

It's harder to get the hang of than “ Gran Turismo Sport,” but easier than “ Dirt 4,” and as always, you’ll need a wheel controller to get the full effect either way. The lighting, shadows and weather are perfectly rendered, and as soon as I sat in the Porsche Cayman GT4 and pulled out of the pits, I could hear the 3.8-liter flat-six blatting its grumbly exhaust note. Like its predecessor, “PC2” is gorgeous and sounds unbelievable. That means you can jump into a VW, Mini or Renault on famous Rall圜ross tracks around the world, or even practice at DirtFish rally school. “PC2” features rally as a discipline for the first time.

Legendary circuits like Road America, Sonoma, the Nurburgring and Circuit de la Sarthe, aka Le Mans, all make an appearance. The new game features 182 cars from 38 manufacturers, including Porsche (no Ruf), Ferrari and Lamborghini, and 46 tracks with 121 layouts total, including a few point-to-point drives in California, France and Germany.

22 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and XboxOne, is a full racing simulation by Slightly Mad Studios - love the name - who also brought us “Need for Speed Shift” and “Shift 2,” as well as “Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends.”

Too much turning input at entry? Loads of understeer. Too much gas too early on corner exit? Oversteer. Lift off the gas at the wrong time? Oversteer. I ran into the same issue when I blew the dust off the first “ Project Cars” after I got the new rig. This simulator, combined with my newly acquired Logitech G29 wheel and pedal setup, has so much more realism and sensitivity that I had to relearn how to control a (virtual) race car at speed. As opposed to working up through the ranks, you’ll probably want to do what I did and jump right into the highest racing levels of “ Project Cars 2” - Ind圜ar, WEC, Rall圜ross, or maybe you’ll just want to rip a LaFerrari around Circuit of the Americas.
