Project Motor Racing

Project Motor Racing heralds the return of Ian Bell and co. It retains the visuals and impressive physics of previous games while changing things up with a new career mode.

Project Motor Racing offers a great lineup of cars and often looks fantastic, but falls short in terms of handling and AI.

Since I played the game before release, I couldn’t really experience its multiplayer. However, Project Motor Racing feels more like a beta rather than a full 1.0 release. If Giants Software had waited a bit longer and fixed these issues, the result would have been much better. Yes, Project Motor Racing offers enjoyable driving with 70 cars and 18 tracks, its graphics are decent and it's definitely in a better state than Forza Motorsport, but there are still many flaws that need to be addressed.

The release of Project Motor Racing isn’t a disappointment, but there’s still plenty of work ahead. The car handling of the Racing Sim makes fun, even though there are also still some issues on technical site. It needs time and polish in the next couple of weeks.

One of the clearest impressions is that Project Motor Racing is currently a work in progress. It has excellent intentions, a foundation that could grow, and an "old school" philosophy that could appeal to a wide audience. But this requires time, updates, refinements, and a clear creative direction. The game isn't broken, it's not a failed product: it's simply very immature, still far from being a benchmark title, but with enough potential to get there if adequately supported. A release in early access at a budget price would probably have been more consistent with the current offering, because quantitatively speaking, the game offers a lot, but suffers from evident shortcomings in key areas: AI, penalties, driving system, and the overall cohesion of its ecosystem. Some aspects are already very good, and we are confident that in the future the game could become a benchmark for racing game enthusiasts, if only for the uniqueness of its car roster and the good career mode.

Overall, Project Motor Racing just doesn’t quite reach what’s promised. A strong and visually impressive catalogue of cars and tracks is countered by poor default setups and samey handling. There’s definitely some good here – the career mode offering is robust and the competitive leaderboards are a nice addition – but they’re ultimately overshadowed by, well, everything else.

Project Motor Racing is a visually stunning title with a lot of potential for hardcore simulation fans who love to tweak gear ratios and suspension settings. However, for the more casual racer or controller user, the experience is marred by uneven difficulty, frustrating AI behavior, and a penalty system that feels unjust. It's a beautiful ride, but one that might leave you spinning your wheels.

Project Motor Racing tries to pick up the Project CARS legacy by sitting on the more sim-focused side of simcade, with a decent variety of cars and tracks and a driving model that can be enjoyable, especially on a wheel with some assists enabled. Overall, however, it struggles to find a clear identity, with a dry, spreadsheet-like career, merely adequate visuals and sound, inconsistent AI and several missing features and rough edges. A project with interesting potential that, at launch, stays well below its own ambitions.

The game has the ambition to combine a range of cars, different categories, licensed tracks, career, multiplayer, equipment and sounds into one package, but at least for now everything is unfinished and needs to be finalized.

Project Motor Racing feels like a game in the very early stages of Early Access, rather than a title ready for its 1.0 release.

A decidedly average racer that missed the mark of the hype that it had surrounded itself with before launch, but there may be potential for the title in future.