Project Cars 2 review: Can Slightly Mad Studios hope to take on Forza? | Windows Central

Project Cars 2, Slightly Mad Studios' racing sim, is much improved over the first game, with better graphics and handling, double the cars, and more tracks than any other racing game. But can it stack up to the Forza series in actual quality?

[Bigpappy]

That's going to be an interesting comparison. Through in GT for good measure

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[freshslicepizza]

GT will likely get more sales but its selling power has more to do with that brand than how much better Polyphony Digital has evolved over the years. Project Cars 2 so far is getting 8 and 9's across the board. I am waiting to see how Forza 7 turns out along with the upcoming demo they are going to rel;ease before I commit. I already have Project Cars 2 on pre-order.

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@moldybread

GT5 & GT6 weren't much of an upgrade from one another but playing GT4 and going to GT6 you'll see the significant upgrade. GT6 was more like how expansions worked back in the day. I expect GT Sport to get 8s/9s but then again you have those who will hurt the game based on the delay so it will probably get 7s/8s because of the delay. With the career being a tutorial basically, and the main action is based on online racing against people, I can see GT sliding into the 7s-7.5s because of all of the factors, does that make the game that? no. I personally think the game is around an 8.5/9 after playing the beta, because of the attention to detail to car specific things, and the precise tuning of the physics to feel just like real world racing cars. It it's a beauty especially when you have a steering wheel like myself.

Project Cars 2 in terms of content I believe may have more options on the racing aspect of the game, but that's about it, the AI on that game are rail racers, meaning when you set them to a certain difficulty they will run that same driving line over and over to the T, if you set the AI to race a race and put them on the hardest difficulty and let them run 10 laps and then look at the lap times, they are within 1 second of another. That's really ridiculous, like Need for speed underground ridiculous lOl... There's plenty of elements in PC2 that are overlooked, when it comes to AI and Physics. So I wonder what will go overlooked regarding GTS, if anything would.

[freshslicepizza]

@CHEF,

It's funny you mention poor A.I. That is what GT has been guilty of before and I owned GT5 and the cars would also follow the same lines. We need big advancae in A.I. all around. The trouble with the GT franchise is they have too much freedom and waste a lot of time. They spend countless hours on photo mode and replay mode yet can't even get that many cars in the game or tracks after all these years? The campaign is also taking a serious hit? What do these guys do, just drive cars and not get in the studio? They said when the PS4 came out they wouldn't take long because the PS3 was such a struggle to work on. Now here we are, same old thing.

They do however have the best lighting. The physics and handling are alwys good but guess what? So many other racing games are out there now. On the PC you have serious sim games out there but GT continues to sell based a lot on its name. I expect no different with GT Sport. Over 60 million PS4 systems and Project Cars will pale in sales compared to it. Reviews will likely be good but they won't be lenient on Polyphony Digital and why should they? Reviewers are not fanboys who feel complled to score games higher because they are exclusive or because the IP sells a lot.

When GT came out there wasn't much else out there that could compete. Now there is a lot more competition and the review scores reflect that which shows why GT3 was really the pinnacle time for the franchise.

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@Moldybread

"Reviewers are not fanboys who feel complled to score games higher because they are exclusive or because the IP sells a lot"

This isn't accurate plenty of fanboyism and or paid reviews in the industry ahahaha,

However, the others is somewhat true, GTS is using brand new everything the reason why Forza has that huge car list and GT6 did is because it used OLD assets, everyone is complaining about GTS car list when Project cars has less cars than it?? it's been out for 2 years now... GTS has also made 8k assets not 4k assets for the game that is downsampled to 4k. There's been alot of ground work done on GTS apart from GT6 so that's why this is a bit more "bare bones" when it comes to the overall package, also the license with FIAA could have a huge affect on the game because we don't know what is required for them to have secured such a partnership or how much work went into making the game meet the requirements in general i believe that took maybe 60% of the time away from actually creating something great, because when you are dealing with government/official practices of organizations they try to make sure everything is done to the T even-though their organization doesn't follow every set of rules, there's alot more to GTS development than you think alot of red tape they had to cut through.

However, I never said GT AI wasn't bad, just said how it's been overlooked in PC2 so I wonder what will be overlooked in GTS. The game that had the best racing AI to me was this game called Juiced on PS2, the AI really would overcook their turns and spin out, didn't follow the driving lines, and as the game went on the better the AI the better the driving, you could frustrate them by tailgating them causing them to get nervous spin out/ make wide turns, slow down alot on a turn where you can overturn, it had great concepts. But hey PS2 had the best games to this day so i'm not surprised.

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WindowsCentral* - Not sure why you'd expect them to throw in a PlayStation game.

OT: Well, PC1 was a fun game, but launched just before Forza 6 Apex, and for me, the latter was a much better game. I'm getting both again, so we'll see if PC2 makes a point, this time.