pgr2 is 2 years old... so yeah your right, I'll go and fix the graphics in gt3 and pgr2 so they are on par with each other.
honestly I played so much PGR2 that when I try to play it now I feel like I can't really play or I'll make people look bad, then again I am a bit rusty at it, so my ego tends to blind me to the fact that I am not the king I used to be, but since I have a new gamertag, my rank was reset, so now people think i'm a newb that got xbox live yesterday, and since i'm old people also think I am uncoordinated with video games, then I beat them and I start getting friends requests, which I don't want since they all just made fun of me for being an old man and a newb.
most of the time I play, If some of my friends see me playing they hop in for a few laps, Most of them are level 30 and above, and a couple of them are level 50+, I have had 3 gamertags in the last 2 years, so accumulated, I'm probably about a 51, but the new tag after 2 races last night I am a 2... oh well.
As for getting this game, its under $20 in most stores, and If you can get used to the 30 FPS, (it only takes a couple of races to get used to) this is by far the most fun racing game you can play until the any one of the new BIG racing games come out... If you have an Xbox that is.