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

 

[Paulo Ribeiro]

I guess it will be the right time for me to come back to races.

 

[OverTake.gg]

Don't forget to grow those sideburns people and win the game! Click here to enter the competition.

 

[OverTake.gg]

New arrival in the racing club. Retro Pack & F3000 @ Hillclimb this saturday night for our licensed members! Get your free license here if you don't have one yet.

Click here for all the event details of these brand new series!

 

[Péter Bártfai]

Uhh man, this is getting really exciting!! If it doesn't come today I don't know what I'll do! LOL
Unfortunately I won't be home on weekend, but I hope there'll be a club event also next week.

 

[Jadran Dimic]

Retro Expansion is now available

On RaceRoom

 

[OverTake.gg]

Yeah and nothing on Steam again.

 

[Nick Brooke]

Gonna get it when i get home

 

[Kimmo Kokkonen]

Downloading, finally

 

[J-F Chardon]

Yeah and nothing on Steam again.

For now. It's a timezone difference. Store page on steam should be online tonight when Valve offices open.


(as far as I know)


But the keys you receive when getting the expansion at raceroom.net are already working. It is the same thing.

 

[Kimmo Kokkonen]

BMW 2002 and Volvo tested, BMW is as good as the real one with so sharp steering and it's very nice to drive. Didn't like Volvo as it's like a tractor but that's nothing new

HillClimb is amazing, so nice to drive and looks so good, thanks Simbin!

 

[Péter Bártfai]

It's nothing like the other content I have! It's far better! Woohoo!

 

[Samu15]

Hello !
Does it work with offline version ?

 

[J-F Chardon]

It is steam based, so no it is not for offline installation.

Your DVD came with a Steam activation code, though. And once you have had Steam running once, you can just have it running in offline mode.

 

[Péter Bártfai]

It's very good, however I still noticed 2 bugs, not sure if everyone has it! 1. while hillclimbing sector times flashing with HUD off. 2. the Volvo Amazon's speedometer isn't working.

Anyone else noticed these problems?

 

[J-F Chardon]

We could not make the Amazon's special horizontal speedometer work, unfortunately.
And about point 1., it was not reported as a problem during beta phase, on the contrary, players wanted to know how they were performing and when they had to take more risks because someone was catching up on them.

 

[GAIAjohan]

The Amazon's speedo works fine in Race Pro afaik, so it's just a Gmotor limitation .

I need to go home first before I can play it.
And I need to receive a Steam-code, since I already bought this pack on April 21st..

 

[UMC 22]

Enjoying it so far. Just been practising the hill climb with the BMW. Brilliant fun! I do wonder if we'll get any new tracks though... the one we have is fun, but is bound to get a tad boring after a while. Would modders be able to make hill climbs now?

 

[Amir Margalit]

looking forward to testing this one. looks promising maybe it will bring back the fun of playing race 07 again.

 

[Yves Larose]

i just finished trying all the cars in the pack and oh the joy they are my fear was that the cars wouldn't be balanced between them but the initial testing show that they are close to each other within each 2 class they made maybe apart from the Mini that is way faster then the other cars in the class.

 

[Péter Bártfai]

We could not make the Amazon's special horizontal speedometer work, unfortunately.
And about point 1., it was not reported as a problem during beta phase, on the contrary, players wanted to know how they were performing and when they had to take more risks because someone was catching up on them.

I mean, it's fine that it shows up when the hud is on, I'll probably race like that anyways. But when hud was off, it was flashing, and disappearing in a moment so it wasn't readable. I turned on HUD to see what it is at the end, and it's cool