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New Pro Cycling Manager - Tour de France 2008 images

by: Randy -
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For whatever reason, the artist that penned the "Le Tour de France" logo in the lower right hand corner of the box art managed to make it look like "Le deTour France."  Which is neither here nor there, though this year's Pro Cycling Manager - Tour de France 2008 will certainly travel through the painstakingly recreated race.  (I'm also recalling Russel Crowe in A Good Year in which he'd always drive by the French cyclists, honking his horn, flipping them off, and yelling out "Laaance Aaaarmstrong!")  Again, neither here nor there.  We've got five new screenshots from developer Cyanide Studio.

Pro Cycling Manager - Tour de France 2008, New Images!

Developed by French studio Cyanide, the Cycling Manager series now rank as one of the key brands in the sports genre for PC and PSP and is enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of players across Europe. In order to prepare for the launch of the new season, we are pleased to release five new screenshots of Pro Cycling Manager 2008.

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http://www.cycling-manager.com/

The management side of the game has been given extra depth with many new elements. It has an entirely new stamina system, a more realistic progression curve for each rider, a complete skills editor and a new young talent recruiting system with a more aggressive AI.

This year, the racing is even more realistic, with a reworked feeding system, an enhanced game interface and the most advanced rider AI yet plus highly detailed rider models and animations. The 2008 edition also includes a new improved user interface, lighting system and more detailed, richer environments with a large variety of buildings and landscapes.

For the first time in the series, impressive "track racing" events are available. Choose track events such as cycle speedway, Kierin and elimination to challenge your team's track racing skills. All of these features combined make this new edition the most complete and exciting recreation of professional cycling.

Far from just a simple port of the PC version, the PSP version of Pro Cycling - Tour de France 2008 has been specially designed to make use of the unique features of the Sony PSP while offering optimized gameplay. Racing is the true attraction of this version thanks to the ability to participate in the greatest international cycling competitions, including the new track races, and the Tour de France 2008 which has been faithfully recreated. So choose the team you wish to bring to the top amongst one of the 18 official teams available and all the star players. This 2008 edition lets you challenge your friends in multiplayer mode via LAN or via the PSP WiFi features.

Both titles will be released on June 19th 2008.

About Focus Home Interactive

Founded in 1996, Focus Home Interactive is a French publishing and distribution company based near Paris, France. Known for the diversity, quality and originality of its catalogue, Focus now publishes and distributes many of its titles throughout Europe and also world-wide in both boxed retail and digital distribution formats. The last five years have been very successful for Focus in France, with many of its PC licenses becoming top-sellers. Focus has also published several original titles, including the adventure game Runaway, the renowned Cycling Manager and the much-loved TrackMania. The coming months will be exciting and full of surprises with the release of high-quality games such as Blood Bowl, TrackMania DS, Runaway: A Twist of Fate, Sherlock Holmes and sport games dedicated to major events such as the America's Cup or the Tour de France.
http://www.focus-home.com

About Cyanide Studio

Cyanide is a French game development studio, based in the Paris region. It currently employs forty people. Best known for its sport management sims Cycling Manager and Pro Rugby Manager, Cyanide broke the mold in the heroic-fantasy universe with its 2004 release of Chaos League, Loki and currently is working on the video game adaptation of Games Workshop's famous board game: Blood Bowl.
http://www.cyanide-studio.com