Midway cements Wheelman delay

By Robert Purchese Published 20 January, 2009

Vin Diesel car thriller stalls to March.

Midway has told Eurogamer that The Wheelman has indeed slipped to 20th March.

The driving game featuring and influenced by Vin Diesel had been expected exactly a month earlier. The delay was to provide a "more optimal launch timeframe", according to the publisher, which could mean anything. We're also told there will be a pre-launch demo, but there's no specific timing mentioned.

The Wheelman is a collaboration between Midway Newcastle and Tigon Studios for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. Vin Diesel formed Tigon back in 2002, and played a key role helping develop the celebrated Chronicles of Riddick titles.

The original plan had been to launch a Wheelman film alongside the game, but the big-screen adaptation appears to have gone missing, a bit like Vin Diesel's Hollywood career.

The Wheelman stars the mumbling hulk as the good guy who wrecks a crime syndicate in Barcelona by doing clever stunts in vehicles and shooting guns.

Head over to The Wheelman gamepage to find out more.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • DFawkes #1 3 years ago

    They rename it "The Mumbling Hulk", they've got a sale.
    Edited by 1 at 20/01/09 @ 11:02

  • Dan234 #2 3 years ago

    The original plan had been to launch a Wheelman film alongside the game, but the big-screen adaptation appears to have gone missing, a bit like Vin Diesel's Hollywood career.

    Probably because Barcelona town council decided that the very idea of criminals in BCN would scare off the tourists and breaking the variable speed limits they put on the motorways going into the city (from 25mph to a dizzying 50mph) would incite the locals.

    They're too busy paying Woody Allen a couple of million euros so he can produce stuff (is that the right word?) like Vicky Christina Barcelona.

  • ICHIOffkey #3 3 years ago

    Played the demo and its muck, nuff said