Разработчик: Vae Victis Games
Описание
Victory: The Age of Racing is now FREE!
*** WINDOWS 10 USERS *** please read this thread on our Technical Assistance forum if you get the error message “d3d9.dll is missing” trying to run Victory on Windows:
(accessible only to Victory owners).
You can be a ruthless driver by pushing your car beyond the limits, a talented designer by creating unique cars and a highly skilled technical director by improving your car settings tweaking it for maximum performances. Join the competition and race to win!
An Internet connection is required to play Victory: The Age of Racing.
Buy the Victory Deluxe Pack for exclusive contents!
Victory Deluxe Pack
The Deluxe Pack gives you a handful of Gears Credits and three exclusive cars you can use on ordinary tracks and all events. This pack includes:
- 3 exclusive Special Deluxe Racing Cars (super fast 60PI cars: 1 Legend car, 1 Classic car and 1 Formula car)
- 15000 Gears Credits (you can speed up your multiplayer career or create several racing cars from scratch)
Victory is a fully featured multiplayer online racing game you can enjoy in multiple ways.
In Victory: The Age of Racing, cars can be USER GENERATED: players have an unprecedented degree of freedom in choosing car blocks, parts, colors, decals and shapes for their own customized car. We also created the block system, where you can switch different parts of your racing car until you have reached your favorite design.
You can control your car choosing between gamepad, keyboard and steering wheel.
- Keyboard controls with assisted steering
- Full gamepad compatibility with force feedback support
- Full steering wheel compatibility with force feedback support
- Mouse controls (move the mouse to steer, left/right click to throttle and brake)
We've also worked hard to create the best keyboard controls available on the market for a racing game. An integrated artificial intelligence helps you steering, braking and throttling, with a simulation of analog controls even when you're using the keyboard.
Victory is an arcade racer with realistic physics specifically tuned to give an unprecedented car handling and an addictive racing experience. We started with a top-notch car physics engine developed in collaboration with Stefano Casillo, the author of the acclaimed racing simulator, Assetto Corsa and then we added improved assisted driving systems, so you can experience the game as you wish, enabling or disabling driving aids whenever you like to.
PvP competitions with multiple game modes and multiplayer live events for inactive players.
Events, championships, daily races, different game modes. Everything is created in real time based on the status of connected players: a central server checks who is online and what he is doing, then creates live events which pop up on your main screen.
In Victory you can be active and choose what you want to do or just wait for the game to propose you new ways to race online and have fun.
Game Modes
- Hotlap (single player mode)
- Hotlap Party (multiplayer hot lap mode, up to 100 players, usually lasts 1 hour)
- Hotlap Championship (multiplayer hot lap mode, can last for days, with online rankings in real time)
- Quick Race (multiplayer race)
- Handicap Race (multiplayer race, the winner gets an handicap for the following race)
- LAN mode supported: create a LAN Party and race with your friends!
Race Zones & Tracks
- 3 different racing zones around the world
- 15 different racing tracks
Car attributes and setups, different engines, tires, accessories and more: this is your personal customized car!
Like in a role playing game, you have to spend Performance Points to reach the perfect combination for your driving style and racing conditions. You can have multiple cars in the game and customize them for different game modes or tracks!
Choose from different teams and start your racing career. Each of the three car classes in the game has a dedicated World Championship where different racing teams are looking for the best driver: are you ready to put the pedal to the metal and wear the colors of your team on the track?
Each team will offer you different racing cars and you will have to unlock multiplayer achievements to progress in the team career, unlock other new cars and reach the top of the rankings.
- Achievement system with rewards (money, widgets, driver titles) and over 300 different achievements to unlock
- Fully integrated website with real time rankings and statistics of almost everything in game: check your rankings, different stats, every single car created in the game can be shared and voted!
- Integrated Social Bar with race chat, race log, "last played with" panel, public chat, race invites, integrated friend system, online status settings and more!
- 7 different game cameras: choose your favorite one when playing
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
- Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz or Equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX(R) 9 Compatible Graphics Card with 512 MB RAM
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- OS *: Windows 7, Windows 8
- Processor: Quad-core 2.4 GHz or Equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX(R) 9 Compatible Graphics Card with 1 GB RAM
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
I would recomend this game. Its a fun racing game thats easy to get used to, hones in your racing skills, and lets you make your own cars. yeah, it has grinding in it, but if you work hard and just do your best, you can get to where you want to be. works fairly well with low end PCs too. i have a dual core PC currently, and i get almost 60 fps in the game.
Physics are in the awkward position of "not arcadey enough to be an arcade-style racer, but not realistic enough to be any kind of simulator", which is a bad sign for me.
The game is also pretty much designed around multiplayer, which is alright if that is your kind of thing. But take note that I only saw at most 5 other people in my half and hour of time in the game, so you're going to spending the bulk of your game time on the waiting room and any races you actually drive in will probably have enough competitors to count with your fingers.
There's no way to just play these races in any form of single player mode with AI stand-ins, so single player is only reserved for the solo time-attack, which gets boring very very quickly despite the decent number of maps available in the game.
Literally play any other game to get a better racing experience, sim, arcade or otherwise.
Valve should really remove dead games.
Hardly anybody plays this game, and since there is no singleplayer/AI mode, the game is practically unplayable. Waste of $15.
Unfortunately, the game is dead as can be. No players, no developers around. It's a shame though, the graphics and gameplay are decent enough, but far from complete.
This game always has to be online. The only option is to play online with other people. And when there's nobody to play it, money is better spent on more fun games.
EDIT: This is nearly a year after the review publish date on Feb 8, 2015. It is now October 10th of the same year, and the game isn't even out of beta. The game came out on Feb 10th, 2014. Do you see the faith in this game.
Game is pretty dead, player-side and development-side. Looks good, sounds good, just is not implemented well, and doesn't have the playerbase as a result. Would not recommend.
tl;dr This game is fun, but overwhelming and dead. Developers have abandoned this game and left to work on the next one.
Victory: The Age of Racing is a racing simulator akin to stuff like Formula 1, but with arcade gameplay controls in the vehicles. I'm much more of an arcade racer (hence my repeated Black Flags when I play anything in here), so Victory does cater to my tastes as well as the average sim fan. The cars are very well modeled, and the tracks are pleasing enough.
However, the UI is incredibly overwhelming to me, and it's not intuitive for me to get around at all. I'm sure I haven't even discovered half of the menus because of how much there is to take in. Additionally, the multiplayer is dead and you'd be lucky to find anyone who plays this.
Most importantly, as other reviews have pointed out, the developers - Vae Victis Games - have fully abandoned Victory. The game has not been updated in years. They started working on a new game called Racecraft but beware, they have abandoned their new game too.
Avoid this game and avoid this developer.
This game is dead. Avoid.
This is just another "early access" game that's all broken promises, where the developers get paid for half a job done, then they disappear.
Worst of all, the driving mechanics are pitiful and ardcade-like. The graphics are initially impressive, but soon become tiresome and repetative.
Not worth your money, not worth your time.
Ive seen alot of reviews stating that this game is "dead" because there is simply no one online to race against. While this is true MOST of the time, (just recently raced against 6 other racers in a major event) those leaning on this one flaw in the game are missing out on alot of what Victory has to offer.
Victory: The Age of Racing is simply the best racing game I've played on Steam. Hands down. The blistering sense of speed is better than all but one of the many racing games I've experienced, F-Zero GX being the best in that category. The three classes of cars: Legend, Classic, and Formula, each have thier own handling characteristics and quirks, and each reqiring a different skillset to be brought to thier fullest racing potential. Combine that with probably some of the most fun and frustrating original tracks in a racing game (Mario Kart notwithstanding) and you have one hell of a racing experience. That, quite honestly, only gets better with the addition of rival racers. When they're on of course.
Car customization is another thing Victory has down. The paint room is very Forza-esque in it's function, but one thing I like about it better than Forza is the fact your graphics don't get warped on curved sections of your car. The decals curve with your cars curves, which makes painting replicas pretty satisfying. Plus the fact you can MAKE YOUR CAR LOOK HOWEVER YOU WANT IT TO. You want a crazy front wing that looks like it wont even work aerodynamically? Slap it on there! You want a two story tall rear wing on that Classic car? Go for it! Dont want wings at all? Who da heck needs downforce!? The styles of car are endless, and it's very interesting to see all the custom cars drivers make. From F1 replicas to "How is that even working?"
Also, well, going back to the point that there arent alot of people playing this game. The few who do, at least the ones that I know, are all really friendly. If you come in and see some one on, dont be afraid to ask questions. From what I know, the community in Victory recognize the lack in number of players and will help any newbie who needs help in anything. I will definitely answer any questions asked to me if im on. As you can see with my hours on record, I'm on quite a bit.
So dont let the "Mixed" reviews on this game turn you off to it. Ive had so much fun with this game in the near 10 months I've owned it, even made a few really good friends. If you see video games as an investment and not as an opportunity to have some fun, I can't help you there. But if you're looking for a well made racing experience in a fantasy setting, look no further. Come on in, theres a car with your name on it waiting to be driven.
No seriously, the cars have your name on them. It's pretty cool.
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P.S. Forgot to mention. It's small, but probably one of the coolest features in this game is the fact that you are still in control of your car after you cross the finish line. Adds a level of immersion I haven't experienced in any racing game I've played before.
Before I begin, I just wanted to share a very important fact. This game was available for free through amazon. When I first found it on amazon, it was a free to play game. that's all well and good, but when I found it for $15 on steam, that got me kind of iffy on the whole thing. it basically told me that they're charging for something they were willing to give out for free. But, I can get past that.
What this game does well is customization and gameplay. the controls are solid, the cars feel weighty and there's a fair bit of options available to customize your car right off the bat. all plusses in my book. So, The reason I don't recommend this is because there was no offline modes to be found. every single race was online. on top of that, there really aren't enough people playing to fill a race. personally, I had a hard time finding just one more person so I could actually race. That's because the race won't start if you're by yourself. the only time it does is if you're in hotlap mode. but the thing about that is this: you don't get credit for hotlaps. Nope. no rewards for that. none.
All in all, Age of Racing is a story of high potential with all the resources already there. but the game was let down by always online gameplay that's even brought triple-A games to their knees. if they ever add offline, I'll recommend it. but as long as it stays online only, I can't bring myself to do it.
I can't really recommend this game. It is beautiful and the controls are nice, however there is nobody online. Maybe once it's out of early access I can change my review, but even if there were people online to play with, the game has other issues. Namely, no controller support in any of the menus. It's very obviosuly designed for PC, which doesn't have to be a bad thing, but in this case it is. I'm trying to play on my TV while sitting back in my recliner and the menus are difficult to read and navigate. The UI is overly complex for a racing game, in my opinion.
This game has sucked me into it verry fast. It liiks like a racing simulator but it is far from the simulator feel making racing alot more enjoyable. the graphics look good and runs smoothly. The costomization is simple to learn and works rather well. The courses are very well constructed and they all have somthing different in them. The car stat costomization is excellent letting you choose how you want your car to drive and how well it can drive. Somtimes its hard to get into a race with somone else when not much people are playing, but there is a hotlap mode where you race arround a track and get in game currency (gears) every time you complete a lap with out crashing or beating your best time. I would love to see more people play this game and grow the allready awesome community.
If I were to compare this to another series of titles I would say it reminds me of the Track Mania titles in a sense with more traditional style track layouts. As a wheel user I think Vae Victis has done a good job to create a Universal Generic Controller Profile setup that has good ffb recognizes my ClubSport Wheel and ClubSport pedals and maps with ease and recognizes my ClubSport Shifter as a secondary input device then allows for axis sensitivity adjustments. If your familar with what is considered an Arcade Racing game you know wheel support is hit or miss with most any title. The fact Vae Victis has it right for the most part goes a long way torward my overall outlook of the game and it's developer.
Vae Victis is worth keeping around and their efforts deserve our support!
This game deserves a longer review as it offers so much fun for comparitiveley little outlay, but I.m gonna keep it short so that I can get back to playin'
Buy into this now, if you want loads of fun building and racing cars in an arcade looking world with very sim like physics, not too sure then read on..........
Great bright, shiny racing game. Nice twist that gives you the ability to put together your own personal ride, just choose from one of three base classes of car types and then choose front/mid and rear end combos and customise with paints and decals.
The driving model has a real pedigree ( based on the Kunos NetKar Pro engine ) and is very rewarding, you have to work with it a bit but then you get good feedback and with that control with the legend cars four wheel drifting and the classics snapping back from oversteer nicely.
The tracks are coloutful! with fantasy swooping tracks offering various surfaces adding to the fun and there is promise of procedural tracks adding a huge number of layouts in the future.
The racing is online already! with races and live hotlap parties, you earn level up race points, widgets to add boosts to and Gears to spend on improving your current ride.
Now it is early access, so there are some minor issues and it is developing, but the Devs are very much active on the forums ( that was a major factor in my purchase ) and the community is small but very encouraging.
As I said short review there is more in this game to discover and enjoy,
After Recero chimed in on this review I went back and re-thought my opinion. I would recommend this game to anyone that loves racing. The premise of the game starting from early racing and working your way forward is a plus. The only thing that needs to be addressed is the user base, not sure if this is an advertisement problem or users aren't promoting the game as they should be but either way numbers need to go up in order for this game to excel.
Arcade sandboxy formula racing <3
Points of interest:
- Make your own car! Can get pretty deep with accessories and paint designs!
- Little to no grind (300 base GC every time you beat your PB with a car in Hotlap Challenge. Records are on a per-car basis!)
- Car setups make a difference!
- Challenging tracks for formula cars!
- Nice solid physics with great feeling!
- Beautiful reactive UIs - I am in love with the interface designs!
- Fun race modes with many race settings and well implemented networking!
- Races generated in real-time by the server!
- LAN mode!
- Steering with a keyboard is really excellent!
and in the future:
- Procedurally generated tracks!
- Race editor
- Oculus Rift support
Points of negativity:
- 'Widgets', seriously? Artificial car boosting per race?! The game used to be f2p, so this is probably a remnant of that design. I don't use it, don't even bother, I don't even want to know about it.
- There is fps lag in races with more than 4 players, you can workaround it (?) but to me it's gamebreaking. But I am fully confident they will fix this - one and only - issue as they continue to develop this otherwise beautiful and very personal racer. Besides, hotlapping is unaffected by this.
Great game, dirt cheap - I will be playing for as long as there are other people!
I'm going to go ahead and say this from the start, if the thumbs up didn't indicate it already. I highly recommend this game. Granted only for certain people, I understand not everyone likes racing games, especially ones that have some simulation aspects to it. This is more of a simcade, and as people have said about this before, it's easy to get into, hard to master.
I do call it how I see it though, even though one of the devs asked for me to review, I have no issue with that, and no, I'm not getting any kind of reward for it nor do I care for one, I just want to see the game succeed and get more players. Starting on developers, they are awesome. I had one personally work with me to troubleshoot an issue I had with the game crashing, and come up with a fix for it, and provided me with a modified .dll file to get the game working until the patch was released the next morning. (this was LATE at night, almost morning when it happened)
The game doesn't have many issues for me, but whatever issues it does have are being worked on by the devs atm. They listen to feedback and issues that the community encounters. Like the FPS problems some people are having. I was talking to a dev last night and they have acknowledged the issue and are working to fix it. In that process though they broke cockpit view online, once they quickly found out about that from players, they fixed it the same day. This is what more games need, devs that listen and actually work to change/fix things. I can forgive games that are broken if the devs ACTUALLY TRY. (I'm not saying this game is broken by the way, it is far from it) If you can't at least respect a developer for that, I've got nothing for you.
The community of this game, so far, is all friendly. This can of course change, as people are people and the more people that play, the higher chance for bad people to show up, that's just life, don't fault a game for that. There's a MMO like chat ingame, you have a public chat for anyone to talk in, a race chat for a race you're in, and a friends list separate from Steam and a racers tab to show EVERYONE online. You can check out their rank, nationality, and private chat from there. Quite simple and functional.
The driving mechanics ingame are quite nice in my opinion. It's definitely not a sim like Assetto Corsa, but it's not super arcadey like Need for Speed games. There's a good balance of fun and realism, combined with the options of automatic gear changing, semi auto, and manual, and various assists you can enable and disable on the fly. The cars all feel nice to drive too, they have good weight to them, you can feel the cars grip (or lack thereof), the cars respond to different surfaces, and changing car setup makes thing vary quite a bit. Running the default setup will work fine but you certainly get an advantage if you take the time to set up your car properly for a certain track, be it the under/oversteer of the car, the suspension stiffness to help cornering, the downforce levels, front/rear brake bias, and even gear ratios, and it does it in a fairly simplified but useful way. Their are descriptions for the settings on the side to help explain, and instead of some settings like camber levels and toe, and ARB settings and spoiler and wing angles, it's simple clicks left and right toward a different setting. I'm a huge fan of racing games in general, arcadey and sim. My main issue with sims is a lot are just plain better when using a racing wheel, which makes me happy to say this works EXTREMELY well with a gamepad. This itself makes it more accessible, which isn't always a bad thing.
The amount of content ingame is something I can't comment on too well right now, as I haven't played for that long. The game is only about 500mb though, so keep that in mind. There's a decent amount of tracks from what I've seen, and they're all fun, for me at least. There are preset cars ingame to buy, quite a few for each career and team, and some on the market (using ingame money).
But then we get to the car creator. You can choose between the 3 car types, and the different performance groups, then mix and match between different front, middle, and rear pieces of the car, and then change the paint and decals, and choose between a lot of different cosmetics like exhausts, brakes, rims, mudguards, steering wheels, etc. And depending on the car chosen, you get a different amount of PI to spend on your car. These are basically skill points in an MMO, you put points into things like braking, power, grip, etc. And in the same area you can select different engines and tires that will also change the PI settings of your car a bit. This adds a lot of personalization to the game and makes everyones car feel different. So in that aspect, there's a lot of content, and I'm sure there's more to be added.
A thing I forgot to put in somewhere about the car types: They're all F1 cars. There are the older ones running V6's if I remember, the Classics. Then you have the Legendary cars, I think these are using V8's ingame, I forget. They are based off more modern looking F1 cars though. Then you have the Formula class, these are using V12's ingame, and are the most modern looking cars.
When it comes to graphics, not too much to say. They aren't bad, certainly not the worst. If you really judge a game based on that, well, I don't know what to tell you. The gameplay is very good, the graphics work well and don't detract from the game. Fairly straightforward here. The only thing negative I have to say about that is with the graphics quality, there shouldn't be performance issues, but there are. BUT, like I said earlier, the developers are working on this right now. Like literally now.
Regarding peoples butthurtness towards "in app purchases". Yes, there are some. You can pay real money to get ingame money from what I understand. But it's optional. There's literally nothing you can get from that, that you can't get ingame by just playing normally, and it DOES NOT make up for lack of skill.
Any of these things are subject to change, as this game is still in Early Access and is being worked on still. This was put up on 2-14-2014. If anything changes that makes any of my points irrelevant or outdated, I'll try to remember and edit this.
I'll say again, I highly recommend this game for just about every kind of racing fan, and definitely for people that like F1 cars.
It's quite accessible too, so not being the best isn't a reason to pass this by.
My last review was negative and i decided to change it because (in a very fast way) developers decided to change the whole "buy gears" system they had in earlier versions back when the game was Free-to-Play.
The game is really nice; and best of all is that it is an Early Access and you'll probably see a lot of changes and improvements.
Keep up the good work and THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO US!
A few things so far about Victory: The Age of Racing:
(This is not an actual review)
- The game menu looks quite satisfying and is clearly arranged.
- This game is definitely pay to win. Proof? The developers are presenting the "build your own car" thing as one of the main features. At the beginning you have already one car of each class so you can start right of racing. so far so good. to build your own car, you need at last (probably with extra parts and stuff a few 100 more) 5200 Gears Credits (the only ingame currency). If you win one of these early multiplayer races (don't know if its getting noticeably more when you progress) you get ~100 GC. So, to build your own the cheapest car of any class, without spending real money, wou have to win like 50 races. Races i've driven were appr. 4 - 6 minutes. In comparison: You can buy one of these predefined cars for the half of the price, which might be even a bit faster. So i think that the real money thing ones again ruins a game by slowing it down horribly, which equals pay to win to me.
- Gameplay is (after years of developement of this former-free-to-play game) like Mario Kart without Toads and bananas, but more buggy and erratic. But still quite fun to drive, a bit like trackmania. In conclusion this game is very arcadish, while it is published to have "realistic car physics".
One of the game developers once said in an interview with insidesimracing on Youtube (2012), that at the beginning, when they startet the title as free-to-play, they thought about not making one of these ptw games. Now the game is still in developement, is ptp and even ptw, too. I kind of regret buying it.
At the moment i have, to be honest, no MASSIVE complaint about the game how it is. It's okay, not more or less. But if you make the "mistake" to judge this game by what it pretends to be, it's absolutely not enough and seems like a bit of a hoax.
At the end i have to put a careful "YET", as the developers have time to and possibilities to fix these points, hopefully.
Facts: I'm a game moderator (voluntary user); I can be biased, but I know this game really well; also, remember that this is Early Access, so still a beta phase.
Talking about the game: first of all, despite the tags, this is NOT a simulator; it's more like an arcade racing game with realistic features (don't expect to drift on every corner or have random racing lines); still, the model is really satisfying: the racing experience and setup know-how is rewarded, while beginners won't have many problems driving their first cars. With the inclusions of new events, career mode and other stuff there's plenty to do, and car customization is one of the best ever seen in a racing game, both on visual stuff like paint and development. Good races are real fun, and the tracks are inspired and good to drive in. The devs also are very active, and try to fix bugs in a quickly way (also are active in the forums, which is nice).
Bad things: excluding random bugs (which I'm not experiencing at the moment, save for some really minor stuff) the worst part is the performance of the game in this phase. We know that graphic optimization and new shaders are coming very soon, but at the moment on many computers a race with full roster will make the fps drop. There's also the minor issue of a little population, but hopefully this will change in the next weeks (it's still early - early access), and the races and events still flow very nicely, so it's not really a problem.
What will come next: full Steam integration, procedural race tracks, track editor and Steam Workshop support. Probably some of the best features to have in a game like this.
For old users: the payment model has changed. This is now a buy-to-play; so you will need to buy the game if you want to play (it's not going free to play after the beta) but THERE ARE NO MORE MICROTRANSACTIONS in the game. Also, the reward were raised quite a lot, so buying new cars is much faster.
Conclusions: in my opinion, if you like racing games, you are curious or look for a relaxed fun game go for it. There's plenty to do, the game has some good depth, the class are really different one from each other and at this low price it's worth the entry, also because new features will flow in and make the game even better. Still, if you like only Simulators, beware that this game is not one; don't expect an Assetto Corsa or rFactor or iRacing here, because it's not (and it does not pretend to be one).
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Vae Victis Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 17.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 44% положительных (81) |