Black Bean Games is working on an official game of the European Superstars Championship. The Italian-based series uses production based cars with engines up to 7 litres and 500hp.
Seven makes are currently represented in the championship, including Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar & Chrysler. The majority of races are run on Italian tracks with two abroad events at Portimao and Kyalami.
Below is the first batch of preview screenshots, the title is planned to be released for the PC, the Playstation 3 & Xbox 360.
Raikku
April 7th, 2009 at 17:09
Ok, but will this game be better than Black Bean’s former, not so good efforts?
altrezia
April 7th, 2009 at 17:18
Yay, a game with my car in it
Jucke
April 7th, 2009 at 17:18
+1, Car models looks good thought. We’ll see.
trebor901
April 7th, 2009 at 17:39
Well i dont care who makes it, im buying it lol, they’re probably the closest things to the old style touring cars.
trebor901
April 7th, 2009 at 17:41
And also, notice that its not made by Blackbean, its actually made by Milestone (logo is in the bottom corner)
The Lonely
April 7th, 2009 at 17:48
Looks horrid :(
mikem
April 7th, 2009 at 18:26
Looks horrid?? Guess you haven’t seen Race pro on the 360- now that’s horrendous (horridx2).
scca1981
April 7th, 2009 at 18:34
looks good and much better then their last attempt at a racing game.
Uff
April 7th, 2009 at 18:38
That’s not Milestone logo (it’s an Italian website logo
), but you are right: Milestone will develop the game.
Richard117
April 7th, 2009 at 18:48
[quote]The majority of races are run on Italian tracks with two abroad events at Valencia and Oschersleben.
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So why is Kyalami on the shots?
Montoya
April 7th, 2009 at 18:51
Whoops, Valencia and Oschersleben were visited in 2008, looks like the game is based on the 2009 season & schedule.
Text corrected
kkv
April 7th, 2009 at 18:58
Looks like they did a nice job on modeling cars and tracks but then for some very weird reason put a kind of post effect or something that increased the contrast to an extent when everything is no more looking realistic but instead get a kind of graphics look. I mean the graphics which is done by hand with black ink and a bit brown and blue colors. A kind of thing you can do in photoshop with any photograph.
luizfrj
April 7th, 2009 at 19:53
Simulation?
stabiz
April 7th, 2009 at 20:25
Doubtful, it has “GO!” in one of the screens.
Uff
April 7th, 2009 at 20:49
In some Italian preview we could read that directions taken is the simul-arcade one. Don’t expect a full simulation, but a compromise which should allow you to choose the level of realism you prefer.
kill4f00d
April 7th, 2009 at 21:21
The car models and tracks look passable at best. The post processing filter used to alter the lighting makes it look bad though. I can understand HDR in action/adventure games to create a stylized look, but not in a car racing simulation. I want to feel like I’m in a real world when I’m playing a simulation, not a cartoon.
kkv
April 7th, 2009 at 22:02
Can somebody explain me please why exaggerated contrast when shadows are flat dark and lit spots are way over-exposed is considered HDR in games? In photography such things are often a result of low dynamic range of modern digital cameras and widely considered as a drawback often seen from cheap matrix of consumer class cameras. So it’s actually should be named LDR effect imho.