PGR Nations Goes Live – US Pwnz All

The official community site for Bizarre Creations’ latest addition to the PGR series has gone live. PGR Nations will be the global hub for Project Gotham Racing 4 & Xbox 360 owners alike. You’ll need your Windows Live ID login info handy to access your personal stats there.

Keep in mind that the site is still a work in progress. With that said, it looks like the folks at Bizarre Creations have rounded up some interesting PGR4 stats so far:

• United States is currently on top of the Worldwide Leaderboard. This is based on the country’s average Online Career win/races ratio.
• The USA’s best players spend the longest time on track – 01:15:62 on average per player.
• The United Kingdom is behind Canada and Austria in the worldwide leaderboard standings, but ahead in total Kudos accumulated.
• New Zealand is bottom of the overall standings, with an average of 35 wins per player across all game modes. Step it up NZ!
• Canada holds the fastest speed record overall with an incredible 394mph (set by MR BACONATER), whilst Japan holds the 2nd highest speed with 289mph (set by DK Jackson69).
• The United States is also the “cleanest” nation too, with an average of 95 Clean Races per player. On contrast, Finland and Denmark are both joint “dirtiest”, with only 8 Clean Races per player. Of course, you should really compare this with the number of races the nation has completed in total… remember that the USA has vastly more players than most other nations.

Seeing the US claim the “cleanest” prize is almost irony in itself (yes, I read the bulk part). When it comes to “real” driving, we as a nation are among the worst in the world. My guess is as the cell phone sits in the charger during Xbox playtime, brain = worky. Still doesn’t explain why all the rudeness. If only that logic were applied elsewhere.

The Track Guide Viewer feature on the website seems like a really cool idea. Basically, it’s streaming video of in-game sections of a selected course. Hopefully, they’ll accumulate (over time) a massive archive of video hints and tips on how to deal with the tougher parts of PGR4’s tracks. What would really rock is if they could somehow implement short user replay clips, a la EA’s SKATE. Would make for some awesome community sharing.

And if you haven’t already, check out Chris’s excellent review of PGR4.

Via Press Release