Review for Project CARS 3. Game for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the video game was released on 28/08/2020
Project CARS 3 developed by Slightly Mad Studios and edited by Bandai Namco has finally arrived PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One X, with the great responsibility of confirming the good things shown with the first two chapters of the series. The novelties presented are many, starting from the number of cars available (over 200 licensed, the largest fleet of the Project CARS series), 12 new tracks (Interlagos, Jerez, Shanghai etc.), improved multiplayer, completely revised career mode, virtually unlimited vehicle customization and brand new game modes.
Compared to the previous chapter, the news are really many, but will the developers have managed to keep their promises?
Winning races is not enough
Project CARS 3 gives you the ability to move around the game modes in a flexible and unlimited, The mode Career it is obviously the central mode for the single player, in which you will have to be able not only to win races, but also and above all to hit the internal objectives of the race to accumulate money and experience points.
For example, you will be asked to do a certain number of overtaking in a certain period of time, or to make a certain number of clean laps and so on. Winning by doing a counter is definitely not the best way to progress in a functional way within the career, based not only on the money earned to develop and buy other cars, but also and above all on experience points.
Having an open mind and learning to run cleanly and effectively will also come in handy in multiplayer, but we'll talk about it later. If you are a beginner with driving games or with the series Project Cars, fear not: the developers have made the tool called FTUE (The First Time User Experience), a sort of prolonged tutorial designed to follow newbies within the game experience. Physics is very realistic, with a driving model that suffers from tuning, climate changes and a whole host of elements that require you to adapt continuously at the moments of competition.
Make room in the garage
If you are a fan of the Project CARS series, the first major news that catches the eye is the possibility of buy cars. In the two previous chapters you were treated in all respects as drivers hired by a team, driving the car that was made available to you. In Project CARS 3 things are a bit different: in addition to having to buy the car, you need to learn to process it, buying the pieces you need to be able to participate in the various types of races. Not all cars have a complete conversion kit available to transform them for track use only, so for a certain type of events others will have to be purchased. Pay attention to how you spend your money, always work out a car to the maximum not the best way, also because some will be used in a few events or in any case in stages of career transition.
The advice we give you is to put your own as pilots and win races thanks to your skill, without necessarily having to have the best or most elaborate car on the grid. In fact, the most performing prototypes cost a lot of money and the more you manage to keep them aside, the better it will be for the more demanding categories. Playing with the gamepad is an experience that turns out to be better than in the past, thanks to the changes implemented to the physics and the game model, based on the feedback collected directly from the players of the two previous chapters. The advice we give you, however, is to arm yourself always di steering wheel and pedal set, to maximize the experience.
The cycle day-night and dynamic weather they can quickly mark the progress of a race and it is always better to have everything under control with the right peripheral.
Graphics and Audio
Project CARS 3 has a very interesting graphics compartment, especially as regards the details of the car models and elements of the various tracks. There is objectively better in the videogame panorama of the moment with regard to driving games, but we are still at a very respectable level. At the time of the test we recognized some bugs at the level of shadow management on some tracks, which is already known to developers who have promised to fix everything with future updates.
The audio, on the other hand, is really good, with the sound of the engines well defined and diversified depending on the model and type of engine of the cars. The soundtracks are engaging and the interlude videos well made.
Multiplayer
The online mode of Project CARS 3 was completely renovated and enriched. At the base there is a complex system based on the driving license that takes into account two scores: lo skill rating and safety rating. The skill rating measures only the race results, the safety rating is calculated on the basis of driving correctness, such as the ability to avoid accidents, not to go beyond the limits of the track and so on. The license level is the element that determines all the functioning of the multiplayer mode. A low license level does not allow you to drive in high-level online events, do you remember when at the beginning of the article we advised you to learn how to drive clean and without smudges or contacts? Here is the reason why.
On line there are different types of modalities, such as Quick Play or Scheduled Events. The first allows you to enter and run races of short term, the second is more structured and allows you to run longer races with a grid determined by the time set in qualifying. If you prefer to run with your friends, the Custom Lobbies they are ideal while the mode Rivals allows you to challenge players online by scoring the best time or the best race pace. A very fun mode is the mode Breakout, where they compete against rivals by collecting points by destroying blocks placed along the track. During testing, the servers held up well without any problems.
Project CARS 3 keeps its promises, exploring game modes that are very reminiscent of the historical chapters of Gran Turismo where you can buy and customize cars. The news announced were many, the car park has been enriched even if the level of realization of the models does not reach the peaks reached by other simulation video games, the game is always enjoyable and fun, as long as you still have a station with a steering wheel and pedal. to have a maximized gaming experience. Fans of the series will certainly not be disappointed, especially those who have decided to devote themselves to eSports. Customizing the cars and testing them on the track gives an engaging and rewarding feeling, which requires hours of practice to be mastered to the fullest.
► Project CARS 3 is a Sports-Simulation game developed by Slightly Mad Studios and published by Bandai Namco for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the video game was released on 28/08/2020
