I was disappointed as soon as I saw it, 20 variations missing amongst the ones that are here doesn’t help either.
I’ve mentioned Project CARS 2 a couple of times in the past on this topic but it’s such a stark comparison when you consider how much of an advantage T10 has/should have in terms of resources available, I have just popped on PC2 now to take a look first hand and I have just scrolled through 53 separate locations (though some of those are just historic versions of current tracks), and I don’t own any DLC for PC2 which includes more locations.
Even discarding the Rallycross locations there’s 46, and it looks clear to me that SMS being based in the UK used that to their advantage to get several British tracks licenced, Snetterton, Donington, Cadwell Park, Oulton Park the closest race track to me and one I have actually been around, Knockhill, Brands Hatch and the Rallycross course Lydden Hill (where Top Gear went).
Algarve, Brno, Fuji, Imola, Oschersleben, RB Ring, Ruapuna Park, Sugo, Willow Springs, Zhuhai, Zolder, all tracks that have never been in FM.
I don’t agree with them being classed as separate in PC2 but historic tracks, Spa, Silverstone, Monza, Hockenheim.
There’s even 2 fictional point to point locations that are around 12 and 13 miles each respectively.
But the saddest courses to look at are ones that FM did have but this new game doesn’t, I’m looking at a 2017 game made with a far smaller budget and seeing Bathurst, Brands Hatch, COTA, Daytona, Hockenheimring, Long Beach, Monza, the obvious one the Nordschleife and Sonoma.
There are also a few variations in PC2 that are either absent in the new FM or haven’t even been in the series full stop, Silverstone’s Stowe, the Mullenbach at the Nurburgring which I had honestly never heard of until looking at it just now, Le Mans Bugatti and Catalunya’s School circuit.
Hoping for FM to have matched that track location count would be totally unreasonable, but I don’t care how much better the graphics are than PC2 I refuse to believe that 20 (with 20 missing variations amongst them) is the best T10 could do with what should be available to them, in the early to mid 2000’s 20 locations would have been a good number, but are we not supposed to have progressed 15-20 years + 2-3 console generations from back then?
It should at the very least have been equal or close to FM7 in my opinion, my idea of progress is not going from 32 (33 if you include the pointless Test Track Airfield) locations all the way down to 20 however much higher the graphical quality is.
