CarX Street PC Review
Many people know about a fairly successful racing game called CarX Street on mobile platforms. The success of the title prompted developers to look towards serious platforms. It was decided to release the game on Steam. The road to this has been a long one, but CarX Street has finally been released on PC. I must say that the sequel to the very popular CarX Drift Racing Online was released on Steam without much fuss after several months of delays.
CarX Street doesn’t have as big a budget as Forza Horizon or Need for Speed, but the game is aimed at the same group of players thanks to the open world map and elegant aesthetics.
Unfortunately, the beginning of the game is quite boring for the players. You arrive in Sunset City and receive information from an AI voiceover about several characters you will meet later.
This is probably the worst part of the game. The terrible intonation of the AI’s voice completely destroys the immersion and does not contribute to the manifestation of interest in the plot of the game.
Fortunately, this worst part ends pretty quickly. You get in the car pretty quickly and you can say goodbye to this terrible AI, but it will appear later, and from time to time it will give out another piece of information.
As soon as you finish the story check-in in the 911 familiarization car and purchase your starting car, you can go on your own journey. CarX Street instantly evokes the atmosphere of Need for Speed. The city seems similar to Palm City from NFS Heat with its wide ocean and big city. Even the soundtrack seems familiar if you’ve played the latest NFS games. Fortunately, the more depressing elements of modern NFS have not migrated to CarX Street, for which special thanks to the developers.
While the city feels like an NFS, the rural parts of this map are not as flat. The game offers mountain serpentine roads that are more similar to those from Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift. The goal here is to warm up the tires and let out some smoke in classic CarX style.
The fact that the developers did not leave their drift audience, giving them the opportunity to return to their favorite driving style is very pleasant.
Although you can adjust the steering wheel and start drifting around the map, CarX Street also provides arcade control of cars.
If you are not a big fan of drift, then this game may just be an arcade racing game in an open world. AI opponents are nothing special. You can race, earn credits and buy cars to fill your garage with the cars you like.
Although the world seems very similar to the world from NFS, the management is not. It’s not so much arcade-like and rewards precision control without overly punishing recklessness. You can leave the controls on the machine and keep the accelerator firmly pressed down most of the time, but smoothly pressing the gas pedal at the exit of turns, switching to low gear in a timely manner and sending even the cheapest cars into a slide is a pleasure of your professionalism.
On the steering wheel, the force feedback is constant and feels very natural. Nothing special, but you can feel everything you need to feel the car on the edge of grip.
For your money, CarX Street is a great game. It has a huge selection of vehicle customization options, tuning and a large open world to explore.
In the absence of a license, the list of cars is quite strong, and the models are very good. And yes, the AI’s voice acting is really terrible, but if you turn it off in the sound settings, you won’t notice it anymore.
Visually, CarX Street does not achieve the highest open-world racing scores of other AAA games, but it is not so far from this. The only real lag of the visual from AAA occurs when you climb high into the mountains and try to explore the city. Otherwise, when you drive through the streets, everything looks good. The lighting, and in particular the day/night cycle, are really well done.
The game needs to get a lot of ongoing support from its developers and needs to evolve over time, so if you’re still hesitating, it’s understandable. If you are looking for a new game to just collect a collection of cars, get a little carried away with tuning and just ride, then CarX Street will provide you with it in full.
