[Pre-E3 2006] SEGA Rally Returns!
With the curious title SEGA Rally Revo, and it's PS3/360-only right now. Interesting...
Published: April 28, 2006
SEGA die-hards come in a world of different flavors; Virtua Fighter freaks, Sonic Lovers, even dyed-in-the-wool Outrun devotees. But if you really want to feel the fiber of someone's SEGA-loving fabric, you need only string two words together: SEGA Rally. Throw in two more, and you're likely to inflict heart palpitations on the poor sap: next-gen.
Put 'em together and you have SEGA Rally Revo (which, ironically, has nothing to do the Revolutio--err, sorry, Wii). Headed up by the newly-formed UK-based SEGA Driving Studio, the continuation of one of the Saturn's most beloved arcade ports will be making a very significant leap up in horsepower.
The result is, according to SEGA marketing brass, "advanced AI which allows NPC drivers to dynamically adapt their driving style to the varied racing surfaces." This is important, because in a nice bit of competition for Sony's own MotorStorm, just driving on the tracks will cause the terrain to deform and wear away as the vehicles race across gravel, snow, and tarmac.
"SEGA Rally Revo shifts into high gear with revolutionary track deformation technology, skill-demanding gameplay and dazzling graphics on the next-gen systems," boasted the eternally pull quote-ready Scott A. Steinberg, Vice President of Marketing at SEGA of America before launching into yet another catchprase-heavy sentence. "We're redefining the genre with SEGA Rally Revo, using next-gen power to guarantee our place in the winner's circle."
Though we'd love to see some screenshots of the game running on PS3 hardware, it's probably best not to get your hopes up; the game hasn't even been approved by Sony as a concept, much less something that will be shown off extensively on a dev kit. Still, the promise of eventual online play and a globe-spanning single-player game with all this real-time deformation does sound interesting.
We'll do our best to track down more info next month.
Put 'em together and you have SEGA Rally Revo (which, ironically, has nothing to do the Revolutio--err, sorry, Wii). Headed up by the newly-formed UK-based SEGA Driving Studio, the continuation of one of the Saturn's most beloved arcade ports will be making a very significant leap up in horsepower.
The result is, according to SEGA marketing brass, "advanced AI which allows NPC drivers to dynamically adapt their driving style to the varied racing surfaces." This is important, because in a nice bit of competition for Sony's own MotorStorm, just driving on the tracks will cause the terrain to deform and wear away as the vehicles race across gravel, snow, and tarmac.
"SEGA Rally Revo shifts into high gear with revolutionary track deformation technology, skill-demanding gameplay and dazzling graphics on the next-gen systems," boasted the eternally pull quote-ready Scott A. Steinberg, Vice President of Marketing at SEGA of America before launching into yet another catchprase-heavy sentence. "We're redefining the genre with SEGA Rally Revo, using next-gen power to guarantee our place in the winner's circle."
Though we'd love to see some screenshots of the game running on PS3 hardware, it's probably best not to get your hopes up; the game hasn't even been approved by Sony as a concept, much less something that will be shown off extensively on a dev kit. Still, the promise of eventual online play and a globe-spanning single-player game with all this real-time deformation does sound interesting.
We'll do our best to track down more info next month.