Pro Cycling Manager: Tour de France 2007

Pro Cycling Manager/Tour de France 2007 gives you an opportunity to compete in the greatest international cycling competitions. In charge of one of 60 official teams available in the game, you control your team’s tactics and strategies for 180 real-time 3D races. As directeur sportif [DS], you are also be responsible for managing your team, signing contracts, equipment, transfers, scheduling, training, and everything else that makes up a working day for a pro team manager.

The accurately represented Tour de France, with its intensity-filled stages, its electric mood in the mountains, its massive sprints, and its breakaways, forms one of the highlights of the game.

The Cyanide team outdid itself to offer you an edition that is rich in innovations and enhancements to immerse the player deeper and deeper into the realism.

In its management piece, the well-known career mode has been updated with a new, much more intuitive interface, a new transfer system, a new simulation engine, new features for recruiters… as many elements mirroring the actual pro competition organisation so as to put you in the shoes of a real team manager.

In its real-time simulation portion, Pro Cycling Manager 2007’s gameplay becomes even more polished and refined. It offers new racing possibilities and improved Artificial Intelligence to create more diverse behaviour for a realistic gaming experience. Combined with graphical effects and gameplay animations using new shaders, shadowing systems, and new textures, this new edition further intensifies the feeling of being immersed, putting the player into the heart of the action.

Strengths:

You participate in the true Tour de France 2007 and take part in all of the season’s big competitions.

An updated and improved database! More than 1500 cyclists, 180 races (Tours or traditional), and 520 stages.

Realistic management of a cyclist manager’s career. Gain experience throughout years and competitions, manage aspects of human relationships, training, finances, etc.

Direct the largest professional teams. A total of 61 official teams are available (Rabobank, Quickstep, Discovery Channel, CSC, etc.).

New gameplay possibilities reinforce the tactical aspect of the races with the introduction of the “observe” mode, Gruppetto, etc.

The Artificial Intelligence of competitors is improved so as to offer behaviours that vary by objectives, situations, and needs. Get ready for even more competition this year!

Includes a race editor to create and modify your own 3D stages.

Playable in single-player and/or multi-player, up to 20 players over the Internet or a LAN: Simple Race mode, Tour mode, and Season mode.

Last updated on August 14, 2015