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Slightly Mad: Shift 2 is "Real Racing"

In a recent interview with The Guardian, Slightly Mad's Andy Tudor shared his thoughts about the upcoming Shift 2 and the whole racing sim genre.

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velocitygamer5557d ago

No one else is hyping up the game other than the developers them selves.

Trevonn5557d ago

simple as that peepz this game cant hold a candle to gt5

Ranshak5557d ago

Looks just like Shift 1 to me lol.

Knushwood Butt5557d ago

Too true.

They clearly don't know how to hype it either. One minute they say it isn't a boring sim like GT5, the next they say it is real racing. The two contradict one another.

Also, if it is real racing, why does the screen turn black and white whenever you hit anything? Is that real racing??

They should just shut up and let the game do its thing. It looks good visually. The driving? Who knows. I may pick it up when the budget release comes out.

TROLOLOLOL5557d ago

sometimes that can be good. otherwise you get hype like halo and killzone then get let down abit. some of the best games that come out lately are the ones i thought were gonna be shit but actually pretty dam good

velocitygamer5557d ago

Yes, but FANS hype the game up. The developers of this game seem a little too confident. I don't expect this to be shit or anything, the camera work is amazing. It's just that the developers are trash talking on games like GT5 and Forza 3.

Miths5557d ago

Yep, they do come off as rather arrogant and full of themselves in many interviews and articles.
I just hope the game can live up to all the self praise, because I'm actually looking forward to it.
Shift 1 was an uneven and flawed game, but hotlapping in a McLaren F1 or a Zonda F with a Logitech G25 wheel was a blast.

mightyboot5557d ago (Edited 5557d ago )

Im pretty sure that many people will skip this one and wait for Hot Pursuit 2 instead.

but me i just gave up on the series.

Miths5557d ago

Aside from featuring fast cars, Shift and Hot Pursuit are barely comparable.
The recent Hot Pursuit was a full on arcade racer (but a fun one at that), while Shift falls roughly within the same group of "semi-sims" as Gran Turismo and Forza. At least if you play it with a force feedback wheel rather than a gamepad.

jammydude5557d ago

Gran turismo is in a different category of racing game in comparison to Shift and Hot Pursuit. Forza less so due to the permanent driving aids but still worlds away from the full on arcade nature of shift and forza

Croash5557d ago (Edited 5557d ago )

Keep in mind that Criterion Games might be developing a new Burnout game right now, a sequel to NFS Hot Pursuit could still come later though.

If Shift 2 gets great review scores, people would probably be more interested in it.
I know that Shift wasn't acclaimed universally, but it had a great potential and still was a good game.

However Slightly Mad Studios must prove that Shift 2 : Unleashed is worthy of being called a "sequel", meaning it has to show improvements when compared to the original, and of course they must show they have acknowledged the players' feedback.

And right now, it looks good. I guess they'll release a demo soon enough, just like they did for Shift.

Edit: As Miths said, you can't compare Shift and Hot Pursuit. Hell, Shift wasn't comparable to any of the older Need for Speed games. So while it belongs to the series (well, slightly less since it has abandoned the name "Need for Speed"), it isn't "the same thing over and over again".
You mustn't think of Need for Speed as one particular gaming experience, almost every new iteration was different from the previous game.

Bounkass5557d ago

NFS and REAL RACING? LOOOOOOLLLLLL

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EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch

EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.

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peppeaccardo69d ago

When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!

badz14969d ago

cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla

HyperMoused69d ago

TTK for BF employees needs adjusting

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EA makes layoffs at Skate developer Full Circle

The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.

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Profchaos81d ago

The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result

isarai_lee80d ago

It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way

badboyz0981d ago (Edited 81d ago )

🤣🤣🤣

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US Lawmakers Urge Review Of EA Sale

The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers

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Trilithon115d ago

lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6

lodossrage115d ago (Edited 115d ago )

Wait,

The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.

NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.

thorstein115d ago

No. There were elections and some of the scum were replaced.

TheColbertinator114d ago

Different elections. Different scum. Same results.

rlow1115d ago

i know its a long shot, but i hope this gets shot down.

ZwVw114d ago

EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.