The driving experience isn't designed to be exciting or as knife edge as Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport, instead, it aims to be true to life. By this, they mean the way the game simulates each component of a vehicle in real-time. Central to this is what the developer calls soft-body physics. The sandbox offers limitless ways to play because collisions and vehicle behaviour are different each time you take to the wheel. Can you complete a truck delivery request as fast and efficiently as possible? Can you outrun the police in a hot pursuit? Can you drive through the city without a single collision and in the fastest time? But the most popular aspect is the open-world modes. There are a number of different modes and challenges you can take on. It's the Microsoft Flight Simulator of vehicular travel and stands out for sandbox creativity that inspires the fun of the playground and the film set. Play involves selecting a car and a location and then exploring how the vehicle copes with different environments. BeamNG (2015) is a super realistic vehicle simulator where individual car components rather than just the driving experience are modelled.
