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Top Gear: Downforce announced for DS

Tantalus (you may remember them for Spongebob Squarepants: Yellow Avenger) and Kemco (you may remember them for, um, Batman: Dark Tomorrow) sent me a politely worded press release informing me of their intention to release Top Gear: Downforce for the Nintendo DS. Following the original Top Gear (N64) and the rally-themed GBA sequel (which was rather good), the game is set for release late in 2006 and will presumably involve fast cars going around a track. In other words, something completely different!

"This time around we’re attempting something completely different," says Tantalus CEO Tom Crago. "We want to create a racing game that feels perfectly at home on the DS platform, something built from the ground up to exploit the cool features of the hardware."

One of the features touted for this top-down, 3D racer is the ability to lay down road hazards via the touch screen, sure to annoy the people you're wirelessly playing against. The press release doesn't say anything about Nintendo Wi-Fi, but we'd expect no less from something exploiting the cool features of the hardware. The DS could definitely use some more racing games in its online garage.

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1. Ah, I remember this game since my Sega... Awesome game! It's a new advantage to buy DS

Posted at 4:31PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Invest 0 stars

2. The original Top Gear was for SNES.
Top Gear II SNES
Top Gear 3000 SNES

Top Gear Rally Nintendo 64
Top Gear Rally 2 Nintendo 64

Top Gear Rally Game Boy Advance
Top Gear GT Championship Game Boy Advance

And I'm sure there were others for other platforms.

Posted at 5:15PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Kev 0 stars

3. Ya know after Mario for DS this May, I wasn't too excited about the future. Then came Zelda... now Top Gear... E3 is sure to bring more announcements too! Keep bringin' on the sweet games! Let's make WiFi standard!

Oh... and can we pleeeeease get a better Madden?

Posted at 5:18PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Kevin Hanson 0 stars

4. Kev:

Hmm, I don't remember those at all. Were they by the same developer? The "original" N64 comment comes straight from the press release.

Posted at 6:04PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Ludwig Kietzmann 0 stars

5. Sorry if I enflame any DS fans, but the DS just isnt a good console for racing games. The PSP is much better suited for racing with its analog stick. Controling a car with a directional pad or touch screen just doesn't feel right.

Posted at 6:28PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Kev50027 0 stars

6. The original Top Gear WAS on the SNES, I still have the cart in my box full of SNES games to prove it. Here's a link to a... page with the boxart. http://cheats.ign.com/objects/009/009306.html

And a little correction in the link, it actually does have 2 player support because I remember playing it with my cousins back then.

Posted at 8:10PM on Apr 11th 2006 by theLoneYoshi 0 stars

7. Yep, I'm pretty sure they're all from Kemco. I did a quick search on gamerankings.com. There are PS2 and XBOX games too.

I originally posted because I remember wasting way too much time playing on the SNES instead of studying.

:)

Posted at 9:44PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Kev 0 stars

8. Ahh.. Just read the press release. Maybe the N64 Top Gear was Tantalus's first Top Gear game.

Posted at 9:55PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Kev 0 stars

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