Slightly Mad Studios CEO Ian Bell has stated that the new part in the Project CARS series, Project CARS 3, will be a spiritual successor to Need for Speed Shift. Need for Speed Shift impressed everyone when it came out, especially thanks to its iconic cockpit viewpoint and Ian Bell said that pCars 3 will be more of a spiritual successor to Shift, but with all of the sim goodness everyone appreciate.
As Ian Bell wrote on GTPlanet:
“We’ve learned a lesson here and although we have no intention of reducing content, we know what we need to fix, where we made design decisions that were, let’s call it, ‘sub-optimal’. pCARS3 will be more of a spiritual successor to Shift, but with all of the sim goodness everyone appreciates.”
Apart from the fact that the game is already under development, we don’t have any additional information about it. And since there haven’t been any screenshots or official press releases, we can safely say this racing title won’t be out in 2019 (and most likely not in 2020).
Still, we’ll be sure to keep you posted so stay tuned for more.
Thanks TeamVVV
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That’s as if Diablo promised to be a spiritual successor to Borderlands
Are you sure you know both games in question?
well borderlands is technically a diablo fps
Not really no.
how so? If you google early footage of hellgate london, it was a diablo clone then they made it a fps.
Meaning what?
Back to arcade.. good, SMS suck at even trying to make a sim.
The article says it will still be a sim.
Shift is a sim
F*ing do some research before spouting nonsense.
Shift is simcade at best. It’s not realistic at all.
Have fun with your “sim” then, poor you. Its all i can say.
masterbating important
i liked need for speed shift it was an arcade sim hybrid
Just as long as it stays a sim and not go the RPG Gran Turismo, and Forza route I’ll be fine with it.
Best Beyblade simulator ever.
Why? That game was freaking boring. Make a sequel to nfs underground. Yeah its too casual but far more interesting than shift
Slightly Mad is a sim racing studio.
makes sense.
WTF this is sim racing not casual racing for kids
Wtf. Fck off. Go get your pure arcade fix somewhere else and leave our few niche games alone.
well its not like they can make it.
Slightly Mad did Shift, not any other on the Neee for Speed series.
You’re looking like an idiot
Shift 2 was a classic but I highly doubt slightly mad has the buying power to license the array of vehicles and tracks that helped it rival Forza and GT.
Underground 2 was a masterpiece for me
I agree, at the time it was great but it hasn’t aged well
boring map, slow cars, too easy, didnt know where to end
Sad for you
Well…….
Back to asetto corsa
+1
Assetto Corsa with fine-tuned controls/handling on a racing wheel is amazingly realistic!
Give me one project cars where the controls don’t sperg out when I am driving in a straight line and I will be happy.
I want a spiritual succesor of Need for Speed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMc5KE6lT4M
“”I still replay old (classic) NFS games from time to time””
Glad to hear that. LOL.
Yeah, seems that many people still play the old titles, how can’t they do the same old style with new graphics?
I still play from time to time as well, High stakes is my prefered from the old era (PS1).
I have driver license (European here, so manual transmission cars), but I don’t like to drive, so I don’t try sim games
Good decision because pCARS 2 was a game for nobody: too unpolished and glitchy to be a true sim, too hard and unobvious to be a simcade. But it willn’t be a simple goal to fight against FM7 in the same category.
Yup.
Great move, i was playing yesterday the NFS shift on my G25, lots of fun, i hope they revive the style, with better graphics, PC2 felt like a downgrade from PC1…
Hopefully VR will be a priority as well on the PC version.