VVV: "While our last look at Project CARS on PS4 showcased the game's impressive wealth of racing classes and a chaotic bumper-to-bumper 43 car race, our latest look at Slightly Mad Studios' much-anticipated racing sim is comparatively simple, focusing on just one car and track.
In this extended time trial run, Alan discovers the simple driving pleasure of wrestling a RUF around a rain-soaked Le Mans Bugatti circuit, whilst discovering the refinements made to the ever-improving handling in recent builds as we approach the final retail version in just over two weeks 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.
I had such high hopes for this..Just played it again yesterday and I'm sorry to say this...It looks great but simply isn't fun to play (with a controller. Wheel is ok). Classic example of too many cooks spoil the broth, especially if they take too long and everyone has got a different taste.
Same footage as:
http://n4g.com/news/1712418...
Large scale motorsport racing, been waiting since TOCA.
this actually looks fantastic. had a few reservations before, but it's looking sweet
May be that it's time to rethink my stance regarding PS4 wheel purchase. Really wish that Sony had taken the same open approach to wheel compatibility that they did with the PS3.