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Assetto Corsa EVO is a new driving simulator currently in Early Access which, for the time being, doesn’t go online, and as I saw this as something similar to Forza Motorsport, I thought we’d get a career section, but there’s just 8 tracks, some of which are alternate versions of the same tracks, so there are not eight unique ones.
Initially, I found out that while when I exit, the game doesn’t remember the last car I used, all the other cars I’ve tried handle the same way, anyway.
Plus, why don’t the computer cars actually put their foot to the floor at the start of a race like normal similar games? As such, you just end up crashing into them. And oddly, they all turn in towards the centre of the road, sometimes crossing over. Don’t they have the ability to drive straight, from the off?
I’ve also put my name in the Driver Profile, but it never retains it, hence my name during the game shows as Driver359023523520 etc.
It also took me a while to find the option to turn on the track’s ‘speed arrows’ – which I later learned is the “Ideal line”, to indicate the optional path of travel, as well as indicating whether you’re driving too fast, too slow or just right, but then when I did, it’s just white at the moment, so only shows the expected path, but doesn’t give you a heads-up on the speed.
I’ve also tried a few different cars, and whichever one I use, they all behave the same. As I turn a corner, even if I’ve attempted to slow down beforehand, often, I’ll just overshoot way too far and end up in a position where everyone overtakes me, so I may as well restart the race, or one of them slams into me, and I’m now facing the other way after being spun round like an ice cube!
After an update to the game, I found the cars were easier to control in that they didn’t overshoot too much, although it still happens that you are shoved right out of the way when an AI car T-bones you.
I guess I expected this to be more ‘arcadey’ and playable without too much thought, like Forza Motorsport, but when it comes to the technicals of your car, it’s more Gran Turismo in that respect. If you prefer that sort of game, then take a look, but at this point in time, even with a current discount of 20% off, to take it down to £26.39 until January 30th, I can’t recommend it at that price in its current state. Maybe check it out later on in its development.
Thanks to our friends at 505 Games for the review code for this game.
Assetto Corsa EVO is out now on PC/Steam.
Important info:
- Developer: KUNOS Simulazioni
- Publisher: 505 Games
- Players: single-player
PC specs:
- CPU: AMD RYZEN 9 7950X3D
- Motherboard: MSI MPG X670E CARBON WIFI AMD X670 S AM5 DDR5 PCIe 5.0 4x M.2 2.5GbE AMD EXPO™ ATX
- RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair DDR5 Vengeance RGB PC5-44800 (5600Mhz)
- Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX NITRO+ 24GB GDDR6 Ray-Tracing RDNA3 6144 Streams
- 1st Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2 (2280) PCIe 4.0 (x4) NVMe SSD TLC V-NAND 7450MB/s Read 6900MB/s
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