It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to find out that the guy behind Girls Gone Wild is a jerk. It is surprising to find out just how much of a jerk he is: Joe Francis, the founder of the Girls Gone Wild empire, is humiliating me. He has my face pressed against the hood of a car, my arms twisted hard behind my back. He’s pushing himself against me, shouting: “This is what they did to me in Panama City!” It’s after 3 a.m. and we’re in a parking lot on the outskirts of Chicago. Electronic music is buzzing from the nightclub across the street, mixing easily with the laughter of the guys who are watching this, this me-pinned-and-helpless thing. Francis isn’t laughing. He has turned on me, and I don’t know why. He’s going on and on about Panama City Beach, the spring break spot in northern Florida where Bay County sheriff’s deputies arrested him three years ago on charges of racketeering, drug trafficking and promoting the sexua...
Just for the pedantry - it's PGR 3. PGR 1 & PGR 2 were Xbox (should we start calling that Xbox 180?) titles and the whole series is basically the spiritual heir of Metropolis Street Racer from the Dreamcast.
ReplyDeleteI tend to overlook Bizarre Creations and PGR when listing my Microsoft rants - I guess they are another of the few companies who didn't get the raging phallus from MS. Which is an odd omission because I still play PGR2 online occasionally - I should remember better. I wasn't sure for a while that PGR3 was happening, but it does look like it's gonna be sweet.
Often I'd dismiss this sort of shot as not representing the gameplay, but since they already have a track record of having cool racing in realistic looking cities I'll give them a pass on this one.