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- Platform: PlayStation 3
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
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Product Description
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
Manufacturer's Description
Choose your team, your cyclist, and throw yourself into the race! 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 overall leaderboard.
Key Features:
ENJOY THE TOUR DE FRANCE EXPERIENCE:Follow the official course of the faithfully reproduced 21 stages of this year’s Tour de France. Pick your rider from the official teams including Team Sky, the first British Team to enter the Tour!
PUSH YOUR RACING SKILLS TO THE LIMIT: From the standpoint of your rider, choose your trajectories, manage your form, give orders to your team and maintain your reputation and relationships in the pack to win the Tour! Set yourself a variety of objectives such as winning the Tour’s most prestigious stages, obtaining one of the jerseys or the ultimate challenge: winning the Tour de France itself!
DEFEAT THE AI: Use your wits to defeat a smart AI that reacts to all your moves: breakaways, relays, counter-attacks and even alliance proposals...
Product Description
Tour de France 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 2011 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 2011 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 fights 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!
- Action-packed: take part in the Tour highlights, from the standpoint of an elite athlete
- Deeply tactical: assign orders to your teammates, work with them, build alliances with opponents, manage your
reputation… - Numerous goals: win the Tour most prestigious stages; obtain Yellow, Green, or Polka Dot jerseys, and try the
ultimate challenge: win the Tour de France itself! - Never seen before immersion in a faithful recreation of the Tour 21 official sta
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3
Fun:
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.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3
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Since the 2011 Tour shaped up to be one of the best in a long time, I knew I would be a bit disappointed when it finished, but as luck would have it the final stage took place on my birthday, and my great wife bought me this to try and help keep me happy until the Vuelta starts in August. So perhaps I went in with expectations a bit too high, but while not a bad game I did feel slightly underwhelmed and there was potential for this to be a much better game.
The game tutorial could be better since it raises more questions than answers in some cases-perhaps some footage illustrating the points rather than a simple static screen shot may have worked better. Plus options within the game are limited in relation to what orders you can give out- for example if you decide to go on an attack and want your team to block and slow down the peloton to protect you, you can't do that. The "Protect Me" order only has your team surround you which is not what you need at that stage, so perhaps the AI needs tweaked.
On a more petty note the voice acting is atrocious which can be a bit off putting after hearing "I've got a rocket under my saddle" as a response to an order to attack for the umpteenth time.
The simulated parts where the CPU takes over are also quite annoying, since they do not seem to take into consideration the orders you were giving just before you lose control.
Overall I think this game suffers from promising a lot and not fully delivering- I was more interested in the strategy end of it, so perhaps controlling the whole team from a car would be better than actually controlling one rider and also issuing orders. The menu system for doling out orders is also a tad annoying-sometimes to select a team mate and an order, you have to use the control stick that should be used to control your player which means you can lose a head of steam very easily by trying to sort out your team.
So while I would not call this game a total write-off, there are elements that mean it does not meet its full potential and it can be a bit frustrating. There are some small details that, in a better quality game could be forgiven but really it should deliver more. I will still hold on to it and play the rest of it through but if it is all out action you want then you will be disappointed. There is probably enough strategy to keep most people happy though again it is more the lost potential that means I would only recommend it to die hard cycling and strategy fans.
The game tutorial could be better since it raises more questions than answers in some cases-perhaps some footage illustrating the points rather than a simple static screen shot may have worked better. Plus options within the game are limited in relation to what orders you can give out- for example if you decide to go on an attack and want your team to block and slow down the peloton to protect you, you can't do that. The "Protect Me" order only has your team surround you which is not what you need at that stage, so perhaps the AI needs tweaked.
On a more petty note the voice acting is atrocious which can be a bit off putting after hearing "I've got a rocket under my saddle" as a response to an order to attack for the umpteenth time.
The simulated parts where the CPU takes over are also quite annoying, since they do not seem to take into consideration the orders you were giving just before you lose control.
Overall I think this game suffers from promising a lot and not fully delivering- I was more interested in the strategy end of it, so perhaps controlling the whole team from a car would be better than actually controlling one rider and also issuing orders. The menu system for doling out orders is also a tad annoying-sometimes to select a team mate and an order, you have to use the control stick that should be used to control your player which means you can lose a head of steam very easily by trying to sort out your team.
So while I would not call this game a total write-off, there are elements that mean it does not meet its full potential and it can be a bit frustrating. There are some small details that, in a better quality game could be forgiven but really it should deliver more. I will still hold on to it and play the rest of it through but if it is all out action you want then you will be disappointed. There is probably enough strategy to keep most people happy though again it is more the lost potential that means I would only recommend it to die hard cycling and strategy fans.
19 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3
Fun:
This is a big disappointment. Being a big fan of earlier versions of the PC game, I was bitterly disappointed and utterly bored by this console version. This is a serious candidate to being the worst game I have ever played and it is simply not worth the money, or any money for that sake!
I have never played a game where you spend close to 98% of your time just waiting, and the worst is that you can't even speed up the game to avoid this long waiting periods. Not even in the intermediate part of the stages where you are not controlling a rider. The console version is restricted to you only following one rider out of a team of 5 riders eventhough I do believe the teams really consists of 8-9 riders in the real Tour de France. Eventhough this might be more realistic, I think that controlling all riders in a team is more fun and gives more variation. Also, you have no influence on the gear (helmets, wheels, preparation etc.). You're choices are extremely limited, which makes this game very monotone. I was already bored after playing for 30 min.
I discourage anybody who are thinking about buying this product. It is money out the window.
I have never played a game where you spend close to 98% of your time just waiting, and the worst is that you can't even speed up the game to avoid this long waiting periods. Not even in the intermediate part of the stages where you are not controlling a rider. The console version is restricted to you only following one rider out of a team of 5 riders eventhough I do believe the teams really consists of 8-9 riders in the real Tour de France. Eventhough this might be more realistic, I think that controlling all riders in a team is more fun and gives more variation. Also, you have no influence on the gear (helmets, wheels, preparation etc.). You're choices are extremely limited, which makes this game very monotone. I was already bored after playing for 30 min.
I discourage anybody who are thinking about buying this product. It is money out the window.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Waste of time...
I'm quite open minded and enjoy a wide range of video games, but this just isn't fun, challenging or entertaining in any shape or form.
Published 2 months ago by Colin Duck
Great Game
This is an awesome game, played on it for 5 hours yesterday and it has an excellent AI, very good tactical decisions and most of the teams and riders. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mike
good game for cyclist fans
its an ok game grafs okay en feel okay had hoped bit more like cycling maneger
but its fun to play for a while till the end of the year releases come out ;-)
but its fun to play for a while till the end of the year releases come out ;-)
Published 8 months ago by ray van krevel
Disappointing
The game really sucks - having tried the PC version the gameplay is really disappointing - it is several years ago I last tried Cycling Manager on PC but even then that version was... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Casper
AVOID,RUBBISH GAME
this has to be the worst game i have played in my life,the game is boring after abit,i did read the reviews about it before i got the game but i though i would give it ago... Read more
Published 10 months ago by m.simpson
Had/has the Possibility to be Great
I bought this game on the day of release, looking forward to playing the console version of the PC "Pro Cycling Manager". Read more
Published 11 months ago by boomer
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