“Virtual Skipper Online” is a magnificent simulation with intense regattas both in solo and multiplayer modes, outstanding graphics and an ultra-realistic sea modeled and animated to perfection. The game has set the standard for sailing titles, and is currently played online by a large community of players from around the world.

Based on a model that is close to the free version of “TrackMania Nations”, another title from Nadeo, “Virtual Skipper Online” is a complete game, and offers players access to an online solo mode that allows them to meet up and challenge one another.

“Nadeo demonstrated with TrackMania Nations that a free game can exist alongside a paid version,” stated Cédric Lagarrigue, CEO of Focus Home Interactive. “There are already more than 3 million players subscribed to the free version of TrackMania Nations and hundreds of thousands of players for the paid version of TrackMania United Forever. Today, TrackMania is simply the most played online game for PC. Now, we are offering a similar version of Virtual Skipper in order to open the exceptional quality niche game that is so popular with sailing fans. Being a free game that is easily accessible will help it reach a larger audience to become a standard in online games.”

“Virtual Skipper Online” is available immediately as a free download. Grab a copy now, and take the helm of the most famous boats such as Class America, Open 60, Melges 24 or even offshore racers to sail the four corners of the world in 14 of the best competitive watercourses, either solo or in multiplayer mode.

“Virtual Skipper Online”:
• Online and offline regatta simulator, the benchmark for all sailing games.
• Alone or with other players, navigate 14 legendary watercourses including Valencia, Marseille, Trapani and Malmö – all venues of the America’s Cup. Discover the prime locations for competitive sailing such as San Francisco, Sydney, Porto Cervo, Auckland, Vancouver, Wight, Quiberon, Rio and even Qingdao.
• Play online with players from all around the world (integrated chat, player-ranking systems, avatars, competitions…).

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Rigs of Rods (also known as RoR), is a truck, car, airplane and boat simulator. You can drive, fly or sail in total freedom in an open environment. What makes RoR different to most simulators is its unique soft-body physics: vehicles chassis and wheels are simulated in real-time as flexible objects, giving the simulation an extremely accurate behavior, while allowing the vehicles to be simply specified by their structural composition, as a network of interconnected nodes (forming the chassis and the wheels). Crashing into walls or terrain can permanently deform a vehicle in a realistic manner. In addition to its unique soft-body physics, RoR also features an advanced flight model based on blade element theory, allowing the accurate simulation of any airplane, base on their physical dimensions and wing airfoils. It also features an accurate buoyancy model based on elemental pressure gradients, enabling boats with complex hulls to move realistically in the swell. Rigs of Rods is an amateur game developped by Pierre-Michel Ricordel, aka Pricorde, and is a one man hobby development, with a $ 0 budget, that has started more than two years ago and is still continuing.

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