Project Cars veterans create hardcore racing

Fans of hardcore racing sims have nothing to sing about. On Tuesday the company Electronic Arts cancels Project Cars series and stopped investing in a new part and the future of the brand. In the same time the upcoming Project Cars 4 was supposed to be the most realistic simulation ever made.. The game was supposed to be built on the Madness 2.0 engine. This was done so that each leaf has its own shadow.

Ian Bell spoke about the new Project Cars at the end of 2020. A year later, he left the Slightly Mad Studios he founded and was its CEO. This happened after Codemasters and SMS were bought by EA. We now know that this was probably due to disagreement with the publisher’s ideas. Although he argued that the studio had its finances and future secured, and therefore no longer needed to be managed. But who will stay with the company that already sank it once and nearly bankrupted Slightly Mad Studios. EA has worked with Bell before, they created SMS for the company for NFS Shift and the sequel Shift 2: Unleashed. But when work on the trio was supposed to begin, problems should have appeared.

The good news is that Ian Bell is back. He is assembling a new team where he will be formed GTR Revolution. Bell beckons for the full hardcore experience in every possible way. A lot of people from GTR2 development are expected to be on board, according to Bell, and most of the important people from Project Cars 2 want to join the new studio.

GTR Revolution will be long. This is a continuation of the GTR2 with the original team. Bell and his current and former employees are highly experienced. They created, for example, Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends, Need for Speed ​​Sift and Shift 2: Unleashed. In a tweet, he mentions that names such as Steven Viljoen, Andy Garton, Steven Bystead, Henrik Roos, Johan Roos and Vic Klomiets are working with him. All known developers involved in GTR2.

“Imagine rFactor 2 physics in the world of Unreal Engine 5.“ shows where Bell is heading with the GTR revolution. “Dreams Come True,” reserves.

Meanwhile Bell criticizes Electronic Arts looking only at sales and not thinking about people: “How do these numbers (sorry, I mean people with hopes, dreams and families) look on the charts?” he asked.

One of the commenters on it he remindedthat he killed him with the unsuccessful Project Cars 3. Bell disagreed, stating that he loudly advocated a different title for the game to distinguish it from a hardcore simulation.. But the unnamed publisher’s marketing department had a different opinion. Probably Bandai Namco released Project Cars 3.

Recall that according to unofficial data, EA also had to cancel the DiRT series and rename DiRT Rally to EA Sports Rally. In the future, Electronic Arts will focus on F1, WRC, GRID, Need for Speed ​​and EA Sports Rally.