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Party whack boost in the field of auto racing game, the studio Slightly Mad has decided to opt for new development approach. Indeed, the studio relied heavily on the community of PC gamers who have subscribed to the Early Access to polish his game, hence the name and acronym CARS Community Assisted Racing Simulation. With pilot consultants racing, but especially with the feedback of hundreds of players, Slightly Mad arises serious competitor to established franchises like Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport. With Bandai Namco Games, which publishes the title, we were able to try the game for several hours, warm in writing JEUXACTU to give you our first impressions.
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.
Project CARS may raise the bar for the likes of FM and GT but it can't kill them off, they are too well established. That's not to say they can't be killed off over time though, both need to come back swinging after their last outings were disappointing in my opinion, fans deserve better.
It would have to release first... but no.
It is my next buy on pc....i was looking at gta V but 69.99 om steam for a game almost 2 years old is kind of exessive.So i will encourage the new IP and i was looking for a racing game since a long time on my pc that suit my needs.
On consoles dont think so
Play it cool. Got high hopes but we've learned that games can and do disappoint no matter how exciting they are.
Hopefully this will be awesome -- hell, it should be awesome -- but let's keep the hyperbole to a minimum. After all, the phrase 'halo killer' used to backfire spectacularly.