“I came back for my own purposes,” said the Time Traveler, looking around my booklined study. “I chose you to talk to because it was . . . convenient. And I don’t want you to do a goddamned thing. There’s nothing you can do. But relax . . . we’re not going to be talking about personal things. Such as, say, the year, day, and hour of your death. I don’t even know that sort of trivial information, although I could look it up quickly enough. You can release that white-knuckled grip you have on the edge of your desk.” I tried to relax. “What do you want to talk about?” I said. “The Century War,” said the Time Traveler. I blinked and tried to remember some history. “You mean the Hundred Year War? Fifteenth Century? Fourteenth? Sometime around there. Between . . . France and England? Henry V? Kenneth Branagh? Or was it . . .” “I mean the Century War with Islam,” interrupted the Time Traveler. “Your future. Everyone’s.” He was no longer smiling. Without asking, or offering to pour me any, he
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.