FOR THE FIRST TIME ON Xbox 360 & PS3
Tour de France Game is a pure mix of action and adrenaline. Play as a professional cyclist that competes in the Tour de France, the most prestigious of all cycling competitions!
Choose your team, your cyclist, and throw yourself into the race! You will have to fight neck and neck against the greatest champions throughout the Tour de France 2011s 21 official legs and during each of its key highlights! Manage your efforts during the stages in order to stay at the top of your form, work with your teammates, keep an eye on your reputation, and when necessary, build alliances with your opponents to win a stage or climb the leaderboard. Your actions and your loyalty will influence your reputation throughout the event and will affect your ability to repeat or not decisive strategies and alliances during the 21 days of this big race. You will need nerves of steel and a certain sense of tactics to win the competition and its most prestigious jerseys, such as the yellow jersey!
The Tour de France 2011s official route and each one of its 21 legs have been faithfully modeled using hyper realistic graphics to offer an incredible immersion experience . Breakaways, mountain pass attacks, dangerous slopes, takeovers, neck to neck sprint fightstake part in every highlight of the Tour from the standpoint of an elite athlete!
Live on PS3 and Xbox 360, the best of the Tour de France, the most prestigious of cycling competitions!
GAME REVIEW
Before you purchase this game you must ask yourself whether you are a true TDF fan, if not, i would strongly recommend not to buy it. You'll be bored out of your mind if you don't love cycling. But, however, if you do then you certainly will enjoy it. Don't worry, the game isn't played in real time, you don't spend 6 hours on each stage putting your feet up watching your chosen cyclist doing the work for you. The game picks the most exciting and/or interesting parts of each stage and allows you to play them, in between these sections it simulates the outcome of the race for you. Some people have said this simulation aspect of the game is a bit long winded but in complete honesty, it'll normally take about half a minute to move you on to the next section of the race, with about 3 minutes as the absolute maximum waiting time.
TDF 2011 is basically a strategy game but you do get to control your rider to an extent, you can increase/ decrease his speed, move laterally across the peleton, attack, send commands to other team mates etc.. For me, the most rewarding and fun way of playing this game is to not focus on the rider you are controlling, but to try to cater for all the riders in your team's needs. For example, you select Bradley Wiggins to control, then you come up to an intermediate sprint, so you tell Edvald Bossen Hagen (I'm not the best for spelling foreign names) to sprint off the front, you instruct a lower ranked rider to head off into a breakaway for a stage win, then a mountain comes up, off goes your polka-dot jersey contender, meanwhile you have to ensure that Geraint Thomas gets home safe for the white jersey. And of course look after Bradley Wiggins. See what I mean?
Despite all of the fantastic parts of this game, there are still a few little things that let it down, for some reason during time trials, your rider doesn't wear a TT helmet, occasionally you may pass through another rider (but not too often) , sometimes elements of race tactics can be frustrating because the tutorial section isn't exactly perfect and finally some teams aren't 100% official, meaning some names are altered such as Andy Schlik, instead of Schleck, but if you truly love the Tour de France, you can look past these small errors to see an enjoyable game for any fan.
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