Hence why, when I spun out after hitting a wall in the first lap of a three-lap race, I was neither left in the dust nor able to stage an impossible comeback I was only able to make it to 13th place of 20 by the end of the race. Not only do you never feel like you’re driving a 2002 Toyota Camry against a bunch of 2020 Lamborghinis, or vice versa, but your opponents never magically catch up or fly past you when you hit the final stretch or are approaching the finish line. Your competition is just that: competitive. Similarly, the competition in Project CARS 3 is nicely balanced. This also has a nice sense of speed regardless of which of the seven viewpoints you use, while the tracks are not only picturesque, but they’re also nicely curved in a way that makes them feel like real roads, not exercises in automotive sadism. The controls are fluid and intuitive, with handling that doesn’t make your car feel like it needs new tires or that the roads are made of ice dipped in olive oil. Project CARS 3 has everything you’d hope a racing game would have (and yet, so often don’t).

But Project CARS 3 ( Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC) not only managed to catch my attention, but keep it as well, even if it does have some annoying flaws. So much so that I honestly can’t remember anything about the first two installments, even though I know I played the first one and, I think, some of the second. While it obviously has its fans, the racing game series Project CARS has always felt inconsequential to me.

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