouse has admitted the studio has already run up huge costs creating Project Gotham Racing 4 - but said development will continue until the game is ready for release."
Speaking to a UK gaming publication, Bizarre's Craig Howard commented that the PGR on demand service has the capability to store every raced played out on PGR4. You can also search for keywords and then rate each video, so for example you could put in a comment such as 'that was a great crash' and so forth.
Releasing in September. 30 motorcycles to race. New camera view that lets gamers know much better on how fast they're traveling. PGR TV has been completely revamped. New livery editor. AI has been improved.
Including its original incarnation on the Dreamcast as Metropolis Street Racer, Bizarre Creation has been around the block four times already with its Kudos-based arcade racing franchise. So what's going to make the fifth iteration, Project Gotham Racing 4, stand out from the rest?
We realize most 360-owning racing-lovers currently have their controller-grasping hands very full, but the future is coming head on at 120 MPH. Microsoft has published a second sneak peek video along with new info on this fall's Project Gotham Racing 4.
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