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Top Gear shifting onto DS

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Apr 11, 2006 5:04 pm PT

Developer of last GBA installment brings the long-running racing series onto Nintendo's newest portable.

The Top Gear series is revving up to make its debut on a new system. Tantalus Interactive today announced that it is developing Top Gear: Downforce for the Nintendo DS, and that Kemco will publish the game upon completion.

Previously, Kemco and Tantalus worked together on Top Gear Rally for the GameBoy Advance (although it was ultimately published by Nintendo). Tantalus has prior experience developing for the DS with SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Avenger.

The developer is promising that the game is being built "from the ground up" to take advantage of the DS's hardware features. In addition to support for wireless multiplayer and data sharing, the game will have a top-down view of the action with 3D models and players will be able to use the touch screen to drop hazards across the track.

Top Gear: Downforce isn't scheduled for release until late this year, but more details will be unveiled next month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

43 Comments

  • peeweeshift

    Posted Aug 4, 2006 1:35 pm PT

    best racer ever on snes hopefully they dont make it like new ones. it had great music and gameplay. i forgot i owned 1 and 2(but not 3000 )i think i'll write a review for it

  • dcl1993

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 9:17 pm PT

    Is it made by Top Gear the car show?

  • dcl1993

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 9:15 pm PT

    what's top gear??

  • alberto2045

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 7:27 pm PT

    Nice man Top Gear was a cool game!!!

  • GBA456

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 5:33 pm PT

    Ohh, sounds good, hope we hear more from this soon. Hoping for a few screen shots or a vid soon.

  • dragonmaster136

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 4:18 pm PT

    i dont know about the series but it sure sounds exciting

  • DurhamNC

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 2:18 pm PT

    Amazing games -- I hope they translate well. The DS is so up and down about these things.

  • Konfusion

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 11:20 am PT

    If this games follows Top Gear 2 and Top Gear 3, I'm sold.

  • bobreturns

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 9:08 am PT

    i hav top gear rally for n64

  • RykuXr

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 7:54 am PT

    "rewing up?" If they say so, but I am interested in seeing how this turns out.

  • DrKill09

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 7:30 am PT

    I always liked the Top Gear series (except the newest console ones) I have all 3 on the SNES, and both Top Gear Rally games on N64.

  • Kwiksilva

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 6:52 am PT

    Good stuff more great DS games

  • RUSKULL

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 6:34 am PT

    Top Gear was amazing on both SNES and N64 (I was just playing the SNES one again a few weeks ago). However, there were later incarnations of the series on N64 that were extremely frustrating in terms of bugs. I hope that doesn't turn out to be the case here.

    Here's hoping they have some re-mixed versions of the SNES tracks!

  • joestierman

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 6:31 am PT

    whatever

  • peterzhao333

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 6:17 am PT

  • chrisdojo

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 5:05 am PT

    nice. don't mess it up.

  • sugreev2001

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 4:22 am PT

    I was the owner of the top gear games on my SNES and i recently lost my SNES,this will atleast help me get back some of my favourite racers that i was missing so much.

  • Hellisunreal

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 4:17 am PT

    lets hope the make agood translation of this racing game. it seems the only good racer on the DS is mario kart

  • Lewis-Morgan

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 2:35 am PT

    Me too

  • datadyne51

    Posted Apr 12, 2006 12:35 am PT

    ohhhhhhhhhh i though they meant the tv show oh well

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