Koei confirms Fatal Inertia PS3 in 2008 not delayed

Koei's Fatal Inertia is one of the lesser-hyped games from E3 2006 that really caught SPOnG's eye when we attended a behind-closed-doors demo of it last year. A mish-mash of WipEout-****futuristic racing, Mario Kart power-ups and Katamari Damacy collect-and-grow-a-thon, if you can get your head around that as a concept!

Fatal Inertia is the debut title from KOEI's Toronto-based studio, led by producer Takazumi Tomoike, best known for his work on the awesome Dynasty Warriors series.

Strange then (and deeply ironic, considering the title!) that the PS3 version of Fatal Inertia has now been delayed indefinitely due to "middleware issues".

SPOnG spoke with Koei's PR rep in the UK this morning who assured us that Fatal Inertia was still in development for PS3 and "definitely would not be canned" as a number of reports have already suggested earlier today.

Lead Game Designer Michael Bond says of Fatal Inertia, "By designing Fatal Inertia's gameplay around a physics engine it not only allowed us to create a truly different driving model, but it also helped us create a set of dynamic weapons with multiple tactical applications... We've based many of the game's weapons on straightforward physical principles, and by doing so we're giving players the freedom to come up with their own creative ways of using them- ways that even we are still discovering."

Fatal Inertia will hit Xbox 360s across Europe this September and PS3 "sometime in 2008." Check all the new screens right here

http://www.n4g.com/ps3/NewsCom-49565.aspx

Koei is in Toronto. Cool.turgore

Yeah Man.

i remember when sheep posted about Opoona - many cows laughed because 'omg its Koei - Koei hasnt made a good game in years'

Because of that - Cows you have no right to say 'omg good game' because of your ignorant statements from before.

Crap game either way. Not even worth posting.

Wipeout PS3 is the way to go for PS3 futuristic racing games.

Crap game either way. Not even worth posting.

Wipeout PS3 is the way to go for PS3 futuristic racing games.

Trading_Zoner

I agree that it doesn't look interesting at all but it's amusing to me after everyone was babbling about "FATAL INERTIA EXCLUSIVE OWNAGES!"

Let's see, we've gained an exclusive title by Quantic Dream and gained exclusive content for Blazing Angels RIGHT AFTER Sony says "We don't buy exclusivity." Whatever you ARE doing to keep this happening, keep to it, Sony.

Things are not NEARLY as bleak as the ultra-militant Xbox fans paint it to be.