Hope the lack of input from the Stamper bros. doesn't mean a second rate game here. I have been looking forward to playing Banjo Threeie for soooo long. A racer (or platform / racer hybrid) isn't what I had in mind. Also I hope that the humour from the first two has been retained. Come on Rare - let's not have another Viva Pinata that was rubbish. Oh yeah and where's Killer instinct for the 360 ? UUULLLTTRRRAAACCCOOOMMMMBBBBOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

You just know the Rare is going to **** this up! Banjo-Kazooie Nut's & Bolts is going to Bomb.

Many overly optimistic people are taking the sit back and watch approach hoping that it's not what it looks like, a vehicle design game with a small emphasis on the actual character, Banjo-Kazooie. However it is confirmed from the official RAREWARE.com site that the game will DROP the original "core gameplay mechanics" of Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie and focus MAINLY on vehicle design as the CORE gameplay mechanics. Yes, sure, it will be fun, I have no doubt. BUT BUT BUT. We're not getting what original fans wanted, a true Banjo-Threeie. That's it, no debate required.

And lets not forget (or try at least not to forget) Zelda and Metroid on the Wii................................ and how.......................BRILLIANT...THEY WERE!!! AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!

OHHHHH!! And you think I smoke crack just because I have a picture of Will Smith as my icon?? Will Smith is THE COOLEST YOU IDIOT!!!! JUST BECAUSE HE IS A BLACK MAN AND BLACK PEOPLE USUALLY SMOKE A LOT YOU THINK I'M A BLACK MAN/CRACKHEAD????

Killerfalcon13 got very upset because I attacked his beloved crappy console YOU ARE THE FANBOY!! I haven't defended any consoles at all - I have made criticisms on what I think is truly the weakest console of the bunch WHICH IS THE NINTENDO WII. ACCEPT IT A** WIPE!! YOUR CONSOLE IS S***!! ONLY OLD PEOPLE AND STUPID KIDS LIKE YOURSELF PLAY IT!! THE ONLY REASON YOUR CONSOLE HAD SOLD WELL IS BECAUSE RETARDED OLD MR. JONES BOUGHT ONE AND SAID "OOHHH!! I CAN BOWL AND PLAY SPORTS AT HOME BECAUSE I'M AN OLD LAZY FARMER"

Mario Kart Wii & Super Smash Bros. Brawl are definitely not as pleasing or selling as well as Nintendo had hoped - and the Wii sales are NOT picking up - it is obvious that biased Banjo-Kazooie Nintendo fans from the golden days, especially Killerfalcon13, cannot accept that their console is starting to fall miserably short of the mark. Name one franchise left that will help the Wii in its lifetime? None - they've used the whole batch, Mario, Smash Bros, Battalion Wars, Pokemon - The Wii has used all of its big guns to LITTLE effect (and now they pray that sega will save them with Samba De Amigo and ubisoft with another terrible Red Steel Sequel) face it, the Wii will only decline from here on in. See the sense past your incredibly biased Nintendo-filled eyes.

DEAR Banjo Fans. Let's move this over to www.RAREWARE.com Let's see if we can't wake a couple CEO's up over there. Remember when PS3 was going to have the crazy looking boomerang controller? Enough people complained and that problem got solved. Cross your fingers, go to www.RAREWARE.com and start speaking your minds. Let's get back our Banjo series! One of, if not, the best platformer series.

even so, the focus on vehicles seems far too heavy

robcox1980: The article specifically said that Banjo IS NOT A RACING GAME.

HUGELY DISAPPOINTED. The ONLY transportation Banjo needs is Kazooie's ultra fit wings. NOW we're stuck with some 2nd rate racer that would have ZERO chance of success if it were'nt riding on the back of the Banjo-Kazooie name.

STRAIGHT CRAP! This absolutely sucks. So everyone, remember the first teaser trailer? RARE made us think it was Banjo 3 for the past 2 years. Now we are slapped square in the face with what they should just call Banjo-Pilot 2. This sucks. Absolutely sucks. HEY RARE, you ever hear of Mario Galaxy? Yeah, that is called nexgen platforming. That's what the new Banjo game should be. I'm not usually one to count chickens before they hatch, but this game is going to pale in to comparison to anything RARE could have done if they stuck to a true platformer. STUPID. Absolutely horribly stupid. What happened? Why did it take this long to make a friggin racer? For one, I am extremely upset. RARE, GIVE US BANJO-THREEIE!

RARE, look at the numbers:
Banjo-Kazooie Gamespot Score - 9.5
Banjo-Tooie Gamespot Score - 9.6
Banjo-Pilot (a not well known Banjo game) Gamespot Score - 7.2 Ok, are you ready RARE? Here's my prediction of the future.
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts (RARE should just call it Banjo-Pilot 2) Gamespot Score? - 7.5
Now here's what a majority of gamers wanted.
Banjo-Threeie Gamespot Score - 9.5

This is how you can tell the brothers who formed RARE left the company. Obviously they wanted nothing to do with the way things are going. Sucks they couldn't have taken Banjo with them.

I miss the good Donkey Kong games. Like the 64 one was friggin awesome and so were the snes ones were too.

agreed. Rare has had troubles since their 2002 blunder

As long as it's a quality title, I'll buy it. But Rare certainly isn't the development house it used to be.

also iv seen screens of viva pinata 2: trouble in paradise and i want that, come on rare

thought this got cancelled??? ah well glad its still coming=)

I would sh!t myself in excitement if RARE returned to nintendo. To have the 2 companies reunite would be awesome. Rare ruled Ninetndo consoles back in the day, and it was a shame that they went to Microsoft and to be honest lost a little of their shine IMO. But nevertheless, I still back RARE and hope they recalim their role as one of the best game developers. They aren;t quite their just yet but they are getting there.

I can't wait for Banjo kazooie 3. T'will be good.

bruno_fmenedes: i agree, though i'm not sure if i'm agreeing as an xbox-less banjo-kazooie enthusiast or as a video game market speculator. probably the former. but, hey... i wish rare all the best in any case, and perhaps i can play it for five minutes someplace on a display model 360 at some point... :-P

This game would sell well on the Wii, but on the Xbox360 I have doubts about it selling as much, even if it gets great ratings from critics. I could be wrong about this but Kameo, another Rare game, didn't sell very well did it?

Only those who owned a N64 know how awesome was to play Banjo when it was released.

ok;sounds good;i did not play this game'past before;what is look like?but i know that THE GREAT MS AND RARE will make it so so so great;

those animals look like they've been smoking something

I would totally buy a 360 for this game lol. I wouldn't buy one last year for Halo 3 but I would buy one now for BK3, that's kind of sad, but true all the same lol.

This shows just how out of touch gamers are with the Banjo franchise. Why would anyone think for a second this was a racer lol. This just in...
Nintendo: Mario Kart Wii is not a platformer.

Banjo and Kazooie. Now plz and bring also a new Conker than will destroy all games. KI3 as well. you know what else how about another Jet Force Gemini.

Banjo Kazooie FPS!

It becomes ultra-violent shooter like Red Faction only with toony parts flying and realistic imaginary lifelike toon blood spraying all over the cartoonish walls!

lol ... really no matter what they do to it it really won't be that extreme, don't fear change. Just hope whatever they do will be something you like.

do KI3

This should rule...that is, if it's ever going to come out.

i really cannot wait for this. i replayed through the first game (although i accidentally deleted the save grr) and once some more info is released, like a date, i will likely play through the second because i never fully beat it, although i LOVE these games

right now...I am just hoping that this game is still on the working stages..I have been waiting for a long time for the next banjo and kazooie game to come out. I mean come on the last game was a cliff hanger

I really hope this game turns out good. But, I'm a little concerned that Rare might have changed things too much. I read an article awhile back stating that Rare said that it's not going to be a typical platformer, it's going to be different. I hope that they don't mess with it too much. I would love a great platformer game again on my 360.
Anyway, the screens do look good. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

i wish we had galaxy for 360, banjo will be good though, still play the first one on my N64

@DukeNukeForever
Put out the Crack. Where is it catching up? Because it isn't in Europe, NA., Japan, or Australia. I don't know where you get you're figures from, it must be Bullcrap.com, because PS3/360 are not catching up = REAL FACT. You say "Pfft" to Galaxy and Smash, but those are both owning in terms of sales and ratings. I own all 3 consoles, but if you can;t see that then you're the idiotic fanboy. You can now go back to smoking you're crack.

omg yes! Finally!

we all want banjo kazooie. We've wanted it for 8 years. Where the heck have you been, man?

Where the HELL is Killer Instinict and Perfect Dark 3?!?! Microsoft is pushing Rare to hard to come up with SiSSY ASS games that are family based!!!!!! and thats BullCRAP!!! Give the people what they want! not what YOU want!

I-CAN'T-WAIT. I loved the ones for the N64 and I hope that Rare doesn't disappoint my inner love for them. They did it once...*cough* PDZ *cough*

Banjo, Kazooie, and all the others were quite fun as characters, and even though I liked the game a lot I never liked how the game forced me to search 100 notes, I-don't-remember-how-many Jinjos and honeycombs.

When I played the first Banjo-Kazooie I couldn't avoid making comparisons with Super Mario 64, so I wonder if this Banjo's sequel could be compared to Mario Galaxy. It would be great to have a 3D platformer like that for the 360, wouldn't it?

Man, I loved the old Banjo Kazooie games. I hope they do make a third one. And for Conker, OMFG, one of the funniest and greatest games ever!!! Hoping for a third one from conker as well.

This is awesome news! I haven't really heard much from rare since it ruined perfect dark with perfect dark zero.

Screens of VP2 got leaked at the same time....looks very much like it will have coop play....big news coming from Rare all around (now if they would just confirm Goldeneye going to XBLA)

I want this game now, just show something

omg omg omg omg omg omg omg

so effin pumped!

rare made the classics. donkey kong, conker, banjo, and a shooter revolution with 007. They can pull off a good sequel. they have my faith and thumbs crossed

First, I hope the game is 10 times better than the trailer, graphics were great, but the funny factor was Meh.

@DukeNukeForever Hey, -
why you being suck a jerk, I like both my wii, and 360. Yes, a lot of games nintendo does are not the greatest, but that is the same with Sony, and Microsoft. I like Devil may cry 4 on Xbxo 360 and Mario Kart wii, on the wii. And if you would stop downing nintendo system, you could see that, Microsoft and Sony have a lot of Great games, but not many that you can play, next to your friend with. Unless you like Shooters or Sports, you are stuck with Few fighting games and Xbox live downloads. My girlfriend brought a pink controller for the X360, and only really uses it for DOA 4, but her and her two sister love split screen Mario Kart. So quit hating so much, seeing your comments make me sad that I call myself a gamer like you. Xbox360

To words. Banjo Hero.

Don't worry guys,this is like one of Rare's only chance it further success.They're going to make this good and we'll finally have an old-timer on the 360(not that that's important,360's modern hits are the best,but a classic like Banjo,that's nice).I remember playing Banjo on the N64 when I was a kid and this is going to bring back the memories.I'm definitely buying the game.And no,if you are saying Banjo on 360 would ruin,u are officially a MS hater because this is going to have better graphics and better gameplay,you're just jealous cuz it's not on Nintendo lol.I really don't care even if they put it on all systems(they wouldn't do that though),I just wanna play some Banjo.

@DukeNukemForever - I see no signs of either catching up. Neither are consistently doing well; they simply get a shortlived boost when a big release (like GTA) comes and ppl actually feel compelled to buy the other consoles. And Nintendo's downfall is very far off. What statistics are you looking at? Seeing as Nintendo is planning a huge holiday, I'd say that you just dreamt that up. And the three games that you mentioned are great, and I doubt you've so much as touched em.

Hey, there are a lot of losers in this world and that's okay - but there's nothing worse than a sore loser, bud.

man too bad i have a ps3, id really love to play this game

I liked this when it was on the N64 but let's see if this break's Rare's Microsoft curse that's plagued the other titles in that they were medicore at best or in the case of Viva Pinata, a good game that no one bought. I have the Wii60 set up and I hope this is good but I wish they'd reveal some stuff besides that ugly teaser already.

The game will have 3-d platforming, as well as some vehicle platforming. Kind of like, what was that game, the girl with the camera fighting robots or something. It was a very good game.

I think the vehicles will bring in some innovation, although we are unsure what they are acually used for as of now. I am sure they will add a lot to the game. I never understood how kazooie could carry a huge bear on its wings, or back, anyway. Not to mention if it was the same, everyone would say, oh its a sequel with no gameplay changes how boring! But then they change something, people are like omg vehicles game is ruined!