GameGrin's Ryan Davies writes: ""Pokémon with cars”, that’s how Slightly Mad studio head Ian Bell describes not his own team’s title, but just about every other racing game on the market. That’s fun, he concedes, but it’s not how you make a truly engrossing driving game. With only around 70 vehicles on offer (compared to the hundreds in games like Forza), it’s not surprising that the team at Slightly Mad are hedging their bets on elements other than an extensive garage. “It’s not about collecting cars,” says Bell, “it’s about driving them”. According to Slightly Mad this isn’t some generic arcade racing game, this is nothing short of the ultimate driving experience. Based on our time with the game at this year’s Gamescom, they could be right on the money."
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.
I am beyond excited for this game!!!!
I was in love with the Need for speed: Shift games so i am happy that the developer is back and working towards a hardcore racing sim
Till this game comes out i am playing Asetta Corsa for PC and when i can Forza 5 on xbox one.
Now all i need is money for a really good racing wheel. I would love to get the Logitech G27 wheel
Too many racing games! I don't know which one to get.
Too many racing games? on what support? consoles? except Forza 5 there is absolutely nothing. Drive club is going to be beautiful but way too arcadey if you are into simulators.
I'm getting this and DriveClub. I might also get The Crew, not sure. I'm looking forward to this, it should be the best simulator on next gen consoles. Looks so good. This will be a great title to sit next to my copy of Gran Turismo 7 when it comes out.
whats the point in having a racing game on the ps4 when you have to buy a new thrustmaster wheel to go with it...as logitech wheels do not work with the ps4...the future of racing on ps4 is bleak people.