Mercedes-Benz AMG Video Games
After announced the new Playstation 4, Mercedes-Benz dropped an image of the CLA45 AMG that will feature in a new driving game.
Coinciding with Sony’s formal announcement of the Playstation 4 at a special event in New York, Mercedes-Benz revealed that both the A45 AMG and CLA45 AMG would feature in Driveclub, a brand-new racing game for the console. While the high-performance A-Class has already been introduced, this is the first image, albeit a digital one, of the Affalterbach-molested CLA without wearing any camo.
Predictably, it looks a lot like the recently unveiled CLA250 save for a dual exhaust, trunk-mounted spoiler and five-spoke alloys. And we’ll only have to wait another few weeks before the car is finally introduced at the New York Auto Show where it will make its world premiere, before hitting US showrooms later in the year.
Actually they signed away "their soul" to EA. EA now owns the rights to using Porsches in video games alongside Porsche, so any other company that wants to make a racing game with Porsches either goes RUF or pays EA a hefty sum. It's why Porsches weren't added until later in a DLC for Forza 4.
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The June issue of Game Informer is packed with new Drive Club information. Here’s a summary of what was shared in the publication via Neogaf:
-Play offline in single-player
- Also has a big online focus
- User-created race challenges encouraged
- Everything you do is tracked by a single profile in single-plaer
- With teams, accomplishments are funneled together into the larger success of the group
- Three-on-three team challenges included
- Create events based on different parameters: car type, track, time of day, weather, etc.
- Can make lengthy multi-stage events that take place over a number of days
- Participants can span in the thousands with hundreds of different teams
- Win smaller accolades to add team’s XP Image
- These include clocking the fastest lap, drifting 1,000 meters, going 0 to 60 the fastest
- Use apps outside of DriveClub to make challenges as well
- Spread accomplishments and media through social media chanels
- Evolution will be making its own season of league racing through weekly online race events
- Visuals and gameplay are equally important
- DualShock 4′s touchpad is used for menu navigation, for the most part
- Touchpad also being considered for cameras
- Not a simulation-based racer
- Damage cars take won’t determine how they handle
- Koenigsegg, Maserati, Pagani, Hennessey are represented
- Start off with slightly less glamorous cars
- Race and increase fame/funds to gain access to better cars
- More people will watch you race as well
- More cars will be added through DLC; will be “one of the biggest titles for Sony from a DLC perspective” Image
A release window for the racer wasn’t disclosed.
Social racing
While the game appears to share a number of similarities with the Gran Turismo franchise, DriveClub developer Evolution Studios doesn’t foresee any crossover between the two brands. Speaking with EDGE, game director Matt Southern explained that the company is confident that its PlayStation 4 launch title will occupy a very different space to Polyphony Digital’s colossal series.
“We don’t regard ourselves as a simulation as such, that has a lot of attached associations in terms of the core experience, where it sits in the overall gaming landscape, and we’re very happy, comfortable that we sit somewhere else,” he said. “We’ve not had any resistance or issues in terms of developing this as a concept on its own.”
Southern added that it’s DriveClub’s community mechanic that will ultimately set it apart. “This game has always been about social clubs wanting to race together,” he explained. “You look at what Facebook says about the phenomenon of social networks, and they describe it as connected groups, [and] that’s what DriveClub has always been about.”
In addition to the extensive interview, EDGE also got its mitts on a selection of screenshots from the next generation launch title. We have to compliment the magazine for its clever implementation of watermarks – see if you can spot them for yourself. It took us a while, too. [via edge-online.com]
Some brand new details about PS4 upcoming racing title "DriveClub" has arrived on internet via Play Magazine and Q&A session with Matt Southern, Col Rodgers and Techical Director Scott Kirklan.
Regarding DS4 again stiffer trigger springs smaller deadzones
Improved rumble
Touchpad used for navigating UI easily
Evolution Studios compared PD to a 106-piece orchestra while and themselves to a rockband. Dedicated to uniting people in bringing speed on "roads in the real world."
When asked about Forza and other MS franchises, they repond "If we aren't first or best, we aren't happy."
Sights of inspiration come from movies like Senna and Drive
More details about DriveClub is expected to arrive tomorrow as OPM UK's DriveClub preview will go live tomorrow. Check out below the cover of OPM UK latest issue. The DriveClub tag line reads: "Racing Re-Invented by Team that brought you MotorStorm"
