The use of shadows and lens flares combined with life-like animations such as waterfalls and virus leaks brings to life a visual experience that is more real than anything else to date. Even the small details, such as hitting a sign or a cone are exact in that on your next lap you'll see where they landed from when you hit them in the last lap. Full reality in every detail. Nothing was spared. Connecting and playing online has never been this easy.
Players can also mix and match the ways they link together which is revolutionary.
The game plays with a latency of up to 500ms, enabling POD to be the first racing game that will be multi-player over the Internet for free. The full CD version will also feature a way to connect directly with Ubi Soft's web pages. From there the server and the CD will communicate to patch the program as needed, get ghosts and player scores and keep all the information in the server database. The database will also serve as a means to customize a POD-page for each player, including players' scores and improvements. The players will be able to receive e-mail enticing them to run other races and participate in championships.