Our hands-on expertise with Want for Velocity Cell

Welcome again to our remaining 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. You’ll want to try our earlier tales protecting 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 Cell from EA, which is gearing as much as drop for iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 this fall.

What’s Want for Velocity Cell?

The open highway within the palm of your hand

Want for Velocity Cell (which additionally goes as Want for Velocity: Assemble in China) runs on Unreal Engine 4, and is comparable in a whole lot of 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 shall be tearing up together with you. The sport launched abroad in China final month after three years of growth that noticed EA and cell recreation big Tencent teaming up (particularly TiMi Studio Group, one among Tencent’s subsidiaries), working to make a cultured open-world racing recreation that takes a web page out of the MMO guide.

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MMO-Lite executed proper

I had an opportunity to sit down down with Dan Zhao, a Product Director at EA, who guided me by way 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 have the ability to run on a minimum of the X sequence iPhones and up. I used to be additionally enjoying the Chinese language model of the sport, with/towards 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 be able to see above (I’m a giant fan of old-school Japanese Hondas and Toyotas so I went with one thing in that vein), which gave me an thought of how in-depth the character customization choices have been, a giant (and vital) staple within the MMO/MMO-Lite genres. In-game occasions and actions vary from PvP monitor racing, the place you may check your drifting expertise, to cop chases with different gamers, which may all be naturally accessed by traversing the open world. The demo ended with me taking up a few monitor races the place I had an opportunity to essentially 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 shocked by my drifting expertise (and I didn’t place final), I undoubtedly want some extra follow.

After a month of success over in China, Want for Velocity Cell will hit the States this fall for Apple gadgets operating iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, and also will characteristic Personalised Spatial Audio, boasting lowered 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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