RACE '07

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=283648

Various single seater addons and all the 2007 cars and tracks - not sure if it's going to be an add-on for RACE or a new game.

[TinMan]

Sounds like they're going to try to screw people for the money for a new game.

TC

[PaulW]

Good luck to them- I hope it's genuinely competitive. Could be make or break time after the last game.

[popabawa]

The press release says "it is time for a brand new 'single seater' racing experience".

Brand new sounds like marketing speak for a full-price game to me!

I'm unconvinced that SimBin can come up with the goods without Blimey!

[Adam Parle]

Yes, it does sound like a "brand-new" game.

I can't see it working with the wealth of top quality single seater mods available in rF.

[Simon Gymer]

As long as it's not based on the RACE code there may be some hope. Let's hope they're using the GTR2 engine!

[fozzmeister]

Lets hope they are using the rF engine, as GTR2 still doesn't work for me online.

[Haiku]

Can anyone explain to me why they are working on this when they could do something worthwhile like make a 2005 and/or 2006 expansion pack for GTR2? Or am I totally missing something here...

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

FIRST PROMO VIDEO OF RACE 07 UNLEASHED, HIGLIGHTING “CONTENT AND LICENSES”

SimBin Development Team is proud to present the first promotion video of RACE 07. Over 300 cars in 9 different classes and 32 tracks with variations from all over the world assures some great racing on PC when released after this summer.

“This first video is based on what is still to be considered as an early phase of the game but we wanted to show the world the massive amount of content that is included in RACE 07”, says Diego Sartori, Creative Director at SimBin.” With this said I must underline that SimBin will never give in to quantity over quality, with RACE07 SimBin is yet again introducing new classes and new driving styles while at the same time taking car physics, car sounds and track details that one step further”, adds Sartori.


The movie can be downloaded from the RACE 07 section at; www.race-game.org

RACE 07 – The WTCC Game will be released worldwide on PC in Q3 2007

SimBin Development Team AB is a Swedish game developer founded in 2003 and is a subsidiary of SimBin Studios AB. The main studio resides in Gothenburg with additional studios in Vara and Falun as well as a team of distributed consultants focusing on low risk content. SimBin Development Team AB handles all game productions in the group and develops racing games for all leading platforms. In the SimBin portfolio you will find award winning titles like “GTR – The FIA GT Racing Game”, “GT Legends” , “GTR 2 – The FIA GT Racing Game” and “RACE – The WTCC Game”.

SimBin Studios AB is the mother company, responsible for the publishing and IP rights for all productions developed within the SimBin group. SimBin Studios AB is also responsible for Business Development, Finances, Marketing, PR and administration.

The SimBin group is a Swedish privately owned group of companies that occupy a total staff of 70 people, consisting of 50 employees at the headquarters in Vara and the development studios in Gothenburg and Falun, as well as 20 distributed consultant’s world wide. The company possesses a global distribution network with its main markets in Europe and the US.

GTR and RACE are registered trademarks owned by the SimBin group.
www.simbin.com

[Mark J]

Looks pretty good in the video  , though i note all the cars sound like hairdryers  .

Could be a good addition to the sim racing stable with that extra variety of car classes.

[popabawa]

It looks great.

I'll be giving Race a 2^nd chance

[Adam Parle]

Yep - looks good (Radicals would be fun) ... I'll give it a go.

[Simon Gymer]

Video makes it look very arcadish, but VERY hard to tell from that. If there's a demo I will try it.

[popabawa]

I was just having a lunchtime browse at SimBin's website and found this page which has a couple of details I hadn't heard before;
http://www.simbin.se/news.php?newsid=105

A new and unique helmet cam view has been implemented to support the open cockpit cars specifically. This helmet view is directly affected by different weather effects as well as dirt and bugs on the helmet visor.

On top of this comes a new animation for removing virtual Tear offs from the helmets visor, just as in real racing where the helmet is heavily exposed during the races.
RACE 07 is also introducing a new action camera cockpit view that will add even more immersion and sensation of speed when driving from the cockpit.

In addition RACE 07 also supports custom skins, especially important for communities and league racing.

[Simon Gymer]

Great news about the skins!

Not bothered about the "helmet cam" as I don't race cockpit anyway, but sounds like a neat feature.

I also hope they make the dedicated server "free" so we don't have to buy another copy of the game to run the server like we would have to with RACE #1.