FAST Racing Neo

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 9 Comments

Shin’en shared a new update on FAST Racing Neo today. Along with several new screenshots, the developer shared a new launch window for its Wii U racer. FAST Racing Neo is now expected to launch at the end of 2015.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Patrick(@Patricklous) in News, Screenshots, Wii U, Wii U eShop | 6 Comments

Shin’en have shared a few more screenshots from the alpha version of their upcoming high speed racing game. There’s still no video footage yet, but here’s hoping it looks as nice in motion as it does in these screenshots.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 14 Comments

Shin’en has been working on FAST Racing Neo for quite some time. In an interview with KonsoliFIN, the studio’s Manfred Linzner revealed that Neo’s development kicked off at the end of 2012. The game began soon after Shin’en wrapped up Nano Assault Neo.

Linzner also spoke about how the team faced a “major challenge” to match or surpass other racers on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC from a visual perspective. The task was made all the more difficult since Shin’en wanted to hit 60 frames per second.

Below are Linzner’s full words:

We started with FAST Racing Neo right after we were done with Nano Assault Neo. So this was end of 2012. A major challenge was to get on par or even beyond what other racing games on PC,PS4 or XB1 offer visually. Those games are done by very large and professional teams (around 30x to 100x times bigger then us). Just the sheer amount of geometry you need to produce for that sweet ‘Nex Gen’ look is insane. Not even to mention the nearly impossible task to render that all at 60fps on the Wii U. Anyway, we liked that challenge. We feel we do our best work when being challenged. You need to find creative ways.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U eShop | 9 Comments

We’ve still yet to see a proper reveal of FAST Racing Neo. The game was announced last year, and only screenshots have trickled in since then.

Shin’en probably hasn’t had much to say since the team is very busy with development. Art director Martin Sauter told Nintendo Life that FAST Racing Neo is the studio’s “biggest project we’ve worked on for a long time.”

It still sounds like Neo won’t be released in the near future. Shin’en has “something running and the gameplay is fine”, though content still needs to be added.

Sauter said:

Definitely, it is the biggest project we’ve worked on for a long time. It’s just much more work to get that quality level of racing on consoles this generation has given us, so we have to look at; we can’t deliver at a level below that. The Wii U is a great machine, so we need to add so many things to hit that level and we’re pretty sure we can achieve that, but it takes time to build it up and put it together. We’re in a good way though, we have something running and the gameplay is fine, so we just need to add content.

The core of the game is basically done. It’s just content now, which is a lot of work. We’re small, it needs time, but I’m very optimistic that you’ll see something that Nintendo console fans can be happy with.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 7 Comments

Over the week or so, Shin’en has been sharing a few technical tidbits about FAST Racing Neo. The studio interacted with fans about the game’s frame rate and more.

Here’s the full roundup:

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 56 Comments

Manfred Linzner from Shin’en confirmed a couple of technical aspects for FAST Racing Neo over on NeoGAF. The game will run at 720p and 60 frames per second, according to Linzner. Shin’en is working its technical magic as usual!

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

With FAST Racing Neo, developer Shin’en will be looking to make a few improvements to the game’s predecessor.

First, phase switching has been “streamlined” and it’s now “more fun to use.” Shin’en also adjusted the AI so that it’s more human-like.

Shin’en Manfred Linzner told Nintendon:

First of all we analyzed what people liked and disliked in the original Wii game. For instance, most people enjoyed the unique phase switching gameplay, because it’s something you have in no other racing game.

So we build on that but tried to make it more streamlined and more fun to use. Something most people disliked was the brutal difficulty in higher leagues, because the Ai was simply too perfect. We made sure that the Ai behaves more ‘human’ this time.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Screenshots, Wii U eShop | 30 Comments

Update: Bumped to the top! Shin’en has shared a third screenshot:

Shin’en has shared a second screenshot from FAST Racing Neo. Check it out above.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Screenshots, Wii U eShop | 17 Comments

Shin’en has finally shared the first screenshot from FAST Racing Neo. Check it out below:

Despite being announced nearly a year ago, this is the first piece of media we’re seeing from the game. It looks quite nice!

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 4 Comments

Shin’en will finally be unveiling the first screenshots from FAST Racing Neo, the developer has confirmed.

The studio wrote on Twitter today:

FAST Racing Neo was originally announced last October. However, no images or details were shared at the time.

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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