Project CARS is a series of racing games developed by London based Slightly Mad Studios, who had previously worked developing EA's Need for Speed: Shift back in 2009. The original Project CARS game made its debut in 2015, releasing for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows; getting a sequel in the form of Project CARS 2 in September of 2017.
A couple of weeks ago, Slightly Mad Studios CEO, Ian Bell, officially announced that the developer was currently working on Project CARS 3; although he couldn't share any more details at the time other than promising to "blow anything else, planned by anyone else, out of the water".
Today we have some new information regarding the current state of Project CARS 3, as Slightly Mad Studios' Ian Bell told Gamereactor—during a recent interview—that the game will be more of a spiritual successor to their very own Need for Speed: Shift.
"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'". Project CARS 3 will be more of a spiritual successor to Shift, but with all of the sim goodness everyone appreciates".
It definitely looks like Slightly Mad Studios wants to take things in the right direction, and Project CARS 3 being a spiritual successor to Need for Speed: Shift may be the right thing to do. Bell promises that they will keep the simulation aspect of the game intact so fans shouldn't worry since the developer may still end up delivering a quality product like they have in the past.