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Assetto Corsa Free Download Unfitgirl Assetto Corsa is a truly triumphant driving simulation. On consoles there’s nothing quite like it, and the fidelity of its incredibly convincing handling really needs to be felt to be believed. Is it the best driving simulator on consoles? Yes; Assetto Corsa is absolutely in a class of its own when it comes to its unflinchingly lifelike physics. But is it the best racing simulator for consoles, ever? No. Not by some margin. Assetto Corsa features a decent mix of cars (ranging from classic open-wheelers to bleeding-edge hypercars) and a modest selection of European tracks but, respectfully, Assetto Corsa wasn’t the best racing simulator released in the week it hit shelves. That distinction actually belongs to Codemasters’ F1 2016. While Assetto Corsa succeeds as a fascinating, highly technical, and massively demanding simulation of real-life driving it largely falls over as a robust racing experience due to a wide mix of baffling and sometimes game-breaking problems.Assetto Corsa first hit Steam Early Access on PC back in late 2013 and was released officially just over a year later, in late December, 2014. Since then it has accumulated a faithful fanbase and has been regularly supported by developer Kunos Simulazioni and a thriving community of modders. It’s surprising, then, that after all this progress its console debut feels unfinished. Unfitgirl.com SEXY GAMES

The most egregious problems occur on track, and the fundamentally flawed penalty system is an especially annoying one. If you get pinged for taking too much curb you’ll earn a ‘slow down’ penalty, but it’s not nuanced enough to let you just drop to and maintain a minimum speed, or simply allow an opponent to redress. You just have to stay off the throttle entirely. Touch the loud pedal, even if you’ve now slowed to a crawl, and the timer will reset. It’s terrible. The chief offender, however, is the opponent AI, which regularly pays no mind to your presence on each circuit and is particularly deft at muscling you onto the grass and turning your car around by poking its nose into gaps it really should have thought better of. This is where the top-notch driving dynamics Kunos has massaged into all the available vehicles becomes a double-edged sword, because it takes very little to unsettle your car at speed. Even a mild tap on the rear fender can and will spear you right off the asphalt, and there are no consequences for the AI for shunting you off. Frustratingly, opponent cars seem curiously immune to any loss of control when the shoe is on the other foot. Make a little contact via an overzealous overtake and you’ll generally come off second-best, while the AI peels away unaffected.

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It’s telling, perhaps, that in Assetto Corsa all I want to do is stay away from other racers entirely, though in its Pan-European peer Project CARS I relish the aggressive, doorhandle-to-doorhandle pack racing. But it’s not just their racing etiquette that is wanting; it’s also their common sense. I’ve raced several events over the past few days where the entire field has entered the pits on the penultimate lap of a four- or six-lap race. I’m totally befuddled by how such a weird bug could survive a trip to retail and it helps make Assetto Corsa’s already chore-like career mode feel even more untested.Career mode is just a real disappointment. Racing sims like F1 2016 and Project CARS bake in career modes that feel authentic thanks to the fact podium finishes are only a prerequisite for those players who’ve chosen to join the most dominant, in-game race teams. The expectations on everyone else are generally more modest. It makes for far better and far more realistic racing when you know you can spend a whole race dicing for an important mid-pack overtake knowing your team is just after, say, a top 10 finish. Assetto Corsa, on the other hand, feels surprisingly old school; it’s top three or bust. There’s no incentive for me to battle it out with the trailing pack; if I’m not within striking distance of the lead group after a couple of laps I’ll just restart. If the AI wallops me off the track, I’ll restart. Sniper Ghost Warrior 2

If I fluff a braking point and spear off into the gravel, I’ll restart. These restart rituals are the kind of thing I practised commonly back on the early Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport games but since then other racing sims have matured to feature career modes that make you feel like you’re competing as a real race driver. Assetto Corsa’s racing career is really just a fractured series of vanilla assessments you have to complete successfully before moving up to the next one. Would you whine about the lack of a cup holder in a LaFerrari? There’s little point griping over the absence of certain luxuries in Ferrari’s most recent, most excessive hypercar, and – if you’re ever lucky enough to find yourself in one of those exotic cockpits – your only concerns should be the 900bhp that’s under your right foot and the suite of wonderful tools constructed in Maranello to help you apply all of that power to the tarmac. Different cars have different purposes, and it’s often more enlightening to assess how well they fulfil their own goals than to attempt a dry appraisal of the whole package.

The tracks have a nice, real-life, worn feel to them, especially the battered curbs

Assetto Corsa has been built to celebrate the joy of cars, and the fantasy of tossing them about with abandon; it’s about the heart-in-mouth moment when an RUF Yellowbird steps its tail-end ludicrously out of line before it’s wrestled back from the precipice, or the feeling of getting a BMW E30 M3’s chassis stretching like putty in your hands as you playfully ply it from one extreme of a track to another.It’s worth bearing that in mind when it comes to this PC racing sim, constructed some 240 miles south of Maranello at Italian outfit Kunos Simulazioni. As a game, it so often falls flat, offering a bloodless lattice of events and a career mode that goes from zero to nowhere across a life-sapping crawl of hours. Its dressings are functional, its presentation stern and with few frills. None of that really matters, though, when the driving is this good. The single-player campaign is a limp sprawl, starting you off in a lively if underpowered Abarth 500 before taking you through a thin medley of sports cars, hypercars and all the way up to single-seaters. Progression is unspectacular – earn the requisite amount of medals in one tier before unlocking the other – and it’s only enlivened by some charmingly stilted flavour text threading together the time attacks, races and championships. Shadow Warrior 3

The moment-to-moment racing is adequate, if hardly inspired: AI can be adjusted from novice through to alien, and they’re smart enough to get out of the way most of the time, even if there is the odd frustrating exception where they refuse to respect your track position. There’s the potential, too, for multi-class racing, with huge swarming fields able to be composed of different GT machinery, though it’s brutally compromised by the restriction to 10-lap races and the lack of a proper points-tallying championship system to support it. These are problems that can be fixed by turning to the multiple mods that have been produced, and the greatest asset Assetto Corsa has acquired over the past year is most definitely its community. This is an eminently moddable game; one that invites you to tinker and adjust as much as you desire, either getting under the hood yourself with the tools provided by Kunos or strapping on a handful of after-market supplements created elsewhere. The tools and support lent by Kunos are enough to have attracted some of the best modders out there, and after the slow start of ISI’s rFactor 2, there’s been a shift towards Assetto Corsa in the virtual racing community which has made for a wealth of options. Want to hear the rotary whine of the Mazda 787B bounce around the houses that line Le Mans’ Mulsanne straight? Of course you do. Want to take F-Zero’s Blue Falcon around Brands Hatch’s Indy circuit? Well, whyever not?

There are no consequences for the AI for shunting you off

To put too much emphasis on the community is to do a disservice to the sterling foundation Kunos has supplied – and, the paucity of the single-player aside, those foundations are more than enough to recommend Assetto Corsa, even to those shy of modding. The driving is phenomenal, for sure, but it’s the individual touches Kunos has brought to it that really make Assetto Corsa something special: little details that overhaul a legacy of error that’s often blighted the driving genre. Take, for example, the assists that smother other games. Gran Turismo 6 may well offer a fine simulation of what it’s like to rag a Mercedes SLS AMG around the twisting layout of contemporary Silverstone; the sense of weight transfer is impeccable, the sensation of losing grip tangible, inviting you to coax it back into the realms of control. It’s handicapped, though, by never being able to satisfyingly emulate the car as it would have rolled off the factory floor; the ABS and traction control settings that come as default in exchange for your £191,000 are simply ignored. Kunos’ solution is simple, elegant and – if there’s any common sense knocking around other developers – surely a standard for all driving games that follow in its wake. You can load assists on the cars to aid you, but they’re each presented with factory settings available – so you can feel the embrace of the traction control and ABS in a GT3 car that makes them so chuckable, or you can enjoy the poise of an Exige V6 Cup with some of the rough edges rounded off in the same way the Lotus engineers intended with its CPU-controlled systems. Poppy Playtime

There is a second way to approach Assetto Corsa and that’s via its ‘Special Events’, although these are just one-off versions of events the career mode is already full of (quick races, time trials, and hot laps). The only meaningful difference here is that they can be tackled in any order you want (career mode progression is very linear in comparison). Assetto Corsa’s overall presentation is mixed. I love the highly-detailed and fully-functioning car interiors, and I didn’t really notice too many startling visual hitches while racing with my preferred dash view. The frame rate definitely wavers on both PS4 and Xbox One when duking it out with the maximum 15 opponents, though, and AI cars are also driverless for some reason (the cars pilot themselves around the track empty but drivers will be displayed in them during replays). I also dislike the strobing effect of brake lights, which makes me feel like I’m at a rave rather than a racetrack. I think the sound is mostly good; missing a bit of the ferocity of something like Project CARS (with its ear-bashing exhaust crackle and immersive chassis flex squeaks) but certainly leagues beyond Gran Turismo (though some cars are less convincing than others). The game’s also got a vibrant colour palette which feels a little more natural than some of its slightly washed-out competitors and, while they aren’t particularly eye-popping, the tracks have a nice, real-life, worn feel to them, especially the battered curbs.

Its menu interface, however, is a real dud. I rapidly grew tired of the unintuitive shuffling required to move around this game. Backing out of an individual career event option? You won’t be taken back to the previous menu, with other events to choose from; you’ll be taken straight back to the main career mode tiers. It’s a completely unnecessary extra step backwards. The menus are also currently peppered with cars and events from the existing PC version that are purportedly DLC here on the console version, but when I click on them they’re apparently not available right now. Uh, cool. What I dislike more, though, is the game’s indifferent attitude to you finishing an event. Pass the chequered flag, either online or offline, and after a few seconds you’ll be teleported to your pit box – watching as AI or human opponents pop into existence behind you. It’s jarring and daft. You just sit there until the results screen pops up, and then you quit the race. It’s anticlimactic and unintuitive, and it makes the game feel unpolished.

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