@psychicteeth It's a little bit outside of the original prompt, but the studio change, unknown to me at the time, from FlatOut 2/Ultimate Carnage (2006/2007) to FlatOut 3: Chaos and Destruction (2011) was one of my worst experience of a franchise gone wrong.

Thankfully BugBear Entertainment was able to bounce back from the IP loss and successfully crowdfunded Wreckfest (2018) which is much closer to the original games.