Preview: Scrap Metal

Posted by Derek Yu Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:33:00 GMT


Slick Entertainment, which put metanet’s N+ onto XBLA, has announced their first title, Scrap Metal. What little information there is about the game so far is in this video. Cars. Guns. Explosions! I love Rock n’ Roll Racing, so I’m already excited about this. But as I already suggested to Slick’s Nick Waanders, “I want to see more colorful colors!”

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  1. Eclipse said 32 minutes later:

    well nothing too original (looks a lot like death race and ignition for the pc) but at least looks well made

  2. Fishy Boy said 35 minutes later:

    Looks very good, but I agree with Derek, it needs less grayness.

  3. TeeGee said about 1 hour later:

    It looks a lot like Death Rally, and man, I loved Death Rally. Nothing too original, but I haven’t played such game in a while and this one looks good so far.

  4. aspirina said about 1 hour later:

    The real world is brown, don’t forget it, kids.

  5. sinoth said about 2 hours later:

    Hmmm… excellent graphics, great polish, no conspicuously large pixels, no chiptunes, no eccentric theme worthy of a meme, and no textures made in MS Paint?

    What are we now THE HALO GAMING SOURCE? THGS. Thuuugs.

  6. WarpedEye said about 2 hours later:

    Death Rally, Ignition and Rock n’ Roll Racing? Call me intrigued.

  7. Bezzy said about 2 hours later:

    Looking good! I’m a big fan of MicroMachines from back in the day. I enjoyed it so much I actually burnt out two carts!

    Handling looks like it’s way more interesting than most top down racers, and also, lots of other stuff to play with ontop of that.

  8. merc said about 2 hours later:

    looks pretty much identical to ignition. with added guns. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j32QWzs0JrA listen to the police car siren, btw. familiar, ain’t it?

    @aspirina: it’s brown only in eastern europe ;)

  9. Naufr4g0 said about 2 hours later:

    It looks alike all my favourite car games. For me it’s awesome! I can’t wait for it. =)

  10. Guesst said about 3 hours later:

    @merc - It’s a police siren. You don’t expect a lot of variety in the sound.

    I agree. More colors, less brown and gray.

  11. Sninnyer said about 3 hours later:

    Looks orsum.

  12. JOOLA said about 4 hours later:

    HAHAHAHA!

  13. Eclipse said about 4 hours later:

    yep sorry was Death Rally… awesome game.

    Anyway it doesn’t need more colors, only an LSD bonus object

  14. not only xbla pls said about 5 hours later:

    is this a xbla title?! if so… ohh nooo!!

  15. kees said about 5 hours later:

    Hey!

    I’m the artist who is working on the graphics for Scrap Metal and I appreciate the ‘colors’ comment.

    I agree the colors can be a bit more vibrant. So I’ll work on that.

    The youtube compression also removed a lot of contrast from the video, so that doesn’t help either, but your comments still stand.

    As for being compared to Death Rally, Iron-man, Rock & Roll racing. That is exactly what we set out to do with this game. To make a current generation version inspired by those games. If you play any of those games today, you’ll probably agree they don’t hold up so well anymore because games have evolved a lot from the 1990 graphics, physics but also gameplay meganic.

    So hopefully once the game is done Scrap Metal will feel like the spiritual successor of some of those games (yea that is a lot to shoot for, hopefully we will deliver!)

    Thanks and your comments are very helpful.

    -Kees Slick Entertainment

  16. SomeOldDoor said about 5 hours later:

    It looks like Death Rally, but good.

  17. Dave said about 6 hours later:

    That looks rad. I used to love Iron man and now there are guns and explosions.

    Sign me up.

  18. Melly said about 6 hours later:

    If there’s one thing I learned from Gears of War is that the only colors in the world are grey, dark blood and muzzle flash.

  19. Melly said about 6 hours later:

    Looking good though. I remember Ignition being one of those games I really loved playing back in the day. :D

  20. Hideous said about 6 hours later:

    TIGsource DOES make a difference! Go Scrap Metal!

  21. JW said about 7 hours later:

    DEATH RALLY <3

    and mashed is also pretty good

  22. jdeuel said about 7 hours later:

    reminds me very much of the racing levels in Blast Corps, in a good way!

  23. GrogLvr said about 8 hours later:

    reminds me of Super Off Road w/the physics here. i spent too much on that game :p

  24. Krux said about 8 hours later:

    what i thought: GTA 2 Twisted Metat Rock n Roll racing

  25. TeeGee said about 11 hours later:

    Kees, that’s exactly what I wanted to hear from one of the developers :).

    Go guys! Make it a really fun game!

  26. GirlFlash said about 11 hours later:

    …could we at least have a couple of dinosaurs?

    a robot with amnesia?

    a highly flamable rope?

    you’re breaking my heart here D:

  27. jani said about 11 hours later:

    Indeed, looks alot like Ignition meets Death Rally.

  28. nullerator said about 11 hours later:

    Reminds me of Skidmarks, only with weapons. I loved that game (and Supercars, Indy Heat, ATV, Death Rally, Ignition….) so this definitely looks like something I would enjoy. I hope there’s a PC-version. :)

  29. toastie said about 11 hours later:

    Good stuff. Death Rally is one of my most favorite games ever.

  30. Greg-Anims said about 11 hours later:

    Looks like Mashed, almost the best 4player game on PS2.

    Derek said it, needs better colours though. +more originality in track design.

  31. KennEH! said about 13 hours later:

    Yes! I love top down racing.

  32. mr.zippycrow said about 15 hours later:

    Ignition with guns! This looks sweet. I wonder if they will make a PC version.

  33. eva said about 15 hours later:

    REALLY don’t think it needs more colorfulness just for the sake of… color variation. It fits the game fine. maybe make it little brighter cause its kind of hard to see. but you say the video messed up the contrast anyway so

  34. PoV said about 15 hours later:

    ZOMG! Modern Death Rally! YUS!

  35. kees said about 16 hours later:

    Yea the game is a lot more colorful/bright and running in HD. So we are not to worry this will be an issue, but it is good to hear the feedback on it anyway.

    Adding a bit more color is something I wanted to do anyway, but it won’t be mario kart type of colors :P (Nothing wrong with that, but this is a different game)

    We also happen to mostly show one of the mud-tracks in this video, which happens to have a lot of brown …well…mud :)

    Next time I will also try a few different options with Youtube to see if we can keep the colors and contrast more true to the actual game.

    We also have higher quality videos, but I think our bandwidth would die pretty quick if we tried to host it on our website.

    We will have better videos closer to release though!

    Thanks again for the mostly positive feedback so far, that is a big motivator to keep pushing this game towards awesomeness :)

    -Kees Slick Entertainment

  36. Farbs said about 17 hours later:

    My Supercars III dreams have come true. I’m so happy :D

  37. deadeye said about 20 hours later:

    I dunno, I really like the aesthetic of desaturated colors. They’re more “sophisticated” in a way.

    But yeah, I guess for an action game with cartoony violence and explosions more color would be the way to go. I suppose you should let the palette serve the gameplay.

  38. Skattrek said about 22 hours later:

    I agree with “sinoth”. Halo is the only game that has been released after 1994

  39. splotki said 1 day later:

    this looks really fun.

  40. Bo said 1 day later:

    yaay death track:)

  41. eobet said 2 days later:

    Death Track, Iron Man, Rock & Roll Racing and Ignition where all in the same genre and great.

    But imo, Supercars II was in a league of its own, and I hope it will also get an update some day.

    Until then, I guard my rare boxed copy of the DOS version of Supercars International with my life (hit it up on Mobygames if you want to see my entry for it).

  42. ChrisL said 2 days later:

    “I dunno, I really like the aesthetic of desaturated colors. They’re more “sophisticated” in a way.”

    Oh HO, old chap. I seem to have, as the youth say, powned you! In fact, I have so thoroughly trounced you in this match that I have no choice but to call into question your sexual orientation. Observe how I dangle my testicles over your corpse. Jolly good!

  43. null said 2 days later:

    Of the games in this genre, RC Pro Am was always a favorite of mine. Nobody seems to talk about that game much though.

  44. null said 2 days later:

    In fact, if I’m not mistaken, wasn’t RC Pro Am the first game of its type? People always seem to talk more about the games that were inspired by it though. I’m probably the only person who has played the game.

  45. eva said 3 days later:

    my sexual orientation is super

  46. Baltirow said 3 days later:

    Reminds me of Mexican Motor Mafia and the famous, plurally-before mentioned Death Rally. So right up my alley :)

    So are we talking previously Dutch Canadians here? Interesting :)

  47. Guy said 4 days later:

    Am I the only one this game reminds him of the good old off-road game?

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