project CARS

[ellis427]

Not sure if everyone's heard or seen this game but for people who enjoy proper racing on real circuits this could be a blessing!

The track list:
Anhalt - Oschersleben
- Badenring - Hockenheim
- Bathurst - Mount Panorama
- Belgian Forest Circuit - Spa Francorchamps
- Besos - Catalunya
- Bologna (Reverse)- Imola
- California Raceway - Willow Springs
- Connecticut Hill GP (Short) (Reverse) - Watkins Glen
- Derby - Donington Park
- Florence - Mugello
- Jin Ding - Zhuhai
- Loire 24 - Circuit de la Sarthe (Le Mans)
- Loire National - Bugatti Circuit
- Milan - Monza
- Northampton - Silverstone
- Wisconsin Raceway - Road America

In-game Historic Tracks

- Historic Badenring - Hockenheim (Pre 2002)
- Rouen Les Essarts

In-game Fictional Tracks

- Test Track

Planned/Confirmed Tracks

- Solitude Rennstrecke
- Nordschleife
- Brands Hatch*
- Oulton Park*
- Snetterton*
- Cadwell Park*
- Old Spa
- Monaco
- Milan Oval
- Historic Monza (1967. GPL2.)
- Suzuka (Nearly Certain)

In-game Kart Tracks;

- Chesterfield
- Glencairn (Reverse) -
- Glencairn West (Reverse)
- Glencairn East (Reverse)
- Summerton

• - Laser Scanned

since this list was made many of the planned/scanned tracks are completed and in the game, and there are many road/hillclimb sections!

It has a huge range of cars as well... zakspeed capri, audi R18, renault lotus turbo f1's, dtm, ford gt40, bmw m1, various atoms, pagani, ruf, gumpert apollo s, super karts, f1, gp2, formula ford, bmw z4 gt3, bmw gt2 e9, historic nascar, radical, bac mono... and many more.

FRANCHISE MODE: allows you to carve out a personalized career starting in the Karting world and then progressing on to whichever motorsport specialization you prefer including Rally, Touring Cars, Open-Wheel, GT, Le Mans, and many more!

Play CO-OP with a friend as Driver/Co-Driver

FULL TEAM MANAGEMENT... Have a large number of friends? Create, manage, and compete together!
Experience the excitement of PIT STOPS like you've never seen before!
Revolutionary PIT-2-CAR RADIO gives you the strategic advantage

DYNAMIC Time Of Day & Localized Weather make every race unique and challenging

10+ GAME MODES covering every form of motorsport

CLOUD-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK allows you to connect with friends, compare times & scores, compete and challenge each other, and share content

USER-GENERATED CONTENT - Create your own liveries, decals, tuning setups, and even events! Then share them with the world - either for free, in-game credits or even real money!

PUSHING TO THE LIMITS - Advanced physics, lighting, and AI

http://www.wmdportal.com/projects/cars/ check out the website and the photo gallerias looks amazing! i know i'm excited for it! hopefully july 2013!

Edited by ellis427 on Sunday 20th January 20:49

[anonymous-user]

That looks amazing, almost too good to be true, hope it is though.

[havard01]

It does look epic, especially the Zakspeed Capri, but, I can't access the forums to have a look at what is going on.

Are you a forum member? If so, what is the Rally part of the game like? I can there is a co-op option, could you have a mate co-driving for you?

Any idea of the rally locations and cars available?

[weyland yutani]

There is no rally in the game. The graphics are nice but they do not look as polished as the screenshots would suggest.

The physics vary from decent to down right weird depending on the car. I've been playing GTR2 for the first time this week and it feels much better than pCARS does currently but it is still a work in progress so hopefully we'l see a lot of improvements over the next few months.

[Altrezia]

I go hot and cold on this - sometimes it's great, then they patch it and it all goes mad again.

• if* they sort out the handling, then it'll be great. It certainly looks great... trouble is Assetto Corsa, rFactor2 and the new RaceRoom game are all almost finished and released, too!

[LiamB]

I can only hope for good physics and graphics to go with that.

I fear another Race Pro but a bit better.

[C2james]

you guys really should look on youtube more, ive been waiting for this game for ages.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=projec...

[Chunkychucky]

From a simulation point of view it's ultimately going to be compromised due to being developed for consoles and ported for the pc market. Shame as with Cadwell and Oulton along with that car list it would have been nice to have a decent handling/physics model behind it.

[C2james]

yes but as a console game its going to be amazing.

[robmlufc]

Been playing this for a while on PC, its certainly come a long way. The physics still seem a bit suspect, cant fault the graphics, tracks and car licenses though. Z4 GT3 racing around Nurburgring is good fun

[Chunkychucky]

C2james said:

yes but as a console game its going to be amazing.

Not if the current handling model is anything to go by... Hopefully they'll finally strike upon something that works among the endless updates they're churning out. Anyone have any idea when you can sign up for the AC beta?

[ellis427]

Unfortunately i'm not a member unlike many others, i understand it is still in development so fingers cross they can make it as brilliant as it sounds!

as long as its good fun with mates, an yet provide proper hard challenging racing i'm buying, there is nothing like this on ps3 of which is the console and platform i shall be playing it on.

[robmlufc]

ellis427 said:

Unfortunately i'm not a member unlike many others, i understand it is still in development so fingers cross they can make it as brilliant as it sounds!

as long as its good fun with mates, an yet provide proper hard challenging racing i'm buying, there is nothing like this on ps3 of which is the console and platform i shall be playing it on.

GT5 handles a lot better than this. Project Cars is more like Shift 2, which is no surprise considering its the same people making it.

[DavidCane]

I have patchy luck with pCARS but I think it'll come good in the end. Some builds run brilliantly and other not well at all. I probably haven't given it enough of my time to fully assess it, but as the first racing sim to state that they want to support the Oculus Rift, I'll be on it non-stop once that's out.

Between that, iRacing and now the Race Room Revolution beta I think I've got all the sim action I need for a long long time.

[SlipStream77]

Chunkychucky said:

Anyone have any idea when you can sign up for the AC beta?

I didn't think there was going to be one. There's a tech demo out in a few weeks and then the final version is released Q1 this year.

http://www.virtualr.net/assetto-corsa-ferrari-prev...

More L49 previews released today too..

http://www.virtualr.net/assetto-corsa-new-lotus-49...

[Chunkychucky]

SlipStream77 said:

I didn't think there was going to be one. There's a tech demo out in a few weeks and then the final version is released Q1 this year.

http://www.virtualr.net/assetto-corsa-ferrari-prev...

More L49 previews released today too..

http://www.virtualr.net/assetto-corsa-new-lotus-49...

Cheers for the info

And forgot about Race Room Revolution, does it feel much more advanced than SimBin's previous titles?

[weyland yutani]

I haven't tried RRE for a while and I'm not in the beta but it felt pretty poor to me, didn't help that assists were forced on though. GTR2 and Race 07 feel better imo.

I'm pinning my hopes on Asseto Corsa.

[robmlufc]

iRacing Lotus 49 preview..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fydNRerL7cA

[stephen300o]

Will it have Volvo pv544 in it?

[andrewrob]

Is anyone still into this?
Only heard about it recently and it looks interesting, just wasn't sure weather its worth jumping in or not.
Don't mind the €11 signup but I'll need to upgrade my computer a bit I think.