That’s a marked performance improvement on the last game, although the step forwards in vehicular handsomeness isn’t as profound. Even without the inevitable game-ready driver, a GTX 1070 can handle everything turned all the way up at 1600p. Sure, you can still push the supersampling AA slider up to max and tank all but the mightiest systems, but leaving high-end AA out of the equation, this is a well-optimised release. Instead, I find pad handling too twitchy to ever effectively save a spin when I lose the back end, while an overzealous stability control either brings the car to near-standstill in order to avoid a spin, or creates cruise liner levels of understeer.Īlso improved is the game engine’s consideration for your frame rate. Such settings might exist within Project Cars 2’s menus, but I haven’t found them yet. Both were occasionally true of me in Project Cars 1, where I was able to tweak my controller settings and find a balance of assists that made the racing responsive but not overly demanding. However, you can go ahead and add your own personal disclaimer to that statement if a) you drive with assists, and/or b) you race with a pad rather than a wheel.

Driving is its own intrinsic joy, more so than in its 2015 ancestor and to these hands better than rivals rFactor 2 and iRacing (don’t me). This unprecedented level of simulation is, as you’d expect really, Project Cars 2’s crown jewel. And the rallycross-boy, the rallycross-no space to think about death when you’re doing that, let me tell you. With all the assists off and a decent racing wheel plugged in, it requires so much sustained attention, so many micro-adjustments in response to tiny whispers of feedback from the car, that there’s simply no brainpower left to think about anything other than getting your Audi R18 around the last turn at Zolder.

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