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Month: June 2008 (Page 2 of 2)

Initital D Extreme Stage for PS3

Hachiroku.com.au posted that a new Initial D game called Extreme Stage is coming soon.

Hachiroku.com.au posted the youtube trailer:

You can see the trailer in more detail here:
http://www.initiald-ps3.com/movie/promo01.html

I took some screenshots:
AE86 Trueno inside interior shot
Look at the detail in the hand, the gearknob and steering wheel!

AE86 Trueno dash shot
And here how much detail there is in the dash! It is just about the same as I had in my Trueno (mine was LHD, so mirrored dash) and it iluminates just a tiny bit more than on full illumination.

AE86 Trueno in drift
And here you can see how much detail there is in the drift scenes!

As you can see it is much more detailed than the previous games (they show them to compare), especially the road and inboard graphics. The question is of course if this the actual quality, or if it is only the intro of the game… I suspect it is the latter… Otherwise it would have been a great tool for the animators of the Anime series!

If I would have owned a PS3 I would definitely buy it! Unfortunately I don’t own one and I probably won’t buy one in the near future… 🙁

Great game: Traffic slam

I work for Spillgroup which is one of the biggest casual gaming companies worldwide. We also make our own games (co-operation between Holland and China) and today our new game Traffic Slam has been released:
Traffic Slam on Games.co.uk
Think of this game as the Shockwave version of Burnout Crash Mode!

In my opinion this is one of the best Shockwave games I’ve seen/played ever! I think it’s amazing how detailed all 3d models are and how many different textures there are!

Compliments to my colleagues for this great game! 🙂

Swans of the lake on Mount Haruna

I came across these two Initial D nerds on Youtube:

I think that’s the summit of Initial D fandom: going all the way to mount Haruna (without an Hachi-Roku ofcourse) and don’t knowing what to do there. What else than to take a ride on the lake with a Swan?

Of course it would have gotten much more interesting if they would have done the downhill with the swan! 😛

New Initial D scantranslations!

Hachi-roku.com.au wrote about ClubCarisma doing new scantranslations of Initial D. This is partly true: officially Wangan Midnight Expressway is doing them and one of the members who translates also distributes them on ClubCarisma.

Translations are very good: no weird language usage which you may see in some other translations. Format is also excellent in size!

Two scaled down pages:

Initial D book 35 chapter 472 page 5Initial D book 35 chapter 472 page 6

Currently they are up to chapter 476 of book 35. 36 and 37 are already available in raw, but not fully translated yet.

You can find all translated here:
Initial D Scanlated Manga on Wangan Midnight Express

And the attempt to translate book 36 can be found here:
Initial D Volume 36 Manga Translations and Scanlations on ClubCarisma.

I’m happy I can finally read on with the story! 🙂

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