GripShift to race to XBLA sometime this year

by Jason Dobson { Nov 28th 2007 at 11:27AM }

While recent Live offerings may have left us feeling jilted, like a lifelong pal or that leftover turkey sandwich it's impossible to stay mad at Microsoft's download service for long. This morning our frowns turned upside down as Sidhe Interactive sent word that it is bringing its over-the-top racer GripShift to XBLA later this year, which as we take a cursory glance at what's left of our calender looks to mean sometime in the next four weeks or so.

The game, which was originally released for the PSP in 2005, already made the leap to the PlayStation Network, and while its big screen debut was not as warmly received as it was originally, the game nonetheless marks a welcome addition to any download service, provided the price is right. While GripShift is good fun, we hope the game abandons its weighty $10 PSN price for something a bit more reasonable, say 500 Microsoft Points. Improved textures and sounds aside, this is still a two year old PSP game at heart, and holiday shopping has our wallets feeling a bit peckish.

[Via press release]

Tags: gripshift, racing, sidhe, xbla

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fernando Rocker @ Nov 28th 2007 11:36AM

Achivements!

FidliousWong @ Nov 28th 2007 12:50PM

If you only KNEW how mind numbingly difficult and complex this game got, you wouldn't be huzzahing the e-penis. I'm sure there will be a couple "bones" thrown but to truly beat this game is insanely difficult. As in ramping off an ice platform into the side of a cliff at just the right angle and drop to one of 5 stars needed. Or needing to boost along a road half the size of your car, balancing it all the way just so that you have the needed speed to make the finish line. I'd rank this game harder than Monkey Ball 2.

Irwin @ Nov 28th 2007 11:46AM

if this had more than 4 players multiplayer id be cumming right now..i really needed it, ohhh welllll

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Nov 28th 2007 11:42AM

ummm....

gross?

Irwin @ Nov 28th 2007 11:47AM

sigh..indeed
cause i need to have t3h sex with girlz
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xXFenixKnightXx @ Nov 28th 2007 11:50AM

wierd

hvnlysoldr @ Nov 28th 2007 3:55PM

WEIRD indeed.

Irwin @ Nov 28th 2007 11:46AM

oh yea.. and "this is still a two year old PSP game at heart"

what about all those other retro games

yea this game isnt realy a classic, but watching the trailer gave me creepy feelings of CTR from my ps1 days, oh man, needto have this

NATO_Duke @ Nov 28th 2007 11:47AM

I dunno - didn't care for the PSN version much.

FidliousWong @ Nov 28th 2007 12:20PM

PSN version was lacking two features.

Level editor
Local Multiplayer

The game is very nice for a budget price regardless.

Shadow Hog @ Nov 28th 2007 12:39PM

500 points? You want it for $6.25...?

Nate @ Nov 28th 2007 12:38PM

Friggin' Microsoft and their points. You have to break out a calculator to figure out how much something costs in actual money.

No local multiplayer is what killed this title for me. It was vaguely amusing as a single player title, but I want to be able to hand out controllers to my friends and play it Mario-Kart style... but no dice. If I'd known there was no local multiplayer I probably wouldn't have gotten it at all.

chispito @ Nov 28th 2007 12:47PM

Looks like the old rail racer MegaRace.

umm....hello??? @ Nov 28th 2007 2:12PM

I played the demo on my PS3...this game sucks. There's much better racing games out there, and too many other games this holiday season to waste my money on a casual game...

Konchu @ Nov 28th 2007 3:33PM

I think it was an ok game I personnally dont think the 800 point 10 buck cost is too much to ask as it is a full feature game. Perspective is really interesting if you look at some of the Popcap games people go oh those are too high yet the PC iterations of these games were around 20 bucks originally so live has made those games cheaper at 10 bucks. Alot of indendent games ship at the 20 buck mark to on the PC.

I really am interested in what they add to this game I have it on PSN and its an alright game. But unless they add something special and dont on the PSN I probably wont buy it though multiplayer even if on both migh sway me to get it if my friends really like it.

On another note man my browser is wierd well I hope its my browser, comments have a cyan(blue) background with like a dark green text.