What Happened to Need for Speed Shift 3?

[@TcherryTHOREST]

Wow... To think that we could have had a Shift 3 and EA messed it up again... I will never forget my time spent with Shift 1 & 2, the 2 games that made me play in cockpit view again.

[@kaibricturner8836]

I appreciate this a lot. When I started playing Shift I was wondering what happened after the sequel. Thanks for answering that question for me 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@Kacpa2]

It just shows how horrible EA was at that time, and how all these studios died under them.

[@athemocracy]

I have a sour spot for EA after they killed off the studios that made Sim City and Command and Conquer around the same time.

[@Kacpa2]

Black Box too, they only left skeleton crew to maintain NFS World for another year or two and it was literarily like 7 or 8 people left fron 250+ studio black box was up until NFS The Run. Same with Pandemic, after Lotr Conquest they got shutdown too :/

[@channe3049]

@@athemocracy At least Simcity lives on and still continue to this day with Simcity BuildIt, you may can say the game is crap because of the grindy monetization but the game has the most biggest player base of Simcity. Along with Command & Conquer Remastered made by many original people behind Command & Conquer games.

[@athemocracy]

@@channe3049 As Mark Hamill himself said about the Force Awakens, "just because something is popular doesn't mean it's good." Build it is a disappointment in the Simcity series; Cities Skylines is a better successor that actually respects it's player base.

[@channe3049]

@@athemocracy Cities Skylines is only good when the game has mods install with a very strong PC. But the entire base game is terrible to play without having mods install along with the poor optimization and the soundtracks is mediocre at best. Along with tons of overprice DLCs that are straight ripped off from the community. Simcity BuildIt is good to play if you have enough passion and join the community club.

[@stanivanov4046]

In a lengthy interview with SpotTheOzzie, Ian Bell spilled the beans and revealed how EA tried to destroy Slightly Mad Studios. As Ian Bell claimed: “We made a game called Need for Speed: Shift, we made a game called Shift 2 and EA came to me and said . So I said OK. That sounds like a good deal. I took the 1.5 million, I paid the guys, lots of bonuses, and two weeks before we were due to start Shift 3 it was cancelled. With no warning. They said ” Ian Bell then claimed that EA tried to destroy the company, that they tried to f*ck them over, and that they tried to steal their technology. “We were in trouble, we had nothing left. We were done. They literally destroyed our company. They tried to kill us, they tried to steal our technology as well. They tried to f*ck us over, there is no other way to put it. That’s what they tried to do. And we have no love for EA and this company.” Ian Bell concluded that EA’s guys are a**holes, that he has no respect for EA, that he’ll never make a deal with them again, that they are horrible human beings and that they are corporate monsters. Pretty bold accusations from Ian Bell. We’ll try to get in touch with EA in order to see whether they are interested in sharing their side of the story. Ironical and disgustingly shaming, that's how they destroyed a beginning from the best racing game, they wanted to steal their tehnology, because they knew that it will be the best from the best games and they wouldn't be even have a competition with other platforms, if they got their technology... So as you guys have played NFS: Shift and/or Shift 2, you know well, that the game was perfect, the drama, the fear about going too fast, the realism, all that things which are missing in today times racing games, like even in Forza Horizon 5, for example, with this game, they are pointing on 13 to 17 old non mentality kids, game has good graphics and everything looks like perfect, but something is missing, there's just no thrill, no emotion, they treat you as a idiot kiddo in the game and all that, because they care only about money, it's not from gamers - to gamers, it's just money makers, with games which the only good in it, are just the graphics, this is also by the way, how people made themselfs superficial, they care only about good looking and nice cars and gameplay now and also by the way, it can be also, because they don't have the technology from Mr. Ian Bell, so we can't feel the soul in the games anymore, we just waste time in something, which has even no style... Hope that Mr. Bell could make his own company, but well, they will anyways kill him, if he is still alive, for sure...

[@HeskeyBoy21]

i totally agree with how well the need for speed shift 1 did and the drama feel of it, nothing like it. The saddest thing now is EA bought codemasters, which owns the studio, and the very first thing EA has done is suddenly discontinue the project cars series. I wonder what happens to the engine..

[@emilholmgrenmusic]

You ended up being right, "Project Cars 3" really is the spiritual successor to the Shift series, much to the chagrin of some fans of the two first "Project Cars" titles. Being a huge fan of the Shift games, I was thrilled! My only complaint is the fact that they somehow managed to make it graphically worse than the first two PC games, while using more resources. Go figure.

[@M1551NGN0]

such less comments and less views can mean only one thing: people actually hated shift games to deviate from the illegal racing scene. nfs shift was my most played game ever on my xbox360. wish people gave it more love.

[@tintintin7753]

Really different content, I like it! maybe touch on Criterion's Era one day

[@athemocracy]

Criterion fills me with nostalgia.

[@trevonpernell0814]

@@athemocracy They made my all-time favorite NFS game, Hot Pursuit 2010.

[@rkuper95]

Interesting, thanks, I love Prostreet & first shift, it's my favorite NFS.

[@vongolajames]

Great video as always!:D

[@WatcherKoops4677]

I still declare SHIFT were their better games than project cars

[@eduardolobos7380]

project cars wasnt near as fun as need for speed shift

[@WatcherKoops4677]

@@eduardolobos7380 same. PC felt like another sim game like Forza or GT

[@04liverydesign7]

Nfs Shift has something unique which was the ferocity of racing, be in the first game or the second, and it was the only game where the engines sounded like animal roars, i still can't find a racing game which gives me the same experience as Shift, the rest of the simulators can have beautiful graphics, hundreds of cars, but they feel soft.

[@WatcherKoops4677]

@@04liverydesign7 and don't forget dynamic camera effects

[@kb0x]

Well, Project Cars technically became Shift 3 but the reason there was no Shift 3 was because it didn't appeal to everyone. I mean, it was trying to do too much at the same time. It's also because NFS had an identity crisis after Carbon. Prostreet was a track game, then Undercover was about street racing, Shift was about track racing, then Hot Pursuit 2010 was a cop game that was reminiscent of the old games before Underground, then Shift 2 Unleashed was a track game. Also, EA being EA, mismanaged the Shift subseries. It's not like EA hadn't done this before they had. It just shows how greedy EA was (and still is).

[@MadMike626]

Good video. It's a shame that Project Cars 3 looks like a mobile game so far.

[@witchmomorency297]

Yeah i was hopping this game will be the next shift 3 , but nope🥲

[@TheIkranRider]

I believe EA is still corporate and corrupt 2day, especially w/ all those petty, annual sports games; I dread for Nintendo to team up w/ them if there should be an F-Zero game. Maybe do a review of this, and where's WB Part 3?

[@robertt9342]

Please explain why releasing products annually is corrupt?

[@yol_n]

Shift did technically get its own series. Need For Speed: Shift Shift 2: Unleashed Project Cars Project Cars 2 Automobilista: Project Cars Brazilian Bogaloo Automobilista 2: Brazil Unleashed The half life of racing games 😂

[@Anggelos876]

Porsche Unleashed came way after NFS III. And we were used to the cops before Porsche unleashed.

[@supersonicspeed157]

why ea killed shift series for any reason The series could have been the strongest competitor for Forza and Gran Turismo any way

[@Dorfuto]

It’s really shows how much of a dick EA can be, it’s sad that they do this with every other company they work with.

[@iamreoh]

Dude pro street was hella fun in imo then shift toke over

[@suciodan5817]

Ian Bell 2 & SMS created amazing games: Project Cars 1 & 2, then they created 2 garbage games which are Fast & Furious Crossroads Speeds and Project Cars 3 which were a commercial failure, so Ian sold Slightly Mad Studios to Codemasters, and then Codemasters was bought by EA, who recently killed Project Cars; If Project Cars 3 would have been PC2 + Rally + AI & Improved Online, PC3 would have been superior to Gran Turismo 7 and the next Forza, or if Ian Bell had preferred to sell the company to Take2 everything would be different, but now Project Cars only exists on my Steam account, thanks Ian Bell for your greed.

[@Berhferdy]

If only they hadnt removed nfs shift off the playstore and replaced it with real racing 3

[@SicSemperBeats]

Im so hyped for project cars 3. 1 was really good 2 was good too but i feel like on pc the graphics looked a little worse than the first game and the helmet cam sense of speed wasn’t as good.

[@cdjtapipo280886]

Then EA buy Codemaster XD!!!

[@awdrifter3394]

NFS Shift 2 was not a good game, the input lag is almost 2x of other racing games, it makes driving higher HP cars impossible and even the lower HP cars were fun to drive with that much input lag.

[@DJalen08]

Get better internet. And better at driving games.

[@awdrifter3394]

@@DJalen08 not sure about the internet part, but definitely get a better driving game instead. NFS Shift 2 was really bad, there's no reason to go back to it now.

[@intelligence6900]

Project cars sucks man. It has zero soul of the shift 2