GAME CONTROLS Brake/AutoReverse (if stopped) Accelerate Look back Shift up Steer Use handbrake Change camera Horn Pause Shift down/ AutoReverse (if stopped) Steer Look around/ Car stereo controls (click) Change camera RACE Race with style, speed, and daring to earn Kudos KUDOS Earn enough Kudos to increase your Kudos Rank KUDOS RANK Increase your Kudos Rank to receive Kudos Tokens KUDOS TOKENS Use Kudos Tokens to unlock new cars CARS Use your newly acquired cars to beat higher difficulty le
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INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Finishing first isn’t hard. Anyone can floor it and cross the finish line. What Project Gotham Racing® 2 is all about is finishing first—with fearless style. Work the handbrake to pull off a 360˚, slide through the curves, take the perfect line...and still come in ahead of the pack. The braver you are, the greater your reward. That’s what earns you glory in PGR™ 2. YOUR GOAL YOUR GOAL The goal of PGR 2 is to be the best driver in the world.
WHAT ARE WHAT AREKUDOS? KUDOS? Kudos measure the style, speed, and daring you use when racing. Sure, you want to beat your friend around the track. But if you really want to get under his skin—and earn plenty of Kudos in the process—you’ll pass him, get two wheels off the ground, slide around a corner, and then finish with no damage. Earn Kudos to increase your Kudos Rank. Increase your Kudos Rank to earn Kudos Tokens. Exchange Kudos tokens to unlock new cars.
GHOSTS GHOSTS Earning Style Kudos 360˚ Air Clean Section Cone Gate Draft Overtake Overtake (Draft) Race Line Slide Two Wheels Combo Bonus Quickly spin around in a complete circle Get all four wheels off the ground Drive cleanly through a designated section Drive cleanly between two orange cones Get extra speed by tailing another driver as closely as possible Pass an opponent Draft behind a car, and then slingshot past it Maintain optimal speed when cornering by starting wide and cutting the inside edge of
GAME CONTROLS GAME CONTROLS Brake/AutoReverse (if stopped) Steer Accelerate Look back Shift down/AutoReverse (if stopped) Shift up Use handbrake Change camera Horn Pause Steer Change camera Car Stereo Controls (during race) Click R to activate the car stereo. (See pg. 26 for more info.) While the stereo is on screen: Change radio station/CD track R 1 or 5 Adjust volume R 7 or 3 R (click and hold) Toggle radio/CD To change soundtracks during a race Press > START to bring up the Pause menu.
GAME SCREEN GAME SCREEN Kudos Bank (see pg. 4) Kudos Stash Combo Bonus Current position Goal Current lap time Car Stereo (see pg.
KUDOS WORLD WORLDSERIES SERIES KUDOS Kudos World Series is the main single-player mode in PGR 2. It is made up of 14 Car Series—one for each car class. (See pg. 22 for info on car classes.) Each Car Series is made up of individual Kudos Events. Complete the unlocked events to open more events in the same car class. Complete all the events in a single Car Series to unlock the next Car Series.
ARCADE RACING ARCADE RACING Every element in Arcade Racing is fixed, from the track on which you race to the car you use to race it. There are a total of 20 challenges per mode: each mode has five levels, and each level has four events. As in Kudos World Series, you can download a Ghost from Event Scoreboards/Ghosts before a race if you’re connected to Xbox Live. After the race, your results will be updated on the Scoreboards, and if you finish in the top 10, your Ghost will be uploaded.
XBOX LIVE XBOX LIVE Take Project Gotham Racing 2 Beyond the Box Xbox Live is a high-speed or broadband Internet gaming community where you can create a permanent gamer identity, set up a Friends List with other players, see when they’re online, invite them to play, and talk to them in real-time as you play. Downloadable Project Gotham Racing 2 Content If you are an Xbox Live subscriber, you can download the very latest content to your Xbox console.
Friends List You can add up to 100 other gamers to your Friends List. You can send and receive invitations from those friends, see if they are signed in, see which game they’re playing, and more. To send a Friend Request 1. Select Xbox Live Options from the Xbox Live menu. 2. Select Players List. 3. Highlight the player’s name, and then press A to send the request. To remove a name from your Friends List 1. Select Xbox Live Options from the Xbox Live menu. 2. Select Friends. 3.
XBOX LIVE XBOX LIVERACING RACING Xbox Live multiplayer racing is the mode that lets you show off your style to your friends...and the rest of the world. When you race online, you increase your Xbox Live Kudos Rank. That’s the Rank you use to judge where you stand compared to drivers all over the globe. In Xbox Live multiplayer racing mode, you can either host a game or join one being hosted by someone else.
THE MACHINES THE MACHINES Project Gotham Racing 2 features 14 separate car classes, with more than 100 cars. That’s a lot of rubber waiting to meet the road. But before you can take command of these beauties, you have to prove your mettle. Earn Kudos in the races to increase your Kudos Rank. Each time you increase your Rank, you earn Kudos Tokens. And what do you do with your Tokens? You guessed it. You get yourself a sweet new ride.
THE VENUES THE VENUES Super Car Upscale sports cars you don’t see every day. Examples: TVR Tuscan Speed 6, Ferrari 360 Modena From the tight, twisting tracks of Edinburgh to the lay-it-all-on-the-line streets of Sydney, PGR 2 takes you on a wild ride across the globe and back again. And for the best of the best, there’s world-famous Nürburgring—13 miles and 73 turns of racing nirvana, all on a single racetrack. Grand Touring Eat up continents as you travel in style.
THE CARSTEREO STEREO THE CAR When flying down the streets of Barcelona in your Enzo Ferrari, you’re going to want to listen to some good tunes. Fortunately, you have three radio stations per city, a total of 33 real DJs (each with his or her own playlist), and more than 240 songs—plus the ability to create your own soundtracks. In-Game Stereo When racing, click R to view the car stereo.
CREDITS CREDITS To create a PGR 2 Custom Soundtrack 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. On the Main Menu, select Options. On the Options menu, select Sound/Music. On the Sound/Music menu, select PGR 2 Custom Soundtrack. On the PGR 2 Custom Soundtrack menu, select Add/Remove Songs. Use l and r to change the soundtrack you’re viewing, and move L up and down to highlight a song. To select a song to be added to your PGR 2 Custom Soundtrack, highlight Add/Remove Song and then press A.
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