Looks like its’ Freeverse news week. Days of Thunder, which Freeverse announced and shown to the world during Macworld San Francisco a month back has just raced itself into the App Store.
Days of Thunder is a new racing game based on the popular 1990 motion picture of the same name. Freeverse is developing this game for Paramount Digital Entertainment, which also publishes other movie tie-in games like Iron Man: Aerial Assault, Saturday Night Fever: Dance! and School of Rock. All three titles are currently available in the App Store.
UPDATE: Gentlemen, start your engines and rush head on to the App Store, now! Ian Lynch Smith, President of Freeverse just chimed in over at TouchArcade.com and mentioned that the game had some localization issues. He’d also mentioned that the $0.99 price tag is valid for 72 hours only!
Days of Thunder is set to bring the movie’s storyline along with the gameplay. Freeverse claimed the game to be the first stock car racing game for the iPhone platform. Control of the game is based on the accelerometer. Players will get to choose a wide variety of cars and either a circuit or track to race in. Play as main character, Cole Trickle and experience all the action-packed excitement of full contact stock car racing, battling the field of seasoned racers while climbing the leaderboard – defeat your rivals and win the Days of Thunder Cup.
Gameplay is quite simple, and comes complete with all the special effects and crashes. The crashes reminds me of Burnout Paradise, which I play a lot on my PlayStation 3. The game comes with Achievements support right out of the box. In my short time of playing, I have managed to get two Achievements unlocked.
I currently do not own any other racer besides SlotZ Racer, so Days of Thunder would be a great addition to my racing games library.
The game is going at a no-brainer price of $0.99! I got my copy immediately, fearing that it might increase in price later. I’ll be posting a review of this game soon once I have played it for a while more. Head over to the iTunes Store to get your copy. Don’t let the thunder stop you!
Here’s a trailer courtesy of the folks at Freeverse to give you some sampling of what the game looks like.
