Well, the wait is over folks, because Firemint has finally released their much anticipated racing game, Real Racing 2, onto the App Store for a hefty price of $9.99. Think that’s a lot to pay for a racing game? Well, here is Real Racing 2‘s  features that may just change your mind:

Get to know meticulously detailed cars including the 2010 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500, 2010 Nissan GT-R (R35) and 2011 McLaren MP4-12C. See the full list at http://firemint.com/r2.

Enjoy well over 10 hours of gameplay in the massive career mode with time trials, head-to-head races, eliminations, single ‘cup’ races, qualifiers and championships. Win races to purchase new cars and feel the difference with performance upgrades that affect handling. Work your way up from rookie to pro, or just jump into a Quick Race for instant fun.

Find out who the real champion is! Enter auto-matched 16 player online races. Meet up with friends for 8 player local WiFi races. Compete on global leaderboards in Time Trials.

Race in 15 beautiful locations, with 40 miles of highly detailed race tracks, speedways and city circuits including twilight and night races.

Choose control options to suit your personal style. Earn the checkered flag with our intuitive and easy to master controls or take things up a notch by disabling all driving assists. Set anti-skid, steering assist and sensitivity, automatic or manual acceleration and brake assist level. Touch or tilt to steer.

Cutting edge graphics and physics powered by Firemint’s exclusive high performance Mint3D™ engine – optimized to push OpenGL ES2 and retina display technology to the limit, and fine tuned for the best experience on older devices.

For those of you who have an iPad, I have some disappointing news for you, Firemint has not released a iPad specifc version yet, however, I’m sure they will release one here shortly and PocketFullOfApps will also keep you updated as time progresses. Real Racing 2 costs $9.99 and weighs in at 312 MB.