GTI Racing for Windows (2006)
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Description
As the title suggests, GTI Racing focuses exclusively on the Volkswagen Golf series cars, offering a selection of 15 models stretching over five generations of car design. The gameplay includes arcade racing with thorough simulation elements, using a realistic damage model, collision detection and an interactive environment, and time spent in the garage fine-tuning your vehicle with branded parts. You can install both useful enhancements and eye-catching body kits, tapping into the tuning scene.
The 70 stages, based on six settings, offer varied gameplay, with regular races, time trial, drag racing and drift competition. Next to the championships, there is also a Baja and a Legal mode. Most time will be spent in the career mode, racing in different locales, earning money and respect to buy new cars, and ultimately becoming a champion. Up to four players can race online or over a local network.
Based on the Chrome engine, the game comes with a full editing suite. You can design and import custom cars and apply paint jobs. Additionally, mods, tracks and modes can be created and shared online.
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Alternate Titles
- «GTI Racing: La légendaire GOLF GTI a enfin son jeu !» — French tag-lined title
Part of the Following Groups
- 3D Engine: Chrome
- Automobile: Volkswagen Beetle
- Automobile: Volkswagen Golf
- Automobile: Volkswagen New Beetle
- Automobile: Volkswagen W12
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Critic Reviews
| PC Action (Germany) | May, 2006 | 75 out of 100 | 75 |
| 4Players.de | May 27, 2006 | 74 out of 100 | 74 |
| Playfuls | Oct 08, 2006 | 7. 4 out of 10 |
74 |
| PC Powerplay | May, 2006 | 71 out of 100 | 71 |
| JeuxVideoPC.com | Apr 05, 2006 | 13 out of 20 | 65 |
| Playback | May, 2006 | 6.33 out of 10 | 63 |
| GameStar (Germany) | May, 2006 | 63 out of 100 | 63 |
| Jeuxvideo.com | Mar 20, 2006 | 9 out of 20 | 45 |
| REPLAYING.de | Aug 09, 2021 | Unscored | Unscored |
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Related Web Sites
- GTI Racing (Official multilingual game website)
- IGCD Internet Game Cars Database (Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games.
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Sciere (827426) added GTI Racing (Windows) on Aug 25, 2006
The World’s First VW Golf 8 GTI Race Car Is Here
Introduction
In November last year, VW Motorsport announced that none of its future race cars would use internal combustion engines. That clearly wasn’t true. Sort of…
To be honest, hearing that Volkswagen’s competition arm would be channeling its efforts into electric race cars didn’t come as much of a shock. After Dieselgate and now a fast-growing global shift towards green energy, I don’t think they really had a choice but to make this move. This wasn’t all bad news. You’ll have likely heard of Volkswagen’s ID. R, which is one helluva electric racer that shattered the overall Pikes Peak record in 2018 and the electric lap record at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife the following year, among many other achievements.
But VW Motorsport South Africa wasn’t ready to fully embrace the EV motorsport age just yet.
As you can clearly see, somehow they were able to get the blessing of VW Motorsport GmbH head office in Germany to build two brand new ICE-powered factory race machines based on the yet-to-be-released Golf 8 GTI.
On the 2nd of July, VW Motorsport South Africa virtually launched (thanks COVID-19) the cars, which to say was exciting would be a very large understatement. Online launches just aren’t the same as physical ones though, so I wrangled an invite to the pair’s very first test session held at Zwartkops Raceway near Pretoria.
For the local Global Touring Cars (GTC) series, VW Motorsport South Africa has campaigned the Jetta for the last four years. But as that model is now being discontinued for right-hand drive markets such as SA, they needed to build something new.
Both the Passat and Arteon are going the same way as the Jetta here in South Africa, so based on the current and near-future production offerings, that just left the Polo or – at a stretch – the forthcoming Mk8 Golf.
The choice was a pretty simple one.
Testing
We won’t be getting the road-going version of the Golf 8 GTI until 2021, so it’s pretty awesome that we already have the race car version of it In the GTC series, Volkswagen will be going up against other manufacturers, including BMW, Audi and Toyota.
When I arrived at Zwartkops around noon just over a week ago, the team was busy prepping the cars for the first session of the day. Excitement for the team was at an all-time high.
Keagan Masters, who won the GTC championship for VW in 2019, and Daniel Rowe who won the GTC2 championship in 2016, are the two young guns piloting the Golfs this season. After competing only in sim events the last few months, the guys were more than eager to get behind the wheels of actual race cars once again.