The BBC’s Top Gear has launched a new gaming experience: The Stigverse – in The Sandbox, a social platform. From off-road mayhem in the All-Terrain Zone to wrecking stuff in The Scrapyard – players will be faced with fun-packed challenges as they attempt to tame The Digital Stig’s defective clones.
BBC Studios has teamed up with Reality+, the games studio behind Doctor Who: Worlds Apart, to bring a unique take on Top Gear for a new digital audience.
Multiple malfunctioning versions of The Digital Stig, known as The Gits, are gleefully running riot across The Stigverse causing all kinds of chaos. Come face-to-face with the likes of Unfortunate Git, Flamin’ Git, and the story’s main antagonist – Science Git. The Top Gear Crew are at the end of their tether, and it’s down to you to help reel in the mayhem.
Players have to take charge, restore calm, and round up the escaped Gits across seven fun-filled zones inspired by themes from Top Gear’s engineering challenges: The Stage; All-Terrain; Mountain; Lake; Aerial; and The Scrapyard, along with the place where all the problems started – The Clone Lab.
Each zone features challenges and quests, such as reconstructing the world’s fastest tractor – The Trak-Tor – to sliding down a snowy slalom in a race against a rally car and running a daring gauntlet in a scrapyard.
The Sandbox is a social gaming platform, where BBC Studios now joins over 400 brands, including Attack on Titan, ATARI, Ubisoft, Lionsgate, Warner Music Group, Snoop Dogg and many more.
Top Gear is the world’s largest motoring media brand with a global digital audience of over 30 million. Broadcast in 150 territories with 11 local formats, including Australia, America, Finland & France, it is still the world’s most-watched factual entertainment show.
The Stigverse launch trailer is here
