E3 week may typically be associated with the big beasts of gaming, but there's more to be enjoyed from the LA extravaganza. It's an industry event also graced by many smaller Indie developers, and the Nindie contingent will be there in force to show off exciting new downloads on the way.
We have a Nindie treat before the expo doors have even opened, as highly respected studio Shin'en Multimedia has given Nintendo Life the first look at gameplay footage for the highly anticipated FAST Racing NEO. The futuristic racer may draw comparisons to the esteemed F-Zero series, but based on this video should be regarded as an exciting brand in its own right - be sure to watch in HD at 60 frames-per-second.
Of course, we already know some exciting details about this racer, and it's promising a great deal:
- It'll run at 60fps (frames per second) and 720p
- It'll support 1-4 local multiplayer
- Online racing and online rankings will be included
Shin'en Multimedia has often delivered some of the best looking games on Wii U and 3DS, while the studio's already told us in the past that this is a passion project for the team.
Are you excited by this footage and the racer's planned release this year? Let us know.
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Looks cool, depends on price.
Very awesome trailer! It's actually giving me Wipeout vibes.
...yes! Yes! YES! YES!
Looking great though I'm a bit concerned that it just looks like a HDified F-Zero GX (some of the tracks look way too similar).
Shin'en is awesome. Looks really good. If this plays on the gamepad I'll be getting it!
@Grumblevolcano
Is that really a problem?
@DreamOn You can of course play on the Gamepad.
I didn't really like the first one, but anything that's like F-Zero at this point could be good.
I hope we get a new video at Nintendo Digital Event/Treehouse. This isn't very clear thanks to the filter added in the video. Maybe live gameplay would be cool.
Looks nice though.
So is this an eshop game or a physical release?
I really like what I see. My only concern is the controls. If that's fine, as well, consider me sold!
@Manfred that's all I need to hear! I just love having racing games right in my hands.
@Grumblevolcano An HDified F-Zero GX sounds great to me.
@Manfred No specific release month/price?!?! Looks good though; no need for an F-Zero now, eh?
@Zach777 Thanks. No final release date yet, but end of the year.
@Manfred Any chance you guys making a physical release of this one?
This generation, the WiiU could potentially have a HD F-zero and an alternative similar to wipeout. I essence the best of both worlds and they could be both online. Thats the racing side covered for the next 2 years (with the help of dlc)
This looks awesome.
I can't wait to go FAST. Looking good!
Was hoping to see more (uninterrupted) gameplay/racing, but it looks great. Reminds me so much of Wipe-Out and I love it.
It's remind me a lot, more than F-Zero. Extreme-G
Cool, this could be quite fun to play.
@Clipo - Nice to see I'm not the only one reminded of Extreme-G.
So happy, a new AAA futuristic racer is finally coming! So much hype! Looks really fun and really beautiful!
@Manfred Any chance we can get a high bit-rate version of this trailer too? You usually do those, and it makes the games look even better.
@Shiryu Only on eShop!
@Manfred Thanks for the reply. I'm seriously juggling internal memory space as is and would love to have that game boxed. Another question that I am sure many people asked before: Any chance of custom mp3 soundtrack option? Because I would love to do something like this for FAST.
It really looks very promising. I'll keep an eye on it.
Didn't know to this day that Shin'en is a german company. I just thought the name Manfred sounds very german and wanted to know more about Shin'en. And you guys also did Art of Balance? I'll sure support your work and buy Art of Balance and maybe FAST Neo. I live near Karlsruhe and appreciate that a german studio delivers high quality games for my beloved Nintendo platforms. Thank you, Manfred!
That looks very good! Hope we see more gameplay footage at Tree house.
Awesome. Bravo to the developers! Use the Gamepad automated Icon notification when this comes out to maximize awareness.
Der Trailer ist fett, Manfred!
I mean, the trailer looks damn hot. And I dig the music!
And obviously we don't really need to talk about the graphics, but this looks like the best thing Shin'en has ever done!
I'm sold, I'm sure it will be much better than the first one.
And to the one worrying about memory: Shin'en are code wizards. This looks like a 8GB game, but it will probably be only 300MB or so.
@Manfred
thank you and your team for all of the quality titles that you have put on the shop. Keep up the great work!
@Tisteg80 Vielen Dank
@shigulicious Thanks a lot!
Wow! Based on the info so far and the fact I've yet to play a Shin'en game I didn't enjoy I'm really looking forward to this...
A western dev, supporting Wii U with titles of this quality, who needs the blood sucking big publishers!?
I really can't tell what the gameplay is like. The style of everything looks like Wipeout but people keep relating it to F-Zero. I hope it plays more like Wipeout because I've never liked F-Zero's controls.
@OorWullie @errantrazor Well I'm not really in favour of HD remakes, I'd much rather see the original games put on Wii U VC or in the case of GC games maybe instead release a system update which allows you to use your GC discs on Wii U. Provided the tracks in Fast Racing Neo are original and not just copypaste from F-Zero GX I'm happy (there's a Wii U game for example that did the copypaste option for Super Mario Kart tracks).
Looks awesome!! Now we need a trailer with real gameplay, but I´m almost sure it will be mine on day 1.
This end of the year is gonna be crazy. Too bad for our pockets...
I guess this pretty much confirms no new F-Zero, or even an HD remake of GX..... Oh well!!!
Definitely looks more like Wipeout than F-Zero. I'd still be interested in this when it comes around though.
It looks potentially very cool but I actually genuinely would have rather seen just footage of someone playing the game, rather than the way this was edited, where you can't really get a sense of how the game flows and stuff during actual play. It didn't allow me to really take in what the actual game is like other than the general visual look and style of it—in a really too quickly edited way and with various camera angles/shots that I mostly couldn't follow in any meaningful way.
If you think about how Bethesda showed of Doom at its press conference, where it was someone playing a few minutes of the game yet wasn't just a slow plodding on-stage demo and actually gave you a decent feel for what the game will be like, then I think that would have worked better here too.
So, basically; I'm still left kinda waiting to see this game, if that makes sense
Edit: Congrats to Nintendo Life for scoring the exclusive first look though
@Grumblevolcano Yeah; I'm not too sure where you're seeing the negative in that lol
Great, flashy, video. The game will probably be great, but I was hoping to finally see some of the actual game in play, not a slick trailer. Granted, the information progression of concept art leaks, to in-engine renders, to slick trailer footage (this), to actual gameplay footage, is the normal video game PR tactic. I was just hoping to skip a set there since we've been waiting for this for so long.
FAST Racing Neo is one of the indie titles I'm DEFINITELY gonna purchase at the Wii U eShop!
Anyone not excited for this must not have a pulse.
Nice to get a first look at the game. The small trailer was amazing, will definitely be an Indie game that I am looking forward to buy!
Fast racing FTW! Till then I will keep myself occupied with 200CC Mario Kart and Sonic All-stars Transformed.
I can't see this not ending up on XBone/PS4 as well at some point... but I don't own either of those so I'll be buying it for the Wii-U!
Looks suitably sleek, futuristic and...well, fast.
@Kirk I second this
Feels a lot more WipEout than F-Zero. Which is not a bad thing by any means!
Very much looking forward to this one
Looks like a winner.
@JaguarWong it could happen in the far future, but it's no way a given. They have one port to the PS4, and 30 games in history for Nintendo consoles... they never ported FAST, so more likely than not...
Finally!
WoW! I mean..I saw the screenshots and thought "mkay" but now I am definitely thinking "MKAY!"
I'm really looking forward to this game, but that trailer was just plain underwhelming. Too much flashing camera cuts, pixellation effects that make the game look like there's a lot of aliasing, and too many extremely boring frontal camera shots.
Definitely not the best way to show off their game; it's as if they don't want to fully show it off yet.
F.A.S.T. + Best-we'll-likely-get-to-a-new-F-Zero + Shin'en's track record + online = Not even worried about reviews, instabuy
Why couldn't this also be on the 3DS as well.
Looks great, I hope they have some easy tracks ... the wii version was hard for me, more like Ikaruga on a track than an F-Zero clone
Looks real good.
I count at least eight tracks - Jungle / Snow / Lava / Desert / Underwater / Planet Orbit / Ground City / Cloud City.
I'm also 99% certain they'll be lots of references to their past games.
Ashamed to say I've never played one, but this looks like a good place to start!
@Manfred and @AntDickens is this footage exclusive to Nintendo Life or could I report this on my website as well, given that I give credit to Nintendo Life as the source?
So this runs on the Wii U but not Project Cars...
@Gso Project Cars was capable of running at an acceptable 30 FPS on Wii U without any major downscaling so it certainly could run on Wii U, the developer just didn't want to put any effort into the port.
Awesome. Now I don't need a new Wipeout or F-Zero. Well done!
Consider me stoked!
Finally, we get a trailer. The only thing I don't quite care for are the stages with ordinary-looking road pavement. There seems to be enough variety in tracks for that to not be so much of a concern, but something about it really bugs me.
@Neko_Rukiafan Check out fast.shinen.com
Is this really Wii u?! Very strong graphics!
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