WRC4 WRC 4 The Game

[Bram Hengeveld]

On the iOpener website there is a very interesting article about an upcoming World Rally Championship simulator:

World Rally Championship's next game: Racing live against rally heroes

The next generation WRC computer game will allow players to 'compete' in live rallies", states ISC chairman Neil Duncanson in the April version of SportBusiness International magazine. ISC, the global promoter of the World Rally Championship (WRC), mentions WRC's ultimate goal as building up an online gaming world championship alongside the real thing.
ISC and the computer gaming industry believe the next step in gaming is this 'live' competition between gamers and real drivers, made possible through iOpener's patented technology.
ISC CEO Simon Long says: "Now we are a global promoter, we want this to be multi-platform, multi-publisher, multi-territory."
For Long and Duncanson the new game is part of WRC's broader efforts to appeal new fans beyond the hardcore enthusiastics. FIA's chairman Max Mosley has said the virtual champion will be honoured at the WRC's annual end-of-season awards ceremony in Monaco.

Source: iOpener Media

Last April we already brought you the first news about iOpener Media's beta testers recruitment for their Real Time Racing project.

The news about this technology where virtual racers can compete against the real drivers on the track in real time is now spreading amoung the simracing communities.

iOpener is still looking for the worlds best simracers to join their beta test program that's about to start soon. If you are interested in joining then you can sign up on the RTR website

 

[Kol Bailey]

How would I get this in the US?

 

[Stewart Bridge]

How would I get this in the US?

if Milestone don't release in USA again, I'll be buying several copies to ship to the US myself.

I've already bought and resold a dozen copies of WRC2 to the US lol... bit of a shame really as you US guys would have to pay a little more because of USD to GBP exchange +shipping

 

[Kol Bailey]

if Milestone don't release in USA again, I'll be buying several copies to ship to the US myself.

I've already bought and resold a dozen copies of WRC2 to the US lol... bit of a shame really as you US guys would have to pay a little more because of USD to GBP exchange +shipping

I wanted to buy one from my friend in Ireland but he said the settings won't work.

 

[Stewart Bridge]

I wanted to buy one from my friend in Ireland but he said the settings won't work.

I can't see why, there are no region restrictions on PC games, unless you're referring to the console versions.

 

[Paul Paoli]

HI
does the game will support multiple controler?
thank you.
Paul
PS:sorry for bad English

 

[Neil Farren]

HI
does the game will support multiple controler?
thank you.
Paul
PS:sorry for bad English

ISR said that the game this time around does support multiple controllers. I believe they were playing with a wheel, can't remember which sorry, and clubsports pedals connected independently.

 

[Harry Platt]

Promising preview.

Wow... This could be a good one

 

[Kol Bailey]

I can't see why, there are no region restrictions on PC games, unless you're referring to the console versions.

I'm talking about Console.

 

[Stewart Bridge]

I'm talking about Console.

ah... no i've only ever redistributed the PC version because of that issue

 

[Kol Bailey]

ah... no i've only ever redistributed the PC version because of that issue

Oh.

 

[Primoz Makselj]

 

[Stewart Bridge]

VVV got back to me with a question for the devs.

Apparently WRC 3 will not support triple screens. *sigh*

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Black Bean & Milestone released a new video on their WRC 3 YouTube channel showing some to the toughest events on the World Rally Championship calendar: the Rally of Argentina. The event is popularized by its jumps and the lunar landscape of the high altitude El Condor stage.

Enjoy all the official contents from the 2012 FIA World Rally Championship, including all the main teams, cars, locations and a lot of exclusive contents, like the “Rallye Monte-Carlo” and Volkswagen Polo R WRC test car as WRC 3 The Game will be released on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox360 this october.

In the meantime join the discussion in our newly opened WRC 3 The Game forums

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[Mikel Tapl]

All that dust and the car is super clean.

 

[Paul Mullins]

Looks (and sounds) no better than Colin McRae Rally on my old PS1..

 

[Victor Kulagin]

IMHO there isn't any changes compare to previous 2 parts. Arcade will be arcade

 

[Xosé Estrada]

Looks like the car will never spin, no matter what you do.

 

[OZ67]

 

[Senad Subasic]

Shame about the licence.

 

[GallardoGT]

No natural ruts, ridges on the stage. Sort of dickie toy arcade game/physics. Nightmare Argentina enviroment.

To be honest, why on the first place post this news here. Are there gamepad fanboys that read it or what?