Description
Play one of the best games of 2009 - as seen on TV! Superb graphics, realistic handling and endless hours of fun!
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WINNER – IGF Mobile, Technical Achievement
WINNER – IMGA, Excellence in Connectivity
IGN, Slide to Play and AppGamer iPhone Game of the Month
9/10 IGN: "best iPhone racer to date"
9/10 Pocket Gamer: "the lead in a crowded genre"
UGO: "iPhone's answer to Gran Turismo and Forza"
iLounge: "a triumph for this platform"
10/10 iPGN: "one of the best titles we have ever seen"
4.5/5 148Apps: "Best racer ever"
Touch Arcade: "sets a new standard for what to expect"
MobileCrunch: "electrifying gameplay, jaw-dropping graphics - a must-buy"
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Visit firemint.com/realracing for more info
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Firemint Real Racing(TM) immerses you in all the excitement, competition and glory of championship racing. This is handheld racing like you've never experienced before!
- 48 cars in 4 classes, 12 unique tracks, 5 game modes
- 3 divisions to play through
- Massive career mode with 76 events
- Local multiplayer supporting up to 6 players (over WiFi network)
- Select your favourite songs from your personal music library while racing (iPhone and iPod Touch OS 3.0)
- 6 cars on screen
- Touch or tilt to steer
- Manual or automatic acceleration and braking
- In-car cockpit view or external camera
- Online league play and leaderboards
- Video replays on YouTube
- Create personal leaderboards at www.cloudcell.com
RACE IT YOUR WAY
Race the way you want to, with 5 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 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. 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.
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! Beautiful track environments, carefully detailed cars and console quality 3D sound effects create the most exhilarating 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. It's the way racing games are meant to feel.
GET PERSPECTIVE
Our unique in-car cockpit view places you in the driver's seat. Get feedback from the animated driver and 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.
KEEP ON RACING
76 events in the full career mode, 5 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!
What's New in Version 1.21
- Fixed incorrect vehicle in qualification bug.
- Various improvements and bug fixes to solve the loading crash experienced from initial splash screen.
Customer Reviews
Slick and sassy!
I would give this racing app a 5 but it has one small issue. The CPU opponents are on a bot path. For those of you who don't know what a bot path is, it is a path the cpu players follow. Well the CPU cars follow this path and do not leave it even if you are there. They push you out of the way so they can stay on that path. Adding to that, if you hit one of them you loose a second and a half or more and a lot of times if they hit you they continue on at the same speed or end up going faster. I find this anoying because it is not fair. Last but not least if you even so much as touch the grass you loose so much time and everyone blazes by you. Grrr silly. I don't want to discourage buying this app because it is an awesome app and well worth the $5. You just have to work around those small issues. Cheers and happy racing
Hands down the REAL DEAL
When EA’s Need for Speed finally made its debut after months of delays, I declared it the best arcade racer available at that time for the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. Well, I can safely declare Firemint’s Real Racing from Firemint is the BEST overall racer, arcade or otherwise, available on the platform that blows away everything else. The game is impressive in all aspects of the word for controls, graphics, and gameplay. It is truly a racer that not only sets a high bar, but tears it down and creates a new set of rules.
Depthwise, Real Racing has 12 race tracks, 36 cars, and 3 car classes (sedan, hatchback and muscle car) and 9 championships. The load of content by itself would be enough to make most racing fans salivate. But I haven’t even discussed the local online play where you can against other players for the title of the best real racer. You can compete either in online leagues or in local online only multiplayer races. Some will be disappointed by the local online only play to compete with others, but when you see the graphics, it’s a good bet that the game in this case is ahead of the connectivity.
Visually this game will easily draw comparisons to PSP-quality racers because the high-resolution graphics/animation and framerate are that smooth. From the details on the cars to the explosive sounds of revving engines combined with a high-velocity soundtrack, Real Racing delivers an immersive racing experience. Don’t let the pre-release videos fool you…the colors pop, and you’ll be amazed. Also, in the upper right corner during a race, you can alternate between third-person and cockpit view. Seriously, the game is so well implemented, you can feel the speed in this game.
Firsthand, I will tell you that the accelerometer controls with auto calibration are responsive but they tend to be shaky making it difficult to see what’s happening around you which can be distracting. The touch steering works like a charm for me and seems to stabilize the image for whatever reason, although I like manual acceleration instead of auto acceleration. In Real Racing, whatever control scheme you choose, you’re in complete control in how much or how little you turn, and I can’t say that about too many racing games.
The other great option is the Brake Assist System which automatically brakes your vehicle when it approaches other cars or turns corners. As with the accelerometer sensitivity, you can also adjust the Brake Assist System, and it’s terrifically implemented which I recommend you use early on as you familiarize yourself with the race tracks or for quick casual play. Other options include the ability to flip the screen (a great option that too many devs ignore),
Real Racing has three modes of play: career, single races and time trials. In Career mode, you have to qualify and unlock races which have names such as the Hatch Qualifier, Monacato 500, NrGee Super Sprint and Touring Qualifier. In terms of single races, you have a number of tracks to choose from and it tracks your fastest lap based on Hatch, Sedan and Muscle. You can choose to race solo or with competitors as well choose the number of laps. In Time Trial, you can also choose from a number of tracks, track by class of vehicle, and then upload the best time online. In each, there are 3 divisions based on difficulty: Division C, Division B, and Division A. B and A are unlocked once you successfully complete races in Division C.
Another significant differentiator is the AI which significantly adds to the realism. The “human-like AI” is noticeably apparent and saying that it adds to the racing experience would be an understatement. In other racing games, the level of difficulty can vary from being too easy to too hard where you can either lap competing racers or you get bombarded by other racers to the point of absurdity (e.g. Days of Thunder). You won’t have that problem with Real Racing, and in fact, you better have your driving gloves on and know the race course. The AI offers challenging gameplay and is not afraid to show who the boss is. This is how good Real Racing is.
Real Racing or NFS? If you’re into arcade racers with arcade physics (you know what I mean by that), and you want more of a storyline regardless of how shallow, then go with NFS. However, for those who want a realistic sim racer with real feel for speed, and a good amount of depth in terms of race tracks and cars, and most importantly a career mode, Real Racing is a no brainer.
For GT racing fans/Comparable to PSX-PS2 Era GT1-2
If you loved Gran Turismo 1 & 2 as much as I did, this game is that and then some in the palm of your hands. I would state that if you have the $5 to spend on a racing game, this is your game right here. The graphics, the handling, the control schemes and music are all stellar. Firemint put a lot of work into the game, and they keep it fun by letting you adjust the game to your tastes and desires. Tweak what you want, when you want, and compete over the web to boot. There are 0 other games like it. Great game, great price, and great fun on the go.
- $4.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: Nov 07, 2009
- Current Version: 1.21
- 1.21 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 77.4 MB
- Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Seller: ndWare Pty Ltd
- © 2009 Firemint. All Rights Reserved
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later.
