By Damien McFerran -
Project CARS creator Slightly Mad Studios couldn't be more aptly named. This independent developer is taking on the might of Gran Turismo, Forza and The Crew with a game that boasts a brand-new and untested funding model and is being developed via constant feedback from over 35,000 different users at any one time.
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.
Looks nice for sure
Well Andy Tudor has been saying their having problems on ps4 saying single cores are not powerful enough so they are using 4 cores and this makes it harder to develop the game,on WiiU they have everything singing on 1 core like they do on pc,also a pre alpha tester from wiiu version said without being optimized yet the wiiu cpu made an i5 sweat ??? also Andy Tudor just said on NintendoLife tht the wiiu version is extremely promising.........
http://www.nintendolife.com...
It sounds like the WiiU is matching the very best pc version with only a few super high level graphics that may hear that may not make the cut.....wiiu/pc version will be best versions easy...he also hasn't complained about xbox1 so ???
No, the Ultimate Racing Game would have
150-200 GT and LMP Cars
40-50 Tracks across the Globe
Damage Model
Pit Stops with Animation and a real Strategy aspect
Great AI (because we all know how most humans drive online)
weather effects
30 Cars on Track
Great Graphics and Sound should be obvious.
I want a Game like this.