Nacon and Cyanide have announced two new cycling games for June release – Tour de France 2022 and Pro Cycling Manager 2022. Pro Cycling Manager 2022 releases on 8th June, while Tour de France 2022 will launch on 28th June in North America.
Check out the announcement trailers for both the games below:
Tour de France 2022 brings a new game mode and a range of improvements as it celebrates the world’s third-most followed competition’s return this year with 14,000km of racing across four different countries.
The game comes with four game modes and 26 teams to manage. It also brings world’s top cyclists Tadej Pogačar, Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van Aert, Primož Roglič and David Gaudu for you to race with in the 92 cycling stages.
Here are all the things you can expect in Tour de France 2022:
- New game mode: Tour de France 2022 introduces the all-new Race of the Moment mode, in which players can compare their results online with others in ranked weekly challenges.
- The new official course of the 2022 Tour de France: like previous years, players can race around France, this year starting from Denmark. All 21 official new stages are in the game, including the time trial in Copenhagen to start, then Lille Métropole – Arenberg Porte du Hainaut and its cobbled sections, the iconic Hautacam climb in the 18th stage, and the final flat stage on the famous Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris.
- More varied racing situations: the game’s artificial intelligence now offers a wider range of behaviours, which are better tailored to races and events. Players will experience early breakaways more often and enjoy better collaboration in breakaways.
- New classic inspired by a famous Italian race: the Primavera Classic.
- New playable teams: Eolo-Kometa Cycling Team, Caja Rural-Seguros RGA and Uno-X Pro Cycling Team join the game for the first time.
- Race incidents: players now have the option to enable or disable falls and illnesses as well as set the frequency when enabled. The consequences vary depending on the severity of the incident.
- Race preparation: this new system randomly selects five cyclists to be well prepared and five others who could potentially underperform. This encourages players to keep a close eye on their competitors as well as their own team.
- More immersive cobbled sections: when racing on these difficult sections, the user interface shudders, just like cyclists experience in real life. Players have never experienced the Arenberg trench like this before.
On the other hand, Pro Cycling Manager 2022 comes with a new interface and more cycling versatility. The game combines management and real-time racing putting you into the shoes of a sports director. You can scout, recruit, sponsor management, train, and make race strategies. Everything you can expect from a sports director to do at the very top of the sport.
Key Features:
- New talent scouting system: in Pro Cycling Manager 2022, players can now choose the territory and young riders they want to monitor, while their scouts develop and improve their effectiveness over time.
- New generation of cyclists: the latest edition introduces a new mechanic based on the level and potential of young riders using a six-star rating system. Young cyclists now emerge from the age of 16 and contribute to a pool of athletes three times larger than before. These versatile riders develop in the same way as current stars of the cycling world.
- Cyclist development system: for more realism, all riders recruited must now be integrated into the team for optimal development of their talent.
- More dynamic opponents: the pelotons in Pro Cycling Manager 2022 have more varied behaviours, breaking with the familiar patterns of previous editions. Players can see their favourite riders take the lead from the start and watch multiple breakaways from the very first hour of the race.
- Improved interface: as well as the redesigned interface, menu ergonomics and objective planning, a new cyclist page has been added. It includes new statistics, highlighted skills and results, and an interface to compare the attributes of two athletes.
- 70 teams available: players can become the sports directors of top teams such as Team Jumbo-Visma, B&B Hotels-KTM and Groupama-FDJ.
Last month, Nacon added four games to Amazon Luna, the cloud gaming service. Fans of sports game and family games got AO Tennis 2, Tennis World Tour 2, Monster Truck Championship, and Bee Simulator.
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