So far so good. The presentation of the game is slick, for the outset it looks pretty damn polished. Graphics are similar to that of NFS: Undercover. As Hodapp had stated in his impressions, this can play out like an Arcade or a racing sim. With the default controls, I felt that I was allowed to drift too much without braking at all and still win the race. I decided to change to the Fastlane control scheme (right thumb for gas, left for brake) and it worked well. I also fiddled around with the steering sensitivity and disabled the brake assist. It made it a whole lot better, meaning it doesn't play out like an arcade anymore and it left me in a racing simulation bliss.
That looks sick. I can't take another 9.99 hit though; if it's at 5.99 or under, I'm buying on launch.
Firemint Real Racing(TM) immerses you in all the excitement, competition and glory of championship racing. This is handheld racing like youve never experienced before! ===================================== WINNER IGF Mobile, Technical Achievement WINNER IMGA, Excellence in Connectivity ===================================== - 36 cars in three classes, a dozen unique tracks, five game modes - Three divisions to play through - Massive career mode with 57 events to complete - Ten licensed music tracks from indy artists - Six cars on screen - Touch or tilt to steer - Manual or automatic acceleration and braking - In-car cockpit view or external camera - Local multiplayer over WiFi - Online league play - Online leaderboards - Video replays on YouTube - Create personal leaderboards at www.cloudcell.com RACE IT YOUR WAY Race the way you want to, with five different game modes. Challenge friends in local multiplayer and leave them in your dust! Work your way up from rookie to world champion in Career mode. Slice off another split second in Time Trial and upload your personal best. Join an online league and battle your way through the ranks of players from all over the world to advance to the next division. Only got a minute? Get behind the wheel for a Quick Race. IMMERSE YOURSELF Tear through forests, seaside circuits and burning deserts, with the roar of the engine and the sounds of an adoring crowd in your ears as you scream past! Beautiful track environments, carefully detailed cars and console quality 3D sound effects create the most exhilerating racing experience on the iPhone(TM). TAKE CONTROL If you can drive a real car, you can race in Firemint Real Racing. Intuitive controls take care of things under the hood just like an expert pit crew, while you focus on your racing line. Accurate surface variations including asphalt, grass, gravel and ripple-strips affect vehicle speed, responsiveness and handling. Its the way racing games are meant to feel. RACE LIKE YOU MEAN IT Firemint Real Racing provides authentic pack racing action like no other iPhone(TM) game. Take to the circuit in a six car grid and jostle your way to the lead. GET PERSPECTIVE Our unique in-car cockpit view places you in the drivers seat. Get feedback from the animated driver and the race data incorporated into dashboard instruments. TWEAK IT Looking for more than just factory settings? Adjust handling and sensitivity to suit, with a huge range of options. Control methods include tilt to steer or touch to steer, manual or automatic acceleration and brake assist options. SHOW THE WORLD Set up a link to your YouTube channel to publish your best laps automatically. Compare your best times against friends and rivals online and set up your own custom leaderboards. Compete for glory in a range of regular online leagues, and win your way into more competitive online divisions. SET THE SCENE Race along to licensed indy bands to keep you pumped up, or turn music off altogether and drive to the growl of your engine. Play your own tracks from your iPod® if you prefer. KEEP ON RACING 57 events in the full career mode, five modes of play, local multiplayer, numerous online leagues and rankings against your friends or the world ensure endless hours of fun. Buckle in and get set for the most exhilarating racing experience. With Firemint Real Racing, the race is in your hands!
Sorry for the confusion, it is the same video. IGN had an exclusive on it which has now expired, so we've been able to make it available through YouTube as well - the big difference being, now it can be embedded on any web page Alex
If I were to guess I would say anywhere between $5-7 would be good. I doubt it will be $10, I don't think these developers are as greedy as EA.
Greedy? They've been working on this game for how long? 6 months? More? Have you seen the photos of their office they've posted and the 20 or so guys working on this game? They could have easily built a PSP game instead and sold Real Racing for $30-40 no problem. This is a racing game unlike anything you've seen on the iPhone. To call setting a price point to something they could reasonably recuperate their investment with as "greedy" quite honestly is laughable.
Well considering this will probably be a candidate for game of the year, I could see $10 as fair. I was referring to Need For Speed. ANyway, you keep comparing PSP and DS to the idevices. The idevices have a much more casual audience for the most part, so most people are gonna disagree with you for supporting higher prices. Take a look at the Top Paid apps, most of them are a buck or less than $5, thats just the way it is ... idevice gaming, pricing, is much more competitive than PSP and DS games given the fact that there's a ridiculous amount of apps being released every day.
This looks A LOT better than NFSU. They could easily make it to the Top 100 Charts @ 9.99. 36 cars vs. 20 cars in NFSU. There's like 3 views vs. the one in NFSU and seems like there are a lot more tracks. I don't know about you, but this game looks worth way more than 9.99 although I hope they don't price it more.
I agree $10 is a steal. The Sims is sitting at number one, selling for $9.99. I don't care if the majority of the audience is casual, a developer like Firemint who puts a lot of work into creating a high-quality, deep product shouldn't have to bend over and devalue their product because of spoiled, cheap, casual gamers. There are plenty of racing games on the App Store, with a wide range of prices and levels of quality that all gamers needs should be more than satisfied.
I managed to keep my zen and passed on NFS but I think my fingers would just click on real racing even if its 10 bucks lol You can tell from the videos that the devs really pour in a lot of work and polish into the game. 10 bucks would be the least we can do to reward them so that they can make more games like this. How about a racing game MMO? (sorry off-topic)
