Thought they shared engine tech with Playground games?

[euphoreonz]

So many things just seem missing or worse than Horizon, beats me why they don't just... use their tech for some things.

[TheHuskyGT]

They are both the same company with two teams. One for each game. Horizon and Motorsports have always been the same game with minor differences. There really is no reason why they don't add all the stuff from Horizon 5, other than licensing maybe. Some cars even have the same bugs in both their Motorsports and Horizon version.

This new Motorsports claims to have a new engine, but I call that a lie. They just modeled a few cars from scratch with a very high polygon count, added Ray Tracing and cluttered the game. This "new" engine is clearly not able to handle it.

This is of course, just speculation on my part, with a pinch of educated guessing. It could be that they just rushed it to push "next gen" console sales. Make the game visually pretty and "next gen", throw in some old assets to pad it, sell it as the next big thing.

[DeadJericho]

i think t10 and playground have stretched themselves too thin, who are effectively the same group. horizon, this game, a new game engine and fable all in development

clear to me that this game was not in development for 6 years. the engine might have been whilst also encompassing development on horizon 5, but not the actual game.

[MaChao]

Originally posted by TheHuskyGT:

Horizon and Motorsports have always been the same game with minor differences.

That could not be further from the truth...
The driving and physics model in each are fundamentally different.
You might as well call Ridge Racer and gran Turismo "largely the same".