I had tons of fun letting anarchy reign and throwing different cars, tracks and formats at each other to create a chaotic championship only possible in sim racing. If the official series don’t catch your fancy, you can also create an “open series” championship. It’s a nice way to add some immersion to your races in what is often a very solid single player experience. There’s the option to join a team for a whole season of the Blancpain GT Series, challenging you to perform across sprint and endurance races at a variety of circuits that mirror the real calendars from the 2018, 2019, 2021 or (with the additional DLC) 2020 seasons. The meat of the game comes from its selection of single races and championships. Nonetheless, it’s a fun enough way to get a handle on the game, with a Gran Turismo style medal system providing a nice reason to replay it. Unfortunately, the career doesn’t hold a candle to other racing games released in recent years, especially F1’s superlative MyTeam career mode. This lets you try out races across Europe – from Spa in Belgium, to Silverstone and Monza in the UK and Italy. If you’re a racing fan like me, this will no doubt provide you with hours of fun.Ĭustomizability is a major plus point for Assetto Corsa Competizione, with the option to play through a career, driving in the GT World Challenge across its 2018 season. All of these cars handle in different ways and have their own regulations and race styles to contend with. I particularly enjoyed the British GT, Ginetta GT4s and Porsche Cup 992s. While Assetto Corsa Competizione is the official video game of the GT World Challenge, it also includes other championships that allow you to try different cars and formats. This means we’ve been treated to a variety of modes, which can often offer a nice change of pace. However, over the course of 2021, Kunos released a bunch of patches. On launch, many critics claimed that Assetto Corsa Competizione lacked content. The improved visuals make it immensely satisfying to race in all conditions be that driving through a night stint in the hills of the Ardennes at Spa, or fighting the car while enjoying the typical British weather of a rain-lashed made a McLaren Race Suit in #GranTursimo7 □□ #granturismo #racinggame #gaming #granturismosport ♬ Electric Love – Cassias Owl Even with intensive weather conditions and night driving, Assetto Corsa Competizione is certainly a gorgeous game. This is, of course, incredibly important for racing sims on consoles. The game now boasts 4k graphics, with a consistent 60FPS. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy my time with Assetto Corsa Competizione – far from it. It’s far more frustrating to play on a pad than GT Sport or F1 games – games that it does, in theory, want to compete against in this market. It’s definitely not a controller racer, requiring finesse in steering and pedal inputs even with assists. Is It All Bad?Īssetto Corsa Competizione isn’t worth thinking about if you want to sit on the couch. At least my frequent wheel spin felt immersive. This is a real shame, because the haptic feedback implementation on the PS5 controller was very impressive. This immediate lack of accessibility makes it incredibly difficult to recommend to more casual racing game fans. To save you a few hours, here are the settings that worked best for me: I had to spend a significant amount of time adjusting steering sensitivity and smoothness. This was the case even with steering assists on. But the default stick settings made it all but impossible to smoothly turn into corners, owing to the small travel on the left stick, paired with the poor smoothing. In fact, it’s usually one of my favourite parts when implemented well. Now, I understand car setup is a key part of sim racers. I’ve played other racing games on the PS5 with ease, but Assetto Corsa Competizione needed some serious tinkering with the controls to even be slightly usable. This isn’t due to my skills – my wheel input felt clean and responsive, as you can see in the video below. I initially found the DualSense controller quite literally unusable. As an avid sim racing fan, I was really hoping that Kunos Simulazioni would improve upon the input issues that plagued the Playstation PS4 Pro and Xbox One editions. Not everyone has the money lying around to drop on an expensive sim racing setup. It’s nice to see a PS5 racing game with wheel support so early into the console’s lifespan. I race with a Thrustmaster T300RS and I used the Formula Wheel Add-On Ferrari SF1000 Edition rim. For full transparency, I reviewed this game on PlayStation 5 with both a wheel and DualSense controller.
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