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Lucid Games isn't making Project Gotham Racing 5. You've had a couple of months to let that sink in, and to do with the information what you will, whether that be mourning or just seeking solace in Forza 5's bright, urban spaces that suggest Turn 10's muscling in on the patch left absent since Bizarre Creation's demise. The game that is being created by a group of veterans from the Liverpool studio that brought us one of the best arcade racers should be of interest, though - according to Lucid, its new game 2K Drive could be some of the best work in the careers of its illustrious staff. "Racing games are about the depth of the handling system," says Pete Wallace, one of Lucid's eight founder members and a man with no small experience of the genre. "They need to be accessible, but there needs to be depth - and if you haven't got that depth I kind of fall out of love with it. That's the hardest thing to solve in a racing game. We've definitely solved it in 2K Drive."
"The physics system and the dynamics are there," says creative director Craig Howard of the relationship between 2K Drive and the PGR series, "and that's the process we used to work on with the pad. It's just that we're using a tablet now, but there are certain similarities that people will pick up on from Project Gotham."
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