WTC World Touring Cars: Codemasters takes touring car franchise global with all new intercontinental motor sport title.
High-speed hedonists' dreams come true as Codemasters creates a dynamic new chapter in its 2┬╜ million best-selling Touring Car series with the creation of WTC World Touring Cars, an all-new game driven by a proprietary game engine, to be published exclusively for PlayStation.
Scheduled for a release early-July, WTC World Touring Cars is the only PlayStation motor sport simulation to deliver intense, close contact racing, on real tracks and in real cars from around the world. WTC World Touring Cars creates the thrills with an original impact physics damage system and car-handling engine to knock your socks off.
In a high-profile marketing drive, Codemasters is focussing on the true international appeal of the title. WTC World Touring Cars' marketing will be extensively localised in the major territories with the use of cars on packaging and advertising being territory relevant.
The game itself takes players beyond the UK-only races of the British Touring Car Championship from TOCA games; WTC World Touring Cars' circuits play host to motor racing's most aggressive races on a global stage. With authentic detailing of 23 of the world's most famous race circuits, gamers race at key venues across five continents: Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Japan.
WTC World Touring Cars' unique "momentum prediction engine" provides the best car handling yet seen on any PlayStation game. Players really experience the white-knuckle feel of driving any of over 40 real cars from around the world, including touring car models from BMW, Audi, Peugeot, Toyota, Renault, Volvo and Nissan, with all the speed, jostling for position, intelligent over-taking, scrapes, wheel locking and individual driver personalities.
Visually WTC World Touring Cars is a realistic motor sport sim, however gameplay offers arcade-like excitement and exhilaration for the player, embracing the high-speed aggressive 14-car races of the sport.
Being a competitive racing sport, there's plenty of potential car damage to contend with and WTC World Touring Cars features a powerful new dynamic polygon deformation damage system, making a collision an even more nerve-wracking incident.
WTC World Touring Cars' race options include the all-new Career game and a new Tournament mode. In the Career game, players complete through national, international and world championships whilst the Tournament mode enables players to create their own mini-championship by choosing their own tracks and cars to race against. Other race styles - single race, time trial and multi-player - are also featured.
With an intercontinental variety of worldwide locations, competitive gameplay and a revitalised and dynamic feel, Codemasters promises that WTC World Touring Cars will be the finest, most realistic, multi-car circuit racer the console has ever seen.
