Holy freaking crud! Microsoft’s upcoming Project Gotham Racing 4 looks absolutely amazing! Apparently water effects are what really sets “next-gen” gaming apart from the last generation (as made explicitly clear in the image below).

When I first played the original PGR on a buddies XBox, I was blown away at how good it looked. The race replay was almost photo-realistic at times and I wondered then how it could get any better. Well, the picture above answers that question… add realistic weather (view the rest of the gallery here). Between PGR4, Bioshock, Lost Planet and a few others, it’s clear to see that weather is the wave of the future. And that’s ok by me. Now I just need to hijack my brother-in-laws 360 so I can play this game as soon as it comes out.