And although we may get ACC2 at some point in the future, I suspect PC3 will be the only racing sim released in 2020/2021. Although I doubt AMS2 will be released this year as it stands it will be the only racing sim released in 2019. In 2018 ACC was the only racing sim released. In 2017 PC2 was the only racing sim released. Trying to offer both a structured progressive career and a full sandbox experience is also tricky, as unlocking things is part of the motivation for a structured progressive career.Įdit TBH - there are so few sims I'm in whatever. I tried the rFactor career mode and got bored very quickly. There will be those who don't like it on principle.įor those who do, making a career mode fun rather than a grind is a tricky thing. The steam achievements indicate 65% of players started the PC2 career but less than 2% went on to win the final championship.Ī progressive structured career isn't to everyone's taste. And as I've posted before, I'm not alone. There were many aspects of the Shift career I didn't like - no practice/qualifying, terrible AI, need to win from the back leading to rather dubious overtaking moves - BUT I did finish it unlike the pCARS2 career. Rally Trophy came close and in that too you started in a Mini Cooper S. I had more fun in that sim than any before or since. In GT Legends (also made by Ian & Co) you had to start in a Mini Cooper S.

The game being a sim is not just about car handling, but also how the game is set up.īut then in one of his tweets, Ian said 'yes' to things like non-scripted weather and even the safety car - again, '200%' better. So if the career mode is modeled like that, it's a departure to what pCARS1 and to an extent pCARS2 did - and not very appealing, at least to me. No accurately modeled irl series, no practice, no quali. So, very accessible, but also very unrealistic. Money unlocks new cars (and upgrades for current cars), XP unlocks new arcadey championships which you enter with the new cars you buy.Ĭomplete the list of series until you finish the game. Win a series of 1 or 2 race championships, 2 or 5 laps each. So obviously we're all wondering exactly what that means? From what I can tell, the rhythm of Shift 2 is quite similar to the Forza and Gran Turismo series. We've seen Ian talk about career mode being more fun, and that pCARS3 is a spiritual successor to Shift 2.

Nfs shift cars