Retro Pack for SimBin's RACE Series

[Erik Jakobsson]

This dropped into a certain mailbox a few minutes ago as a pressrelease

“Race 07”: Fourth expansion pack will be the “Retro Pack”

Lidköping /Sweden, April 21, 2011
– The Swedish game development company SimBin Studios AB today announced that the fourth expansion pack for the award winning PC racing game
“Race07” will be released next week.

Release date: April 28, 2011 | Price: 4.99 EUR | Available on: http://store.steampowered.com/app/44660/

The Retro Pack features 8 cool retro cars and 2 new high detailed tracks. It is designed for all fans who loves their racing cars loud and charismatic. From the unmistakable rounded curves of the Volvo Amazon, over the iconic BMW 2002 to the raw coolness factor of the ’70 Chevrolet Camaro, it is all here. The pack also contains the Poznan track which is a world premiere on any gaming platform, and the first hillclimb stage ever made by SimBin.

Special Features:
- Integration with the RaceRoom online platform, featuring leaderboards and competitions.
- The first ever Hillclimb stage developed by SimBin, based loosely on stretches of road in the Alps.

Cars:
1968 Volvo Amazon
1972 Volvo P1800 ES
1971 BMW 2002
1968 Mini Cooper S
1971 Opel Commodore GS 3001
1973 BMW 3.0 CSL
1974 Chevrolet Corvette
1970 Chevrolet Camaro

Tracks:
Hillclimb Stage
Poznan

 

[GAIAjohan]

Maybe so, but there's only two expansions left to come and a number of unused logos. No telling which of those they'll be... if any.

The only unused are the retro ones, WTCC87 and WTCC10.
Well retro is in the coming pack.
WTCC10 will be the last one I think, maybe along with wtcc87 extra cars?

 

[Marco Boemi]

I'm not going to spend a lot of money to buy these 5 expansions. Is it planned a cumulative pack (all 5 together) to, let's say, 15€?

 

[Aaron Poulson]

i doubt it, not for a very long time at least. That would just piss off all those who bought them when they came out.

 

[Eric Nelson]

you'll see a "BUNDLE' released shortly after GTR3 hits us square in the gut..........

 

[Jeremy Paterson]

I'm really looking forward to this one. I love driving the '87 BMW M3. Old cars are a lot of fun!

 

[mcwood]

April 28, 2011...

Hillclimb....

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

One day to go

 

[UMC 22]

Yep, looking forward to this! I do wonder if any of the cars will be able to get me out of the M3 GT2 though... :wink:

 

[Zulnex]

Looking forward to this pack very much as well.

 

[Péter Bártfai]

I'm not sure about the other packs, but this one is a must buy! The other 2 I'll decide later, also waiting for the last pack to see what it is

 

[Olaf1]

I really hope that it will be available on Steam from day one If so -> straight purchase

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

I really hope that it will be available on Steam from day one If so -> straight purchase

**Shakes hands with Olaf **

 

[Philip Antonia]

I'l be getting it no doubt:good:.

 

[Marco Boemi]

I'm not sure about the other packs, but this one is a must buy! The other 2 I'll decide later, also waiting for the last pack to see what it is

Same for me

 

[Peter]

some bad news
http://www.raceroom.net/forums/index.php/topic,642.0.html
Hello Everyone,

We want to give you a little advanced notice here in the forum. The release of the Retro Expansion has been postponed.

The simple explanation is that we want to have proper hillclimb support for both online and offline gameplay, to be able to achieve this we need additional time to ensure we deliver a solid package.

More information about the release will be available soon, but for now we wanted to let you know that the release would not come this week as scheduled.

We do apologize for this delay. We know so many of you are excited for this pack. It is for that reason though that we want to make sure to deliver the best product possible upon release.

 

[UMC 22]

*sigh*

 

[GAIAjohan]

I just wonder wy not release an online version first and add an offline version later.
Esp since Steam offers a nice offline mode as well. And people with an offline version still need to download the expansion..

 

[Jeremy Paterson]

Wow... they're going to make sure it's done right so that we get a good product, even if it means postponing it? They've obviously never looked at Microsoft's business model.

 

[Keith Peppiatt]

i am surprised it was announced if there were still issues. still better have a later release that works then an early buggy one that annoys people

 

[Trebor901]

it will still be rubbish and buggy, simbin will still not bother fixing the small bugs which turn out to be the most annoying ones