Project Gotham Racing 4
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| Developer(s) | Bizarre Creations |
| Publisher(s) | Microsoft Game Studios |
| Designer(s) | Martyn Chudley Ged Talbot Gareth Wilson |
| Series | Project Gotham Racing |
| Platform(s) | Xbox 360 |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 86.50% |
| Metacritic | 85/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Edge | 9/10 |
| EGM | 8.33/10 |
| Eurogamer | 9/10 |
| Game Informer | 8.75/10 |
| GamePro | 3.75/5 |
| Game Revolution | C |
| GameSpot | 8.5/10 |
| GameSpy |   |
| GameTrailers | 8.7/10 |
| GameZone | 8.5/10 |
| IGN | 8.1/10 9.1/10 (UK) |
| OXM (US) | 8/10 |
Project Gotham Racing 4 is the fourth title in the main Project Gotham Racing series, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Microsoft Game Studios.
Project Gotham Racing 4 was accidentally leaked by a Peugeot press release for a competition for a car designed by a contestant to be featured in the game before the official Bizarre announcement. The competition was won by Mr. Mihai Panaitescu with the Peugeot Flux.
Shortly after, the game was then officially confirmed at X06, with a trailer titled Eclipse shown. The trailer was also made available to download on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The car featured in the trailer is a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano. The song in the trailer is "Shadow" by The Prodigy remixed by Chris Chudley from Audioantics.
Microsoft announced at the 2007 E3 that PGR4 would be released in September 2007. However, Bizarre subsequently said that game wouldn't be released "until it's done" citing reasons that they had spent a substantial amount of money and time on the game. "We feel like we've got more time [on PGR4]. Last time round, we feel like we got the game ripped away from us" said Brian Woodhouse of Bizarre Creations.
Having since been acquired by Activision, Bizarre announced that PGR4 will be their last game produced for distribution by Microsoft Game Studios.
Microsoft re-released the game under its "Classics" banner on March 20, 2009.
The most prominent addition to PGR4 is advanced weather effects that affect the look of the game and the physics of the cars on the track. The weather can change from sun to rain to snow to hail within a single race. A system logged on to Xbox Live will download weather data from The Weather Channel, allowing users to set in-game conditions to mirror current weather in their respective cities.
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