Project CARS 2

One of the strongest features of the upcoming Project CARS 2 is the massive track list. Many of the first game’s circuits are returning, alongside new additions like rally-cross dirt tracks and Japan’s Fuji Speedway. We’ve now got our first full look at the latter, care of the video above.

As the release of Slightly Mad Studios’ Project CARS 2 edges closer and closer with each passing day, the marketing team has taken to the social media channels in full effect, giving us an insight as to what cars are coming into the new sim-racing title.

It may still be a ways off, but that hasn’t stopped Project CARS 2 developer Slightly Mad Studios popping the cork on announcements regarding new additions to its upcoming racer.

Thanks to a Q&A thread hosted here in GTPlanet’s Forums, with questions being answered by Ian Bell (the head of Slightly Mad Studios) along with The_American (the man voicing the in-game spotter), we’ve now learned about a few features that are planned to further evolve the Project CARS 2 experience.

Earlier this week, Slightly Mad Studios released new details on the “Online Championship” mode in Project CARS 2. This new feature allows players to create a league-style format championship consisting of several rounds. Players will have the ability to set each session’s details, along with the race duration, condition of the track, and schedule.

Head of Slightly Mad Studios Ian Bell has been answering questions related to Project Cars 2 here in the GTPlanet Forums. In collaboration with Ian and SMS, we have created a dedicated Q&A thread to make it easier for members of our community to ask him questions and to organize his responses.

The Autódromo José Carlos Pace, better known as “Interlagos”, is on its way to Project CARS 2.

With the leaked trailer, official trailer and general information blowout, you’d be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed with all the latest coming out about Project CARS 2. Here’s a quick summary of everything we know so far. There’s a lot to get through, so let’s begin!

Now that we’ve formally had the cover removed on Slightly Mad Studios’ Project CARS 2, many YouTube videos showing off the game have been revealed to the public.

After four days of teasing on the Project CARS official Twitter account, Slightly Mad Studios has revealed the first official trailer for the highly-anticipated Project CARS 2. The latest entry in the series, which will launch this year, makes it’s debut in the 60-second video which gives us some more insight into the cars, environments and tracks we can expect from the game.

After having its trailer leaked at the end of January along with an interesting but mysterious Twitter countdown, Project CARS 2 plans on hitting even bigger feats than its predecessor. One of these feats is something that many racers will admire: laser scanned tracks.

Following a leaked trailer last week, Project CARS 2 is now being officially teased on the Twitter account for the series. The countdown began on Saturday and it looks like come Wednesday we’ll have some sort of reveal for Slightly Mad Studios’ latest racer, given the cryptic numbers that have been appearing.

We’ll call this a surprising start to the week: Youtube user Vortlas SimRacing has uploaded a never-before-seen unofficial trailer for Slightly Mad Studios’ Project CARS 2. While we must stress the unofficial aspect—nothing has been confirmed by SMS at this point—this is the first footage we’ve seen of the game that is scheduled to release in 2017, and there is a lot to digest.

With the spotlight being shined on racing eSports events like the upcoming ESL Multi-Class Championship, it should come as little surprise that Project CARS’ successor will be featuring a driver rating system to help filter different players by their abilities in online races.

Earlier this week, we named Project CARS 2 as one of the things set to make 2017 a great year for sim racing. While news remains sparse on the title — unless you’re one of the backers of the project — it sounds like the silence will be broken soon, according to Slightly Mad Studios CEO Ian Bell.

In a recent interview with Slightly Mad Studios’ Creative Director Andy Tudor during the Red Bull 5G tournament, eSPORTS+CARS’ Tom Brooks learned more about Project Cars 2 and how it will be involved in world-recognized eSports competitions. Andy stressed that a good relationship with major organizer ESL helps, and players won’t have to wait for in-game integration:

It certainly seems to be a big week for Porsche fans. Hot off their Le Mans win, the German purveyor of sports cars has announced a serious tie-up with Kunos Simulazioni to bring the marque’s best and brightest to Assetto Corsa this autumn. It now appears another sim title could be seeing Porsche’s inclusion soon, judging by comments from Slightly Mad Studios CEO Ian Bell.

Following the rapid success of Project CARS across the globe, developer Slightly Mad Studios has today announced that the second title to be funded and co-developed by the innovative World of Mass Development community: Project CARS 2!