Client: Microsoft | Artsource
Software: SoftImage, Photoshop
Circa: 2001
Details
Project Gotham Racing got its start as the successor to Metropolis Street Racer for the Dreamcast. My role on this project was to update any incompatible graphics between the Dreamcast and the Xbox. A majority of my work on this title included reworking textures that created moiré patterns, up-ressing the most recognizable landmarks models at different levels of detail and extending the non-drivable streets with true 3D models to replace the 2D textured planes.
Facts
Fifth highest selling Xbox game of all time. (2.5 million units)
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has described Project Gotham as his favorite video game.[1]
Awards
Editor’s Choice: Best of 2001: Racing Game
Reader’s Choice: Best of 2001: Racing Game
-IGN (8.8)
Critic Reviews
The finished result is a game that rewrites the book on realism in video-games. The length they have gone to to recreate the experience of driving the world’s best cars around the world’s most exciting cities will astound you.
-TotalGames.net (95)Amazing models, detailed backgrounds, and outstanding animation all lead to Project Gotham having the best graphics of any racing game to date, ousting “Gran Turismo 3″ from that spot.
-Xbox Exclusive (90)You have probably read several other reviews on this game claiming the graphics are awesome, and they are all correct. As the newest racing video game, Project Gotham Racing delivers the details that you haven’t seen in previous car racing games…The attention to reality is top notch.
-Team Xbox (8.8)The game’s claim to fame is its inclusion of four real cities. NYC, San Francisco, London, and Tokyo are lovingly recreated, and this enhances Gotham’s appeal drastically.
-1UP (B+)The game pushes a lot of track-side geometry as well–easily the most in any driving game to date. The city streets of New York and Tokyo are re-created true to form and are simply packed with 3D buildings, subway entrances, storefronts, streetlights, manholes, and other objects on the periphery…Project Gotham Racing is a feast for the eyes.
-Gamespot (8.1)Easily the best-looking console racer to date.
-G4 TV (8.1)
Rankings and Statistics
MetaCritic (85)
GameRankings (87.34)
GameStats (8.0)
MobyRank (84)
