Project Cars 2

[Rare White Ape]

Reviews are starting to roll in.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-cars-2-review

Consensus so far seems to be that the game is good and fixes or improves a lot of the things form the first game, but doesn't quite meet its potential.

[Tom Servo]

Yep. General gist I'm getting is that it's worth picking up and an improvement on PCars1, but if you expect perfection you'll be disappointed.

[Kchrpm]

One of the international versions of Bryan's paintjob is in the game, just spotted it in a video review. IGN's review was very strong for this game, the one I'm watching now is worried about some graphical glitches even after a day 1 patch.

[dodint]

I need a PC2 demo.

[Kchrpm]

Same. I've been told it does not run well on the regular XBox One.

[Rare White Ape]

It runs ok, from what I've seen. You only need to worry about weather effects in heavy traffic. Outside of that it's pretty smooth and definitely playable.

[Kchrpm]

Digital Foundry did an analysis video and, even in clear weather, it was going up and down from 45-55 fps. Which isn't *bad*, but consistent would be better.

[Rare White Ape]

Yeah I saw that too. If you’re comparing PC2 to FM7 then take into account that PCars is probably running more advanced physics, and it’s from a small developer that hasn’t got a lot of resources behind them. To reach 45-55 on Xbone is a great achievement in itself.

[Kchrpm]

Whether or not it is an achievement is not the question, the question is how annoying will a variable frame rate be.

[Rare White Ape]

True. It can be jarring for some, and I agree that a locked 60fps is amazing.

The good thing is that if there’s a lot of action on screen that’s taxing the GPU, it usually means that there’s plenty of things keeping you preoccupied anyway, so the most stressful scenes mightn’t be too bad. A racing game is not like a shooter which requires pixel-perfect accuracy, instead you can plan your moves a few beats ahead and react using your natural in-teh-z0ne racing skills.

I’ve been brought up on Gran Turismo on PS2, which was screen tearing central in some areas, and the PS3 games weren’t that much better. I think you’ll be just fine.