If I had to split the two titles I’d move AMS2 ahead of PCARS 2 slightly since the visuals are slightly more impressive. Perhaps the only gripe with these titles is that the overall image quality just doesn’t quite have the detail or sheen of the Assetto Corsa or Gran Turismo series, but in terms of virtual photography they do exactly what you want and to a high level. AMS2 has an almost-identical photo mode to Project Cars 2, which makes sense as they both use Slightly Mad Studios’ MADNESS Engine. Although the physics in these titles can be argued about, there’s no doubt that these two games can look extremely pretty with their accessible photo modes. Thankfully this is no bad thing, as PCARS2 has a very robust and easy to use photo mode that produces excellent results, and this has been carried over into AMS 2.Īgain, settings such as shutter speed, aperture and bokeh will be familiar to real-life photographers, and it’s fairly straightforward to mess around with the sliders randomly to get a great action shot or ‘capture the moment’ pic. From the outset, it seems like the settings you can change are the same. We’re hoping for further graphical improvements, but a stutter-free experience would be top of our list of wants.ħ) and 6) Project CARS 2 and Automobilista 2Īutomobilista 2 (AMS2) and Project Cars 2 (PCARS2) share an identical photo mode, hence why they’ve been bunched together on this list. You get the feeling as well that because BeamNG is constantly being updated, that the photo mode will continue to improve too. Lots of settings to adjust… turn day into night with the ‘time of day’ slider! This means when you find a great angle of your car, but it just so happens to be stuck in the shade of some nearby trees, you can just change the time of day so the virtual sunlight hits the sweet spot. Seriously though, BeamNG is much better-optimised these days, and the driving experience has come on leaps and bounds, so the photo mode was a pleasant surprise: featuring slider adjustments for aperture, background and foreground blur, the field of view and even the option to change the time of day. So, once you’ve ordered and installed a new CPU, graphics card and 16GB RAM, you’re good to go! BeamNG’s visuals have seriously improved since release There are quite a few options for adjusting your screenshots, and although the BeamNG.drive experience isn’t always a user-friendly one, it’s fairly self-explanatory to enter photo mode… once you’ve figured out how to record and play a replay… and err, figured out the replay button mapping… and your other controller settings… once you’ve unplugged your PS4 gamepad so it doesn’t interfere with your wheel and pedals… then realised BeamNG is pretty resource-intensive so you need to tweak those graphics settings a few times… Petter Solberg’s Citroen DS3 RX taking the kind of line that reduces tyre wear massivelyīeamNG.drive has a photo mode? Why yes it does! I was surprised too and was even more surprised when I discovered that it’s quite an effective little tool to help you get some decent crash-tastic pics. The accessible, bombastic, ramp DIRT 5, however, does implement a fully-featured photo mode that apes the F1 2021 implementation, so that gives us hope for any future sim-focussed releases from the racing game company. It’s a spectacular omission by developer Codemasters, and it’s not going to change in future updates, as DR2 has reached the end of its development cycle. The game looks great, but you simply don’t have the freedom to choose your camera positioning or the style of shot you want to take. Yes, you can’t save a replay in DiRT Rally 2.0! It seems incredible, doesn’t it, even more so when you consider fans of the series begged for a fully fleshed-out replay and photo mode after the release of the original in 2015.Įssentially, you’re reduced to watching the replay of your epic run through the Welsh forests manually switching camera angles hoping you get a great angle of your spectacular barrel roll. Sure, there are replays, but you only get to see these once the stage/rallycross race is finished – then it disappears forever. Isn’t it such a shame that the game doesn’t feature a proper photo mode then? In DiRT Rally 2.0, your photo ops are limited to the camera angles the game wants to give you The visuals also do a tremendous job of making you feel ‘in the moment’. The sound of the cars is incredible, and the VR mode gives it that extra layer of believability. It provides mud-tastic visceral thrills, and buckets of immersion (presumably mud buckets). DiRT Rally 2.0 (DR2) is an excellent rally and rallycross experience.
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