Yes I played the first one too. It is like the second one not easy to say whether it’s a good or a bad game. The graphics and weather effects are the best I have ever seen and that makes the incredible atmosphere in a race. The physics are good and you can drive multiplayer with 64 people on a track. But the singleplayer carreer mode is boring, because there is nothing to unlock. All cars and tracks are unlocked by default so that playing the carreer has absolutely no goal and this ruins the motivation. I also think that most racing tracks are boring. They should add more impressive tracks and cars out of the motorsport genre. Project Cars 1 & 2 makes a lot fun with a racing wheel, but it can also become boring after a time. I would call Project Cars 1 & 2 one of the best racing games of modern era, but by far not of all time. My favorite is “Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed” (PC) and some older NFS games and also the “World Racing” franchise. I also think that some times Project Cars 1 have better graphics than 2 and some times 2 is better depending on weather, time and lighting. 1 has by far better anti-aliasing and better trees. 2 has better weather effects and autumn and snow. You can get both games low priced on MMOGA and if you get them we can race together 
Project Cars 2 makes only sense with the Deluxe Edition, because you get the best cars as DLCs. The effect is not such big with the GOTY for Project Cars 1. I think 2 is better because of better cars.
Waiting for KCD modding tools and Bannerlord. Seems like wont be short waits with both
