World Rally Championship races on mobile phones

Jul 25, 2007 10:40 GMT  ·  By

I-play has signed over the rights to bring "FIA World Rally Championship" to mobile phones too from now on. This will bring the most challenging motorsports and set the player behind the wheel of some of the fastest and strongest engines.

The World Rally Championship (WRC) manages to gather more than 8 million fans each year at the live events. This release from I-play will be the only mobile game to have the official WRC license. For this reason, it promises to manage to offer an intense feeling of real racing experience.

The mobile game promises to provide challenging motor-sport competitions in locations placed in 16 different countries. The terrains and weather vary at a great extent, which makes the game even more soliciting and break monotony.

"The World Rally Championship is one of the most dynamic and challenging motorsports imaginable. Mobile gamers will be able to experience the dangerous and gruelling nature of the racing sport under every weather condition possible as they aim to master the rally circuits to become the ultimate champion in this authentic mobile iteration of the World Rally Championship", considers Leighton Webb, SVP of Content Strategy & Licensing for I-play.

"This platform delivers WRC content in a new format to a new generation of gamers who are able to experience the high-octane challenge of the World Rally Championship, on demand. High quality full rally simulation is now accessible in bite-size chunks relevant to modern lifestyles bringing WRC directly into the hands of a global supporter base", said John Illsey, Director of International Sportsworld Communicators.

The mobile phone version of "FIA World Rally Championship" will come in a 2D and a 3D version too, both set for release in I-play's extensive network. The game will be launched in the fourth quarter of this year in North America, Europe and in Pacific Asia.