Just how real can the cars in a game look? Very, if ‘Project CARS’ is anything to go by

If you’re anything like us, you spent vast swathes of the time before you got your driving license playing racing games. Truth be told, a good portion of you probably still do.

The thing is, no matter how good the graphics got over the years, the cars never looked quite right during gameplay. Given the constraints on the machine most of these games are run on, it’s understandable that the developers would leave the really fancy graphics for the cutscenes.

If the makers of a game called Project CARS are to be believed though, we can finally throw that logic out the window.

The development house has released a video purporting show actual gameplay from Project CARS and, if this really is gameplay, the results are staggering.

Indeed, it makes the promise that Project CARS, set to be released later this year on all the major gaming platforms “is the most authentic, beautiful, intense, and technically-advanced racing game on the planet” seem entirely viable.