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The world of car-racing games has been in dire need of a true simulator experience given the majority of games released in 2014 have been a mix of arcade and sim. Project Cars is developed by Slightly Mad Studios, which was founded back in 2009 to create their first racing title, Need for Speed: Shift. Since then, Slightly Mad Studios has developed several titles since then with Project Cars being its first realistic driving simulator. After racing through countless tracks around the world and finding myself behind the wheel of a wide variety of vehicles, I can safely say that only realistic driving simulator aficianados need apply.
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.
So basically he doesnt like racing simulators. Wrong person to review the game then.
"Because of that, I feel Project Cars won’t receive the mass appeal games like Forza Horizon 2 or DriveClub have received."
lolwut? Is he even aware of Gran Turismo's existence? Even the Forza Motorsport games blow those arcadey racers away in terms of sales and popularity.
"Instead, only those who are really into realistic driving simulators may flock towards Project Cars,"
Which is a HUGE market.
Silly review.
That reviewer has no experience in racegames whatsoever. If he doesn't understand what more or less pressure in a tyre does for racing because the game doesn't explain, I seriously doubt the credibility of the review(er).
So this review is saying that this unapologetically sim racer is ummm...too much like a sim?
I don't review cheese and then criticise it for tasting too much like cheese. I also don't send someone who dislikes cheese to go review cheese. Slight problem with the person assigned here to review this game I think.
It's incredible what is declared as a 'professional review' these days...
After reading the review, yes he dont like this type of game, and slams a 6 one it.
So i take this review not serious.