PROJECT CARS 3 REVIEW PC SERIES

Mastering a corner consists of driving your car over floating icons on the asphalt that indicate braking points, the apex of the turn, and the optimal positioning for the turn’s exit. Working through the objectives isn’t particularly difficult in most cases, but they never feel engaging or rewarding. New events are gated behind fixed numbers of these objectives that have been completed. These objectives range from mastering corners to passing opponents to winning races and more. The initial events of the career mode are incredibly short and task the player with meeting objectives listed on the event poster. Strangely enough, all the circuits seem to be available from the outset. You will have the option of participating in customized one-off events early on, but they won’t offer much value as all the cars are locked behind career mode progression. Unlike its predecessors, you start out with a single vehicle that is granted after completion of the opening tutorial. Not that arcade-style racing games are bad (I find myself smitten with the great ones), but Project Cars 3 feels unfocused to the point of frustration at times. Driving for the sake of improving lap times or mastering circuits kind of went out the window in favor of an uneven career mode that focuses on passing arbitrary challenges and looking cool. While a passion for bringing the feel of real driving to players may have been the aim of the first two Project Cars games, the third entry has yanked the handbrake and drifted hard into the arcade style.

PROJECT CARS 3 REVIEW PC SERIES

Nearly a year later, Project Cars 3 is here and may not be the game series fans were hoping for. After the initial reveal of the Mad Box and some incredibly optimistic claims about its potential performance, news on the project went silent, and Slightly Mad Studios was acquired by Codemasters in late 2019. In early 2019, they announced the development of their own gaming console, the Mad Box, to compete with Sony and Microsoft.

Somewhere along the way after Project Cars 2 hit shelves, it would appear that the studio went slightly mad. As a development house that built its name on attempting to deliver a realistic driving experience on consoles and PC, Slightly Mad Studios was building momentum over the release of the first two games in its Project Cars franchise.

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