When Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing releases early next year, the cast of Sega characters in the Xbox 360 version will be backed up by a few others. Most notably, Rare’s Banjo & Kazooie will appear (as a single playable duo) in their Nuts & Bolts vehicle, probably ready to blast all of the small fries like Tails out of the way.
Additionally, you’ll also be able to play as one of Rare’s other creations – your Xbox Live avatar. Once you’re on the circuit in the thoughtfully named “Avacar”, you can call in the avatars of your Live friends to help if you fall too far behind.
Codemasters is continuing its trend of releasing images of each circuit on the F1 calendar as the circus makes its way there in real life, and this weekend it’s the turn of Suzuka. The track is famous worldwide for hosting the Japanese Grand Prix and apart from a couple of years off in 2007 and 2008, it has done so every season in recent memory. It’s held in high regard by all drivers and is the only one on the calendar to feature a figure-of-eight layout. Check out the game screenshots and trailer featuring the track below:
The city-state of Singapore is the venue for the only night race on the Formula 1 calendar. I recall reading a comment many years ago about how time consuming F1 game developers found Monaco to create, but that must now pale in comparison to the challenge of creating a single circuit under floodlights.
It looks like Codemasters and Sumo Digital have risen to the challenge and today’s trailer is in my opinion the best we’ve seen of the game so far. Check it out below, after a few stills showing the cars under the lights:
Codemasters have released a trailer showing some in-game footage of DiRT 2 on Wii. The game is nearing completion and should be available in September, and the video shows that the new game is much more focused on races rather than timed runs.
Just like Codemasters, System 3 appears to be celebrating this weekend’s British Grand Prix and has released some new videos of SuperCar Challenge in action. One of the videos is part of a series involving community members demonstrating the game, while the other features the voice of Tiff Needell, who has become synonymous with the series.
Forza Motorsport 3’s attention to detail was touted last weekend at Le Mans when Turn 10 revealed that two variations of the famous French circuit would make an appearance in the game. A new video of the demo given to the press has appeared online and is much better quality than those previously uploaded.
GameTrailers headed down to the Sega booth at E3 and managed to get one of the developers of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing to show them some gameplay and explain what’s going on. The visuals are looking very impressive and I’m a big fan of the Sonic-style crabs on the beach. I wonder if they fire little flashing circles from their claws?
The new Race Pro downloadable content includes the most recent revisions to the Imola circuit, a new gameplay video has shown. The most significant change from previous versions of the track is the removal of the final chicane, making the main straight significantly longer. It is believed that this is the first time the new Imola has appeared in a video game officially.
Aside from the two Gran Turismo announcements, Sony also revealed one further racing title at E3. Modnation Racers is a cartoon-style kart racer with impressive track editing tools and online multiplayer modes.
The game is being promoted alongside Sony’s platform game LittleBigPlanet and it bears many similarities to that title. Players can create their own character and skin their own vehicles, but most significantly they can create their own tracks and share them online with others. The demonstration given on stage was particularly impressive – the team created an alpine figure of 8 circuit complete wtih a variety of trackside objects and environmental features in a little over five minutes. The landscaping tools are reminiscent of those in SimCity with the ability to raise and lower water and land positions.
There are a variety of racing options, including single player, two player split screen and online multiplayer for up to 10 people. The game is scheduled for release on disc (not PlayStation Network) in 2010. The first screenshots and the E3 gameplay demonstration appear below:
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