The racing game will be out this November, on PC, Steam OS, Wii U, Xbox One and PS4

May 2, 2014 08:56 GMT  ·  By

A couple of new screenshots from Project Cars on the PlayStation 4 have surfaced on the web, showing how the game makes use of the powerful visual capacities of Sony's next-gen console for the first time.

Project Cars was conceived back in October 2011, as the natural continuation of Need For Speed and Test Drive, two of the most recognizable racing car franchises, coming from Slightly Mad Studios, a developer involved in making games for both video game series.

Over on the PlayStation Blog, the devs say that they wanted to create a racing game that covered a wide array of car types and offered players the freedom to participate in different motorsports and experiment with them however they desired.

Slightly Mad Studios has set out to offer the most authentic core driving experience on the planet, by giving players all the features they need in order to recreate a race weekend just the way it happens in real life. Thus, it comes complete with dynamic weather system and time of day, which not only spruce up the game in the visual department, but also challenge players by providing strategic opportunities to take advantage of.

Their mission to provide exact 1:1 recreations of cars, tracks and the entire driving experience is a daunting one, that the team opted to challenge by employing help from the community and by going through a painstaking process of detailed modeling, with thousands of reference photographs, laser scans, and feedback from real professional drivers to ensure that everything not only looks great, but also feels authentic.

Keeping true to the delivery of a realistic experience, Project Cars will be one of the first PlayStation 4 games to support virtual reality via the Project Morpheus headset, allowing players to feel what it's like to be in the driving seat of a high-performance machine, looking around the cockpit and glancing left and right as they speed down the tracks.

The game aims to be a direct competitor to the established driving simulation games, Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport, and the devs have even employed Top Gear's former Stig, Nicolas Hamilton, to assist them in making sure that every nuance of the driving experience is on par with the real thing, and that all the handling and performance characteristics are faithfully recreated.

Project Cars is currently scheduled to come out in November, 2014, for the Windows PC, Steam OS, Wii U, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms, with support for virtual reality headsets.

Project Cars PlayStation 4 Screenshots (8 Images)

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