Zynga making best-looking racing game on mobile (video)

Zynga's NaturalMotion division is working on CSR2, the sequel to the company's highly popular mobile racing game. With over 130 million downloads over the past three years, CSR Racing has been a big success for the Farmville creator and now the firm wants to deliver a massive jump up in quality with CSR2. Full details at VentureBeat CSR2 will be soft-launched on iOS and Android in the coming weeks.

Torsten Reil, head of NaturalMotion — which Zynga bought for $527 million — said in an interview with GamesBeat at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) event that the aim is to make the free-to-play title as authentic as possible.

“We wanted to go far down the road of believability and authenticity,” Reil said. “It’s a massive jump up in quality.”

A next-generation console game at 1080p resolution has 2.1 megapixels on a screen. On an iPad 2, this game runs at 3.1 megapixels. You can run it on a TV as well via a cable that connects your mobile device to the television.