Hold on to your tea towels, it’s time for Iraqi Races, a fun-packed, trans-desert racing game for all the family:

Coming in Summer 2004, Iraqi Races: Tikrit to Ride offers players the chance to compete in hilarious, action-packed races across the desert. Players will be able to choose from a variety of characters and vehicles, including Bush & Blair's Mean Machine, Saddam's Sidecar, and the West Wing Mob (currently there are no plans to include Jean Pierre Raffarin's Citroen 2CV).

Players will be able to compete in a variety of races in order to reach new locations deeper inside Baghdad, loot Presidential Palaces, and upgrade their vehicles. Once inside the city itself, players will have a limited amount of time to find the WMD before the rapidly diminishing Public Support meter has depleted.

The game will also include hidden, unlockable vehicles and characters, including Bearded Tramp Saddam in his White and Orange Minicab.

Iraqi Races features some of the most advanced character modelling ever!

- Do you have what it takes to be the fastest Politician in the Desert?

- Can you find the WMD and then get the hell out before the World turns their back on you?

- Will you manage to find Saddam's pokey hidey-hole before your re-election campaign starts?

Testimonials:

"I don't know Saudi make games so much fun!" (Kun-Tor)

"If you're asking me what it is, then it's a game. I am not. But I like it." (Mr George W. Bush)

"What George said." (Tony Blair)

"There is no game. We know nothing about the game. Ever." (Former Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf)

“The most fun I’ve had since I looted that dialysis machine” (Generic Iraqi Citizen)

"Just Kuwait till you see this beauty!" (Intellivision Weekly)

" Iran all the way home from the store just to play it." (Kenyan marathon runner)

"I was well and truly shocked and awed!" (Daily Mail reader)

Iraqi Races - it's taking the desert by storm!

THALAMUS, May 2004.

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