Pro Cycling Manager gives you the opportunity to mould a team of professional cyclists into a crack unit ready to take on the world's most gruelling sporting event, the Tour de France. Choose from all of the teams from this year's Pro Tour and battle through a full season from the early season classics to the grand tours and the end of season World Championships. Train your riders, select your equipment, choose their racing programme and then watch in stunning 3D as each race unfolds. Dictate your team's race strategy as the action happens and use every tactic at your disposal to turn your team into a squad of champions. In the best traditions of the very finest sports management games, Pro Cycling Manager puts you in charge of absolutely every element of the sport.

• Stunning new 3D game engine
• Brand new stage editor : design personalised stages and import them into the game. Recreate classic tours and races of old.
• Riders and bikes completely remodelled with new rider textures allowing for more details : rider number, sunglasses, sponsor logo on distinctive jerseys
• Fully up to date statistics for the 2005 season based on the revamped UCI Pro Tour
• New contract and transfer system, allowing for direct talks with the rider
• Discussions and dealings with riders in the team. It's your job to identify individual personalities and keep morale high.
• Young riders may progress faster by taking part in major races
• Possibility to sponsor young riders so as to attract them more easily into your pro team.
• More than 40 playable teams on two levels : Pro Tour and other professional teams
• Much bigger race calendar with more than 450 stages and up to 4 concurrent races.
• New system of objectives for the team manager. The manager's reputation will be a function of achieving objectives set by sponsors.
• More realistic wind effect with possibility to manage the side-to-side position of the rider.
• AI rider behaviour re-engineered and improved
• Return of multiplayer season-mode