Racing Studio wants pre-release SEGA Rally demos for PS3/360

By Tom Bramwell Published 21 June, 2007

Full game due in September.

SEGA Racing Studio's new vision of SEGA Rally should be arriving on Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network in demo form prior to release.

Racing Studio boss Guy Wilday also told Eurogamer that the team is currently targeting a September release for the game across PS3, Xbox 360, PC and PSP.

"We'll look to do potentially 360 and PS3 downloadable demos before release," Wilday said of the demo, although he admitted that content plans weren't locked down.

"We're looking at exactly how the demo's going to work and what we're going to do. The balancing act with demos is always obviously not to give too much away," he explained.

"We want people to get the experience of the game without giving the game away. So that's our challenge - we'll get some more bits of the game finished and then we'll make the final decision as to exactly what we're going to do."

During our visit to Racing Studio in sunny Solihull, near Birmingham, we also asked Wilday about the potential for PC and Xbox 360 cross-play. "I'm not sure that's going to make it in," he admitted. "We'll see. We're still finalising our PC specs to be honest with you. It's something we'd love to do, but we'll see."

Just for the hell of it, we also asked about PS3-PSP link potential. "It's something that's been discussed of course. Again, I'm not sure it's going to make it into this version," he said.

It wasn't all talk of demos, dates and cross-dressing though - we just like to ask those so we can splash news in your faces. The meat of the trip was to play SEGA Rally for the first time, and that we did. You can read our extensive first impressions of the game right now. We also have some sexy new PS3 and Xbox 360 screenshots.

And if you fancy shouting at each other about which is teh bestest consoel!11oneoneshift, you can read some of Wilday's comments on game development in an exclusive interview with our sister site GamesIndustry.biz.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Pedrolot #1 5 years ago

    I'll take!

    First! \o/

  • Darren #2 5 years ago

    I've a feeling that SEGA Rally will be brilliant and probably be the game that many were expecting DiRT to be in the first place, i.e. arcadey but fun. For me though, DiRT is awesome, really addictive and very pretty (if I ignore the v-sync tearing) but SEGA Rally seems to be a more ambitious game to me, even if it's only down to the way the track deforms as you race. Could be amazing... definitely looking forward to trying the demo...

  • GamesConnoisseur #3 5 years ago

    Cool! The muds look so delicious and fun to wade our way through!

  • robrymond #4 5 years ago

    'Sunny Solihull' your havin' a laugh, it's rained all week here :p

  • zuljin #5 5 years ago

    God darnit Eurogamer...

    "It wasn't all talk of demos, dates and cross-dressing though"

    Synopsis of crossdressing related talks please!

    Are you doing this on purpose to check who actually reads reviews/news? ;)

  • Pedrolot #6 5 years ago

    @ robrymond

    So did Wolverhampton!

    Poxy english weather drives me up the bloody wall!

  • menage #7 5 years ago

    Good, the more demo's the better.

  • peteb #8 5 years ago

    coming out September also, dear god people! I will be royally skint between Sept-Nov with all these games coming out.

    I NEED TO EAT DAMNIT!

  • jonsaan #9 5 years ago

    I'm not sure = no. Why not just say so ffs?

  • Hughes. #10 5 years ago

    As the PSP version is to be a platform dedicated version, rather than a TDU style scaled down port, it seems unlikely they'll be able to have a merge data system like they had in Outrun 2006 Coast to Coast. Shame, as that was a bloody handy way to progress through the game.

  • Ryze #11 5 years ago

    Agreed Hughes.

    I'd be nowhere near as far through Outrun2006 if it wasn't for the fact that I have the odd race at the strangest moments. On a plane, in airports, the break room at work, in bed on holiday while drunk...

    Nowadays it takes me forever to finish games - mostly because I very rarely turn on the PS2, but have a massive number of 8-9/10 games.

    THE reason I bought a PSP.

    Bring on God Of War - I still haven't even finished the PS2 game. I'll get round to it whenever.

    ryz

  • BadBoyBonner #12 5 years ago

    Hope the demo has multiplayer.

  • 3william56 #13 5 years ago

    If you fancy shouting at each other over which console is the same as each other, head over to the interview in gamesindustry.biz.

    Fixed.

    C'mon EG. It's not like there isn't enough platform idiocy around here without you stirring it up. Headline "SEGA Rally Dev says Both Platforms Really Good - 360 Easier, PS3 Harder but Rewarding" not going to generate as many hits? "XBL excellent based on existing experience, PSN learning fast and catching up" no good? But would make EG comments pages a nicer place to be, which is fading fast.