2023-08-18 09:42:21
Chatty, market-savvy producer Ian Bell, who has guided development on titles like GTR 2, Project Cars and Need for Speed Shift, has assembled a new team with New funding and new staff, and plans to lug Simbin’s old GTR legacy. Many of us are of course curious regarding what the hell happened to the absolutely record-breaking horror Project Cars 3. At this point, Codemasters had acquired Slightly Mad Studios, and owner Bell was told to take a big step back and not interfere with development too much, as Codemasters with Project Cars 3 apparently wanted to try to appeal to more drivers with a more driveable and arcade-friendly focus. Broad “casual” audience. Something that doesn’t really work. He has now commented on this in a recent interview with Bale. Ian Bell on the fiasco that is Project Cars 3: “Project Cars 3 is a game where I don’t have direct input into the details. I’m directly involved with every race, and I’m constantly driving the car, constantly giving feedback. But in Project Cars 3 development, I took a step back and once we were taken over by Codemasters, I was advised to stop getting involved in the micro details altogether. I’m not sure if that was an overall positive. Also, we didn’t want to call it Project Cars 3 at all. I sat around a table with twenty other people at Codemasters and publicly stated that we wanted to call it Project CARS: Sideways, to give the community a signal that we were going in a different direction, with some kind of semi-open world area. We The idea is that we’re going to go in the direction of Forza Horizon compared to Forza Motorsport and I’ve been voted down, I’ve been voted down because I’ve been told investors insist we call this game Project Cars 3 because that’s what’s going to be Something to sell. This decision is totally once morest my remit, totally once morest my advice, and something I don’t agree with. So it’s not a game I’m proud of. It’s not the way out. I’m doing my best to at least try to change the name. I did my best to try and position it more like Forza Horizon than Forza Motorsport. You know, we sometimes have to live with these decisions because investors are paying crazy money to make these things happen. What do you think of Project Cars 3? Source
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