GTi Club+: Konami Interview

Konami reveals all on its Sumo Digital-developed, PS3-exclusive arcade racing conversion.

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Kikizo: Have they added in any additional modes or functionality, like they did with the OutRun games?

Macdonald: We've included support for trophies, so along your XMB you'll get trophies and there's various achievements which you need to accomplish in the game. Once you've unlocked all those trophies we'll reward you with a nice 3D trophy for Home - we'll support Home at launch.

We're always looking to put more replay value and hooks into it. So car liveries - there are different themed cars you'll unlock as you play through the game, and that's what keeps things fresh. In the original arcade version there was this cheat - and you had to do some combination with the controller - which let you race as a dog. So there's just little weird wacky stuff like that which you won't find straight away.

Everything we're using for PSN makes use of the PlayStation Eye, so at the start of the game you'll be asked to take various photographs of your face - a happy one, a smiling one, an angry one, a frustrated one - and as you race along, crashing into other players' cars and overtaking, their little portrait in the top corner will show their expression. And you can also use it when you're voice-chatting to friends.

All the leaderboards are online as well so your time gets posted online. And you can share your car liveries with other people - there are custom car paint schemes we're talking about, like a Konami-themed car. We can do pretty much whatever we want. Although it's really good fun to play against other players online and stuff you can just use it as a [single player] game if you like, posting your fastest laps and stuff.

Kikizo: There's plenty going on in those environments...

Macdonald: Yeah. There's traffic, the world is populated, there are objects you can whack over, boxes... There are characters that run for their lives though you can't hit them.

Kikizo: Much as you'd try...

Macdonald: Yeah! [laughs]

Kikizo: Have there been any major display adjustments, or have you stuck to the old HUD?

Macdonald: We've got a classic HUD, but we've also got an updated HUD which uses a little Tom-Tom GPS device on the bottom. It's got a rear view mirror at the top, the idea being that you're able to flash your lights in this, and what people do is they flash their lights to blind the mirror so you can't check behind. If you took the classic HUD, you'll get all the old original music, all the original sound effects and stuff. If you pick the new one you get an all-new remix, new sound effects and stuff.

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