Video game publisher Koei, best known for its long-standing Dynasty Warriors franchise, enters the driving arena with Fatal Inertia, a 23rd century racing game that mixes weapons, slick looking rides and unique physics. Originally slated for the PlayStation 3 (and now coming to the Xbox 360), Fatal Inertia seems to provide gamers with a different type of high-speed experience, one that may compete with the likes of the Ridge Racer and Burnout franchises, providing its developers inject it with a healthy dose of speed.
Limbo and Xbox Indie title Inertia! have won the second annual Indie Game Challenge at DICE. Sponsored by The Guildhall at SMU, GameStop and the AIAS, the winners will each receive $100,000 and an EEDAR DesignMetrics title research assessment valued at $15,000.
Limbo, which we felt was one of the best games of 2010, took the grand prize in the "professional" category, along with another prize of $2,500 for achievement in art direction
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Dark Zero writes: "Fatal Inertia EX is the PlayStation 3 release of the year-old Xbox 360 game Fatal Inertia and is available now as a download from the PlayStation Store, for a fee of course.
Set in a futuristic world where mega-corporations control everything from government to entertainment, Fatal Inertia has become the most popular, and dangerous, pastime. The best drivers race in cars that hover over all types of ground, from molten lava to coastal inlets.
Sounds exciting doesn't it? Unfortunately, in the early stages of the game it isn't. I know that the earlier levels are supposed to be easy for beginners to grasp the controls, but in my eyes they were just uneventful, boring and didn't make me thrilled about playing on. Fortunately I did, otherwise this would be a very short review, and by the time you get halfway through the 'Professional League' it gets a bit trickier and somewhat more enjoyable. The tracks are short which means that the races are quick and if you get stuck in the crowd with the rest of the racers, it can get very chaotic, which is where the races get interesting. A side effect of the tracks being fairly short, sometimes the race is over before you know it and suddenly you're in second when you thought you could overtake the guy in front on the next corner to take home a win which gets a bit annoying.
The races are based on six different areas with all the course"
I think this could be half decent actually. It obviously has the looks. I think this is a good addition to the PS3 and 360 lineups
360 is were its at bi yatch
was that supposed to be funny.
im just going by the presedence set by other games.
Wow, when did this happen?
Ah-well, I'll continue my bashing for the 360 version as well then- the devs have a serious case of showing vids that look nothing at all like the gameplay on this one.
Bla-bla, CGI, yadda-yadda.
Now for FI2-6, Fatal Inertia: Empires 1-MCXVII, and Fatal Inertia: Xtreme Legends: XXL: Holy crap there's even DLC this time: Black: II.
I love KOEI and all, but c'mon.
wow, I completely forgot about this game. Never was impressed by it though, but it's looking a lot better now.