Project CARS Trailer Showcases Stunning Racing. Aims to Give GT and Forza a Run for Their Money.

I hope I can grab your attention after that video. Beautiful cars, slow-motion shots and a Daft Punk soundtrack merge perfectly to showcase how the development is coming along, and it’s not even out of the alpha stage.

Project CARS is in development over at Slightly Mad Studios, previously responsible for both of the well received Shift entries in the Need For Speed series, and is due for release on the Xbox 360, PS3, PC and WiiU next year.

Presenting the ‘Ultimate Driver Journey’, Project CARS is set to include a Franchise Mode featuring a personalised career beginning in the Karting world, before progressing to a huge variety of motor-sport specialisations including Rally, Touring Cars, Open-Wheel, GT, Le Mans and many more. Full Co-Op support is included allowing you to be a Co-Driver in your friends car, as well as team management, pit stops, dynamic time of day and weather, user generated content and a cloud-based social network.

What makes Project CARS development even more unique process it’s going through. World of Mass Development is an initiative by Slightly Mad Studios which gives a platform to developers and players, in a style similar to Kickstarter, but much more attuned for video game development.

SMS describes the platform as –

1. Developers to submit ideas to an active gaming community, raise the funds needed to develop them, get continual feedback from community team members that can play work-in-progress builds, use the WMD Portal to promote their project, get help from other developers, and ultimately launch their game to an eagerly-awaiting audience.
2. Players to browse available projects and join any they are interested in, download and play regular builds of the game, participate in discussion & polls, speak directly to the developers, and eventually earn money back based on their contribution when the game is released

Project CARS is certainly a game to keep an eye on, and it due for release in 2013 for the Xbox 360, PS3, PC and WiiU.