While there may not be a formal announcement of aProject CARS 3, you can bet that Slightly Mad Studios has the project in mind. Ian Bell, the founder and CEO of the studio, expressed the desire to create a third game as a “spiritual successor” to their previousShiftgames.
The appropriately-titledNeed for Speed: Shiftwas a departure from the usualNeed for Speedformula of arcade racing and cops-and-robbers, with a focus on hardcore simulation racing. The second game mostly eschewed the previous branding, being calledShift 2: Unleashed. Slightly Mad Studios followed those games up with the community-focusedProject CARSgames.
Speaking throughGTPlanet, Bell offered the following:
“I’ll let you know thatpCARS3will be more ‘focused’… More ‘fun’… We went to insane lengths with variation inpCARS2and with that comes infinite balancing issues. 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’…
“pCARS3will be more of a spiritual successor to Shift, but with all of the sim goodness everyone appreciates… The key focus though is on fun and not biting off more than we can properly chew and digest.”
Project CARS 2certainly received some praise andaccolades, as well as offeringa wealth of content, but Bell seems to think that there is still much improvement to be had. This quote could indicate that Slightly Mad is aiming for a “back to basics” approach for the next numbered sequel.
Even ifProject CARSisn’t coming quite soon, GTPlanet reminds us that the studio is working on aProject CARS Profor professional drivers and a project involving theFast & Furiousfilm franchise. TheProject CARStitles are available on PC, Xbox One, and PS4.
