<cite>PGR4</cite> Options Limited by Size of DVDs

Bizarre Creations has been forced to change Project Gotham Racing 4's lighting options due to the size limitations of a DVD. Here's how Bizarre's Ben explained it in this thread on the official forum:

You won't see different times of day per city because this involves recreating all the textures again (one for day and one for night). Whilst this wasn't a problem for our dev team, it was a problem fitting all this data onto a single DVD. So we've worked around the problem by providing different lighting models per city. For example, Macau is always in the daytime, but if you play it during a storm everything looks darker and more foreboding. If you play during a blizzard then things are slightly tinged blue and everything seems more frozen. Of course, playing this track in sunshine will make everything appear bright and yellowy.

It sounds like, given the options available to them, Bizarre made the right choice, but it's still a bit of a drag. Not drag enough to make it worthwhile for them to drop something else (like, say, the motorcycles or weather conditions) to free up the space for the added textures, but a drag just the same. PS3 fans, now would be an appropriate time to start extolling the virtues of Blu-ray.

About the time of the track [Bizarre Creations Forums]