Before the days of a certain irate god, Sony Santa Monica made a racing game called Kinetica – and it looks like it's coming to the PlayStation 4. The long forgotten PlayStation 2 title – heavily inspired by the likes of WipEout and F-Zero – has been rated for re-release on Sony's new-gen system by European classifications board PEGI, suggesting that it will boast Trophies and upscaled visuals like its other last-last-gen peers.
While this game hasn't exactly gone down in the history books, it did form the basis for the God of War graphics engine. It also had some serious pedigree behind it: Shannon Studstill – who now runs Sony Santa Monica – produced it, with programming genius Tim Moss and outspoken industry legend David Jaffe all contributing to its development as well. As far as we're aware, this game never actually came out in Europe, so it should be a first for many of you.
[source pegi.info]
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Love Wipeout, love F-Zero, colour me interested!
I enjoy most futuristic racers - even Extreme G Racing! So yeah - cant wait.
This is why I love the addition of Ps2 games on the Ps4. While it's not a system seller, still with games like King of Fighters 2000, Dark Cloud and Kinetica that have never been released to the PS store, I have hope that other great (and obscure) games like Shadow of Rome, Shadow Tower Abyss, Timesplitters, Second Sight, Black and others to come to the Ps4.
The screenshots look all sorts of bad from Google. Hopefully, will look a lot better on release.
Omg I remember playing this game years ago on a demo disc for my PS2 this game was so addicting!!
My friend loves this already and wants me to download this so I may just do that. It does look fun and I really liked micro machines back in the day.
Still waiting on a new F-Zero. Nintendo hates me though so that'll never happen. Even Sony has abandoned Wipeout (was never as good as F-Zero but it was better than nothing).
I'll give this one a spin.
Wipeout was the best futuristic racer ever (way better than F-zero imho), this make me want a new entry so much...
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