Real Racing

So often with games that have incredibly long development cycles, the final product rarely lives up to the hype that fans have generated amongst themselves between screenshots and trailers. This morning a preview build of Real Racing landed in my inbox, and I feel confident in confirming the hype. This game is unlike any racing game I've seen on the iPhone. In fact, to accurately compare it to another racing game I'd need to look to the PSP or PlayStation.

Firemint has asked that we limit ourselves to publishing hands-on first impressions until the game is released, so I really can't go in to too much detail about the game other than to say it has completely exceeded my expectations. The tilt controls of the iPhone seem to naturally translate to the motions of a steering wheel, so there is no shortage of iPhone racing games, there are just none that are as technically impressive and full featured as Real Racing.
Tilting to drive works just as well as all the other racing games on the platform, and using the default options the game has a brake assist system enabled. With this on, your driver will automatically downshift and brake when approaching corners, allowing you to focus on steering. Of course this can be disabled, and there is a plethora of other control options including full gas and brake control as well as a on-screen wheel to steer using touch controls.
The coolest thing about these options, is depending on what control method you choose, Real Racing can play like an arcade racer or a simulation racer. No matter what control method you decide on, you will have the AI opponents to deal with. Firemint has posted quite a bit on our forums about the work that went in to the development of Real Racing's AI, and they weren't exaggerating when it comes to how well they play.

Being used to racing games on the iPhone where the other racers follow a basic line around the racetrack and don't even play a part in the race aside from lining up at the start and being quickly passed, it came as quite a shock to see how much the Real Racing AI likes trading paint. On one of the first corners of my first race I was being far too aggressive with my racing line, left myself open, and one of the AI racers quickly rammed my back corner, causing a total spin-out.
Also, unless you've really got the track down and can race a perfect line, you're going to be dealing with the AI most of the race. This is not only refreshing to finally see competent AI in an iPhone racing game, but also greatly adds to the excitement of the race. I'm starting to think I may have said too much, but I'll leave you with this-
Real Racing has a career mode, single races, and time trials. All with the complete Cloudcell integration we've seen in other Firemint games. While it remains to be seen how it will be recieved by the iPhone gaming community, it's hard to find a better way to describe the preview build than "technical masterpiece."

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2011 best iPhone games

1. Angry Birds

It is one of the best iPhone game for 2011. This game help it take long to determine the top iPhone games with more than 6 million birds go by Angry RovioMobile deserves to be hailed as the best iPhone games in 2011.

2. Real racing

It is also one of the best iPhone game for 2011. This game will blow you away if you love racing games, awesome graphics, vehicle controls and game play, but there are tons of racing games on the iPhone is without doubt the best them all, if you are I recommend this game gave Need for Speed Shift for iPhone in this genre.

3. Spider

The Secret of Bryce Manor : No doubt it is one of the best iPhone game for 2011. The game play experience, something that cannot be compared to any other, because this game will make you look at this world in a COB eye, sounds exciting, is not it?

4. Toki Tori

It is a cool iPhone game for 2011. It is a Puzzle game well, Toki Tori a cute puzzle, we cannot resist including this list. Its good animation and challenging game that deserves to kill your time.

5. Call of Duty

It is also a best paid iPhone game for 2011. How could we not first person shooter games on the list of the best iPhone-in, although it does not come cheap, and (9.99) and people who love FPS cannot ask for something better But if you have other thoughts I’d suggest this game.