Simbin has released new preview material of their upcoming free Volvo – The Game title. Five new artwork shots show us the included racing cars, covering several years of touring car racing.
The modern day Volvo C30 & Volvo S60 touring cars are accompanied by true classics such as the Volvo S40 & Vovlo 850 Estate of BTCC fame as well as the legendary Volvo 240 Group A Turbo car.
The cars can be raced on two tracks, the Gothenburg Eco Drive Arena known from STCC – The Game as well as Chayaka, a Ukranian race track outside of Kiev.
Also available is a new preview video, giving us a sneak preview of the Volvo C30. The video can be watched below, a high resolution download link is also available. Volvo – The Game will be released on the 26th of May, the title will be available free of charge for everyone to download.
stabiz
May 15th, 2009 at 12:54
Look at that 240, its so ugly and yet so supercool.
gtrNL
May 15th, 2009 at 13:05
Nice, can’t wait.
Can’t seem to find any info on this Chayaka track.
Is it fictional? If not, what does it look like (fast, short)?
Gaiajohan
May 15th, 2009 at 13:17
Possibly a typing error by Simbin. It should be Chayka
http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=%2B+50%C2%B026%2718%22,+%2B+30%C2%B018%2712%22&sll=52.469397,5.509644&sspn=5.114403,16.918945&ie=UTF8&ll=50.4375,30.301709&spn=0.010441,0.033045&t=h&z=16
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Sensekhmet
May 15th, 2009 at 14:11
Yes! The 850 estate is in!!! Too bad no Volvo Original Cup cars are in the game, but oh well.
And since when the S40 is a ‘classic’? My dad drives a Dutch-made Mitsubishi Space Star diesel minivan with S40 chassis and underpinnings and a Renault power train (the combination was also used in Mitsubishi Galant and the S40 itself), how does that make the S40 a classic? It was a good looking car, though.
ermax18
May 15th, 2009 at 14:21
SimBin has gotten good at Photoshoping screenshots these days. :)
Martin Svensson
May 15th, 2009 at 14:29
The S40 may not be a classic road car, but it’s a classic racecar! Won BTCC 1998 and also the famous Bathurst 1000 the same year. I think it’s the coolest TouringCar ever. And the sound is absolutely awsome! :)
But on the other hand, you could call all the SuperTouring cars classics because during the ST-rules, it was the glory days of touringcar racing! FWD cars doing 0-100 km/h in about 4 sec, thats amazing!
Gaiajohan
May 15th, 2009 at 14:53
Don’t you mean the Mitsubishi Carisma instead of Galant? The Carisma’s have also driven in DTCC (Dutch Touring Car Championship) in 1998 :). And the Carismas were also built in the Netherlands.
kill4f00d
May 15th, 2009 at 14:55
I have to agree with ermax18. I’m really getting sick of the edited screenshots. SimBin needs to add some post processing filters rendered by the game. If you open your .PLR file with notepad, there is an entry for post processing somewhere. Enabling it has no effect though.
bab0oN
May 15th, 2009 at 14:55
Well.. I don’t care if the S40 is a classic or not – this game sounds fun
I never liked Volvo really but racing that BTCC ‘family wagon’ should be great!
Sensekhmet
May 15th, 2009 at 15:20
Don’t you mean the Mitsubishi Carisma instead of Galant?
Of course I meant Carisma, sorry.
It’s funny when you jack your Mitsubishi up and the first thing you bang your head on has a big VOLVO sign on it (like Space Star’s engine subframe has). Or when you can’t find wheels for the winter for your Mitsu but there are some Volvo rims lying about and they are a perfect fit
OndrejKo
May 15th, 2009 at 15:29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfn7FpRJO4
Gaiajohan
May 15th, 2009 at 15:31
But maybe it works in the Volvo game, and maybe also in Race07 after you’ve bought Race On.
hompe
May 15th, 2009 at 15:35
woho!! 240 great awesome and the 850 too
divxx
May 15th, 2009 at 16:03
Awesome, I knew for it to be a Volvo game that we’d see the estate around!
Looking at the video though, it seems to indicate the game is an add-on for STCC/RACE(?) Either that or Simbin didn’t bother shooting a video from the free game and just used some old footage from the STCC promotions catalog
Martin Svensson
May 15th, 2009 at 16:57
Hope it works with STCC/Race07/GTRE
Would be awsome to drive the BTCC cars at some british and swedish tracks. And imagine a ride with the 240Turbo at Nordschleife! :D
Siggs
May 15th, 2009 at 17:00
Interesting, would be nice if it’s true. But I’d have though they would’ve already used the post processing option if they were planning to.
Also, that S40 looks sick!
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jonelsorel
May 15th, 2009 at 17:26
Simbin have gotten good at releasing half-baked titles. This makes for an applaudable change.
divxx
May 15th, 2009 at 18:37
Well that may be b/c this is already paid for with Volvo money. Besides, despite being an rFactor man myself, there really is no other company besides Simbin devoted to quality simulations of real race cars out there. Wouldn’t hold out hope for the new ’sim’ NFS and certainly not whatever Codemasters has half-assed this time (these companies seemingly spend more on PR and marketing hype than they ever spend on development)
GeraArg
May 15th, 2009 at 20:44
This game is going to work as addon for GTR Evolution?
jonelsorel
May 15th, 2009 at 21:06
or STCC.. :)
Jos
May 15th, 2009 at 23:54
an addon for an addon for addon for addon…. :P
scca1981
May 16th, 2009 at 23:57
Awesome. I thought it was just gonna be a few street cars… but this is above and beyond. You can’t bitch about anything either because it is coming to us free :)
Rasmus
May 17th, 2009 at 01:32
NICE! So looking forward to racing some Volvos. I remember driving the S40 in TOCA 2 – it was a BEAST!
I’ve also driven that 850 Estate in some game – can anyone tell me where it might’ve been? Cus seeing this picture brings back memories, hehe.
hypertek
May 17th, 2009 at 10:55
i hope someday Nissan creates a free game based on all the generations of the Z, i will be happy =D
This volvo game looks cool, big car selection for a free game unlike the one make/model games like the m3.