Project CARS 3

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  1. RILLAROO
    May 15, 2021
    10
    This game is similar to DriveClub. I'm looking forward to Project Cars 4. Awesome game
  2. baxenko
    Oct 17, 2020
    3
    Первое что нужно уяснить, это аркада, имеющая общее с прошлыми частями только название. Аркадные гонки должны развлекать. Что имеем?

    Плюсы: ● режимы онлайна; ● звуки автомобилей. Минусы ● даунгрейд графики, так еще не отключаемое мыло; ● гоночные трассы (при этом у нас нет питстопа и износа шин), вместо красивых живописных заездов; ● очень скучные AI боты; ● физика автомобилей;    Первое что нужно уяснить, это аркада, имеющая общее с прошлыми частями только название. Аркадные гонки должны развлекать. Что имеем?

    Плюсы:
    ● режимы онлайна;
    ● звуки автомобилей.

    Минусы
    ● даунгрейд графики, так еще не отключаемое мыло;
    ● гоночные трассы (при этом у нас нет питстопа и износа шин), вместо красивых живописных заездов;
    ● очень скучные AI боты;
    ● физика автомобилей;
    ● нет зеркала заднего вида?;
    ● нет регулировки управления для геймпада, за счет чего мне в ПК2 и то управление казалось удобнее;
    ● ужасный интерфейс как меню, так и во время гонки;
    ● песенные композиции только в меню игры, в самой гонка однотонная электронная музыка;
    ● вопросы к оптимизации, хоть у меня (4790K+GTX1070) стабильно 110 FPS, то у друга на AMD: "в ночних гонках зависає";
    ● нельзя вместе с другом заходить в один быстрый заезд;
    ● нет отображения результатов заезда твоих друзей;
    ● нет возможности создать турнирные заезды;
    ● дикий дисбаланс по автомобилям в мультиплеере;
    ● в гонках на время читеры ставят нереальные результаты;
    ● динамическая погода очень странно работает, дождь только начинается, вся трасса уже мокрая и с лужами;
    ● цена.

    В общем чуда не произошло, я ждал именно хорошую аркаду, а в итоге получил недоаркаду с хвостом симулятора. Симуляторы заняли: GTS, ACC и iRacing, аркады: Forza Horizon 4, NFS. Но рыбку съесть, и нахй сесть стало непосильной задачей для Slightly Mad Studios.

    ИТОГ: Брать на распродаже по очень хорошей скиде, сейчас своих денег она не стоит.    … Expand
  3. TTK_Ironfist
    Sep 10, 2020
    9
    As a person who doesn't own a wheel and play with controller, I find this game to be so much fun.
    It is more arcade than sim, just be clear.
  4. Teku95i
    Aug 31, 2020
    10
    Awesome game. It's just not a successor to Project Cars 2. Had a lot of fun with it. It's a very fun simcade game. The only thing wrong with it is it's name and marketing behind it. But as a game is quite fun, it's just not a sim.
  5. PH03N1X-PC
    Aug 30, 2020
    0
    shame on Slightly Mad Studios this game is a spank on all fans face, and kick starter supporters, the game is garbage now with the worst company in simracing CODEMASTERS for me now is worst than EA because of the ton of bad games they have done since grid 2 no cokpit lazy developers that brand is out of a good gaming sims and now they have destroyed a really good game.
  6. KarakACG
    Aug 29, 2020
    6
    It's a bit of a tragedy. i never thought the pCARS games were good games, but at least they were mediocre sims. pCARS 3 is a MUCH better GAME than its predecessors, the career is much better and it's much more fun to play with a controller now, which was almost unplayable before.

    It's a lot of fun to finally be able to enjoy those great tracks, that have always existed, in a more arcade    It's a bit of a tragedy. i never thought the pCARS games were good games, but at least they were mediocre sims. pCARS 3 is a MUCH better GAME than its predecessors, the career is much better and it's much more fun to play with a controller now, which was almost unplayable before.

    It's a lot of fun to finally be able to enjoy those great tracks, that have always existed, in a more arcade like racer, but it defies my understanding why they didn't call it Shift 3 instead, as that is basically what this game is.

    The game is nothing like the first two games, which seems like suicide from the marketing perspective, as it's clear as sauce this will greatly anger the long time fans and probably be overlooked by the more casual racers, who like Forza Horizon or GRiD, cause that's where this game is aimed at now.

    From a GAMER'S perspective I have WAY MORE fun with this game, than with the other two games though, UNTIL......

    Yeah, until one discovers, that the progression in this game feels very level-gated, which gives the whole game the feeling of a mobile game, which is somehow underlined by the truly lacklustre presentation, which looks clearly worse than on pCARS2, all while not really performing better.

    The VR mode atm is broken and unplayable for me, as it unexplicably jitters along from time to time.

    Sorry SMS, your last two games already released broken and unfinished but were never fixed. Please do better this time.

    As a verdict: I don't understand who this game is for. This would be a good game without the mobile progression, which simply reeks like GaaS and monetisation.

    I'd give it an 8, if it wasn't for that, but as it is I can't give more than a 6 right now.    … Expand
  7. IYDKMIGTHTKY
    Aug 30, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Project Cars 3 is like you wanna buy your 3rd racecar from the same manufacture but you just got a bad show-car. Codemasters abuse slightly mad studios for their mainstream punk. they formed a sim-race game to a arcade-race game. they use the title to got a better reach and attention. they are lying to the community and told them that the changes came from user feedback. this is the end of project cars. this is game over.… Expand
  8. ThunderRam
    Sep 6, 2020
    2
    Project Cars 2 fans STAY AWAY! This is not the game you are looking for. I don't know what the developers were thinking... Low graphics on the highest settings, super easy, VR gives motion sickness, and AI is dumb!
  9. mysteryx
    Sep 10, 2020
    2
    Altro nome no eh? R.I.P. Project cars!!!!
    Rimborso e disinstallato immediatamente! Non lo voglio nemmeno se lo regalate!
    Che delusione Slightly Mad Studios,
  10. Luka1998010
    Aug 30, 2020
    7
    PC3 is a solid game...
    The handling feels a bit weird at the start but when I got used to it a few races down the road it got easier....
    It has some nice cars but it lacks a lot of production cars.... From BMW, I did not expect to see older models that are race only... It takes a lot of grinding to get more cars, specially because you don`t get money after completing every event, but    PC3 is a solid game...
    The handling feels a bit weird at the start but when I got used to it a few races down the road it got easier....
    It has some nice cars but it lacks a lot of production cars....
    From BMW, I did not expect to see older models that are race only...
    It takes a lot of grinding to get more cars, specially because you don`t get money after completing every event, but when you reach an EXP goal...
    A lot of timed events have some terrible goals that are hard to achieve...
    No matter how fast I am, I don`t get all of them...
    Then, the worst thing about the game, the penalty system...
    For being pushed of track or simply just touching a wall, my lap time gets invalidated !
    That is the most stupid thing I have ever seen...
    I am glad that the game has the progression at has but it feels too grindy...
    I don`t want to be able to get a car every other event but I don`t want to not buy one I want either just because a championship requires a specific car to buy...
    The game overall is solid, there are those issues that irritate me but I must say that I like it a whole lot more than the previous 2
    A lot of grinding    … Expand
  11. SIVAVIGNESH
    Sep 5, 2020
    4
    HEADS UP : I was not into project cars 1 and 2 as i didnt have a steering wheel. And controller input in those games were not feasible. I am into all racing games. Now lets dive into the review

    GRAPHICS: Not that great. But its passable. even on ultra. overall 6/10 SOUND MUSIC AND VOICE: Sound is mediocre. Music is okay. Like drive club . Which is at times really great. But falls flat    HEADS UP : I was not into project cars 1 and 2 as i didnt have a steering wheel. And controller input in those games were not feasible. I am into all racing games. Now lets dive into the review

    GRAPHICS: Not that great. But its passable. even on ultra. overall 6/10
    SOUND MUSIC AND VOICE: Sound is mediocre. Music is okay. Like drive club . Which is at times really great. But falls flat on most occasions. Voice is just there to read the tutorials. 5/10
    GAMEPLAY: [I kept the other categories short as this is where my rant begins] I was up for any racing. And the handling was accessible and was liking the driving. But the problem lies in the progression. The one who designed this is a pure A**HOLE. You see the game doesnt give ingame currency for winning races, but rather if you level up a track or level up yourself. WHICH IS TEDIOUS! The major problem is that every subsequent event asks you to have a "car that was released between 2015 and 2019 belonging to a specific country". WHICH MEANS YOU NEVER HAVE THE REQUIRED CARS. The game asks you to buy the cars for the event, only problem is that you never have the credits to buy it. Say you grind for 4 hours to get credits, you compete in like 2 events if your lucky , because the game will ask you to buy another car for the next event. RIDICULOUS!
    There is an event called pace setter, which requires you to lap a track 3 times and the average time is taken into account. Yeah sounds interesting, only thing is that the game invalidates your lap even if you slightly graze a wall or go an inch off track. [which is a failed event but the game tells you after you complete 3 laps]. The target times are also ridiculous. The only way to even try for it is to attempt big risks, but you cant afford risks because the game will invalidate your lap and fail the event!! STUPIDEST DESIGN IN A GAME!
    Now lets talk about the AI ;seems like the opponents don't have gears, they have only one gear and they accelerate without breaks. Well i had to turn on every assist and lower the difficulty to the least to even win the event on indianapolis speedway. Because the opponents accelerate indefinitely without changing gears!! Also the criteria is to get a lap time of 52 seconds. While the fastest lap was 1 min !!!! GAME WAS PURELY MADE SO THAT YOU DONT GET TO PLAY THE GAME!! Uninstalled after 16 hours of wasting my time.! Pure garbage! 3/10
    FUN FACTOR: Its more frustrating than fun! 2/10
    PERFORMANCE: Not so great . The frame rate tanks when the weather changes to rain. 4/10

    OVERALL: SKIP this GAME! The progression is god awful. 4/10    … Expand
  12. RookieSteph
    Sep 9, 2020
    0
    Everybody else 1-->2-->3

    Slightly Mad Studios 1-->2-->Banana They have made a game, not only for a whole different audience than the previous two versions, but even when you put it into that category, it still is worse than competing titles that are half a decade older. Honestly, Forza 7 or GT Sport are better versions of what SMS is trying to do, both gameplay wise and graphic wise.    Everybody else 1-->2-->3

    Slightly Mad Studios 1-->2-->Banana

    They have made a game, not only for a whole different audience than the previous two versions, but even when you put it into that category, it still is worse than competing titles that are half a decade older. Honestly, Forza 7 or GT Sport are better versions of what SMS is trying to do, both gameplay wise and graphic wise. I would not be surprised if this is optimised to run on phones and tablets at some point    … Expand
  13. Olcsi
    Aug 30, 2020
    0
    I dont know how the critics like this. This game is a joke. The problem is not the arcade style. The problem is all the lies what sms said and the trash product.
  14. Mosh
    Aug 31, 2020
    0
    Compared to PCARS and PCARS 2, this is a big step back and shouldn't in any way be considered to be a game of the same series. This is a poor, arcade racer, that doesn't really know what it wants to be - ending up being good at nothing.
  15. SSJGZWarrior
    Sep 1, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. **** game, physics are horrible, car drive unrealistically and it's a mobile game.… Expand
  16. Grocs
    Aug 30, 2020
    9
    For those looking for a true sequel then Project Cars 3 probably isn't for you. If you want a good simcade experience which gives you a good career mode plus motivation for progression (xp and in game currency to buy better cars) then you'll really enjoy this one. The track roster is fantastic and the car selection is a good combination of road and track cars. The performance upgrades areFor those looking for a true sequel then Project Cars 3 probably isn't for you. If you want a good simcade experience which gives you a good career mode plus motivation for progression (xp and in game currency to buy better cars) then you'll really enjoy this one. The track roster is fantastic and the car selection is a good combination of road and track cars. The performance upgrades are also a nice touch.

    We've seen a lot of racing games lately that focus purely on track cars so it is nice to have a good PC racing game with a bunch of well modelled road cars in them. There is decent VR support out of the box, though some further optimisation would be welcome. The approachable multiplayer is decent too, as is the rivals mode. I think despite the change in direction this is a really fun and accessible driving / racing game.    … Expand
  17. dane75
    Aug 30, 2020
    0
    I dont Know where to startit seems to be a grid rip off ?, even on ultra the game looks really really bad, even worse than PC1 did on low settings. Shift 2 looks better than this. and the fps is around 27 lol, I run this on a RTX2070 super i would think that i would get over 60 fps on high settings but no.

    Also on some races the custom livery you made is bugged, so it only show the    I dont Know where to startit seems to be a grid rip off ?, even on ultra the game looks really really bad, even worse than PC1 did on low settings. Shift 2 looks better than this. and the fps is around 27 lol, I run this on a RTX2070 super i would think that i would get over 60 fps on high settings but no.

    Also on some races the custom livery you made is bugged, so it only show the custom rims and not the paint on the car.

    The engine sound inside the cockpit is muffled so much on some cars that you think the engine is blown, engine sound in PC1 and PC2 are way better. handling are ok, better FBB than PC2 but that is it.

    SMS might have started on a PC3 simulator, but found out they could not finish it, codemasters buy SMS and they threw inn the code they had from grid and used the track and cars from PC2 a bad copy paste and called it PC3.
    I think Codemasters are going to shut down the project cars franchise. or they are going to make their own race track simulator based on Project cars at some time beside F1 and Dirt series who knows!. or they have aimed at the console players who use handcontrollers.

    if you like Forza or Grid stick with those,I think they are way better games than what this garbage is.
    At this state now it feels like its early beta version.
    I can not recommend this game, hopefully there will be a massive update so the graphics and sound etc etc. etc. ETC. become better. as of now the game just sucks.    … Expand
  18. bromaross
    Aug 31, 2020
    0
    C.A.R.S - Community Assisted Racing Simulator - a project born on a kickstarter.
    Previously we had a nice sim, which however needed to keep developing, but now someone not really smart decided PC to be an arcade. Well, this story will prove he was wrong. No physics, no car damage, no graphics. We compared the picture with GTS, it turs out the game from PS4 has better graphics. Who    C.A.R.S - Community Assisted Racing Simulator - a project born on a kickstarter.
    Previously we had a nice sim, which however needed to keep developing, but now someone not really smart decided PC to be an arcade. Well, this story will prove he was wrong. No physics, no car damage, no graphics. We compared the picture with GTS, it turs out the game from PS4 has better graphics. Who questions remaining: why does this mobile game releases on PC and who in his mind would like to pay $30-50 for it? Noone likes betrayers.    … Expand
  19. Redden44
    Aug 31, 2020
    1
    If you like arcade racing games, there are better and cheaper products you can buy, such as Forza, NFS and even Grid; if instead you like sim games, you should stay away from this smelly pile of trash, because compared to the previous titles of the series, it has been stripped down of all the features that make a good racing game.

    - There are no longer different type of tyres (soft,    If you like arcade racing games, there are better and cheaper products you can buy, such as Forza, NFS and even Grid; if instead you like sim games, you should stay away from this smelly pile of trash, because compared to the previous titles of the series, it has been stripped down of all the features that make a good racing game.

    - There are no longer different type of tyres (soft, hard, intermediate, wet), instead you have one tyre that magically adapt to the weather as you drive.
    - Tyre degradation is gone.
    - Fuel consumption is gone.
    - Pit lanes are always closed because you can no longer pit.
    - The race weekend has been completely erased.
    - There are no practice sessions.
    - There are no qualify sessions.
    - The default race consists of 2 laps with the player starting form the bottom of the grid.
    - There is no offline single player customisable season, a feature that players requested already for Project Cars 2 and the Devs responded they would implement it in the sequel (i.e. PC3, this game)..in other words, they lied.
    - Cars are no longer realistic, instead they have a bunch of stats like a character of an RPG.
    - The weather system is joke but it doesn't even matter considering how the tyres magically automatically adapt.

    Then you have a list of things that haven't improved at all and some of them even took a step back.
    - The damage of the car isn't realistic.
    - The AI is dumber, keeps ramming you, doesn't change gears and receive magic speed boosters that go beyond the capacity of the car.
    - The graphics, compared to other recent titles, is much worse.
    - Car customisation is a joke and works only on certain models, so for instance if you buy a new body-kit for some the car, nothing visually changes.
    - The UI used to be elegant and cool, now it makes the game look like a cheap mobile game for kids, with over saturated colours.
    - There isn't a minimap, instead along the tracks the are a bunch of annoying invasive mobile game floating icons that tells you what to expect next.
    And the list goes on..

    The hilarious thing is that they still try to sell this pile of trash as a next gen sim game..this is offensive..offensive and pathetic.    … Expand
  20. shArk87
    Sep 17, 2020
    2
    Yeah, so, got the game recently hoping for a sim and what I got is not sim at all. Me being a sim Racer I was expecting a game that finally tops assetto corsa but I should have read reviews first.

    I mean, it's project cars we're talking about but I guess, even slightly mad can fak up sometime I guess. Well, thankfully I returned the game and got a money-back card for a future game. Not    Yeah, so, got the game recently hoping for a sim and what I got is not sim at all. Me being a sim Racer I was expecting a game that finally tops assetto corsa but I should have read reviews first.

    I mean, it's project cars we're talking about but I guess, even slightly mad can fak up sometime I guess.

    Well, thankfully I returned the game and got a money-back card for a future game.

    Not gonna give a score 0 because there was some work put into it but me, hating arcade racing couldn't cope with this game. Just no for me and every arcade racing for me gets an immediate low score unless it's a harding game that has a campaign that lets you buy cars, has cars on sale, second hand cars. Oil change, cleaning like real life before a race but nah. Here you just jump into a car that you don't know who gave it to you and you race and voila.
    So lame and so out of touch can a developer be to give us something like this, it's just a copy paste of the same genre as forza.

    Invent something, do something different for once.    … Expand
  21. PhatMonkey
    Sep 14, 2020
    3
    The Basics:
    Worse jaggies ever in a racer
    No AA (disabled in config) 2080ti struggles at 1080p (2560 x 1080p) to maintain 60fps on some maps during rain Seen FPS drop to 44 The Cars look good Track looks good but the scenery graphics are old gen terrible, I mean look at the dessert map makes me cry how bad it looks, like a PS2 racer, the sand texture or lack of, what went wrong?    The Basics:
    Worse jaggies ever in a racer
    No AA (disabled in config)
    2080ti struggles at 1080p (2560 x 1080p) to maintain 60fps on some maps during rain
    Seen FPS drop to 44
    The Cars look good
    Track looks good but the scenery graphics are old gen terrible, I mean look at the dessert map makes me cry how bad it looks, like a PS2 racer, the sand texture or lack of, what went wrong?

    This is a rushed unfinished product with yesteryear graphics but with a high FPS cost at max settings which brings me to my next point, you can get rid of the jaggies by using Supersampling at the cost of playing at 40 FPS or less depending on your card during bad weather....

    Lower end cards will struggle when the weather system comes into play, you could simply turn the graphic settings down but as the game looks last gen already you will be playing an uglier version of an ugly game.    … Expand
  22. Loki79
    Sep 25, 2020
    0
    Project Cars 3 is a huge letdown.

    The game's structure is nothing new or inspiring: you start with enough money to purchase a lowly road car, you work your way through some tiered racing series, you earn money and XP points, you purchase new cars, unlock new series and tiers... Rinse and repeat til you reach the pinnacle of in-game motorsport. Or til you get bored, which is the most    Project Cars 3 is a huge letdown.

    The game's structure is nothing new or inspiring: you start with enough money to purchase a lowly road car, you work your way through some tiered racing series, you earn money and XP points, you purchase new cars, unlock new series and tiers... Rinse and repeat til you reach the pinnacle of in-game motorsport. Or til you get bored, which is the most likely scenario within a few days of playing.

    Unfortunately driving PC3 is not fun. For starters, the TEDIOUS "start around the back of the grid" cliché, which conflicts with some of the arbitrary "goals" the games gives you to get extra money/XP. So winning isn't enough, you must do so by also fulfilling some random criteria that can make your races extra boring or frustrating. You won by 20 seconds? Sorry, didn't pass 10 cars in 1 minute or didn't draft a car for 30 secs. No bonus for you.

    Car upgrades are limited to your car class (so you can't turn a Honda Civic into a monster and annihilate your opponents) but the effect on the car performances are minimal. Driving around is unrewarding and dull. On dry tracks, the car feels sluggish and heavy, on wet tracks it's like handling a fish wearing soapy gloves.
    AI is all over the place, rubber-banding a lot and beingeither useless or unbeatable.

    The car selection is decent, but nothing spectacular, and so are the tracks, with an abundance of narrow "club racing" tracks that make those "win from the back" races feel like trying to drive around a big city at rush hour. Or like a being on a bumper-car as collisions are inevitable.

    Regardless of all that, the PC3 is simply inconsistent and not really engaging. A missed opportunity.    … Expand
  23. Juanse190
    Sep 13, 2020
    2
    Creo que ponerle mas que esto seria un regalo, es horrible con todas las letras, no lo recomiendo para nada, antes que este si esperan poco realismo vayan por el Forza Horizon 4, es un millon de veces mejor, y si esperan aunque sea un poco de realismo, ni piensen en este juego, pasen de largo, es una porquería
  24. Gonobiko
    Sep 2, 2020
    5
    Desde el primer vistazo a su estética, mecánicas y jugabilidad me recuerda mucho un NFS, no creo que sea la sensación de juego en la categoría de simulación. Es cierto que para usuarios nuevos es un avance muy bueno, pero peca en casi todos los sentidos, historia mediocre, jugabilidad idéntica a la anterior y gráficos de inicio de generación. Es una lástima que un juego tan querido cambieDesde el primer vistazo a su estética, mecánicas y jugabilidad me recuerda mucho un NFS, no creo que sea la sensación de juego en la categoría de simulación. Es cierto que para usuarios nuevos es un avance muy bueno, pero peca en casi todos los sentidos, historia mediocre, jugabilidad idéntica a la anterior y gráficos de inicio de generación. Es una lástima que un juego tan querido cambie su rumbo y no de la mejor manera, mucho que mejorar BANDAI, le dejaste el camino libre a otros simuladores que van arrasar en la nueva generación… Expand
  25. Ecchi-Subs
    Sep 17, 2020
    2
    Miserable career extremely grindy progression the pace setter mode is just cringe
  26. faircritic
    Aug 30, 2020
    8
    Nice game , entertaining , but if you haven´t owned the first other releases.

    I ´d read why such the criticism of the game and the negative rant. I never tried the othere releases so I find this game much fun. It´s a mix of arcade and simulation More arcade than sim. At first the game feels easy but later becomes more challenging. I don´t see any issues besides the same bland victory    Nice game , entertaining , but if you haven´t owned the first other releases.

    I ´d read why such the criticism of the game and the negative rant. I never tried the othere releases so I find this game much fun. It´s a mix of arcade and simulation More arcade than sim. At first the game feels easy but later becomes more challenging. I don´t see any issues besides the same bland victory pose and it looks like there´s a certain ammount of grinding. So if you are lucky enough to haven´t played the other two and like racing, go for it. I suspect that people who own previous releases don´t like it because it turned into a more arcade direction. And so I heard, they removed most sims features. But is also stated that the other two great games were broken in one way or another or so they said. So is the same stupid people who felt burnt fo a third time. lol. And it´s very important to mention that I game on xbox controller. Keyboards are for cheap losers. So I cannot say exactly if this is hurting these cheaps rats anyway and they felt previous releases more friendly. I also heard that it isn´t so good for racing wheels. I cannot said that this is true at all or partially. I only can say that I don´t have that racing wheels and pedals and that bunch of crap. There´s not all that much of racing games today to consider them on buying that stuff. In conclusion is a good game but if you are new into the series. The main proof to said that previous series were unsuccesful is that previous designers were fired practically, and the news devs go for a more arcade experience just to fix the mess.    … Expand
  27. DreamCore
    Sep 2, 2020
    0
    So I generally distaste people rating games with zeroes because no game can really be that bad. But in this case I have to agree. This game could possible be the worst racing game of this generation. It tries to be a Foza game but fails on every front.

    The visuals are mediocre with a really crappy lighting system. Sometimes it looks like a PS3 game and during certain lighting conditions    So I generally distaste people rating games with zeroes because no game can really be that bad. But in this case I have to agree. This game could possible be the worst racing game of this generation. It tries to be a Foza game but fails on every front.

    The visuals are mediocre with a really crappy lighting system. Sometimes it looks like a PS3 game and during certain lighting conditions the cars looks to be made out of plastic.

    The AI is broken, isn't affected by weather conditions and drives like trains on rails even on snow. Even on easy/medium they are sometimes impossible to beat, so please explain how one is supposed to beat them at hard, pro, legendary... well it's impossible.

    The worst thing in the game is the broken career mode. It's been balanced by some useless rookie tool of a trash designer with no sense of balancing whatsoever. The objectives where you have to make a lap or laps within a time limit require nano second precision to even score a bronze, and the worst part is that you have to beat this **** in order to progress. I seriously hope the useless tool who balanced this gets fired and banned from the gaming industry.

    Do yourself a favor and stay away from this garbage game.    … Expand
  28. Chiyu
    Sep 6, 2020
    3
    Asphalt and project cars 3 is the same, project cars 3 is a copy of asphalt

    good graphics with detailed career mode but not detailed gameplay why there is no pitstop in previous Project cars 1 and 2 they have very detailed gameplay experience with real-life timing like we have in GT rances F1 races now they focused on Arcade Game like Asphalt Not Worth Buying please download from    Asphalt and project cars 3 is the same, project cars 3 is a copy of asphalt

    good graphics with detailed career mode but not detailed gameplay why there is no pitstop in previous Project cars 1 and 2 they have very detailed gameplay experience with real-life timing like we have in GT rances F1 races now they focused on Arcade Game like Asphalt

    Not Worth Buying please download from torrent don't pay for this game.    … Expand
  29. crapycrap
    Sep 19, 2020
    2
    worst continuity to a saga, in game history.

    Company should be sue for lying to all the fans and contributors that help them raise
  30. DealR
    Nov 25, 2020
    0
    I have no idea from where they had the courage to call this game "Project Cars 3" it has nothing to do with his predecessors, this is like making Red Dead with a name GTA.
    The cars don't feel "cars", the engine sounds are like vacuum cleaner, the graphics is is like in 2012. This is even worse sequel than Flatout 3 to 2 and 1.
  31. Lokur
    Nov 15, 2020
    5
    Fine racing game, the so-called arcade simulator
    Plays very well on a gamepad and forgives a lot of mistakes
    But not as good as previous games and cannot compete with the best games that came before.
  32. frazzefraz
    Jul 22, 2021
    0
    One of the worst arcade racer ever. Feels like Codemasters is dead and dont want to make racing games anymore. Maybe they sold it to EA because this company has begun to sinking to the bottom.
  33. clem666
    May 9, 2023
    4
    I've always been an amazing fan of the first Project Cars game, but this sadly is a letdown in my opinion. In a way, it's a good thing because it was the team's initial ambition to offer a different racing experience. I just don't like this arcade-ish gameplay at all.

    As in the first game, it takes almost two minutes to load the game and some minutes again for each and every circuit.    I've always been an amazing fan of the first Project Cars game, but this sadly is a letdown in my opinion. In a way, it's a good thing because it was the team's initial ambition to offer a different racing experience. I just don't like this arcade-ish gameplay at all.

    As in the first game, it takes almost two minutes to load the game and some minutes again for each and every circuit. Meaning that if you make a minor mistake during the race and want to restart it, you will have to wait such time, breaking your pace, diminishing your precious attention. I decreased the visual performance and graphics but it didn't change anything (except that it was a bit less beautiful).

    The career progression is really slow (again, as in the first game) : you can't skip the XP count after every race and.. why does it even exist ? I mean except to earn money (needed to purchase cars), what does XP stands for in such a game ? It is not like if you could spend it in skills tree as in a RPG or unlock upgrades ! It goes the same for the plethora of boring objectives. In addition, career includes few modes and the brick ones are really funny and challenging while the time trial can be truly frustrating and repetitive.

    It feels like this franchise never answered to the rain setting problem. In the first opus this already was dreadful to ride on. Here we have other issues : how can the road be wet if it isn't even raining ? I mean you do the first lap on dry road and then zip, second lap the road is flooded, third lap under the rain ! is the humidity coming out of the ground in this game ?

    For a simulation game, it seriously lacks many adaptative features. You can't change the size and position of the mini-map, the assistance, the HUD, etc. It is kind of funny to customise vehicles but what about main options ?
    On the other hand, there are a lot of different cars and circuits even without the DLC's. To the maximum graphics, the game is magnificent. It is a shame that multiplayer is broken.
    I mean this is not a terrible game but this clearly is not what Slightly Mad got us used to. Nor the quality.    … Expand
  34. CoupleofGamer
    Sep 7, 2020
    6
    Project CARS 3 is no longer Project CARS. Even if basically, it's still a very good racing game, with a complete career mode and great content. It is nowhere near as good as the first 2 games, which had made many players want to take the wheel, to play a racing game. Here, a controller is enough to enjoy the title. And it's borderline even better. In fact, Project CARS reminds us a bit ofProject CARS 3 is no longer Project CARS. Even if basically, it's still a very good racing game, with a complete career mode and great content. It is nowhere near as good as the first 2 games, which had made many players want to take the wheel, to play a racing game. Here, a controller is enough to enjoy the title. And it's borderline even better. In fact, Project CARS reminds us a bit of Saints Row. With his first two opus, he tried to impose his style of simulation. Seeing that even with all the best efforts in the world, it was impossible to do as well as the real simulations. He took a new turn, more arcade, just to find a new audience. The problem is that in taking such a turn, Slightly Mad Studios has made the choice to turn its back on its community. The same community that pushed the first two opus to the forefront. A detrimental choice, if a 4th opus saw the light of day on Next-Gen.… Expand
  35. the_pandaprjct
    Sep 21, 2020
    8
    Not bad, not so good. It's a fine sim-cade racing game with a lot of tracks and cars. Problem is the name of the game: it's not a Project Cars game.
  36. SrCre0
    Mar 24, 2022
    0
    vim aqui só para dar zero para esta porcaria
    eu preciso de escrever no mínimo 75 caracteres, mas tenho preguiça de dizer algo
  37. DiegoArmando
    Apr 24, 2022
    8
    Pretty good simcade, considerable set of cars and track, good visual and physics(for simcade of course) with damage system. If add to this game funny soundtrack like gt4 my score will be greater
  38. hertzian68
    Sep 9, 2020
    7
    I'm not a sim gamer especially since I'm gamepad and don't have the time or patience for faux sim on a pc nor the money/interest in getting a full wheel/peddles etc setup to make it closer to sim. Better off going to REAL WORLD racing school and/or local club racing imo. I skipped PC2 after the messy game that PC1 was but may give it a try. I play this at mostly medium 1080p so it's notI'm not a sim gamer especially since I'm gamepad and don't have the time or patience for faux sim on a pc nor the money/interest in getting a full wheel/peddles etc setup to make it closer to sim. Better off going to REAL WORLD racing school and/or local club racing imo. I skipped PC2 after the messy game that PC1 was but may give it a try. I play this at mostly medium 1080p so it's not the prettiest but fine for my needs. I get a vsync 60.
    -I can see what people are talking about, it doesn't seem to carry on the traditional Project Cars franchise of in depth sim but I certainly think it's not nfs level of arcade. As long as people go into it with those in mind it's not too bad.
    -Not a big fan of the menu system which is a pain to navigate. You can't even tweak the settings until a race or two and they're not that easy to find either.
    -Setting up custom offline single player races is supposed to give you access to ALL cars etc but that's not been my experience, I only had access to the first crappy car I could buy. Dumb. It's going to take way too long to be able to unlock all the cars for my patience level, too many other games going that are funner for me.
    -I usually keep one simcade type of track racer on my system so this is it for now. I also have one type of nfs game and the two rally games, wrc and dirt rally which I prefer to track racing games no AI cheating by bumping and no AI non-penalties to deal with in rally games.
    -I'm guessing that PC2 would be the better option in this franchise if you want the full range of possibilities. With the settings in PC2 you can most likely set it to arcade or simcade levels if you want it so why not just go for that? It's most likely cheaper as well and all patched out, but I didn't have any crashes etc with this one. You can get the "demos" online for all the PCars games.
    -I'm also guessing that the online racing would be actually more populated in this one then the older games so that's a plus if you want that and want to stay in the pcars franchise.    … Expand
  39. Marceault
    Sep 6, 2020
    5
    I bought Project Cars 3 with no expectations, and had about 30 hours of gameplay on it until i write this little review.

    Let's begin with the graphics. I have an average computer with a 1080 Ti, and was able to max out the graphics at 1080p. The game is beautiful, nothing extraordinary, but it's beautiful. The car models are good, even in the interior. The tracks are clear and well    I bought Project Cars 3 with no expectations, and had about 30 hours of gameplay on it until i write this little review.

    Let's begin with the graphics. I have an average computer with a 1080 Ti, and was able to max out the graphics at 1080p. The game is beautiful, nothing extraordinary, but it's beautiful. The car models are good, even in the interior. The tracks are clear and well designed. Let's talk about the weather now... well, i got some surprises, especially with the rain ! When the rain comes, there appears some blurry clouds on the tracks to show that the rain is heavy, but those are pixelated and not so good. The water projection after the car when it rains are also blurry and not so realistic. Sometimes, when the weather is put on x10 timelapse, the sky changes in a frame, like a picture you would change in a millisecond.

    About the gameplay, I've not so much to talk about... the car feels good, and we feel when the tires lose grip. The breakes are strange... Even without ABS, it's "hard" to lock the wheels... and the traction isn't so agressive. The solo mode is just a series of mission and races, nothing original, but some missions are cool. You have to manage your money in order to be able to continue you career without doing the same missions again, but you can sell your cars, so that's not to hard.
    But that's not what a hated the most in this game... let's talk about AI in solo mode ! The AI is... well... dumb. Even in the highest difficulty, they remain bad at driving in the traffic, they change direction in a millisecond to put just in front of you, et don't hesitate to hit you ! The first lap is always a mess, and you have to drive even more agressively to take the first place. And when you're first... They divebomb you like anybody ever divebombed ! They don't care if you're here or not, they just go for the interior of the curve and get you out of the way, it just doesn't make sense, at all !

    As the solo mode was too much for me, I went for some multiplayer. There are several mode at our disposition. First of all there are one click multiplayer races, with random cars and tracks. We can find aswell organized races. 6 tracks, with a determined car category cycling every 2 hours, so a race every 20 minutes, and the 6 races change everyday. You can sign in, choose your car and go to qualification in order to setup the car and make your best time to pick the first place on the grid. And when the hour to go race comes, you get a matchmaking to play with 31 other players. I found it was a cool feature, but never had more than 12 opponents. And let's talk about the opponents... It's not a simulation game, so some pilots... aren't pilots. They just struggle to drive safely and some are really aggresive, some don't hesitate to kick you out of the track, and don't get ant penalty for that. When you cross a pilot which in under blue flag, he is in ghost mode, which is a good thing. But the atmosphere isn't good for making good racing, because of a little amont of players who don't know how to drive, or just don't care of being goood drivers.
    We can find aswell a rival mode which proposes a daily, a weekly and a monthly challenge. The challenges are pretty cool, and you get a rank after each challenge, which gives you points, but I don't know what those points are made for...

    As a conclusion, this Project Cars 3 is TOTALLY different than the first 2 Project Cars, and it stands as a "sim-arcade" gameplay, but honestly, Gran Turismo does it WAY BETTER. And if you're looking for a clean racing, just don't play this game.    … Expand
  40. Clapmaster
    Apr 1, 2022
    10
    Wow I don't know why people hate Project Cars 3 so much other than just the fact that it's not a hardcore sim like the previous two games in the series. This game is amazing and these scores are absurd! The handling feels great and what an awesome campaign mode. I feel like this is the best campaign in one of these types of simcade racers since Forza Motorsport 4 or Gran Turismo 3. ProjectWow I don't know why people hate Project Cars 3 so much other than just the fact that it's not a hardcore sim like the previous two games in the series. This game is amazing and these scores are absurd! The handling feels great and what an awesome campaign mode. I feel like this is the best campaign in one of these types of simcade racers since Forza Motorsport 4 or Gran Turismo 3. Project Cars 3 has more tracks than Forza Motorsport 7 and Gran Turismo 7. Really fun stuff in here like Azure Coast and California Highway plus all the road courses that we all know and love like Monza, Suzuka and Nürburgring.

    The visuals look awesome in Project Cars 3. This is some of the best looking weather I've seen in a racing game. The way water pools up on the track and trails off when cars race through it looks amazing. What other simcade game even has a snow option for tracks?

    I feel like maybe Slightly Mad/Bandai Namco should have given this game a different title because fans of previous Project Cars games are looking for more of that hardcore sim racer like
    Assetto Corsa or rFactor. Personally I just really want a fun to play simcade with plenty of cars and tracks. Project Cars 3 hit those marks and then some. This a breath of fresh air after being let down by the past few Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport titles.    … Expand
  41. KyZeNickX
    Oct 9, 2020
    0
    all right, i literally had to play the game for 10 minutes to see that it's a **** here amma just say one problem that i found, a big problem if you ask me, i changed the controls from the mouse controls to keyboard controls in the settings, found that it wasn't completely right, so i wanted to switch JUST the steering to mouse, and whoa would you look at that? it won't let you use yourall right, i literally had to play the game for 10 minutes to see that it's a **** here amma just say one problem that i found, a big problem if you ask me, i changed the controls from the mouse controls to keyboard controls in the settings, found that it wasn't completely right, so i wanted to switch JUST the steering to mouse, and whoa would you look at that? it won't let you use your mouse, and better yet! you can't even use the mouse buttons!. great job coding this game, it looks like i made it. the old ones were better in every way, i still don't get why they choose to use the arrow keys tho, what am i a 6 foot tall baby? and by the way, that's just one of them, i can't list off all of them here.… Expand
  42. TonusSwe
    Dec 26, 2020
    3
    I just had to create an account so I could review this piece of.....

    Graphics: PC2 didn't really have that great graphics, but this is odly enought worse... Maybe a lighting issue? Gameplay: Removed a bunch of things that made PC a sim. Now it's pretty much on the same level as NFS Shift or the Grid-series (that's not a good thing for sim-racers). Sound: Okay, not great. A little    I just had to create an account so I could review this piece of.....

    Graphics: PC2 didn't really have that great graphics, but this is odly enought worse... Maybe a lighting issue?

    Gameplay: Removed a bunch of things that made PC a sim. Now it's pretty much on the same level as NFS Shift or the Grid-series (that's not a good thing for sim-racers).

    Sound: Okay, not great. A little worse and mutet on some cars.

    Overall: If you want a sim - STAY AWAY FROM THIS!
    If you want an arcade racer - Get Forza or NFS...    … Expand
  43. femo842
    Jul 11, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amongus sus amongus impostor amongus sus sus sus amongus amongus red sus amogus… Expand
  44. ji0ku
    Jan 10, 2022
    4
    the behavior of the car off the road and under manual braking is, to put it mildly, too complicated. It's wrong when driving a car is easier in life than in a game
  45. Csoopi
    May 31, 2022
    0
    Look is awful. With any yellow filter is al the things are just yellow. My eyes on fire.

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 22
  3. Negative: 1 out of 22
  1. Quarter to Three
    Jan 22, 2021
    80
    At last a racing game carefully and entirely built around drive well instead of just driving fast.
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  2. CD-Action
    Nov 16, 2020
    65
    The first Project CARS game designed not only for hardcore simulation fans, but also for more casual racing enthusiasts, was supposed to be love at first sight. Well, it wasn’t. It does boast one of the most enjoyable driving models you can come across nowadays, but it’s not enough. The rest of the game (including the single-player campaign that should have been named Project Grind) falls short of what the best racing games on the market offer. [11/2020, p.52]
  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Oct 21, 2020
    70
    Project CARS 3 leaves you with mixed feelings. It has wonderful controls and good arcade physics, but its tracks are too plain and boring for an arcade racing game. It’s even worse if you’re a sim fan – the game will leave totally disappointed. [Issue#248, p.54]
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