Race 07 online demo ahoy

By Robert Purchese Published 10 September, 2007

Face-off against 23 others.

Atari says that a new demo for Race 07 is now available to download. We checked and it is. Good work, Atari!

You can fetch it over on the official website, where it will speed down your digital chute until all 504.7MBs are done.

The demo will let you race online against real-life human people in up to 24-player races, zipping around the Anderstorp and Brands Hatch courses in either a BMW E90 or Seat Leon. Or you can play bots, if you're boring.

You'll probably also notice fresh features like weather effects splattering off of your exposed helmet as you zoom down into the new cockpit view.

Race 07 is the official World Touring Car Championship game, and boasts all the official names and faces of its real-life counterpart. The full version is said to have around 300 cars in nine different classes, as well as 32 locations to zoom around - you can also reverse those and use alternate track layouts.

Swedish developer SimBin will be making the ridiculously fast Formula 3000 cars playable this time, too, which will behave realistically so we can all experience just how flimsy and dangerous they are.

The first Race game was released last year to very favourable reviews, and follows the developer's past racing successes with games like GTR 2 - The FIA GT Racing Game.

Look out for our thoughts closer to the full game's release later this year.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (6) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Hench #1 4 years ago

    Cool, I only actually found out about this game a couple of days ago. I hope it is a large improvement on the first one as that was shite

  • Pike #2 4 years ago

    Shite? I was under the impression that the first game was really good, just not as good as GTR 2, which dissapointed a few people,

  • popabawa #3 4 years ago

    Hench is correct, it was indeed shite! The Caterham expansion was pretty decent though which gave a bit of hope for '07.

    The graphics still aren't quite as nice as GTR2 but the force-feedback and the engine sounds are absolutely top-notch.

    I'm cautiously optimistic for the full game.

  • barnard666 #4 4 years ago

    damn this is one of the few games that makes me consider dusting off my PC...well its not dusty because I use it all the time, but its dusty as far as game playing goes...I am right in thinking there is no console version pkanned right?

  • FooAtari #5 4 years ago

    No console version barnard. The demo is pretty decent. The default setups are pretty shit, but the F3000, Leon and BMW all handle pretty nicely. Plays pretty well with my G25, FFB is pretty decent. My only complaint is that you cannot edit the .plr file to fine tune the FFB and game settings.

    It's no Grand Prix Legends (but what is?) but looks to be worthy of a spot on my hard drive along side GPL, GTL, GTR2 and rFactor.

  • Altrezia #6 4 years ago

    Better than the previous RACE game, but still not a patch on GTR2, GTL, rFactor or LFS.

    Also, worst online racing ever due to steam numpties.