We were met by Pete Hickman (Senior Producer), Luke Timms (Assistant Producer) and Gareth Ramsey (Public Relations). Our intention was to find out a little more about the title including technical aspects and SCI’s approach to possibly the greatest rally sim.
SCI‘s investment in RBR has been huge, not just the 2 ½ years researching but a personal investment from each of the people involved. Pete has travelled to several stages, this investment has certainly come through with RBR.

According to earlier announcements TECHLAND has released today the long awaited multiplayer demo of Xpand Rally.
The demo version features two cars (each with two different paintings) and three different tracks. Players will have two game modes to choose: Simulation and Arcade. br>Except common rally races (time trials) and head to head races (with collisions), a freestyle mode contest is also available which allows one to drive without any restrictions to a track over the whole terrain.

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The Xpand Rally MP Demo enables you to adjust main components of the car. Due to this feature the player is not only able to have the car match the road conditions, but also to his individual preferences. The Demo lets you to host an Internet or a LAN game.
The full version of Xpand Rally besides the multiplayer mode will also offer a complex career mode with over 70 races and a Single Race mode. Players will get 35 rally cars divided into 8 groups, and over 800 tuning parts.
Fully dynamic and interactive track environment, realistic damage system and the simulation of driver injuries - are the main features of Xpand Rally full version. Additionally, photorealistic track design placed in 5 varied landscapes enhances the realism of driving a rally car.
A doubtless advantage of the game is a set of editing tools that allow you to create your own tracks and add favorite cars.

I have had some screenshots of the track editor for some time but we wanted to wait to show it until we were fairly sure about how the whole track design system is going to work. There are still tons of issues to work out, and we don’t know if this is the type of system we will use in the end, but I think we have held off long enough. I think lots of the things we are doing for the track system have never been done before in a racing game, and probably have never been done before in ANY type of game.

Will it be possible to modify the game?

There are plans to allow the user to publish stage times onto the web, this whole system will be open for modding, other modding will also be possible, further information on modding will be available at a later time.

Once we got in range of the GET REAL center some people were building a huge circus tent, later we heard there would be a Disco in that tent. We arriced at the Get Real Center, where Nicolas (simbin member) was sleeping in the Roos Audi, he was the only person there. We decided to let the guy sleep and walked back to the OTO BAR, where we had some cups of coffee. My watch said it was 8.30am by now, so we walked back to the Simbin tent...