The visuals of Slightly Mad Studios’ Project CARS have been discussed a lot because seeing screenshots of actual gameplay is pretty rare. With "actual gameplay" it isn't meant that the screenshots you’re normally shown aren’t taken in game, but simply that they display complex camera work which is much different from what you’d see while driving.
That’s why today you can see how the game really looks in Ultra settings, comparing staged screenshots taken by adjusting the camera to put the cars under the “best light” with exactly the same situation shown by the normal chase camera you’d see while driving (if you like external views, of course).
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 has been looking pretty impressive and had me interested but looking at those screenshots and comparing them to the very impressive looking Drive Clubs Graphics of actual gameplay it's not even a contest.
Drive Club it is then http://www.google.co.uk/img...
Still looks good, but I was not too impressed with the frame rates. But hey SMS still have about 5 months to smooth every thing out.
If they manage to reach 60 fps then I won't mind the less impressive visuals. Then again, I might get this for PC so it might not even be a problem for me.
Man! Are you sure those are PC ultra settings?
@abriael
Thanks mate :)
Keep up the good work!
Project Cars looks awesome but environments, I think driveclub has the most detailed environments in any racing game so far.
I am still in awe seeing that canada forest video. O.O!
But these are again just screenshots.
There is no gameplay posted in this link.
Anyways, those road textures are amazing in every shot.