Project Cars has come under fire since release, though things are looking up for the gentleman racer. Slighty Mad Studios' Ian Bell explains that the Xbox One version isn't "dumbed down" from the other releases.
He also explains the firm's philosophy when it comes to cars and tracks, with the focus being on more tracks for players to enjoy.
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 it's a contoller issue.
Funny that gamers are the ones to point this out. WTF are reviews and DF doing again?
I thought they were there to inform gamers on...oh who am I kidding. They're here to line their own pockets by any means.
I can't even play this game on ps4 because it feels like every car is on crack, the slighest bit of acceleration or turning and I'm spinning out. And this even happens when doing 40mph.
I've never had this issue in all the racing games I've played since the snes, ranging from burnout, to nfs, to test drive, to gran turismo, to forza, project gotham, driveclub, gta, or whatever you can think of that has you driving a car.
The game looks great and sounds great, but the controller settings are whack and I'm not buying a steering wheel...
It's funny how we have to put the caveat "it actually performs as well as the PS4 version" with the few multiplat xbone games where the dev was lazy and decided on "parody".
I've heard that the physics are "slightly" dumbed down on xbone as opposed to the mighty PS4 and PC.
I've played both versions and i prefer the PS4 version with a DS4. Maybe it's my system but i find project cars to be more responsive on PS4/ds4.