Firemint, the developer behind Flight Control, has created the best racing game you can buy for your iPhone. Real Racing which was released a few days ago and was completely off my radar is the most fun I’ve had with a portable racing game since Burnout Legends for the PSP. It’s silly how good this game is.
It has the look, feel, features, and presentation you would expect to find on a console racing game all represented on your iPhone. There is local multi-player (wifi connection required), on line ranking, on line leagues, time trial runs can be uploaded to YouTube. There are three car classes all with multiple cars in each class and over 50 events to choose from.
The game gives you a few control options. Steering can either be done tilting or by touching the screen. I’m usually not a fan of accelerometer steering, but it works well in this game. You can have manual control over accelerating and breaking or the game can take control of one or both of those for you depending on how comfortable you are with the controls. A break assist feature to aid with cornering is also present with tunable sensitivity. You will be cornering a lot as the tracks are full of bends, twists, and straights that you’ll want to revisit over and over trying to shave fractions of seconds off your best time.
The graphics, music, and sound effects are phenomenal. As I said, it looks as good as any PS2 racing game. There are a lot of jaggies on the track edges, but that’s really being nit-picky considering this is an iPhone game. The in game music fits the genre to a T and you also have the option of playing your own music if you like. The sound design is what really shines as it feels as if you are in the race with the left and right channels creating the illusion of surround sound. This is most apparent at the beginning of a race when the camera weaves through the line of cars at the start line.
This is a full featured racing game. There is no mistaking that it is not only the best racing game on for the iPhone, but probably the best game on the platform as well as far as features, length, replay value, and overall fun that’s packed in. Firemint believes that downloadable games are the future and they’ve shown with this game and their last effort that they can bring pure quality to medium. Real Racing will run you $9.99 and believe me when I say it’s worth every penny considering it offers more features and more fun than any most PSP games that cost 3 times as much. I’m looking forward to what they have in store for us next.
Grade A
Meta Grade 98
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