GTS World Racing for iPhone 'In a Few Days'
posted August 8th, 2008 9:54 AM EDT by arn in News, Upcoming Games
Pocketgamer.co.uk reports that Astraware's GTS World Racing is due to hit the App Store in just a few days.
The game will offer 16 locations, 64 different track layouts and 3 different car types to chose from. The tilt-controlled racer also offers four different play modes and four difficulty levels. The product page details the different play modes
- Single Race – check out the tracks and practice your skills before heading for the main event
- Challenge Cup – race at all 16 locations and achieve the required finishing position for your chosen difficulty
- Grand Tour – complete all 64 tracks in 16 locations and achieve the required finishing position in each race
- Championship – complete the full 16 race season and score the most points to win!
And an impressive gameplay video is also provided:
Update: Price to be $7.99 per TUAW.
They don't keep the horizon flat, but tilt the whole viewport when tilting the iPhone. I consider this as "broken by design". MotoRacer and Cro Mag Rally do this right.
So many menus/screens to click through but other than that it looks really nice. If the price is right, I will buy it. Good thing i'm asking for itunes gift cards for my birthday! (aug 29th if anyone wants to buy me some thanks…. lol jk)
wow, that's a lot nicer than the Palm version of GTS Racing i had on my Tapwave Zodiac! can't wait for this to come out.
I hope you can drift. I don't like racing games that don't have a good slide around corners mechanic.
Why would you make Formula 1 harder to control??? Thats totally opposite of the real world. Finely tuned machines that are easier to control, very light, and have tons of down-force. Oh well.
i'll most likely be buying this. one thing that bothers me is that you never see the side of the car when in a race. just one continuous view.
Yea I agree about the horizon problem. This game can't be steered like crash bandicoot (which also has no horizon compensation). In crash you can steer by pushing the phone forward and back, but in this game it would screw up the acceleration.
I'm still waiting for asphalt 4…
According to TUAW, it'll be $7.99
arn
Please! Will someone just make a driving game with a touch steering wheel as well as tilt control!!
James thats what asphalt 4 is supposed to offer.
Looks good. Something that's not very noticeable in the video though: if you look at the in-game screenshots from Astraware's site, you'll notice that the cars aren't actual 3d models, but rather 2d animations, like Mario Kart 64, on top of 3d tracks.
I like this game.