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You're still free to jump onto almost any rung of the motorsport ladder at the start, from karts and wingless single-seaters through to more purposeful beasts (although the very pinnacle is locked off until you've made at least some progress). For all its breadth, the original Project Cars sometimes struggled to make sense of it all, and the sequel does well to impose more structure upon its career mode. If you've any love for cars being driven competitively, your own particular passion will doubtless be found somewhere within the bustle of Project Cars 2.Īnd it really is a bustle, though Slightly Mad Studios has made efforts to impose a bit more order here.

Here's a game where you waltz in the rain around Knockhill with those wonderfully pliable Ginettas, making the most of a best-in-class weather system spit dirt and gravel in a run around Hell with a group of rallycross rivals go wheel-to-wheel with 30 other cars at 230mph in an officially licensed Indianapolis 500 watch the sun set and rise over a multi-class race at Le Mans in the best video game approximation of the classic 24-hour race since Melbourne House's Dreamcast classic or, perhaps, dare yourself to take the now extinct Masta Kink flat in a Lotus 40 in the original 14km layout of the Circuit de Spa Francorchamps. Slightly Mad Studios has rectified some of those missteps, but not before broadening its take on motorsport to an exhilarating degree. I should have loved it, but it never really clicked for me the handling was unapproachable on a pad and inconsistent on a wheel, its career was a featureless grind and it was hard to shake the feeling in the months after its initial release that it wasn't quite complete.

Having instant access to true multi-class racing, combined with the day/night cycle, is a godsend for endurance fans like myself.īilled as an upstart rival to the likes of Forza and Gran Turismo, it was - as Oli pointed out in his review back in 2015 - something even better than that: a true alternative, one that placed a hard focus on motorsport in its glitzy glory as well as shining a spotlight on some of its less glamorous playgrounds.

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A great new feature is motorsport presets, which allows you to instantly load up the rules and regulations of a certain type of racing wherever you are, be that in an online race or an offline quick race.

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Codemasters' TOCA series briefly provided a low-poly window on that world at the turn of the century, though it wasn't really until Slightly Mad Studios' Project Cars came along over a decade later that anyone would cover the same ground with any real gusto. I've lost countless Sundays over the years enduring the elements in the hope of witnessing such a ballet, and just as long in pursuit of a video game that might do the wonder of grassroots motorsport justice.

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I don't think any video game has come closer to reflecting the homespun thrill of clubman racing than Project Cars 2, Slightly Mad Studio's console and PC sequel to its 2015 racing game.

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Platform & availability: Out September 21st on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.And despite their humble horsepower these things can really move, using the impossible cambers and pooling puddles to power their brilliant dance. There's magic to be found out there, in the twists and climbs of the short circuit where a field of Ginetta G40s splash around in the rain with the all the unbounded enthusiasm of school kids who've just been given brand new sets of wellies. Like up in Knockhill on the kind of persistently grey late autumn Sunday afternoon when the smarter part of the country is shored up at home, sheltering against the constant showers battering the Scottish countryside. You'll find the very best of motorsport a little closer to home. You can keep your F1, your Indy Cars or your WEC. Project Cars 2 improves upon its predecessor for a racing game of unprecedented scope - unfortunately hampered by a series of small issues.