OVERVIEW

• Exclusive America’s Cup branded game featuring all the official boats, teams and sailing areas.
• 9 training sessions and 2 competition game modes including the AC Trophy challenge.

TRAINING SESSIONS

The training sessions have two purposes:

- Working as a step by step tutorial for each aspect of the race

- Improving your sailing techniques and prepare you for the most challenging regattas

Each training has 3 levels of difficulty. The game will keep track of your progression, as it may take time to complete every training session.

1. Basic Steering
   Learn to orientate the rudder to slalom between special buoys within time limits.
   
   
   
2. Upwind Steering
   Learn to optimize your sailing angle upwind.
   
   
   
3. Downwind Steering
   Learn to optimize your sailing angle when using the spinnaker.
   
   
   
4. Buoy turn
   Learn to complete a upwind buoy turn.
   
   
   
5. Buoy turn 2
   Learn to complete a downwind buoy turn.
   
   
   
6. Pre-start
   Learn to optimize your pre start.
   
   
   
7. Tactics 1
   Use wind shadow to slow down your opponent.
   
   
   
8. Tactics 2
   Force your opponent into foul to win the regatta
   
   
   
9. Race
   Put it all together in a whole regatta
   
   
   

FREE RACE

The “Race” mode is a 1 vs 1 competition, based on a typical four-leg configuration. Play as any of the 11 team challengers and face a CPU controlled opponent.

The wind direction might change during the race which will result in a new placement of the race buoys. The wind direction is always displayed on the player screen, as well as lay lines and zones of sail masking.

AC TROPHY

The America’s Cup Trophy is based on the rules of the real competition. Play as any of the 11 challengers team and try to fight your way to a ruthless final against defending Team Alinghi!

There are 4 steps to win the America’s Cup Trophy:

1. Qualifying session: you have to win 4 regattas over 8 matches
2. Louis Vuitton Cup Semi-final (3 rounds)
3. Louis Vuitton Cup Final (3 rounds)
4. AC final match vs. Team Alinghi (3 rounds)

If you win the Trophy, you unlock Team Alinghi boat, which can then be selected for a Free Race match.

If you failed passing one of the steps, you can try it again, as many times as you want.

At anytime, you can quit the trophy and go back to training to improve the skills of your team. The trophy history and progress will be saved into the mobile handset persistent memory.