Mantis Burn Racing On Switch Will Include Cross-Play Support

Race against players on rival platforms

by Liam Doolan Tue 17th Oct 2017

VooFoo Studios has announced its top-down racer Mantis Burn Racing will include cross-play support.

The title bolsters cross-play offerings on the Nintendo Switch, with some of the previously announced cross-platform games for the device including Minecraft, Rocket League and the recently announced third-person shooter Crazy Justice.

The other platforms that support cross-network play for this title are Xbox One and Steam.

The UK-based studio behind Mantis Burn has also reconfirmed the Nintendo Switch version of the game is capable of running at 60fps in both the handheld and docked mode, however the local split-screen modes for three and four players will be locked at 30fps, while the two player mode will fluctuate between 30-60fps.

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Mantis Burn Racing for the Nintendo Switch has been touted as the “definitive edition” of the game. The Switch version of the title will include all of the previously released DLC. On top of this and the local multiplayer, the game features a career mode and an online mode.

For more information about Mantis Burn Racing, take a look at our recent interview with Sean Walsh, Marketing & PR Manager at VooFoo Studios.

Let us know in the comments if you are planning on picking up this racer on release.

[source voofoo.games]

Liam is a news writer and reviewer for Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox. He's been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of Mario and Master Chief.

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Kalmaro
Tue 17th Oct 2017

Why can't everyone do this?

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SLIGEACH_EIRE
Tue 17th Oct 2017

Probably needed as the Switch audience will be low. I hear people saying they find it hard to find someone online to play against in FIFA 18.

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Shade_Koopa
Tue 17th Oct 2017

Interesting, always a nice surprise to see cross-console play with any game.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Doesn't surprise me since the Switch version is kinda a "downgrade" version when compared to it Xbox/PlayStation counterpart. Sad to admit but true.

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Member_the_game
Tue 17th Oct 2017

Really looking forward to this, can't beat a good top down racer.

I was really disappointed in Micro Machines on the PS4 and ended up trading it in because it was so poor so hoping this might fill in that missing hole in my life.

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oOFincHyOo
Tue 17th Oct 2017

Really like the look of this, reminds me of MASHED on PS2.

As "Marios-love-child" has already said, this years Micro Machines was beyond terrible.

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Cruznbaby85
Tue 17th Oct 2017

Good work Nintendo and Microsoft. Good to see someone thinking about the consumer rather than their greedy selves

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OneArmedGiant
Tue 17th Oct 2017

@oOFincHyOo
If this is half as good as mashed, I'll be all over this. My friends and I still play it to this day and always have loads of fun.

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gcunit
Tue 17th Oct 2017

Hope this is good.

Crazy Justice could be decent too...

https://youtu.be/bm3SEDoA8vQ

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cfgk24
Tue 17th Oct 2017

Cross console play? Excellent! Other consoles are not rivals though. .

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Cosats
Tue 17th Oct 2017

@SLIGEACH_EIRE You hear wrong again. FIFA's online is full of players.

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Savvykas
Tue 17th Oct 2017

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Only played a couple of online fifa matches so far as I'm rubbish at it, but the games have taken seconds to find a match. Milage may vary of course.

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cfgk24
Tue 17th Oct 2017

@SLIGEACH_EIRE There's no problem finding a match in Fifa18 - or Splatoon 2 for that matter - and these days, we don't even connect with the Japanese Servers so we've lost 1.5million players to match up with

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SmileyRyder
Tue 17th Oct 2017

It's actually the fifth game that would have cross platform play, Liam. Minecraft, Rocket League, Crazy Justice, and Chess Ultra were the first four games announced with cross-platform play.