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Real RacingCurrent Version: 1.25 (iOS 4.0 Tested)

$4.99
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UPDATED TO SUPPORT ONLINE MULTIPLAYER THROUGH GAME CENTER

Experience all of the excitement, competition and glory of championship racing. This is handheld racing like you've never seen before, in the most stunning, realistic and intuitive racer on iPhone and iPod touch. Get Real Racing today, and find out what everyone is raving about!

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WINNER – Apple Design Award 2010:
WINNER – IGF Mobile, Technical Achievement
WINNER – IMGA, Excellence in Connectivity

* 9.5/10 Gamespot
* 9/10 IGN
* #1 Racing Game in 55 countries
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- 6 car grid. Unlock 48 cars in 4 classes and 12 unique tracks set in city, forest and desert environments.

- 6 game modes including massive career mode with 76 events.

- Touch or tilt to steer, manual or automatic acceleration and braking.

- In-car cockpit view or external camera.

- *NEW* up to 4-person online multiplayer through Game Center (3G or Wi-Fi).

- Local multiplayer supporting up to 6 players (over Wi-Fi).

- Earn more than a dozen all-new achievements.

View achievements and leaderboards in the Game Center app (on iOS 4.1 devices). Online content requires an internet connection.

- Watch video replays and easily upload to YouTube.
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RACE IT YOUR WAY

Race the way you want to, with 6 different game modes. Challenge friends in local or online 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. Only got a minute? Get behind the wheel for a Quick Race.

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.

TAKE CONTROL
Intuitive, realistic 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 chicanes affect vehicle speed, responsiveness and handling.

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
Easily set up a link to your YouTube channel to publish your best laps automatically then share them with friends.

ONLINE MULTIPLAYER
Log in to Game Center to challenge and compete against friends from around the world in a race of your choice and/or open auto-match slots and wait for other players to join! Compete for glory in a range of online leagues through Cloudcell, and battle your way through rival drivers from all over the world to advance to the top.

GET CONNECTED WITH GAME CENTER AND CLOUDCELL

Compare achievements and time-trial results with friends and rivals with Game Center (iOS4.1 devices only) and Cloudcell (all devices). Visit realracing.cloudcell.com to see lap times and set up your own custom leaderboards.

KEEP ON RACING

76 events in the full career mode, 6 modes of play, local and online multiplayer, numerous online leagues and rankings against your friends or the world ensure endless hours of fun.

With Firemint Real Racing, the race is in your hands…

*****Buy now and start your engines!*****
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Real Racing Review

Challenging race game offers realism, online league play

In some ways, watching the developing iPhone market is like reliving the similar rise of console or computer games from the ’90s. Every developer is scrambling to produce the best graphics, the best gameplay, and doing so at a much faster rate than their console and computer predecessors.

Real Racing
Eyes on the Road: Real Racing sports an in-the-cockpit view and an outside view.

But Firemint’s Real Racing isn’t just another step forward graphically; the game has received recognition and awards because of its social potential. Similarly, the reason why the iPhone has been an exciting-to-watch horse race is because its connectivity abilities far surpass anything else we’ve seen. Real Racing begins to deliver on the potential of the iPhone as a social gaming device. While not firing on all of its cylinders yet, Real Racing is still the prettiest and fastest car we’ve seen so far.

Though it sounds blasé to say it, the prettiest girl at the ball gets the most dances. Real Racing is real pretty, and man, can she move. Real Racing has some of the most beautiful and cleanest graphics we’ve seen for the iPhone. The cars are rendered with believable detail and the environments, though similar, are fairly realistic.

Not only visually stunning, Real Racing is also a great deal of fun to play. The controls are challenging but more advanced then you’d expect. You steer your car with one of four configurations, the main two either require you to tap the screen to steer your car or tilt your iPhone in the direction you want to go. Using the motion sensor controls of the iPhone, the latter configuration scheme effectively turns your iPhone into a steering wheel. While this makes playing Real Racing on the bus a surefire way to get awkward stares, its perhaps the cleverest and most fun use of the iPhone’s motion sensor controls yet. In the standard cockpit view, you’ll be able to see the number of laps you have left, and what position your car is currently in; a click on the rearview mirror brings up a rearview camera perspective as well. You can also switch the camera to a third-person view (rather than the standard cockpit) to have a more complete world-view of the race.

As you play, you’ll get to understand the subtleties of the game as well. You can set how much of the brakes are automated during turns, and how much you want to manually control the brakes. By letting the computer engage your brakes, you’ll effectively be able to perform the same turns your competition’s cars can make. But by taking over some control of the brakes, you’ll be able to make faster (and more dangerous) turns that can give you a distinct advantage over your opponents.

Real Racing offers Quick Race, Time Trial, Career, and Connected Modes but you’ll likely spend the majority of your time playing with the latter two modes. The Career Mode allows you to race in different leagues and unlock cars, difficulty settings, tracks, and races. You’ll have to complete time trials in order to qualify for certain tours and then compete a series of courses against computer opponents to earn victory in that particular tour. You’ll eventually unlock three classes of cars and many different varieties per class.

The Connected mode allows the player to engage Real Racing’s spiffy new multiplayer functions. You can either join or create a local (LAN) game or use your Cloudcell account to link up with opponents globally. (More on this in a moment.) Then you can see available leagues and the time window left to join them. You can see stats of opposing players and post your own times by completing races. Though still in its infancy stages, the multiplayer functions are a welcome addition to an already stellar game.

Cloudcell is a social networking service used by Firemint for its games, including Real Racing, the air traffic controller game Flight Control (), and Fast & Furious The Game, a street racing action game based on the Vin Diesel movie. It only takes a few seconds to set up an account via Cloudcell and sync your iPhone, and it’s free to use.

Real Racing gets a lot of things right. Many competing racing games spend oodles of money securing big-name bands for the soundtrack (rather than concentrating on the player’s experience) and offer stunning graphics but with stiff controls. Though Real Racing is challenging and its controls take getting used to, the design is more realistic to actual racing conditions and more rewarding for dedicated players. The alt-rock soundtrack is also pretty catchy and though thin in its variety, it’s plenty serviceable for the high-octane action of the game.

Real Racing is expensive. While $10 is a bargain for a console game, or a DS or PSP game, the price puts Real Racing at the very top tier of entertainment software for the iPhone and iPod touch. Real Racing is a remarkable game, to be sure, but that price will put it beyond the reach of many gamers who just aren’t willing to spend that much on a game from the App Store.

If a sequel is in the works, then Firemint still has plenty of things to improve on. Offering more than six cars per race and wider courses can add some more variety to gameplay, and I’d like to see damage impact both performance and the exteriors of cars. Right now the cars are all pretty much indestructible and don’t seem worse for the wear after grinding up against a wall.

That said, Real Racing delivers great graphics, a fun racing experience, and easy-to-setup multiplayer functions. It hasn’t raced to the promised land of 3.0’s potential connectivity, but its way ahead of anything else I’ve seen.

Real Racing is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.2 software update.

[Chris Holt is an assistant editor at Macworld.]

Critic Reviews of Real Racing iPhone App


User Reviews of Real Racing iPhone App

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Very Realistic

This is a great game. The controls are incredible and really give a sense of the racing experience. Realistic AI and great graphics finish off the experience and contribute to a very polished overall game.


This will get your RPMs up!

Wow, THE BEST app on iTunes. Well worth the price tag. This game is a great mix of Need for Speed and Grand Tourismo. This app is as good as those titles on the PS2. The controls are varied for different user preferences, the camera angles are great and the feel of each car is fantastic. Add the bonus of being able to select your own music to race to and you have yourself the best app on iTunes.


Overall Best Racing App for the iPhone

Real Racing is practically realistic in the graphics. This is what racing games should look like on an iPhone. Other games like Asphalt 4, look almost as if you were playing '09s arcade game. Real Racing almost matches the graphics of a gaming console. Now, that's something other phones can't beat. The controls are simple and easy to use. Unlike realistic console games, the break control really helps beginners and prevents the car from making doughnuts when going around sharp curbs. The music is great, very energetic. So, if anybody wants racing game for their iPhone, Real Racing is the best app to download.


Excellent Racing Game, Best in App Store so far!

I bought this racing game after seeing all the hype on sites like TouchArcade. I have to say, it is great. I've had Asphalt 4, Raging Thunder, Days of Thunder, and all the others. This beats them all. The closest competitor would be Need For Speed....but not even that (IMHO) beats Real Racing.Graphics: The graphics in Real Racing are reallllly impressive. On my iPod Touch 2G, I RARELY came across frame rate issues. The graphics are very high quality too.Controls: There are tons of options for controls. Firemint nailed the controls.The ability to sync with Cloudcell is great too. I would like to see more iPhone 3.0 centered features added, for example, iPod Library Access, Push Notification Challenges, and Online Multiplayer.Overyall, a must buy.


REAL-ly Racing

This is the only realistic racing game you will ever receive on your iPhone/iPod Touch. In the beginning of the game, the AI was very hard to beat, and one mistake led to last place - 6th. Being used to NFSU, making sharp turns was no problem since drifting worked perfectly fine. Brakes weren't needed, and if an opponent got ahead, BAM! use the turbo boost. Well, this is not the case for this game. It provides one of the most realistic racing experiences on the iPhone, so there is no "turbo boost" or "making sharp turns without braking" type of stuff. It's all REAL and simulates REAL LIFE driving. Firemint did a wonderful job putting in the real factors into the game, and almost every aspect is real about it except the fact of it being on a mobile device and 4 different ways to control your car.Graphics are absolutely gorgeous with stunning environments, detailed car designs, and beautiful car interiors. Speedometers, menus, loading screens, even to the smallest button in this game are all well designed with an overall theme that is applied to the whole game. Design of the game is beautifully done and in-game graphics are beautiful as you can see from the iTunes screenshots and in-game videos on Youtube.There are a total of 36 cars, strewn through around 3 different types of cars: hatch, sedan, and muscle. As you progress through the campaign mode, you will be able to unlock more and more hatch cars, sedans, and muscle cars. Each car is uniquely designed with its own color, back, front, and interior. Not all look great, but once you start getting the better cars (i.e. muscle cars), then they start to look absolutely fantastic.For fans of NFSU, some will be disappointed, and some won't. My first impression of this game was "too hard, AI sucks, controls suck", but I stuck with it since 9.99 is a lot out of your wallet. After getting used to it, I started competing in leagues, uploading videos to Youtube, checking out how many CR I have on my C


Excellent Game

This game is well worth the money spent to buy it and is very addictive and fun. Real Racing, made by Firemint features extremely good graphics, as well as a very attractive interface. I will definitely be keeping this app, Real Racing in my top 10 Apps of all-time!


Best racing game on the App Store

If you like racing games you gotta try this. I have most of the famous games on the App Store (I really like racing games) and I was struggling to buy this one.Now that I bought it I really don't regret, it is by far the best racing game on the App Store. If you like games for PS3 like Gran Turismo or XBOX 360 Forza you will love this one.Great graphics (for an iPhone game), great controls, very neat, good multiplayer modes.Buy it, you wont regret!


unbelievably good - essential

this is best graphics, best sound etc etc


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