Mercedes-Benz World Racing

**Mercedes-Benz World Racing** is the first instalment of the World Racing duology that was released in 2003. As the name suggests, the game revolves around driving Mercedes-Benz vehicles in different locations around the world.

## Gameplay

The game's career mode consists of Championships and Missions.

### Championships

Championships consist of the game's main career races, which have to be completed in order to unlock cars and tracks. Every championship consists of eight races. In Championships, players cannot remove a race from the racing calendar, but they can postpone it to be raced at another point in time.

1. Bloody Beginners
2. Greenhorn League
3. Amateurs
4. Natural Selection
5. Semi-Pro League
6. Pro Season
7. Race Drivers' League
8. Top 100 Selection
9. Test Driver Tournament
10. National League
11. International Derby
12. World Champion
13. City Championship (bonus)
14. Endurance Series (bonus)
15. Formula Cup (bonus)
16. Speed, Speed … (bonus)

### Missions

Missions are specified tasks with a series of challenges which the player has to beat, and in every mission, the player is allowed to drive only one vehicle provided. The missions can be races or waypoint routes.

1. Easy Entry
2. Evolution
3. To the Airport, Please!
4. A-Class Supercharged
5. OFF the Road Again
6. A 230 CUP
7. Pathfinder
8. 2 times the 190 Please!
9. On the Last Groove
10. David Versus Goliath
11. Ambitious Targets
12. Oldies but Goldies
13. High Mountains
14. WankelExpress
15. Big is Beautiful
16. AMG 6 Cylinder
17. Generation Meeting
18. Perfection
19. Hot Irons
20. Classics
21. $2,000,000 Race
22. Generation Meeting II
23. Unusual Terrain
24. Gullwings
25. Big in Japan
26. Fast, Faster, C 111
27. C 112 in the Steep Face
28. New Drive
29. Tough Guys
30. Solar and Oil
31. Streamline
32. 'S'wift 'L'egends
33. Goodbye SL
34. Low-flyer
35. Kilometre-eater
36. Expedition
37. Intercity
38. Now It's Getting Fast
39. Steep Uphill
40. Unequal Brothers
41. Endurance Sports
42. Navigation
43. 1/3 Impulse Please
44. CLK at the Limit
45. Long Ride
46. Tough Guys II
47. The Measure of Things
48. Racing Legends
49. Until next Time? (hidden)

## Content

### Vehicles

The game's car selection consists of Mercedes-Benz's model lineup during late 2002-early 2003. Some classic cars, racing cars, historic racing cars, and prototypes are also included. The roster totals to 127 vehicles, but Synetic has also released five downloadable vehicles - totalling 132 vehicles.

### Maps

With the game having eight open-world maps (Alps, Australia, Hockenheimring, Japan, Mexico, Nevada, Test Centre, and The City), there are 117 tracks in the game.

## Music

Mercedes-Benz World Racing features a variety of music tracks, with several tracks styled after the maps in the game. The genres include techno, trance, breakbeat, neo-soul, disco and funk.

Christian Becker and Olaf Georgi's songs are the earliest ones composed for the game, dated 22 November 2002. Piepke's songs are dated 25 November whilst Bass Bumpers' songs are dated 10 July 2003, indicating that the songs were unavailable in the Xbox release.

According to Christian Becker, Riding on a Star's vocals are synthesised, or so he remembers. However, he was likely confusing it with "Soul Energetic".

## Cheats

The following cheats can be entered as profile names.

* AllUCanGet: Makes the player skip to the World Champion championship.
* Goodzpeed: Makes the player skip to the National League championship.
* Jiu-Jitsu: Makes the player skip to the Test Driver Tournament championship.
* McRace: Makes the player skip to the Race Drivers' League championship.
* No Hat!: Makes the player skip to the Pro Season championship.
* Halbzeit: Makes the player skip to the Semi-Pro League championship.
* TaxiDriver: Makes the player skip to the Natural Selection championship.
* N.I.C.E. 2: Makes the player skip to the Amateurs championship. Does not work.
* HUIBUH: Makes the player skip to the Greenhorn League.
* Top 10: Unlocks the E 200 T Kompressor and C 220 CDI from the beginning.
* Cool Fool: Makes the player start with only four vehicles from the beginning.
* JamSession: Unlocks all championships.
* Free Ride: Unlocks all tracks apart from waypoint routes.
* Miss World: Unlocks all missions.
* Full House: Unlocks all vehicles.

## Development

Mercedes-Benz World Racing was originally developed as an Xbox exclusive scheduled for late 2002. However, the development was pushed back for further improvements and later PC and PS2 ports. Early screenshots show that the SL 500 has a German number plate that reads "S NN 6239", indicating that the customisable plates were added later into development. Also, the SL 500 has two people seated in those screenshots, similar to the box art. This presumably indicates that the game was to have a storyline or a copilot feature.