Assetto Corsa – Lotus License Announced

Kunos Simulazioni has announced a licensing agreement with Lotus Cars for their Assetto Corsa simulation.

Thanks to the agreement, Assetto Corsa will feature several Lotus models from the present, past and the future, a specific car list has not yet been revealed.

The Kunos guys went to visit Lotus in Hethel to collect reference material and drive plenty of the stunning machines themselves. You can check out a bunch of photos of their visit as well as plenty of in-game previews below. The previews show various current Lotus models, including the Lotus 2-Eleven and the Evora in several versions.

Assetto Corsa will be powered by a brand new DirectX 11 graphics engine and will come with advanced features such as blur & DOF. The title will offer extensive modding support as well as ten laser-scanned tracks and fully licensed cars as well as AI – A first for a Kunos title.

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  • http://twitter.com/Polyphonie Mike

    Great news!  BMW and now Lotus.  While the Evora’s a great car but for me the Exige is the better track (day) car.

  • http://twitter.com/buddhatree Mike Coleman

    I was really looking forward to this project. It looks fantastic and I’m sure the FFB and physics will be superior…. 

    But rF2 has ruined me for all other sims lol :)

    If it doesn’t have “real road” like rF2, then I may pass on it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=867995173 Eduardo Pimentel

    WHEN!?

  • Guilherme Cramer

    Simply delightful.

  • http://twitter.com/Polyphonie Mike

    I believe it’s slated for late 2012- December perhaps?

  • Anonymous

    GT4, and a light one at that. Yes please!

  • gt3rsr

    Elise GT1!

  • gt3rsr

    aaaa

  • gt3rsr

    I am quite skeptical about the date. Remember how many times rF2 was postponed and this is a project of similar magnitude. (I was trying to reply to Mike’s post but the comment was put on the top.)

  • sargentjack86

    I hope they have that single seater pictured test car above……wOOw.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joe-Pineapples/100001965191185 Joe Pineapples

    Yeah, this year was looked at as being a golden one for racing sim enthusiasts, but is anything going to get past beta before the end of the year.

  • Marco Conti

    How many noticed the Lotus Go-Kart in the background?

  • http://openid.wp.pl/horazio123 Horazio

    I wonder if we will see classic Lotus cars or only newer models produced under malaysian ownership.

  • Marco Conti

    Amazingly, the Mayans had forecast all these new sims coming to market and that’s the reason why their calendar stops in late 2012. They figured no one was going to do any productive work anymore and that our civilization would perish as a result.

  • Matt Orr

    Why yes, this game went from “Must buy” to “KUNOS, WHY DO I STILL HAVE THE MONEY I WANT TO SPEND ON THIS IN MY POCKET!?”

    That said, whoever is in charge of their textures needs to work on creating better seamless patterns.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Schmidt/100001406158677 Justin Schmidt

    so you are not skeptical at all? just asking because rf2 was never postponed.

  • http://twitter.com/Ghoults myName

    There is also a white range rover in one of the pics.

  • pez2k .

    Lotus Cars owns the rights to all Lotus roadcars as far as I’m aware, and GT entries since the Chamberlain Esprit back in ’94 or so. Vintage racers are covered by Classic Team Lotus (the license pCARS has, I believe). It’s all to do with the Lotus Cars / Team Lotus dual company that caused so many problems with F1 these last few years.

    I’m also looking forward to having a 2-Eleven in a sim!

  • http://twitter.com/Uff182 Andrea Candini

    Marco has also confirmed the following F1 cars on FB: Type 25, 49C, 72, 98T.

  • http://racingrenders.com/ F1Racer

     What with this and the ones from pCARS, we`ll have a Lotus overload on the way :)    Looks like some comparison vids are looming.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=573577320 Sam Sturino

    Brother… no comparison will be considered… Assetto Corsa will be HANDS DOWN>>> the Sim to have…. Gran Turismo look with Net Kar pro physics… and Modable… ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!! I know where my money will go!!! A+

  • http://racingrenders.com/ F1Racer

    Regardless, it will still happen, trust me :)

  • Anonymous

    Everytime I see new pics/footage of RF2, GTR 3 and AC I feel like throwing money on the screen.

    I’m bored as **** with gaming, I need those games ASAP. 

  • http://matzelocal.myopenid.com/ MatzeLoCal

    Lotus acctually sell them: http://www.lotuscars.com/racing/kart

  • Marco Hooghuis

    Those trackside pics remind me of Gran Turismo 5.

  • http://twitter.com/Pascalwb Pascal

    looks good, but trackside camera, looks not so good, in first pictures it looked better, but it’s alfa or beta or something. 

  • General Rush Hour

    pre-zeta. 

  • General Rush Hour

    This looks amazing, take notes iRacing!!!

  • Nathan Robinson

    Tbh, im sick of lotus liscences and the historic lotus cars. I thought the very first pic was a game screen and i was jawdropped. Then i realized it was a real life pic and felt stupid :)

  • Anonymous

    Except it was, just kinda unofficially. Weeks before releasing beta, they said full will be on June. Now it seems we’ll be happy if it comes before christmas.

  • http://twitter.com/feels3 feels3

    rfactor 2 and iRacing will have very strong competitor :)
    Looks very promising :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Inkon-Gynto/100003625314679 Inkon Gynto

    rFactor 2 is dead already

  • Rodrigo Pires

    actually, more like a premature baby.Who needs care and patience.

    The problem is, there are other babies in her mothers wombs who are evolving very well.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=645597761 Sam Binfield

    which will be epic around the nurburgring :P

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arkadiusz-Wawrzyniak/100002971392441 Arkadiusz Wawrzyniak

    So many great sims upcoming… what I will do? What to choose?

  • http://twitter.com/Pascalwb Pascal

    It’s not

  • Big Ron

    simply inhale :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Ford/100001922734704 Steve Ford

    If AC were to be released today I’d have all 3 on my hard drive.  ;)

    And pCars! OMG what is wrong with me?

  • Anonymous

    Wow this looks SO fantastic!!

  • http://twitter.com/Polyphonie Mike

    Another analogy would be with good environment and great support even a child born premature (and probably not expected to survive) can flourish and become the President of the Divided States of Sim-racing.

  • pez2k .

    If I had enough time to play iRacing I’d have it, and the only reason I’ve never bought GSC or NKP is that I’ve never gotten around to it. More sims is better and always will be, competition improves the breed and everything brings its own positives to the table. Life’s too short to be a hater, and there are so few sims around that it doesn’t break the bank to support every developer (except iRacing!).

  • http://twitter.com/marek100 Marek Szymanski

    i got one for you : play DayZ , :-)

  • Big Ron

    Some cool cars in the collection. Some I don´t like, but some are just fantastic. Hopefully the Kart on second picture will be in :)

    I am a bit confused about the visual appearance. Looks like the previews of the BMW M1 Coupé, but not near as good as the ones with the Lotus 49.
     

  • Anonymous

     Nothing wrong with the visual appearance, looks way better than pCars, with it’s over done everything.

  • Big Ron

     Personal taste, I don´t think so. And what is “over done everything”?

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