Title	Game Info	Screenshots	Gamester Score
	Publisher: Microsoft   Developer: Bizarre   Creations   Genre: Driving   Release: 11/17/03   Rating: Everyone		Control 4/5 Graphics 5/5 Sound 4/5 Orginality 4/5 Value 5/5 Overall 5/5

Fishtailing is a good thing - air, drafting, two wheels, much better. Project Gotham Racing 2 is more about the artistry of dangerous driving than it is about smoking tires and blurring speeds. Like its predecessor, PGR2 is a superb racing game that leans more towards a fun, easy to play arcade feel than the tighter controls of a true racing simulator.

Although PGR 2 may initially feel like any other racing game you've ever played it won't be long before your massaging your control trying to squeeze out beautiful drifts, two wheeled turns and sly drafting passes. Not only are all of these tricks fun to watch and perform, they award Kudos, a point system that is at the heart of this truly original approach to racing. You earn Kudos by performing tricks without crashing into something right afterward, if you manage to string together a chain of tricks in a short period of time you get combo bonuses. The points you earn with tricks are added to points earned for your final place in the race and the whole shebang is tacked onto your Kudos total.

Get enough Kudos and you get tokens with which you can unlock new cars. It's a pretty cool way to track racing ability and dish out the game bonuses. Once all of the vehicles are unlocked you will have more than 100 from which to choose. The vehicles are lumped into 14 categories and run the gambit from the Mini-Cooper to the monster Mercedes ML55 AMG, to the sleek mostly street illegal Enzo Ferrari.

The game is also loaded with tracks, featuring 100 different streets courses to race on in 11 cities. The game also mixes the races up a bit by including day, night, clear weather and foul weather races. The game features a robust single player mode that constantly checks in with the online world to show how your racing skills compare.

All of this is great but it’s the online play that truly makes this game a keeper, with a sleek interface that makes setting up an eight way race a breeze and tracks a whole different set of Kudo points. I don’t usually go on about the music in a game, but this game features three radio stations per a city, each with their own local DJ, and more than 240 songs to choose from. You can also import your own music. The visuals are just as impressive with the type of detailed and textured graphics that will have you calling friends over to look.

Project Gotham Racing 2 is certainly the best racing game out there for the Xbox, what it lacks in high level racing realism it more than makes up for in sheer fun.