Bigmoon Entertainment and Deep Silver have entered a global distribution and co-publishing agreement for newly announced cross-country rally racing game DAKAR 18.

DAKAR 18 is aiming to be the biggest open world seen in a racing game and will be coming to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC later this year.

It is based on the world famous annual rally – organised by Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) in South America. It comes featuring a variety of vehicles, including motorcycles, cars, trucks, quads and SxS. Players will compete in fierce online multi-player battles as well as playing offline to harness and grow racing skills.  There will be 5 racing classes which include Cars, Bikes, Trucks, Quads and SxS. Klemens Kundratitz, CEO of Koch Media stated:

We are delighted to work with Bigmoon Entertainment’ on this promising title and look forward to bringing all our expertise to the project: Beyond that we look forward together to establishing the Dakar franchise in the racing community.

Marc Coma, Sporting Director of Dakar also added:

Dakar will not be a 2 weeks adventure anymore, the fans will have the opportunity to live it all year long by playing at this new game

Take a look at the CGI announcement trailer and be sure to let us know if you’ll be racing to get DAKAR 18 via the comment section below.