Fatal Inertia war mit einer der ersten angekündigten PS3-Titel und sollte bereits zum Launch erscheinen. Nach unzähligen Verschiebungen und einer zwischenzeitlichen Ankündigung einer Xbox 360-Version, war es lange ruhig um den Titel. Heute hat Koei nun neue Bilder veröffentlicht und gleichzeitig den US-Termin genannt. Der Futureracer wird demnach am 11. September erscheinen.
In der Pressemitteilung ist allerdings nur noch von der Xbox 360-Version die Rede. Ob es sich dabei um einen Fehler, oder um eine Exklusvität/Zeitexklusivität handelt, ist bislang nicht bekannt.
Update: Wie Koei gegenüber Game|Life bestätigte, erscheint die PS3-Version erst später. Der Grund seien Probleme mit der verwendeten Engine (Unreal Engine 3).
Offizielle Pressemitteilung:
[quote]FATAL INERTIA TO USHER IN A BRAVE NEW WORLD OF COMBAT RACING
In KOEI's Futuristic Combat Racing Game for Xbox 360 the Battle for Supremacy is Won in the Untamed Wilderness
Burlingame, CA -- July 2, 2007 -- KOEI, recognized worldwide as the premier brand of strategy and action games, today announced that Fatal Inertia is scheduled to ship to North American retailers on September 11, 2007 for Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.
"KOEI has been at the forefront of creating the most engaging action games, so with Fatal Inertia we're now lending our action game talents to the racing genre to deliver an experience that is as fun as it is fast," said Senior Vice President of KOEI Corporation Amos Ip. "Armed with an eclectic variety of weapons and racing challenges, plus elegant and intuitive driver controls, Fatal Inertia is quite simply bringing high-speed fun and excitement back to the combat racing genre."
"By designing Fatal Inertia 's gameplay around a physics engine it not only allowed us to create a truly different driving model, but it also helped us create a set of dynamic weapons with multiple tactical applications," said Lead Game Designer Michael Bond. "We've based many of the game's weapons on straightforward physical principles, and by doing so we're giving players the freedom to come up with their own creative ways of using them- ways that even we are still discovering."
Fatal Inertia is the debut title from KOEI's Toronto-based development studio, KOEI Canada. The team is led by Producer Takazumi Tomoike, creator of the Dynasty Warriors series, and KOEI Co- Founder and Chief Advisor Yoichi Erikawa, who under the pen name Kou Shibusawa is regarded as one of the world's top video game designers.[/quote]
Weitere Bilder könnt ihr sehen, wenn ihr dem Link folgt.
