Actually, consistency being well, inconsistent is a hallmark of Ian Bell games. It was the defining feature of PC2. Some cars handled like dreams, others were pigs. An AI setting that got you an easy win on one track left you a lap down on another. A rain setting that worked well on one track turned into red flag conditions on a different track. Chicanes you could fudge with ease on one track would get you a penalty on another.
I'm getting major deja vu reading about much of this. So many of the issues seem old friends from the PC2 games, and astonishing that, after finally getting fixed in PC2 (sometimes over two YEARS or more after launch) they are reappearing again as if the fix never happened.
PC2 at its best was sublime. But your next race often was a dog. For all the touting of 'community assisted' there seemed to be little effort to try to get the community to come up with AI offsets between races (just comparing best laps between drivers and AI at each track should have easily given SMS an offset figure to balance the difficulty over different tracks).
There's a lot to be learned from going back and rewatching some PC2 reviews from its mature years. It seems like many of the same issues, even some initially fixed, are rearing their ugly heads again. You'd think if something got fixed, it would STAY fixed....
