Recent reviews by CoderDunn

Note: I've only played the early-access "demo", and anything I say may be invalid when the game is released.

Having said that ... The game is fantastic. Graphics are great, but where the game really shines is the handling, which is, in my opinion, the best I've ever played. Now I'm not a race car driver, but this is the closest I've gotten to my real life car. Turn off all of the assists and drive around the track getting used to each individual car's handling characteristics. And that is the really cool thing about this game. Every car handles completeley different. If the car has downward force with a spoiler, you can really feel the difference. If the car is front wheel drive, you get a very understeer happy car. It's just so much fun playing without assists and trying to perfect each turn with every car. The early access demo has a small selection of very nice cars and a few tracks, but no races with AI opponents, or a career mode, so I can't comment on that yet.

Now I wouldn't say I'm a hardcore racing sim fan. I have a g27 attached to my desk, and I'm not using nvidia surround or ati's multi-moniter system. However I have played a LOT of car games. Every Need For Speed up to the original Most Wanted, all of the Dirt titles, the (older) Test Drive games, Grid 1 and 2, Midtown Madness... But non of those games are racing sims.

The closest I've played to Assetto Corsa is the Need for Speed Shift games. The first Shift I thought the handling was horrible, and never could get into it. When shift 2 came out I gave it another go, and the handling was better but there were some serious input problems. If you get a mod that fixes that, shift 2 (with all handing assists turned off) is a very solid game and up until now was my favorite racing game. Assetto Corsa has since knocked Shift 2 out of the way, nothing comes close to the sheer joy of minute to minute driving as in Assetto Corsa. So if you like racing games, you can't pass this one up.

Here is a video of me trying out the Pagani Zonda R
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMunX4Y2RhY&feature=youtu.be

Suprisingly good and really fun