The first patch was a bug fix, but this is a real update for real racers. Real Racing has to be one of the best looking racers on the iPhone, and it’s great to see updates for such an expensive game. Firemint apparently worked for a whole year on this racer, and the polish shows up even in the screenshots. I have yet to try the game (hoping to fix that soon), but there are a lot of really impressive YouTube videos out that showcase how fast and smooth the gameplay is. As for the graphics — man, that game looks like it’s running on the PSP. I can only hope that this game is a sign of things to come on the 3GS’ more powerful hardware.

Anyway, as far as this update goes, here are the highlights:

New vehicle class: listen to the distinct roar of a V12 engine and
experience unsurpassed speed and control with new exotic vehicles
Support for up to 6 players in local WiFi multiplayer (up from 2 players)
Select your favourite songs from your personal music library while
racing (iPhone and iPod Touch OS 3.0)
Completely new game soundtrack with 10 original music tracks composed
specifically for Real Racing
Even more content in Career Mode with an exotic vehicle qualifier and
two new championships
New control method: touch-wheel-to-steer, manual accelerate and manual brake
Increased smoothing of the horizon tilt feature
Various improvements, bug fixes and OS 3.0 compatibility updates

[image from fingergaming]