Ars Technica’s ever-reliable Xbox mole has revealed that this year, like last year, the 360 will be bundled with a couple of games for the holiday season.
Pure developers Black Rock Studios feel that the video game racer, as we know it, is “in a dire way,” that the genre “is in many respects dying out.” What can save it?
GameTrailers TV wasn’t just about Wii hardcore gaming, they also showed us our first real look at Black Rock Studio’s upcoming racer Split/Second.
While first footage of new downloadable content for Call of Duty: World At War will probably draw the most viewers, it’s the first look at Split Second that makes the next GameTrailers TV enticing.
Tagged Burnout Paradise, and Pure, this “leaked” video seems to show a footage of a street racer in the works by Disney Interactive-owned Black Rock Studio.
Meant to post this last week, forgot, sorry. Someone went rooting around through a PC copy of Pure and found what has been described as Disney’s standard wirty-dord list.
When you think Disney you don’t typically think off-road racing. Which is probably why Disney Interactive bought up Black Rock Studios, a developer known for their off-road racing titles, including their work on the ATV Offroad Fury and MotoGP franchises. This time around the studio created Pure, a brand new franchise for Disney that focuses more on the exhilaration of speed and tricks than on the nitty-gritty of realism and detail.
Can Disney break into an already saturated genre, taking on BAJA: Edge of Control and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift with an ATV trick title? Lets see.
Is Pure really the next evolution of offroad racing? We’ll be one step closer to knowing the answer to that question come Thursday, when a demo of Disney Interactive’s racing title hits both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. The demo will feature a 3-lap race against 15 AI competitors on Italy’s Mount Garda track – one of 35 tracks shipping with the full retail version of the game. The demo also includes a qualifying track that functions as a tutorial to get players up to speed, no pun intended.
I’m really looking forward to getting my hands on the game, though I’ve not been truly satisfied with an offroad title since Motocross Madness for the PC back in 1998. Here’s hoping I can trade in my old favourite for a shiny new one.
Disney’s upcoming four-wheeler PURE is going to be packed to the brim with house, electronic and hip-hop music it looks like.
The upcoming racer’s soundtrack will include music from DJ Hyper, The Answer, Tapework and Blindside to name a few. Here’s a partial track list for the game, due out on the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 later this year:
The Pure press party wasn’t much to look at – a huge dark room with some faux Italian statues and sweet-looking bikes you couldn’t touch – but that might’ve been Disney Interactive Studios’s plot all along, because compared to the party, Pure itself looked awesome.
This is due in no small part to the visuals. Each track in Pure is loaded with smooth-looking graphics and lush backgrounds that almost distract you from racing. The bikes themselves don’t look half-bad, either. Though there are no licenced models, each part of the bike is licenced and if that means anything to you, you can look forward to cobbling together some pretty sweet custom bikes with some of the best parts; there must be more than a thousand combos you could come up with. Bikes either skew towards fast racing models, or slower trick bikes. An auto-build-your-own mode lets you get as crazy with customisation as you can stand without having to go through each and every bolt and frame choice.
