Bandai Namco Entertainment and the development team at Slightly Mad Studios have confirmed they will be bringing the Career Mode from Project Cars back in Project Cars 2. They are setting out to offer this mode with “fan-desired improvements, careful refinements, and all-new features to faithfully echo the motorsport careers of real-world drivers”. They hope that these enhancements will both “enhance the experience” of the players time with Project Cars 2, and provide “far more freedom of progression and expression”.
The career mode of Project Cars to will cover 29 motorsport types across six tiers and five unique disciplines. Drivers and choose to go from grassroots motorsport options such as Karts, Formula Rookie, or Ginetta Juniors – and work their way up to the real-world -based motorsport series such as IndyCar and the GT3-based Pirelli World Challenge. Alternatively, you can dive straight into the action of the more advanced tiers.
Overall, players go on a journey to unlock between one to seven Lifetime Goals, leaving a defining legacy for their character. Will you dominate the same championship year-on-year? Win three blue riband events on the motorsport calendar? Become a factory driver for elite brands? Or seal immortality with wins in three different motorsport disciplines?
The tier system, according to Bandai Namco, has been “carefully fashioned to model that encountered by real-world drivers”. Players can follow their chosen discipline all the way from Tier 6 to Tier 1. Tiers include GT Cards, prototypes, rallycross and touring cars. The system has purportedly been “subjected to a careful overall in order to empower drivers to sample a far greater selection of the 180-plus cars and 40 tracks on offer”.
The contract-offer system from the first game will make a return, although has also been refined to “ensure drivers have far more choices with which team they sign up for as they advance through their careers”. Drivers can now choose the car they want to drive in a specific series, and will be presented with teams that have open seats in their desired car and series.
The Manufacturer Drives system is a new addition to Project Cars 2, and will see 14 auto manufacturers including Ferrari, Porche, Aston Martin and more invite drivers to tackle a series of challenger events.
