take it easy adronix, take it easy!!!!!

freespeech

Riiiiidge Raaacer!

f0cus

@PapaBear434: YOU SIR HAVE NO SOUL.

@Foxstar Sixtail: Read above.

Witzbold

Am I the only person that thought Wipeout was the poor cousin of F-Zero?

/Still looking forward to this game.

r1nce

Well, it's good to see the game is going to stay true to the original spirit of Speed Racer, which was *all* about futuristic rocket-propelled racing along curved tracks suspended in mid-air.

Sakimori

the movie will be brilliant

DiSTiNCT

As a violent sodomite I am disappointed to be linked with this candy-coated nightmare.

xot

@PapaBear434: Competely agree with you on that point, Speed Racer/Mach Go Go Go wasn't even remotely good, by the time any of us were watching it, it was badly dubbed crap. Really badly dubbed crap.

If anything, the movie has a strong chance to be pretty damn good, as the 60's 'camp' that completely infested the cartoon will be gone.

Foxstar Sixtail

@zanzibarlegend: Me too, as it will be 10 bucks rather than 50. See? We pay more for the system, we get the same games for a huge discount. The PS3 ends up being cheaper than the wii in the end.

bobtheduck

Oh yeah, this game looks fun, and probably is, but I doubt it offers anything especialy new to the table, which WipEout and F-Zero don't already do better without the movie/tv-show tie-ins. Games designed to be games will always be better than the movie tie in copycats.

Fascia

Now to start off, I'm a fan of both F-Zero and WipEout, they're both great games. I've noticed alot of people confuse the two games, often citing WipEout as a infirior rip-off of F-Zero. This is entirely inacurate, and let me ellaborate why.

The first and most immidiately obvious difference is the style of the two games. They both reflect their country of origin in their style, WipEout dates from the 1990's electronic era in britain, when groups such as The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers ruled. WipEout uses a mix of industrial, edgy style, licensed music, and professionaly designed meterial to apply to a relatively specific demographic; the 18-24 club goer. WipEouts design is edgy and alienating to alot of people, and well, it wouldn't be WipEout if it didn't.
F-Zero is distinctively japanese, using bright colours, friendly and inviting anime-style characters which probably apply to a younger demographic, and more inviting to casual gamers. While F-Zero's style wasn't tired when it was first released I believe now-a-days that the style in F-Zero is completely overused and frankly, annoying, while WipEouts style is still under-appreciated (It's what makes it unique, although the more recent games have been a little more generic, the style is still there)

Now onto the gameplay, this is where the big and important differences are, yes they are both stupidly fast anti-gravity craft on a track wouldn't be out of place in a sonic the hedgehog game. F-Zero's gameplay is again, more accessable, with a shallow learning curve, yet somewhat hard to master, I'd argue where that F-Zero is a bit faster than WipEout, but likewise, the tracks arn't nearly as unforgiving. WipEout has an incredibly high learning curve, and is usualy one of the main critisims of the series, yet often why people can get so addicted. I personaly believe that the controls in WipEout are way more indepth, you have your side-shifts, Air-breaks, Pitch control, etc, etc, in order to even make it to the finish line on the faster speed classes you've got to master everything, and have the reflexes and eye to hand to control your craft through an average of 1-5 different turns per second.

Ultimately though the different demographics that the two games apply to means that hardcore fans of each series will probably never see eye to eye. For those of you looking for a fun enjoyable game, but nothing too hardcore, look at F-Zero. If you're into the clubbing/modern design scene, and willing to put +10 hours into learning a game, look at WipEout, it'll take you forever to master but god damnit it feels good.

Fascia

@SnakeCL:
As a Wipeout fan who's largely moved to F-Zero now, I agree. When Wipeout came out, F-Zero was still 2D in Mode7. Wipeout had substantial elevation changes, and an array of weapons from the start.

Eventually F-Zero started to follow the same route. I think GX even surpasses it for track design, at least stylistically, but owes a lot to Wipeout's design, and really doesn't resemble the first games in the series (where Wipeout... tries as hard as it can not to change... hire Designer's Republic again and get a new look! Though I guess Fusion was the last big chance they made, so...)

fuchikoma

I just lost all hope when I realized W-brothers casted "Rain" from Korea and is even making the next movie using him as the Lead Actor.

I've got love for my Korean stars and slowly but surely being the next "wave", in American cultures, but he just personifies what a western culture wants to be molded into.

He is probably one of the most recognized star in Asia, one of the first Asian to sellout Madison SG within few minutes, and a face plastered across a Boeing 757.

But an actor he is not

I lost all respect for the W brothers when,like the Max Payne adaptation, miscasting is evident due to the LACK OF RESEARCH.

I am not asking for the next "Citizen Kane", but you can make a tangible and MONEY making franchise with great script/productions and not just the NAME of the stars.

On to the the game, let Star Wars racers on N64 be a testament. Very difficult yet very very fun. I only mention the game since the pods look similiar, the POV and even the layout of the track.

Fyren

@PapaBear434: Exactly. He's talking about sodomizing memories not children. Like the Transformers(2007) movie for example. Aside from that, these screens look pretty good. I just wish this were coming on 360 or PS3 too so it could be in HD. It's very colorful but overly blurry.

Spartan1308

@Mansteak: I believe they now like to be referred to as "The Watchowskis." Sex changes ftw!

Defenestrated

Theres something about this game and the way the film looks that really disturbs me. I know its cheesy but there's something 1970's retro-futuristic about it that makes me feel more than just cheesy queezy. Eeeew.

kretinite

Hmm, Nintendo had better get their arse in gear and make a DS and Wii F-zero, otherwise i may have to have a tantrum.

kitkatu

there are three future racing games i love

1)Wipeout
2)F-Zero
3)Kinetica (PS2) love this game.

this game looks like digiturd. ill wait for wipeout hd, thank you.

zanzibarlegend

@Xeronius: Huh? The graphics looks fairly good for a Wii game.

NotAZombie

Don't know about this, the movie is an even bigger question mark.

WolfGod

Graphical QUALITY appears to be channeling Cruis'n or however that abomination is spelled.

Xeronius

Isn't it the Wachowski... siblings now? Not necessarily "brothers".

As for the game sodomizing my childhood memories of Speed Racer, that's going to be hard to do. I never thought much of that show (I'd go so far as to say I adamantly disliked it!) so to sully that reputation means sinking to Superman64 levels of suck. They'd probably have to intentionally code in bugs, just to make it worse.

Mansteak

@jayntampa:

Just watch the movies trailers, the Mach "6" pops up in that quite a bit.

Double J

If the Speed Racer movie sodomizes someone's childhood that person didn't have much of a life to begin with.

silentbobfan

Im the biggest F-Zero/WipeOut junkie off all time (possibly) and this images made me raise my eyebrow (The Rock style).

Consider me interested, since I see no F-Zero Wii from Nintendo in the horizon (shame on you, Nintendo! You even have Port Town from GX running on Smash Bros Brawl!!! Evil tease!!!).

Kudos, Fahey for the Extreme-G reference. May not have perfect, but it was ace on multiplayer.

Shiryu

"courtesy of the Wachowski brothers"

So we're still calling them "brothers"? I thought it would be "siblings" now that Larry's a tranny.

Rookas

I loved Extreme-G 1. The sequels never repeated the appeal of the original though.

Cell9song

That's actually the Mach Six pictured there (and in the movie). The Mach Five is also in the film, but I suspect it's going to be side-lined or totalled.

Bowler

@shouryuuken: Sega did an awesome job with F-Zero GX. It's one of my favorite racers of all time.

DONNYchiban

I wouldn't consider Wipeout an F-Zero ripoff. The game itself has little in-common with Wipeout besides hover vehicles and weapons.

Wipeout had a lot more going for it with the aesthetics, as well as the focus on elevation changes. If anything, F-Zero X borrowed heavily from Wipeout.

SnakeCL

Actually... Extreme-G 3 for GameCube and PS2 were excellent racers in their own right. I miss those games. The sense of speed in them was amazing.

FrigidAir44

@wonder6oy: My sentiments exactly.

Taco Bell™

well, Wipeout is a ripoff of F-Zero (but done a little better) so if this movie is a Wipeout ripoff it might be even better.

But I bet the Speed Racer The Movie: the Game will suck...

VakeroRokero

The movie looks like Wipeout meets Burnout, so I'm easily up for that...

fuchikoma

I predict a sharp increase in epileptic seasures shortly after this title's launch.....

Mr.SithNinja

after so much mario kart who will care?

Crazy_Buffet_Happens

Looks GREAT!

(please don't suck... please don't suck...)

wonder6oy

this just reminds me of how bad nintendo needs to put an fzero on the wii (and not sega this time... the team from fzero x please).

shouryuuken

@Andronix:

He didn't say "...violently sodomizing our children." Or even "Childhood." He said our "...childhood memories."

I think you are reading it wrong, pally boy.

PapaBear434

Come now, let's not fool ourselves into thinking the original "Speed Racer" show was any good. The show was terrible. Completely, completely terrible.

The movie is just likely to carry that tradition on, just in different ways.

PapaBear434

Mikey Fahey. I understand that writing for a video game website you want to keep the language fresh and alive. I'm not prudish when it comes to swear words or bad language, nor am I particularly PC.

But you said the Speedracer game "will be violently sodomizing our childhood memories this May."

Sorry mate, but this metaphor of child abuse isnt on. Im a big fan of Kotaku and I understand you might ban me for speaking up, which I would be sorry about. But Im sure you are a good enough writer, to express yourself a different way.

:(

Andronix

Preview for the movie looked good, but that and a nickel...

evslin

Looks really nice for a Wii game. It's got lighting and bloom up the ass.

Maybe it'll actually be fun? Hopefully the waggle will be for weapons and not for steering.

x753z is backwards!

By "Wipeout" you mean "F-Zero" right?

Gagaman

@Mr.SithNinja: I think you misspelled "best".

NotAZombie

This is going to be the worst movie ever that was not directed by Uwe Boll.

Mr.SithNinja

The movie has a unique look, and I feel people will either embrace it or hate it. Very bright, very cartoony. This art direction actually has a chance of being better implemented in the game as opposed to the movie.

Foggynotion

@Zegridathes: The movie looks just like this.

Kuromankuro

I think this is actually based on the new cartoon and not the movie. If you watch the trailer it says, "Last year ..." and it shows the Mach 6 instead of the Mach 5. This is the info on the new cartoon, called (not kidding) Speed Racer: The Next Generation: www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-speedracernicktoons,0,590126.story

Meanwhile, everything I've heard about the movie is leaving it very, very true to the anime, but we'll see.

jayntampa

Does this mean the Speed Racer movie is going to also involve races along festively painted bobsled tracks?

Zegridathes