New Fatal Inertia high res PS3 shots! Zzz...

12:45 PM on 12.08.2006   |   Niero

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Ok, so the hypemeter on Fatal Intertia is a little weak, a rather unknown PS3 futuristic racer set in the 23rd century in an alternate reality where we Korea didn't blow up the world in 2010.  Nevertheless, we have new shots to show. Pictured below are a plethora of frickin' huge detailed environments, interesting particle effects, a variety of unfriendly terrains, a level right out of Halo, and aircraft not cooler than F-Zero's (How about some personality to those ships, designer dudes?) and what the Michelin half-tire hoop will look like in the future.

Generic ship design is a major gripe I have with these games -- they lack connection with the player.  Total Eclipse's failings which crapped the genre, and nobody remembers what the damn Wipeout ship looks like but most of us can draw a rough Captain Falcon or the Vic from Konami. Brand your damn spaceships, people! As the protagonist, I want to feel like the racing vessel is unique and important -- and showing a big breasted female pilot for a split second before the game starts doesn't work either. It is, however, appreciated. All games should.

Futuristic arcade racing regurgetations aside (say that five times fast) it's a little short of a gorgeous next-gen title, clearly.  To it's credit, Fatal Inertia is one of the few games that might actually be really fun on the Sixaxis controller.  The studio promised that physics will be a huge part of the gameplay, so if they've pulled back on the polygons to give us a rock solid 60fps and the wipeouts are wicked, it might be worth the money. It needs to be echoed though: too bad we don't have force feedback, dammit!