Driving for the sake of improving lap times or mastering circuits kind of went out the window in favor of an uneven career mode that focuses on passing arbitrary challenges and looking cool. While a passion for bringing the feel of real driving to players may have been the aim of the first two Project Cars games, the third entry has yanked the handbrake and drifted hard into the arcade style. Nearly a year later, Project Cars 3 is here and may not be the game series fans were hoping for. After the initial reveal of the Mad Box and some incredibly optimistic claims about its potential performance, news on the project went silent, and Slightly Mad Studios was acquired by Codemasters in late 2019. In early 2019, they announced the development of their own gaming console, the Mad Box, to compete with Sony and Microsoft. Somewhere along the way after Project Cars 2 hit shelves, it would appear that the studio went slightly mad. As a development house that built its name on attempting to deliver a realistic driving experience on consoles and PC, Slightly Mad Studios was building momentum over the release of the first two games in its Project Cars franchise.
