Rich Tysoe in persona, producer del gioco, ha confermato che il prossimo Colin McRae DIRT della Codemasters oltre ad avere un motore grafico completamente nuovo, avrà anche una fisica delle vetture e dei danni completamente riscritta da zero. Commenti sul forum.

DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road is set to be the most diverse and exhilarating off-road racing experience ever with sensational gravel, mud and dirt events the world over. Events will include the series’ intense point-to-point races and then take players further off-road than ever before.

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Race in challenging heavyweight 850bhp cars, drifting on the loose gravel and high-speed blind corners of Hill Climb events along perilous cliff edges. All 12.4 miles of the world famous Pikes Peak International is included, with over 150 precarious turns to negotiate through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

How about engaging in multiple car races with Dakar-style trucks and super-powered 4x4s on the toughest desert terrain in Rally Raid competitions? Then there are Rally Cross events, switching between dirt and road racing, where the competition is always tight, fast and collisions with your opponents are inevitable.

With more off-road racing styles to be revealed, DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road will also offer a dedicated mode for European, International and Global rally championships featuring official 2WD, 4WD, Classic and RWD rally cars.

DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road will deliver the wheel-screaming exhilaration of off-road racing with the next generation of the series’ sublime car handling and physics system and a devastating new damage engine that ensures players experience every bump in the track, every loose rock, every inch of shifting dirt through the reactive environments.

With an incredible range of off-road vehicles, thrill-packed tracks, modes that make the most of online multiplayer, and more varied events than any other single-championship rally game, Colin McRae is being reborn as a bigger, faster, wilder racing experience.

Get ready for total mud splattering, gravel churning, handbrake turning, off-road racing in DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road, coming 2007 for PS3, Xbox360 and PC.

Turn 10, team creativo del gioco, ha presentato un altro aggiornamento su Forza Motorsport 2 che riguarda le auto europee e l'integrazione con Internet. Visitando il sito ufficiale potete trovare l'elenco delle vetture prodotte in Europa che saranno disponibili nel gioco, cui sono riferite le immagini e il trailer presente a qui.

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Per quanto riguarda il rapporto tra Xbox Live e il sito ufficiale, registrandosi alla home page di Forza Motorsport 2 sarà possibile (come avviene per la serie Halo) tenere traccia delle proprie statistiche Multiplayer e perfino delle foto scattate attraverso l'immancabile Photo Mode. Inoltre, si potranno organizzare aste in cui vendere le proprie vetture comprese di personalizzazioni (vernice, aerodinamica e pezzi meccanici) naturalmente solo con la moneta virtuale presente nel gioco.

Il team THQ ha rilasciato oggi il comunicato stampa ufficiale, che potete leggere qui sotto, corredato di alcuni nuovi screenshots, per annunciare l'arrivo del nuovo Juiced 2 Hot Import Nights.

"THQ studio Juice Games is utilizing its vast racing pedigree and proprietary technology to deliver groundbreaking new game-play features in addition to working closely with Hot Import Nights to accurately capture the tuning and street racing culture,"

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said Bob Aniello, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, THQ. “We look forward to bringing this global franchise to next-generation systems for the first time.�

“Juiced 2: HIN introduces a thrilling new drifting component and lets players personalize their experience both on and offline with ultra realistic Driver DNA,� said Colin Bell, general manager, Juice Games. “In addition to a ton of exciting new features, we’ve significantly expanded the rewarding driving experience, track choice and customization our fans have come to expect.�

“Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights is an amazing extension of the Hot Import Nights lifestyle experience, bringing the modding, characters and racing finale to life for gamers and tuning fans worldwide,� said Michael Munar, Executive Producer, APG Events/Hot Import Nights. “This is the first time a top-tier racing game has blended with a true-to-life global tuner event and we can’t wait for its release.�

Juiced 2: HIN evolves the current street racing scene, letting players experience the culture of the real-life HIN tour, the nation’s largest lifestyle custom car show in an intense racing experience. Featuring track and drift racing at real-world locations around the globe, next-gen AI and unparalleled vehicle customization, Juiced 2: HIN brings street racing to life, allowing players to test their skills at live street racing events against a back-drop of DJs, fashion, models and musicians. Groundbreaking new features include addictive drift/ powersliding races and “Driver DNA� that tracks gamers’ personal driving traits. These profiles, along with the profiles of select celebrities will be available for download across all online gaming systems. Elite racing developer Juice Games has evolved the game-play that revolutionized online racing, giving players the power to create their car, assemble their crew and put it all on the line in intense pink slip and crew races. Gamers will also be able to bet cash on each event, bringing a gambling element to the game that greatly increases the importance of each race.

Juiced 2: HIN is expected to make its next-generation debut on the Xbox 360 and PS3, and will also be available for the PS2, PSP, NDS and PC this fall.

Potete leggere a questo indirizzo una breve ma interessante intervista fatta a Gavin Raeburn, producer del nuovo Colin McRae Dirt, che ci spiega alcune novità che saranno presenti nel prossimo titolo targato Codemasters.

Revised single and multi-player mode
Compared with previous titles, the career mode of Colin McRae has: DIRT the old, linear progressing pyramid structure replacedâ€, explains Gavin Raeburn one of the large changes. So far the player had to deny and win all championships, in order to achieve the large goal, the world champion title.

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Rather now each level in the career mode will offer numerous disciplines as well as running options, so that the player can decide independently, which vehicles on which courses to the limit is floated. Thus it will not be necessary to deny each career running for reaching the principal purpose. The Executive producer holds however the opinion that racing fans will participate nevertheless in all Events, in order to win and the own collection to add be able all vehicles.

Likewise the Multiplayerpart receives a detailed general overhaul. The title is going by developed that in an on-line meeting an extremely large number can participate in players, which was so far not yet possible this correct. The Offroad mode will cover players according to official statements up to 100 during a run. New it is in addition also that the meeting automatically does not end as soon as the original host the Multiplayermodus leaves. Beyond that statistics fans may look forward to incorruptible rank lists, which give an exact information over it how well one drove and how competitive different pilots are.

Merciless damage model

In the past years particularly proved in Great Britain resident the Entwicklerstudios of Codemasters that realistic damage models are possible as for example with the DTM Race Driver series. Colin McRae: DIRT is to receive a still more spectacular damage model, which separate not only the destruction of the vehicles just as the environment made possible. In addition the code mast R-S coworker: “Everything behaves like that as it in the reality the case is. For example metal, plastics becomes baggy tears and the plants can be bent and photolithographies. If one besides a tree at high speeds rams, the car will wrap itself proverbially around this.

But deformations and dividing of the vehicle in all chassis and engine parts do not only provide for an authentic atmosphere. Cameras as well as particles intensify additionally the conception: “The players can fall back to a Replay mode, which permits a rewinding and the repeated reputation of an accident as desired. It insists in addition the possibility on a Slow Motion camera to be changed, thus the real destruction be recognized canâ€, describes Gavin Raeburn.

Un nuovo comunicato stampa della Milestone relativo al prossimo Superbikes World Championship 2007 non aiuta a capire con certezza quale sarà la data di rilascio del gioco: in questo caso infatti si parla di aprile prossimo. Commenti sul forum.

VARESE, ITALY - 20th FEBRUARY 2007 - While the official teams are finalizing their set ups in Quatar, Black Bean Games and Milestone are putting the finishing touches to their biggest release to date: SBK07 Superbike World Championship. From April 2007, you will have the chance to directly experience the highs and lows of the SBK World championship on PS2-PSP-PC-X360.

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All the official teams, 22 bikes and 22 riders on track at the same time each with individual characteristics will be fighting for pole position in 4 game modes: Quick Race, Race Weekend, Championship and Challenges.

While the Race Team mechanics and technicians are tweaking their bikes to extract the last drop of power ahead of this years championship., in Milestone studios the engineers are optimizing the bikes physics, acceleration and speed in order to deliver the SBK bike experience to race fans everywhere. While at the same time adapting and tweaking the AI to ensure each rider behaves as aggressively, daringling or insanely in the game as their real world counterparts.

All elements of the SBK universe have been faithfully recreated,: riders, tracks, atmosphere, TV style replays, and much much more... including all the most beautiful Superbike Umbrella girls! ! The entire world of the most spectacular bike races in your game pad from April this year.

We're already at the beginning of a fantastic new season, where the 5 official teams (Ducati, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha) are gearing up for a high octane race for the podium.

This 20th anniversary year for the SBK Championship is already looking like a classic, with Troy Bayliss and Ducati, the 2006 season champions having to defend their title from the assault of great opponents such as the young Fonsi Nieto with his Kawasaki, tlast years unner up James Toseland with his great Team Honda, the expert Troy Corser on Yamaha and most of all the new couple Max Biaggi and Suzuki Alstare, a roster that promise a thrilling 2007 season from the very beginning with the first race in Doha, Qatar, on feb 24.

Choose your favourite rider and take a place on the starting grid, with SBK07, the race for victory is starting!!