Ape racer revving up on PSP

Select from more than 40 heavily modified monkey cars, based on the Ape Escape franchise's primates, in Saru Get You: Pipo Saru Racer.

Famitsu today revealed more details on Sony Computer Entertainment Japan's upcoming Ape Escape-themed racing title, Saru Get You: Pipo Saru Racer. Instead of racing in traditional cars, the PlayStation Portable game's vehicles are monkeys; the mechanical primates have tires attached to their hands and feet, and players will have 46 types of monkey-machines to choose from.

As the wheels are attached to the monkey's limbs, the handling properties can be changed by positioning the arms and legs in one of several different ways, letting players optimize their simians for speed or power-sliding. Racers can also use their winnings to purchase parts and further customize their monkey-mobiles. Saru Get You: Pipo Saru Racer is scheduled for release on the Sony PSP later this year.

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14 comments
hells_zargon
hells_zargon

Excellent news. Hopefully this will be a decent rival to MKDS.

MajinGannon
MajinGannon

wow another one to go onto sony's originality resume. watch next will be an ape escape golf or tennis game.

boxcarracer565
boxcarracer565

first off. there are WAYYY 2 many psp racing games. 2nd of all. im so sick of ape ascape games on psp, this will make like ... the 4th one! no one likes these games, they are for little kids, if u want a racing game with monkeys, make it for the ds, not psp. get real.

SnowFarmer
SnowFarmer

I'm hoping this will be good. I could use a new racing game for my PSP.

Demonbob
Demonbob

I'll have to play it, just like all the Ape Escape games. I just can't stop!

Superstan
Superstan

ahhhhh! stop releasing ape escape games. They are horrible. and its probably going to be the same as mario kart, diddy kong racing, or crash nitro cart or whatever it was called.

calvinx6
calvinx6

Sony Need to be more original. Stop trying to copy Mario cart. This game is MarioCart with APES.

gameloverx
gameloverx

Can't wait to get this game on my PSP

eiru
eiru

=..=" Apes...

EvanO_O
EvanO_O

lol I geuss Sony loves to milk the ape escape franchise. A port of the first adventure, some Wario Ware spin off and now a mario kart spin off. Hell, there's even a fourth monkey adventure heading for the PS2. I pray the voicing acting isn't craptastic like in the third one.

jpfondeur
jpfondeur

umm, not sure what to say about this one... although I already have too many racers on my PSP.