Earlier this year, Ubisoft pulled a surprise announcement out of its hat when it revealed Nitrobike for Wii. The dirt-bike racing game, which reminds IGN in many ways of Excite Truck, is created by Left Field Productions, which ironically helmed the fantastic Excitebike 64. IGN recently chatted with LFP's CEO, James Higgins, about the company's racing roots and what is has planned for Nitrobike. 17 new Nitrobike screens to complement today's interview have been posted.
NGamer has picked out its hottest games of 2008, the list totalling an impressive 127 titles. The fifth part of the list is now available.
127 games and no contra,gradius,g-darius,r-type shooter on the wii i know they r on the v.c but i rather have it on the wii instead
Nitrobike does its best to provide a two-wheeled imitation of Wii launch title Excite Truck -- which isn't altogether odd, considering that developer Left Field Productions crafted the well-regarded Excitebike 64 back in 2000. Since then, the team has dabbled in the biking genre with MTX Mototrax and Wii and PSP's widely panned Dave Mirra's BMX Challenge. Nitrobike, however, marks a definite shift to even more high-flying antics and arcade-style racing.
Game Front has a list of Q1 release dates for Ubisoft titles in Europe. The list includes titles for PS3, PS2, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii and DS. It also has price information in Euro. The list is dated 18 January, 2008.
At least they still have HAZE out soon. I suspect a early march release in UK
UBIsoft is all about Conviction.
Haze is a cheap spinoff of any FPS game.
I can't believe PS3 fans want Haze still. LOL.
Yeah 'cause most FPS's thrive to create a story driven game that affects your game play and other mode's right?
Tell me what makes a good story driven FPS , and then tell me that HAZE hasn't got it , cause you'll smell like bullshit even thinking about it.
They need to advertise Haze alot more. I lost all my hype and completely forgot about that game.
Your comment there was the stupidist i've ever heard.
HAZE looks great, and have had it on preorder since September.
And yes all FPS, use nector, have 2 parts to the story with different gameplay in each part.
Double-Edged i just suspect your bitter about Free Rad dropping the 360 version.
@ Greek99 - I suspect they will hype the game up again, however with no set release date for now, theres little point. Saying that in December issue of OPMuk they had a 2 page ad
have you seen haze in gameplay?
it's horrible.
please... taking off my fanboy glasses... Haze looks terrible.
Ubisoft is working on so many projects and so few of them are worth buying. Its a shame...
Yeah i was really looking forward to Haze but its not worth it anymore as every time we get let down with delays.
James Higgins said that this game is all about fun in the form of big air and tricks, but I think it is actually much more fun to get into the rhythm of well-designed tracks as seen in Excite Bike 64. It seems like this game may be too much like Excite Truck and not enough like Excite Bike 64. But I'm still keeping my fingers crossed.