There’s a reason so few racing simulator games exist on the market. Similar to why multiple franchises for a single sport are in short supply, each experience is relatively the same, making the competition rough, and it falls upon the developers to try and find unique ways of attracting gamers to their product in order to remain in the competition.
This video explains why we think Electronic Arts didn't see a future in the sim racing title Project CARS and promptly cancelled the fourth instalment.
After the last installment I’d say most hardcore fans left. It’s just not that good anymore so I can’t really blame EA this time.
Ask Bullfrog or Black Box or Tiburon or Studio 33 or Criterion or any of the previously acquired developers who made racing games as competition, or as developers of EA games, then eventually dissolved into oblivion or reassigned. Just ask them. They'll tell you why.
Ian Bell, the founder of Slightly Mad Studios, is aiming to hire former Project CARS employees to work on his upcoming GTR Revival project.
If it's just going to be another sim-cade that doesn't do either one correctly then no thanks.
Project CARS 2 was a step in the right direction but the physics still aren't where they should have been, so what did they do for PC3? Go completely arcade. That killed the franchise.
From GI.biz: "EA is dropping Project CARS, GamesIndustry.biz can reveal.
The Slightly Mad Studios-developed series was launched in 2015, with EA confirming today that it has made the decision to "stop further development and investment" in the franchise.
The announcement was made internally and it's unclear at this stage to which extent staff could be affected. EA said that employees working on Project CARS will be moved into "suitable" roles "wherever [they] can.""
Typical for EA. They buy studios that created nice games..and are sooner or later destroying them and move the people to work on the old same 5+ EA series.
and instead they come out with that piece of shit of Need for Speed which looks like an Anna & Barbera cartoon. C'mon .... PC2 was my go to game for VR racing and the first one i played for tens of hours. i was so lookiing forward to PC4 after that failure of PC3 ... what a shame EA, they are bombing all the good games and stick to the garbage ones. EA when you think you have reached maximum of disappointment they top it off with style .... screw them!
What they did to this series was idiotic. The premise was great -- a sim/simcade game that GENUINELY got developed in line with its community. There is a huge gap in the market for this...I mean, PD hasn't listened to fans at all over the last year with regard to simple Gran Turismo 7 tweaks. Sim racing fans are screaming for a title where they actually give a shit about their users.
Project Cars 2 was genuinely on to something, it just needed some refinement. But instead they followed up by selling off to EA with a braindead GRID clone with Project Cars 3. Again...idiotic.
Wow - This generation is just, 'getting into gear'.
It's understandable that the author is excited for this game, but there's scores of racing games and simulators coming out in the near future.
Looks pretty bland and boring, honestly. Still can't get over the stupid name either. A demo could change my mind though, we'll see.
I had high hopes for this Project Cars, but ever since I found out there wouldn't be any upgrading or tuning of the 70ish cars, I'm just not that excited about this game.
I'm sure it will play great regardless.
The only question is... Will it be delayed at the alst moment again.
Will rent project cars to see how it compares to GT before purchasing , have high hopes for project cars though keeping my ps4 warm until GT7 comes out. I heard a insider of mine who works in Japan that they are doing a remaster of gt6 acadamy for ps4 (not a prologue)