Ferrari Challenge: Mark Cale Interview

We talk to the head of System 3 about his imminent racing game, Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli.

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Kikizo: Did they record they real sound?

Cale: Yeah, they had them all on rolling roads.

Kikizo: That's great, it always adds to the experience. Now we don't have a steering wheel here today available to test, but is it compatible with steering wheels?

Cale: Yes, it works with all steering wheels, and especially well with the Logitech steering wheel.

Kikizo: These cars that appear in the game, did you select them or did Ferrari select them?

Cale: I selected them; in terms of what I felt would be an overall historical perspective from an FXX which is a track/race version of the Ferrari Enzo which everybody loves, all the way back to that Ferrari Testarossa from 1957. I mean there are a few older ones than the Testrossa, you can go back to 1947 to the very first Ferrari, but I think we wanted to leave something in terms of not giving everything away.

Kikizo: We were impressed by has been the fantastic course selection; we were very pleased to see Spa make it into the game, undoubtly one of the world's finest courses. Did you select the circuits?

Cale: They're all the circuits on the Ferrari challenge calendar, so there are some circuits we would have liked in there such as Nurburgring or Laguna Seca which weren't on the race circuit last year, they are on this year and will be released as downloadable content.

Kikizo: Tuning cars, are there any options to tune cars in the game?

Cale: Absolutely, when you play the challenge series, you can change a wide range of aspects of the car such as dampers, ride height etcetera.

Kikizo: So can you use those set-ups online?

Cale: Yes, and there's 16 player support both online and on LAN.

Kikizo: Xbox 360 version - is that on the cards at the moment? Is it planned?

Cale: No it's not in the plans at the moment, it is with regret we're not doing a 360 version, but hence of the politics of Microsoft.

Kikizo: Finally Mark that obvious final question - what aspect have you been most pleased about?

Cale: I think the thing that I'm most pleased about is when you've got real race drivers from the real challenge series that are pretty much in awe of the game, who feel I've captured the spirit of the Ferrari series and the emotion of the Ferrari brand.

Kikizo: Thanks for your time, Mark.

Ferrari Challenge Trofeo is released early July in the UK and August in the US.

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