Hey Alb! For me personally I absolutely love the concept of PCARS 2 and I think it's by far the best of the 3 big racing titles coming out this fall. The entire racing weekend thing (practice, qualifying, formation lap, racing, cooldown lap, manual pitstops with animated pit crews), the full dynamic weather and time of day and it's effect on the track with livetrack 3.0 and the realistic racing driver singleplayer career mode have me hooked, there isn't any other game on consoles that even comes near the depth of what PCARS 2 offers in those aspects IMO. Not to mention the 60 different locations (including historic ones and rallycross) and nearly 200 cars of which some are some true gems I haven't seen in any other racing game before (Panoz Esperante GTR1, Porsche 936, Nissan KDR30 Super Silhouette, Jaguar E-Type V12 Group44 just to name a few). I already had one of my most memorable singleplayer races ever in PCARS 2 which you can read about here if you like : http://forum.projectcarsgame.com/sh...h-buying-for&p=1362999&viewfull=1#post1362999
Unfortunately the sheer depth of PCARS 2 means there are also quite a lot of bugs. The most annoying one for me is the fluctuating AI difficulty, especially on races with cold tires. It became so frustrating that I decided to stop playing career for now and wait for a few patches to have it fixed (the devs are aware of it). Meanwhile I rushed through the Forza 7 campaign and I've been farming XP/credits with that Ram Runner to the point I almost have all the cars in the game in my garage, so much for a healthy economy duh. But it's convenient, by the time I'm "done" with Forza 7 the first PCARS 2 patch will probably drop and I can pick up my career racing again. Then yesterday I tried the GT:Sport 4-day beta/demo and I was quite pleased with it. It has that familiar GT feeling of GT5/GT6 (feels like ages ago!) and the game feels very polished. I'm not so sure about the racing itself yet, I need some more testing with that but so far I really dig how it is all wrapped up with the dealership background info, some embedded YouTube videos, all the different scapes (there are 1000+) and an overal very slick feeling.
It's a great time for racing fans on consoles though, we now have all this :
- Project CARS 2 / Assetto Corsa for the best sim racing you can have on the consoles.
- Dirt Rally / F1 2016 / 2017 for some great offroad / single seater racing.
- Dirt 4 got a lot of flak but I absolutely enjoyed that game as well, I think it's better than Dirt Rally on a controller.
- Then there is WRC7 as well which looks really great from what I've seen but I don't have the time to play it yet.
- GT:Sport for that old GT feeling and those scapes are really something special.
- Forza Horizon 3 IMO is still the best arcade/fun game out there, might get some competition from The Crew 2 or the new NFS game.
- Forza 7 I don't know, feels like same old same thing all over again, the 700 cars aren't even that impressive since I played almost all of them previously. With the friction assist, the 300+ ragdolls including chefs, mummies, astronauts etc I can't help but feel that this game is more and more aimed towards young kids. The way it stands now this is for sure my final game of the series (will still get new Horizon games though).
(the ones in bold are the games I own, GT:Sport I'm still doubting if I should get it as well or not)
HDR is absolutely worth it as well on the games I played on my PS4 Pro (Horizon Zero Dawn, Project CARS 2, GT:Sport beta/demo). Can't wait to get my XBox One X and see how Forza Horizon 3 and Forza 7 look on it.
Last edited: Oct 10, 2017
