Early May British developers Slightly Mad Studio's released Project CARS and the game became an instant hit among racing sim enthousiasts. The word CARS in the title does not only indicate the driving kind but is also an abbreviation of Community Assisted Racing Simulator. The last word obvioulsy hold a key to what kind of game this is, where the likes of Need for Speed: Shift predominately were built for fun the new Project CARS is trying to offer a realistic driving experience. Hardware.Info tested the game on 24 different GPUs on three different resolutions and two different quality settings.

Playing with a steering wheel is no unnecessary luxury in the game and we can imagine a lot of gamers have dusted off their steering wheel. The offical Project CARS forum has actually posted a rumor that the sales of steering wheels have exploded over the last month and looking at our own statistics in the gamecontrollers product group in our price comparison tool the top 10 consists of nothing else but steering wheels.

The game offers no less than 70 different cars and 100 different tracks offering different environmental elements. If you look at the average review scores of the game Metacritic states an average of 83%, GameRankings an average of 82.2%.