Project Gotham Racing 4 - Gotham Career Route

Project Gotham Racing 4 (Xbox 360) - Gotham Career Guide

Before starting make sure to disable Autosave (This can be done via either having no hard drive to save to, backing out of the save game location in the options and or just pressing back when selecting a hard drive) and install the game to your Xbox 360 hard drive (This will reduce load times significantly)

Useful information regarding car classes:
- There are several car classes which range from A - G (Although G is not needed in the Gotham Career)
- Some of the fastest cars don't handle well meaning it actually pays to have a car that's quicker on acceleration rather than one that has great top speed.

Class A: Ferrari F50 GT or McLaren F1 LM (McLaren handles much better but Ferrari has better top end speed)
Class B: RUF RT12 (It accelerates well and actually gets around corners, second best is the Ferrari 288 GTO Evo.)
Class C: RUF CTR Yellowbird, Callaway Sledgehammer or Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano (Any of these will do but most are hard to master)
Class D: Mitsubishi Lancer Evo. FQ400 (Handles well in corners and goes like a rocket) - From the start you can use the Mercedes CLK DTM if you wish.
Class E: Cadillac Sixteen (Might be a big limo thing but goes pretty fast, second best is the Bentley Continental GT or the Subaru 22B if you want much better handling)
Class F: Chevrolet Corvette Stingray (Lamboghini Miura is second best here) or from the beginning you can use the Lancia Delta Integrale.

Invitationals are all optional and can be skipped, I'd recommend doing the one for the Subaru early on for E class events as it's really nice to drive and works well in all conditions.

-- KUDOS --
The main money or currency in this game is kudos, earning it can be easy (You can slide the car, get airtime, pull handbrake turns etc.) however should you hit a wall hard enough then you'll lose what you haven't banked yet. Cars are behind pay packets (Don't worry it ain't real life money your using here XD) so make sure you save up enough in the early game to buy some of the best cars in each car class.

Along the way you'll need to buy car packs which are as follows:
Chevrolet - 15K
Americana - 20K
Japanese Sports - 50K
RUF - 170K
Hypersports - 190K

-- Gotham Career --
This is basically the main part of the game (The one that this guide is about) and is broken down into 4 parts: Amateur, Pro, Hotshot and Master. You do 2 tournaments before you get to a major (This is explained below) once you've completed both majors you move onto the 2nd region (USA) and rince and repeat before moving onto the final region (Europe)
Once the final region is done you'll start Season 2 and from there you keep going until you reach the next rank or #1.

The game is broken up into seasons with you going through Asia-USA-Europe (In that order every time) however as you rank up you'll unlock bigger events for more points.

Amateur:
25 points per tournament win (3 races each)

Pro:
30 points per tournament win (2-4 races each)

Hotshot:
35 points per tournament win (4/5 races each)

Master:
40 points per tournament win (5/6 races each)

Majors are something you'll be entering a lot, these involve a qualifying stage (Something you'll be able to skip later on as you progress through the seasons and as your ranking gets higher) and the main event. Beating the main event in 1st gives you 50 points so make sure you beat them.

Points for each event:
To get maximum points for each tournament you don't actually need to win everything, instead the game gives maximum points to those with the most amount of KUDOS at the end of the event so if you skip 2 events by getting knocked out or having the time run out on you (For example in Eliminator and Breakthrough events) then it's possible to still win if you manage to score enough kudos over the remaining races so it really is a points game your playing here. You can win everything if you wish but because we're going for speed then you won't need to really do that. This actually gives you some down time during the run as if you know you can retire then you can leave the game alone and let the timer count down on its own and go to the toilet so this run really isn't that bad at all.

Difficulty:
You can put this at whatever you wish, it doesn't change anything in the game apart from the difficulty of the AI opponents (Would recommend putting it on Easy to make it as simple as possible)

Transmission:
Manual is preffered here but feel free to use Automatic (You can change the transmission settings in the game settings)
Options --> General --> Gears (Automatic or Manual)

-- GOTHAM CAREER ROUTE --

- Amateur - (ALL CLASS F)
1) Asia Amateur Open (Win 2 races and then lose the breakthrough race but score as much kudos as you can)
2) Nippon Open Championship (Win 2 races and get knocked out in the eliminator)
3) Shanghai Race Meeting (Win everything)
3a) Asia Timed Major (Qualifying + Event) (Event: 3 x Hot Laps + Eliminator) - This is Class C!

- Pro -
1) Vegas Smokin' Tires Champ (Win Everything) (Class D)
then Subaru 22B Invitational (Optional) OR
2) Canada Style Series (Win Everything) (Class E)
3) The Old Capitol Open (Win Everything) (Class F)
3a) Americas Knockout Major (Qualifying + Event) (Event: 2 x Races + One on One) - This is Class D!
4) The Neva River Open (Win Everything) (Class E)

- Hotshot -
1) St. Petersberg Showdown (Class B) (Take 5 checkpoints and maximum Kudos in Breakthrough race)
2) Russian Road Trials (Class C) (Get Eliminated in second Eliminator event and maximum Kudos for other events)
2a) The Global Cup (Qualifying + Event) (Event: 3 x Races) - This is Class B!
**SEASON 2 START**
3) The High Stakes Cup (Class C) (Win everything)
4) Lotus Blossom Challenge (Class C) (Win Everything then finish last in Eliminator #1)
5) Rising Sun Series (Class B) (Get Maximum Kudos in everything and retire from Breakthrough early)
5a) Asia Timed Major (Qualifying + Event) (Event: 3 x Hot Laps + Eliminator) - This is Class C!
6) New York ITEC Race Meeting (Class C) (Get knocked out in Eliminator and make up Kudos in other races)

- Master -
1) The Strip Super Series (Class B) (Get knocked out in Eliminator and make up Kudos in other races)
2) Canada Redline Masters (Class A) (Skip Breakthrough race and make up Kudos in other races)
2a) Americas Knockout Major (Qualifying + Event) (Event: 2 x Races + One on One) - This is Class D!
3) The UK Masters (Class B) (Win everything but get eliminated first in Eliminator finale)
4) The Baltic Masters (Class A) (Win everything and lose Breakthrough race)
5) The European Masters (Class B) (Win everything and get eliminated in 5th place in Eliminator event)
5a) The Global Cup (Qualifying + Event) (Event: 3 x Races) - This is Class B!
**SEASON 3 START**
6) The High Stakes Cup (Class C) (Win everything)
7) Lotus Blossom Challenge (Class C) (Win Everything then finish last in Eliminator #1)
8) Rising Sun Series (Class B) (Get Maximum Kudos in everything and retire from Breakthrough early)
8a) Asia Timed Major (3 x Hot Laps + Eliminator) - This is Class C!
9) New York ITEC Race Meeting (Class C) (Get knocked out in Eliminator and make up Kudos in other races)
10) North American Masters Trophy (Class C) (Win everything, get knocked out early in Eliminator race)
11) Canada Redline Masters (Class A) (Skip Breakthrough race and make up Kudos in other races)
11a) Americas Knockout Major (2 x Races + One on One) - This is Class D!
12) The UK Masters (Class B) (Win everything but get eliminated first in Eliminator finale)
13) The Baltic Masters (Class A) (Win everything and lose Breakthrough race)

Done?