Assetto Corsa Competizione Now Available On Steam Early Access

Assetto Corsa Competizione, the new official Blancpain GT Series game, developed by KUNOS Simulazioni and published by 505 Games, is now available on Steam Early Access at a very special price – $ 24.99.

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After the groundbreaking worldwide success of Assetto Corsa, which redefined the standards of the Sim racing genre, the Italian development team KUNOS Simulazioni is ready to deliver to its amazing community the first Early Access version of their latest game.

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Assetto Corsa Competizione is born from KUNOS Simulazioni’s long-term experience, and it takes full advantage of Unreal Engine 4, ensuring photorealistic weather conditions and graphics, night races, motion capture animations, reaching a new standard in terms of driving realism and immersion, thanks to its further improved tyre and aerodynamic models.

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Thanks to the extraordinary quality of the simulation, the game will allow players to experience the real atmosphere of the FIA ​​GT3 homologated championship, competing with official drivers, teams, cars and circuits, reproduced in-game with the highest level of accuracy ever achieved. Sprint, Endurance and Spa 24 Hours races will come to life with an incredible level of realism, in both single and multiplayer modes.

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Starting form today, a series of game updates will be delivered on a monthly basis, introducing new cars and tracks, covering 60% of the total content of the final version (1.0), which is planned to be released in Q1 2019.  The final game will include all cars and tracks of the ongoing Blancpain GT Season and it will also introduce career and championship modes. Furthermore, a free update will be released during the Summer of 2019, introducing the 2019 Season of the Blancpain GT Series Championship.

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Buying the game within the first 2 updates will allow the most loyal fans to progressively access all contents of Assetto Corsa Competizione at an incredible price ($ 24.99). With the release of further updates, according to the Early Access timetable, accessible from the official website here, the price will be raised to $ 34.99 with the third update (scheduled for November 14th, 2018) and will finally reach the final price of $ 44,99 on January 16th2019, which will be also the price for version 1.0.  All those who love the Assetto Corsa license therefore have the possibility, supporting the Early Access program, to collaborate in refining the game and paying almost half of its final price, obtaining the same contents as those who will decide to buy it at a later stage.

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“Behind Assetto Corsa’s success there is also the contribution given by the community, which with its suggestions and constructive criticism has allowed us to refine both the product and the simulation experience”, commented Marco Massarutto, Brand & Product Manager and co-founder of KUNOS Simulazioni. “Thanks to the Steam Early Access program we can further strengthen this synergy with our fans: offering them the opportunity to actively participate in the Assetto Corsa Competizione testing. In this way we will not only optimize the game itself, but also work on its functionalities in order to arrive at the launch of final version exploiting in the best way all potentialities that our driving simulation will offer. We consider precious the support of our community and we intend to reward it concretely “.

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