To be frank I would have rather some form of punishment remain, because Project Cars 3 doesn’t do much to incentivise you to try and drive properly, nor does it really force you to either take breaks or change things up frequently, as the garage system in Real Racing 3 did.
Damage your vehicle in Project Cars 3 and it’s fresh and ready to go into the next race immediately. If you damage your car in Real Racing 3 and you need to put it in the garage for repair for a while (or pay money to get it fixed instantly). While it’s structurally the same as free-to-play racers, there also aren’t cooldowns, either. And, for some reason, the game doesn’t have the good bits of a F2P game – namely, systems to also encourage you to take a break. There might not be microtransactions in Project Cars 3, but the game certainly behaves like it has them, and that pointless, endless grind becomes exhausting. Experience bars giving you upgrades and cash everywhere. It’s car porn stuff, and purely on the basis of content Project Cars 3 is unparalleled. There’s plenty to do here, with lots of garage options, a wealth of tracks to more than carry the massive number of events, and a huge showroom of vehicles to collect, with all being minutely cusomtisable in terms of the aesthetics, too. You can also tweak the performance of your existing cars, but be careful not to tweak them too far, because you might accidentally disqualify them from the lower events on account of being too souped-up. From there you need to win races, complete objectives (the old “three stars to earn per track” carry-over from mobile gaming), and purchase more cars to enter more events.
You start with just enough cash to buy a bottom-line car and enter “E”-grade events. Project Cars 3 is a premium-priced game, and that’s where too many of its systems fall down. I know I personally dropped the developer a couple of dollars here and there so I could get a car that I was particularly interested in, but for the grindy, endless experience that the game was built around, I was glad that it wasn’t asking for an upfront entry cost. The thing was, though, Real Racing 3 was free-to-play, and it felt right at that price.
There it was at its strongest, with a massive number of cars to purchase and upgrade, an endless number of courses to race on, and a driving engine that hit a nice balance between asking you to stay on the right racing lines, but not likely to put you into a death spiral if you dare tap another car or have a wheel go off-road.
PROJECT CARS 3 PLAYSTATION 4 SIMULATOR
A product of Australia that aimed to make a simulator for mobile devices, Real Racing 3 eventually got an Apple TV version, which allowed you to play it with a controller. It’s not an “arcade” racer as some have hyperbolically claimed, but it’s a super-casual racing simulator and I’m not sure I like the changes. The developers of Project Cars 3 have aimed to maintain the licensing that the first two games were rightfully lauded for, but replace the driving engine with something that is accessible as possible. What the hell did they do to Project Cars? That brutally hardcore and rather dry racing simulator that turned heads and got people to break out their driving wheels over the last few years has somehow been replaced with… Real Racing 3.
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