More PGR4 impressions

It's funny. Now that the end of the year is coming, game companies are releasing their biggest titles. I've been calling up the distributors for review copies, and those are pouring in, with many brilliant games waiting for me to unwrap and start playing them. I don't see this happen any time soon, however. The problem is easy to summarize: Project Gotham Racing 4. I've had this game for a few weeks now, and even though I have been playing it practically every day now, I'm still as excited about it as when I first fired it up. It's almost like the damn thing is glued inside my Xbox 360, refusing to budge for any other game, laughing in the face of other racing games coming out and quietly waiting as I do my best to get all 50 achievements. If this game was a drug, I would have been put in an anti-drug clinic already days ago, to follow their strictest possible program.

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It's funny. Now that the end of the year is coming, game companies are releasing their biggest titles. I've been calling up the distributors for review copies, and those are pouring in, with many brilliant games waiting for me to unwrap and start playing them. I don't see this happen any time soon, however. The problem is easy to summarize: Project Gotham Racing 4. I've had this game for a few weeks now, and even though I have been playing it practically every day now, I'm still as excited about it as when I first fired it up. It's almost like the damn thing is glued inside my Xbox 360, refusing to budge for any other game, laughing in the face of other racing games coming out and quietly waiting as I do my best to get all 50 achievements. If this game was a drug, I would have been put in an anti-drug clinic already days ago, to follow their strictest possible program.