Posted by Rich DeBell on Aug 26, 2010

Real Racing HD

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App development company Firemint has done the impossible in Real Racing HD. What seemed to be an impossibly awesome game for your iPhone and iPod Touch is even better now being newly retooled for the iPad! For any serious racing gamers it simply doesn’t get any better than Real Racing HD. You won’t believe the stunning graphics, silky smooth framerate and awesome new features. Are you ready for all the excitement, competition and glory that only real championship racing can deliver?

Of course Real Racing HD includes all of the many features and gameplay that have made it’s orginal iPhone version so popular, including:

48 cars in 4 classes: Hatch, Sedan, Muscle and Exotic.
12 unique tracks in City, Forest and Desert settings, 6 car grid lineup.
Race the way you want to with 5 game modes: massive Career Mode with 76 events; Quick Race; Time Trial; Online Leagues; and local multiplayer for up to 6 players over WiFi network or 2 players over BlueTooth, playing on either iPad, iPhone or iPod touch (a copy of Real Racing or Real Racing HD is needed on each device).
In-car cockpit view with animated driver and dash, or external camera.
Numerous control options including touch or tilt to steer, and manual or automatic acceleration and braking.
Extensive connected features including global leaderboards, Facebook app for friends leaderboard, and uploading video replays to YouTube (check realracing.cloudcell.com for details)
Select your favourite songs from your personal music library while racing, or listen to the included tracks.

With the iPad Real Racing HD not only takes advantage of the extra screen realestate to give a larger more vibrant picture but also includes many more new features:

CONTROLS – touch screen controls specifically designed for iPad with adjustable sensitivity
HD GRAPHICS: high resolution textures, more detailed car models and exceptionally smooth graphical performance.
CAR SKINS: select an image from your Photo Album to automatically wrap it around your car and race it on your iPad. Export built-in skins, edit them in your favourite paint program, and import them back into the game for personalised racing decals. Check firemint.com for new skins!
GHOST RACING: race against a pre-recorded ghost saved on your iPad or downloaded from Firemint’s servers. Improve your personal best, or race against the top drivers. Ghosts will also appear in Online League races, making them even more fun and competitive!
WATCH REPLAYS: watch your Time Trial races or any races uploaded to the leaderboards. Select different camera angles and learn the best racing lines from top drivers.
USER INTERFACE: new HD graphics and changes to take advantage of the larger screen, including a redesigned Career Menu.

There’s nothing to say about the graphics except that they’re perfection, and with the iPad sitting right in front of you, it feels like you’re driving a real car. Real Racing HD has such a vast amount of gaming options and combinations, it would be impossible to enumerate them all here. Suffice it to say that you will probably never complete the game and almost certainly never get tired of it. This is a must purchase app for your iPad, and if you’re not an iPad owner yet (I’d suggest you get one) then get the original Real Racing for iPhone and iPod Touch.