Forza Motorsport vs Project Cars 2 | General Comparison

Both in Ultra settings 1440p Forza Motorsport 2023 RayTracing ON. Comparing Attention to detail, visuals, sound, animations, textures, lightning, ambient and more. Reminder: Forza Motorsport is from a Microsoft studio, took 6 years to develop, and... needless to say more.
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[StreetRacingLifeStyle]

They removed puddles because the community was crying! They developed 3D puddles that cars would hydroplane off of, and people got pissy

[neomaxmlc]

I like the "clever" use of camera angles to hide the fact that pit stops are STILL a joke in Forza.

[caterinavega]

After GT4 I stopped playing racing games for a while. project cars 2 was my gateway into sim racing. Although a the cars handled a little floaty it had awesome mechanics like an engineer who helped tune your car depending on your feedback, fully customisable race hud and cockpit view, A numerical and trackable safety rating and ELO rating, lobbies that can only be entered if you achieve a certain safety rating - All things Forza is missing.

[LukeShort]

I love project cars 2. The dynamic weather and times of day made for some great races. FM8 just doesn't come close in terms of tracka or weather. They done even have aquaplaning.

[JotaV]

The environment in FM is great but it has some strange rasterization technique where the light occlusion and global illumination are not working well. The car looks like a cartoon or toy like the car is being illuminated by LED lights at all times, and it looks specially strange in night or rainy races, when other cars are behind you at night, your car is like an ambulant star lol

[KonTurboR]

One detail I forgot to compare but noticed:
1- In PC2 when you rev up the car, the wipers switch and lights switch behind the wheel will vibrate.
2- Also, the faster you go, the greater the idle wipers' vibration like in Forza Motorsport 7 - I don't know why they removed this feature from the new FM when FM7 already had it.
EDIT: Cars and their windows in Forza do NOT get dirty based on the surface you drive on, rather they get gradually dirtier each lap completely ignoring what you've been driving over.

[horizon_angel]

1:19

Just to be fair here, most racing games (not just Forza), reducing the damage model, because the car manufacturers is gotten strict into this kind of things

Just a fun fact

[joeysthilaire]

Great video, That Nurburgring comparisons is hilarious 😂

[supercharger]

Project Cars is an excellent game in terms of car sounds, and the feeling of speed, the feeling of wildness of a racing car. rich emotions.
But all this was spoiled by the strange physics of the car.

[zafrinsky]

Playing the career mode in PC2... im enjoying it a lot)

[Mr_meow_nb]

Played project cars 2 for years and it’s amazing

[worldwar]

Project cars 2 still has one of the most advanced weather systems. Change my mind.

[CriPastChannel]

The first game I bought when I got my xbox series s was project cars 1, but I didn't play it much 'cause I didn't have a wheel yet. Since when it was released, I played forza and enjoyed it a lot, then I bought my logitech and was curious to play project cars again and it was ridiculous how much forza felt like a toy compared to the love put by the developers on the first project cars. Hopefully i'm gonna try out pc2 very soon

[CrashD]

PC2 was ahead of it's time in terms of graphics and attention to detail, the physics were good but far from perfect, Forza is a mixed bag in graphics, a mixed bag in attention to detail and a mixed bag in physics, the definition of MID

[loganm]

The graphics are a bit of a disappointment. Which is extra painful considering how much I played fm7 and how high of hopes I had for this

[AceRacingRocks]

Project Cars 2 still a favorite of mine ❤ Rockin Roll 🏁

[zagadape]

Although the handling in PC2 is so...different ( 😉 ) I still choose it over Forza. The immersion is beyond comparison. On the top of that in PC2 I don't need "friends" to set up my own race lobby. I'm not sure if that changed in FM after patch 2.0. Only thing I miss in PC is livery customisation. And one more thing: I play on xbox, and use external hud app on the phone, and a button box. None of that can be used in Forza. To each their own. They're just games. Pozdro666

[SpeedySpecter]

Only thing I didn't like about wet weather in PC2 is that the overspray coming off the car looks like the spray can effect in MS paint.

[kfmm]

We are living in the worst new generation of games, if they made a remaster of Project Cars 2, it would be the best racing game of the current generation

[DB-csfk]

Don't forget to put project cars 2 against Turismo, project cars3, assets corsa, I racing, & any other car game. For a dated game project cars2 was one of the most complete racer at launch. Race ready all day. All racers hold there own when it comes to racing a different gMe & not the same. If all racing games was exactly the same we wouldn't have other titles just madden ooh I mean one racer. Think about what a variety looks like.