Project Torque

Project Torque, also known as Level-R outside North America and HEAT Online for the 2010 North American version, is a multiplayer online racing game (MMORG) with partially chargeable content, or micro-transactions, originally developed by Invictus Games. It features gameplay elements such as tuning and customization.

Level-R was originally developed for the Japanese market in 2006 and was based on Cross Racing Championship Extreme 2005. The Level-R versions across the world (localized versions were released for Russia, Indonesia, Thailand, and China, in addition to Europe and North America) were mostly similar to each other, with minor physics and content tweaks. The Level-R versions combined with the original Project Torque version had 64 cars in total, although none of the versions have all 64 cars due to licensing issues. The 2019 version, however, has no licensed cars, nor does it have cars from post-2010 builds, such as the Corus R4 or certain Thunder Alley cars.