We met with The Binary Mill developers this week at GDC and discovered they had a very cool looking racing game that’s in the works. The Binary Mill were the developers behind the bullet-hell shooter Assault Squadron.
Mini Moto Racing puts you in the driver’s seat of a top view of one of 4 different vehicles, each with different handling characteristics. The different vehicles include Sports, Hatch, Big-Rig, and Pick Up. The sports car hugs the road, while the hatch allows you to drift. Individual characteristics are upgradable including grip, top-speed, acceleration, and nitro, with specific models favoring one characteristic or another.
The game comes with both single-player campaign mode as well as individual races and four player local multi-player. Campaign mode consists of 5 different cups with 4-6 races that you need to complete with bronze or better in order to advance. Every race gives you an opportunity to earn money and other upgrades on each track, so you can feel like you’re making some progress even if you don’t win every time.
The most striking thing about the game when you first see it is the beautiful graphics and almost toy-like car feel to the game. The game is rendered in 3D with a dynamic camera. This also allows them to do cool things like nighttime courses and changes in camera angles and views as you accelerate down the track.
Be sure to watch the video. The game comes with 4 different customizable controls that should appease most players. The game should be coming out in the next month or two, so we’ll keep tabs on it and take a closer look when it’s done.
Hope this goes out for the iPad as well. That's when I'll pick this up! Been wanting to have this on iOS ever since I played this on a friend's PSP some time ago. It's a fun time waster. Manny! Manny! Manny!
Yeah - now I have an iPad I don't get so many iPhone/touch only games
Will try and hold out - but wanted this game on iOS so much I might have to give in and get this version
Do retina enabled games show up at iphone 4 resolution on the ipad? If so, that wouldn't be too bad since the resolutions are reasonably close. Better than pixel doubling with the older resolution titles.
No. Note the ipad doesn't have retina display. You can force it to capitalize on the full resolution of the ipad though if you jailbreak.
Yeah I've wondered about that too - but apparently, as Salsamd says, because it's not a retina display you get 'served' the basic graphics and then have to pixel-double.
Could still be fun but once you're used to proper iPad res games, pixel doubling doesn't feel right
Would be nice to have on phone though - i'm still deciding...;)
Is this the same Chris Hall that once wrote a glowing review of Super KO Boxing 2 for another web site?
As an amature boxer I've been waiting for an good iphone boxing game for a long time. Will buy it as soon as I get more credit.
"Super Punch Out on the PS3"
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