Unlike most recent games published by UBISoft such as H.A.W.X, Endwar and Prince of Persia, Wheelman was not DRM free. Instead, it included SecuROM v7.39.0005 DRM protection developed by Sony. Anyways ViTALiTY has made thing much simpler for pirates and DRM haters alike – their release contains a cracked executable which seemingly has the protection removed.
As mentioned earlier the release has spread everywhere including private torrent trackers:
Wheelman-ViTALiTY ] [ Uploaded first @ RBy 11m 51s after pre, followed by [ GFT, TV, TL, TGB, THB, SCC, ACE] ]Source: Torrent-Racers IRC
Speaking of the game, Wheelman seems like a fun game to play. There are not many reviews of this game around yet but you can see some trailers here.
EDIT: Here are some of the problems that have been reported with this game. These are based on various E-mails we received and from information posted across various gaming forums:
- Cannot change controls and some display/graphics settings
- Stuttering or pauses on certain hardware configurations - even on some high end systems.
- Disappearing road bug - Sometimes when you are driving along a road, the road suddenly dissapears nad you fall in and die an instant death. No fix for this bug yet.
- Note that there is a fake release with the same name as VITALITY's circulating in various public BitTorrent trackers. Apparantly the installer of this release is a trojan downloader so beware.
- OS: Windows XP SP2/Vista
- Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB
- Hard Drive: 9 GB Free
- Video Memory: 512 MB (NVidia GeForce 7900/ATI Radeon x1950)
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
- DirectX: 9.0c
- Keyboard & Mouse
- DVD Rom Drive
