There is just something about this trailer that feels so familiar. The spiritual successor to the Project Cars series can truly be felt in the latest Gamescom trailer for Project Motor Racing. It’s even in the name, itself.Project Motor Racingwill be taking different eras of race cars that even include the most recent cars seen in the WEC series, and pitting them on some the most famous circuits in the world. You won’t see any minivans or crossover vehicles in this game, purely race cars. Project Motor Racing will release for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC on November 25. You can check out the Gamescom trailer below.
The Details in the Trailer
Kicking off with a 1970 Porsche 917K and a quote from Sir Stirling Moss already dictates where the development team is coming from. There’s no concept cars here. This is the pure legacy of racing that was born in Project Cars and arguably dating back to the GTR2 days of gaming. This is 70 cars across 10 different classes of racing from over 50 years worth of Group C to GT1. 28 different track layouts that have been scanned with True2Track technology at 18 different race tracks will be featured in the game.
Other important aspects to racing that will be included in Project Motor Racing will be dynamic weather systems, adaptive racing lines that provide differing drying and drainage behavior, and a 24-hour day-night cycle. A mod-friendly physics engine called GIANTS Engine 10 will power the game and allow mods for not only PC, but also consoles. Players can expect high-fidelity force feedback in wheel and a “living” cockpit that features visible G-forces, dirt and heat haze.
The Original Project Cars Series
With this being the spiritual successor to Project Cars, that development studio was purchased by Codemasters then inherited when EA purchased that. The first two games brought a deeper simulation aspect to console players and provided various cars that weren’t typically seen in racing games.Project Cars 3was vastly different as that was under the wing of Codemasters at that time, but it was published by Bandai Namco.
Slightly Mad Studios started off as the development studio behind Need for Speed: Shift, years before. The head of this studio,Ian Bell, announced a console in 2019 called the Mad Box. It’s safe to say that never happened. Both Project Cars 1 and 2 were crowdfunded and community-developed, but Project Cars 3 strayed away from that and aimed more towards arcade racing.
