Direttamente dalla recente Games Convention di Lipsia, ecco arrivare un nuovo comunicato stampa del team Simbin dedicato all'attesissimo GTR2, titolo in arrivo a settembre in Italia. Per commenti utilizzate il forum dedicato.

GTR2 is the next big step forward for the GTR brand, and sports a host of new features and improvements. In addition to all the favourite cars and tracks returning from GTR, the player will now be able to experience the thrill of driving a whole set of new and exotic sports cars on several new tracks.

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As part of an exclusive agreement with the FIA, GTR2 is a racing simulation that plays off in the GT Championship, and features more than 140 officially licensed super cars. More than 28 accurately rebuild tracks plays home to racing events. GTR2 also features the Proximus 24 Hours race, one of auto racing’s most prestigious events. Taking place at the world-renowned Spa Francorchamps track, this event has been running since 1924. Each year sees the best of the best meeting here to compete in a race that runs for a gruelling 24 hours. The race has over 100.000 spectators and is to be compared with Le Mans 24H and Daytona 24H. GTR2 provides a highly-accurate recreation of this prominent race.

Core features
o More than 140 accurately modeled cars, including all the cars from the GT, NGT.
o 28 officially licensed and accurately modelled tracks
o Highly realistic and competitive AI opponents
o 3 Game Modes
- Novice mode
- Semi-Pro mode
 -Simulation mode
o 6 Game Events
- Open Practice
- Race Weekend
- Championships
- Ghost Time Trials
- Proximus 24H
- Driving School
o Fully integrated Multiplayer Feature

GTR2 pushes the boundaries of racing simulation further than ever before, and puts the game in a league of it’s own.

Graphics Engine
GTR2 is built on an entirely new rendering core, featuring full DirectX 9 support, in addition to full legacy support for DirectX 7 and 8 shaders and features. Utilizing the new special effect features brought about by the latest DirectX implementation, GTR2 sports real-world-like effects, such as specular-reflective wet-road surfaces, real-time ambient lighting, dynamic headlights, extended particle system, and much more.

Physics Engine
Extending the ground-breaking physics engine found in GTR1, GTR2 brings exciting new features, as well as improvements on current features. Damage Physics – Crashing now has a more realistic effect on the car, both visually with carbon shards flying off the cars during collisions, body panels denting and breaking off, etc. and in handling characteristic. Tire Physics – More detailed tire characteristic modeling, translating into even more realism in handling and feedback. The tire physics model is fully reworked to provide more convincing low speed control.

Events
Three new Events are introduced in GTR2. Ghost Time Trials In this mode, the player competes in a Time Trial against himself or against pre-recorded ghost racers. The player can share his best recording with friends through an integrated online file swap feature, and download recordings posted by other players. Proximus 24H This mode recreates an event that takes place at the world-renowned Circuit de Spa Francorchamps. The event spans a full four days, and culminates in a race that runs for a grueling 24 hours! Making full use of the new technology available to us, we are creating a highly detailed and accurate recreation of this event, where the player will experience several new features to the series, such as realistic day-night cycle, dynamic weather changes, with clouds rolling in, rain falling and stopping, and track wetness changing. Driving School The purpose of the driving school is to teach the player the nuances of driving well. The player will complete a course in driving theory, and earn licenses by competing against an instructor driver. In addition to teaching driving technique, the Driving School contains a number of fun and challenging events that will award the player with medals earned, and unlocked custom championship events.

Cars GTR2 contains over 140 highly detailed cars, each an accurate reproduction of the actual vehicle. The cars represent some of the most prized additions to the super car stable. The detail on the cars has moved up another notch, and includes special effects such as animated cockpits and more detailed damage effects. Tracks New tracks, updated versions of the tracks as raced on in the current FIA-GT season, as well historic versions of all the tracks from the previous FIA-GT season. Each of these modeled with unprecedented attention to detail and accuracy. Sounds GTR2 features vehicle sounds recorded directly from the actual race cars, resulting in the most realistic engine sounds to be found in a game. Additionally, the game features a rich Ambient sound set such as wind noise, crowds, and pit lane noise and Pit-to-Car communication, with the player being able to obtain information from the pits regarding race position, car condition, and race conditions LiveTrack GTR2 features LiveTrack technology, whereby the player experience dirt (marble/rubble) build-up on the track surface during the progression of a race. The game features an accurate visual presentation of the build-up, as well as physical realism expressed through the way that the marbles affect the handling of the car and how it is felt through the force-feedback effects.

Track-IR
Track-IR technology, previously confined to flight simulators, is fully supported in GTR2. technology tracks the player’s head movement, allowing him/her to look around the cockpit, glance at the rear-view mirror, etc, by simply moving their heads, just like in real life. GTR2 featuring full 6 degrees of freedom support. This allows the player to lean forward, back, left, and right in addition to looking around the cockpit.

Online features
GTR2 features an extensive multiplayer component, fully integrated into the GTR2 experience, and often operates transparently to the player. Three modes of online play Players can engage in an online game via one of three different options: − LAN − Direct IP − Internet Lobby Dedicated server GTR2 ships with a dedicated server module, allowing anyone to host their own game server. Server voting Players can vote to initialize certain events. These are: − Next session − Next race − Kick player Game Lobby Players can find online game servers via the game’s built-in lobby system. The lobby features: − Player list − Server list (sort-able) − Public chat windows − Private chat windows … more features will follow.

E' disponibile per rFactor la comoda utility denominata DestroY Tweaker, nella sua nuova versione 3.1.0: questo utile programmino consente di aprire e quindi modificare tutti i parametri del gioco, compresi quelli "nascosti" dai menu. Per il download correte qui, mentre utilizzate questo post per commenti o problemi.

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DestroY rFactor Tweaker is a great tool for Image Space Inc.'s (ISI) rFactor racing simulation. With DestroY rFactor Tweaker you can configure over 450 options that you cannot from within the game, and it features other advanced features, such as options to run rFactor with special parameters and a full log of all your configuration changes.

New in v3.1.0:
* DestroY rFactor Tweaker is now prepared to work with rFactor v1.150
* New v1.150 features and internal changes to work with the new file structure
* New option allows you to set through DestroY rFactor Tweaker settings which can be set through the game's user interface
* Added new "Tweak" category, Miscellaneous Options
* DestroY rFactor Tweaker should now work correctly for all Windows 98/Me users
* Changed the driver selection combobox as it gave problems to some users, specially in old OS versions
* Log entries now also specify the current driver name
* Other small changes

La release di testing gratuita del nuovo Phoenix Racing ha riscosso un notevole successo di download, ecco quindi arrivare una prima patch ufficiale per il gioco che corregge alcuni problemi, diversi bugs ed aumenta la difficoltà generale in pista.

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Fixes Include
Car Acceleration
Turning Speeds
Track 3 Flaoting Car
Buttons on Main Loafing Screen
Increased Bot Difficulty

Direttamente dalla fiera di Lipsia, ecco arrivare alcune nuove immagini di anteprima del nuovo Nitro Stunt Racing, titolo sviluppato dal team Game Seed previsto per la fine del 2006.

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Ancora screenshots di anteprima per il prossimo Test Drive Unlimited della Eden Games: correte ad ammirarli tutti a questo indirizzo, mentre per un assaggio fate click su #CONTINUE#

 

Kazunori Yamauchi (Polyphony Digital) ha fatto il punto della situazione relativa alla serie Gran Turismo nell'intervista concessa al magazine giapponese Famitsu. In particolare, si è parlato del primo episodio diretto alla PlayStation 3 e di un altro capitolo (per la stessa console) già in via di sviluppo.

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Gran Turismo HD, secondo il suo stesso creatore, è semplicemente un porting di Gran Turismo 4 migliorato dal punto di vista tecnico (e in alcuni settori del gameplay) per sfruttare le alte risoluzioni disponibili alle ultimissime TV, offrendo 60 fotogrammi al secondo a 1920x1080p. Il gioco non rappresenta un "nuovo" capitolo per la serie che proseguirà con un altro titolo (GT5 probabilmente) pensato per sfruttare le caratteristiche della PlayStation 3 in modo più approfondito.

[Fonte Nextgame]

Tra i titoli annunciati da Sega in mostra alla Games Convention di Lipsia figurava tale Sega Rally per PC e console di nuova generazione (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360). Un appuntamento importante per i fan della serie automobilistica di Sega, ansiosi di capire se la disastrosa versione per PlayStation 2 del gioco fosse solo uno sgradito incidente di percorso.

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Eppure, di Sega Rally allo stand Sega non vi è stata alcuna traccia, ne sugli schermi per il pubblico, ne nelle presentazioni a porte chiuse per la stampa. Il motivo è stato svelato ieri da Sega: Sega Rally Revo (così viene ora chiamato il gioco dalla software house, senza alcun riferimento al vecchio nome del Wii) è in buona salute e in fase avanzata di sviluppo, ma la sua comparsa allo show tedesco è stata bloccata da problemi con le licenze delle vetture presenti nella versione dimostrativa. Dunque, nessun ritardo per il gioco e nessun rischio per il suo destino, che rimane quello di apparire sugli schermi di PC, PlayStation 3 e Xbox 360 l'anno venturo.

[Fonte Nextgame]