Project CARS developer Slightly Mad Studios has teamed up with Gamevil in order to bring the popular racing series to mobile devices with a new title called Project CARS GO. Shockingly, this was originally announced nearly 2.5 years ago in May of 2018. Has time really flown that quickly" Well anyway, in the time since that announcement a whole bunch of stuff has happened. Slightly Mad was acquired by legendary racing game developer Codemasters in November of last year, and just a few weeks ago they released the third entry in the Project CARS series titled, appropriately, Project CARS 3.
Except? is that actually an appropriate title" The new game has received an extremely mixed response so far for being so far out of line from the previous Project CARS games. Those were much more authentic simulation games whereas Project CARS 3 is basically a straight up arcade racer. Slightly Mad has said it is a spiritual successor to Need for Speed: Shift, which they developed for EA way back in 2009, and being that development on the game began in late 2018 it doesn’t appear that their new owner Codemasters was the driving force behind the change in tone with this third game. It’s also a weird situation because, although I haven’t played it myself, Project CARS 3 doesn’t seem to be a bad game at all, it’s just that it’s so different it’s alienating fans of the first two games who were expecting more of that. This is ever so clear in ...