Our hands-on expertise with Want for Velocity Cellular

Welcome again to our ultimate entry into our protection going over our expertise at Apple’s gaming showcase final month, the place we bought hands-on with some upcoming titles slated to hit iOS and the Apple Arcade. Make sure to take a look at our earlier tales overlaying Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown and Vampire Survivors+ to remain updated on different upcoming Apple and iOS releases. This time round, we’re stepping into the upcoming North American launch of Want for Velocity Cellular from EA, which is gearing as much as drop for iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 this fall.

What’s Want for Velocity Cellular?

The open highway within the palm of your hand

Want for Velocity Cellular (which additionally goes as Want for Velocity: Assemble in China) runs on Unreal Engine 4, and is analogous in numerous methods to earlier Want for Velocity titles, with loads of races, time trials, and occasions, however with the added twist of a web-based open world that different drivers will probably be tearing up together with you. The sport launched abroad in China final month after three years of growth that noticed EA and cellular recreation big Tencent teaming up (particularly TiMi Studio Group, considered one of Tencent’s subsidiaries), working to make a refined open-world racing recreation that takes a web page out of the MMO ebook.

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MMO-Lite carried out proper

I had an opportunity to sit down down with Dan Zhao, a Product Director at EA, who guided me by means of the sport and politely cheered me on as I whiffed a handful of on-line races. The sport was operating on an iPhone 15 Professional Max, however because it was developed for iOS 18, it’ll be capable of run on no less than the X collection iPhones and up. I used to be additionally enjoying the Chinese language model of the sport, with/in opposition to gamers in China, however the US model ought to look and play roughly the identical.

First off, I bought an opportunity to customise my character and their outfit, and decide my favourite automobile which you’ll see above (I’m an enormous fan of old-school Japanese Hondas and Toyotas so I went with one thing in that vein), which gave me an concept of how in-depth the character customization choices have been, an enormous (and essential) staple within the MMO/MMO-Lite genres. In-game occasions and actions vary from PvP observe racing, the place you possibly can take a look at your drifting expertise, to cop chases with different gamers, which might all be naturally accessed by traversing the open world. The demo ended with me taking up a few observe races the place I had an opportunity to actually get a really feel for the bread and butter of the Want for Velocity expertise (which felt nice on the iPhone), and whereas Dan was pleasantly stunned by my drifting expertise (and I didn’t place final), I positively want some extra follow.

After a month of success over in China, Want for Velocity Cellular will hit the States this fall for Apple units operating iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, and also will function Personalised Spatial Audio, boasting diminished audio latency for 2nd gen AirPods Professional customers and offering a extra immersive racing expertise within the palm of your hand.

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