Gamefly was right again! Earlier this week, we spied a page on the online rental service for a Wacky Races game on the Wii and DS. Sure enough, Eidos confirmed Wacky Races: Crash & Dash this morning, and dished out the first information and media in the process.
Neither the trailer or the screens feature anything in the way of traditional behind-the-car gameplay, but we do know that there's 24 tracks, and multiplayer for four racers. During races, players collect "Wacky Widgets" to gain "Wacky Powers," which we presume allow you to do stuff like thrash your opponents with giant mallets (or something similarly zany).
All the official characters will feature, which means Peter Perfect in his Turbo Terrific, the Ant Hill Mob in their Bullet Proof Bomb, Penelope Pitstop, and, of course, Dick Dastardly and his sniggering hound, Muttley. Eidos is planning a June release for the title, though surely this needed to appear two months before Mario Kart Wii, rather than two months after, to stand a chance? Mind you, for what it's worth, this blogger does have reasonably fond memories of playing the Dreamcast game. It'd be great if this could become a viable alternative to Nintendo's own racer!
[Via press release]
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3-12-2008 @ 3:15PM
Reaver said...
this game is wacky
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3-12-2008 @ 4:12PM
John B. said...
A licensed game featuring racing from an isometric perspective? Sign me up!
(kill me)
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3-12-2008 @ 4:16PM
bigrome said...
this game may be pretty kool
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3-12-2008 @ 4:37PM
Lijik said...
Trailer needed more Dastardly and Muttley. As it stands, right now it has NOTHING on M&Ms Racing.
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3-12-2008 @ 6:26PM
Deozaan said...
That was so slow...
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3-12-2008 @ 6:38PM
T-Bone said...
To be honest I think that that game looks quite fun >_>;;
I'm not gonna buy it.. but it looks fun..
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3-12-2008 @ 6:41PM
danny. said...
I'm relieved to see that it's not a port of the Dreamcast game. I like the cartoon. We used to have a drinking game for it.
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3-12-2008 @ 9:30PM
Synergistic said...
When I first saw this I thought of Wacky Wheels that I used to play back in DOS.
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3-13-2008 @ 3:24AM
BDR said...
This game will be crushed under the juggernaut weight of Mario Kart, and odds are this will be the last post concerning it. IMO if they wanted it to succeed it should have already been out.
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