Project Cars 3 (PS4)

This game is certainly not a simulation like Project Cars 2, and I think that's why everyone seems to hate it so much, since they all (rightfully) expected a game with the title "Project Cars" to be full-sim. But if you're into simcade racers and you can forgive the issue of its title, you'll find that its a fantastic game. I've been playing it with a Thrustmaster T150 with the TH8A shifter and T3PA pedals and it honestly feels great, despite not being a full-sim the force feedback is pretty good and the cars drive and feel just the way you'd expect them to. I've also briefly played with the PS4 controller, just enough to get a brief idea of how it feels and it seems pretty good, although I can't fully judge it from my lack of time with it on controller.The campaign is pretty run of the mill, win races to earn money to buy new cars and win more races, slowly getting to leagues of faster and faster cars. There's races, time trials, and "breakouts" where you have to hit cone-like targets for points. These game modes are all great and I personally love the campaign, you earn credits by levelling up and the higher your level the more credits you earn per level up, so it never feels like a grind. In an hour of play you should amass enough credits to afford a new car.Speaking of cars, this is hands down one of the best car collections I've ever seen in any game, brilliant variety with so many types of vehicles and a great number of vehicles in each class, with each car still feeling distinct from the others in its class. The list of tracks is also outstanding, although it does omit some important ones. The sound design is some of the best I've ever encountered in a racing game.There are some problems, first of all the AI are stupidly aggressive and will ram you off the track on any difficulty/aggression setting. The game has a really annoying penalty system whereby it freezes your car for a huge amount of time if you get 4 wheels out of the track boundary at any point in a race. In a time trial the penalty criteria is the same but it doesn't tell you that you've made the mistake until the end of the entire challenge, where after 3 laps of focused driving it will suddenly tell you "FAILURE" and you'll have to try and guess where you made your error. This would be fine if you could deactivate the penalties, but the game doesn't allow you to do this, even though its significantly more arcadey than its predecessor, which is just hypocritical and annoying imo.Overall this is a brilliant unmissable simcade experience if you have the right expectations and have the patience to deal with some of the nonsensical problems aforementioned in my review, do NOT expect a full-sim and you should be fine. I've had it for a few months now and I'm still nowhere near bored with it. I play 2-3x weekly for 1.0-1.5hrs each time and I've still got plenty of campaign left to go. Would highly recommend this one.

This is my first time playing a Project Cars game and I'm really enjoying it. If you like Grid this is kind of similar.The track selection is varied with different tracks than other titles giving a good sense of variety. I'm playing on PS5 in resolution mode and everything runs smooth and at a locked 60fps. Graphically it's decent as a ps4 game with the only visible flaw being quite close scenery detail pop in.The racing is highly customisable suiting all skill levels. Racing is fun, fast and frenetic, the ai opponents really battle hard, it's a great challenge but not frustrating.My new copy is a US version which works on a EU/UK machine with your EU/UK account, only issue is if you want the dlc you will need a US account as the dlc is region locked. Overall I really like PC3, it can join Drive Club as a decent delisted driving game worth picking up before it's gone.

After reading so much negativity about the performance, appearance and change of game style I was under no illusions that this would be a great experience to start with.There was a 33GB update available, to version 1.07 which would take at least an hour to download, so I started playing the unpatched version and the experience was as expected - rough. The frame rate was poor, graphics blurry and glitchy and the menu system looked like a mobile game. BUT... the handling was excellent.So, the download finished and I installed it. I was greeted with new loading screens, an improved menu system. Rotatable cars in the livery editor, and a much improved framerate. The game is now pretty much fixed. The only thing is a few slight framerate issues. A 30fps lock would be a good addition but it’s so much better than it was without the patch that it’s not critical.The way I would describe it now is that the game was unacceptable and is now acceptable enough that anyone thinking of buying it should only need to consider the departure in style to a more arcadey type of game and whether that’s for them or not.Oh, and the music is amazing.

Dont understand what the negative reviews are. Yes it might not be sim handling anymore but it's a fun game to play! The graphics are spot on nothing bad to say about the graphics. If you enjoy racing games working your way up career mode then this is for you. You can do things you cant in the last 2 project cars games such as customise your cars and much more. The career mode seems better.Car handling is such an improvement from the last one and cars handle really well like I said it's not a sim but it's a great game definitely worth a buy if your into car racing games!