Rare makes CBFD(O?) for Xbox

[Adair]

Computer and Video Games.com (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/r/?page=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/news/news_story.php(que)id=88099) has news of the third Rare title currently in production for Xbox:
CONKER'S BAD FUR DAY ONLINE FOR XBOX?

An accidental internal leak thought to be responsible as one of Rare's secret Xbox titles slips through the net...

14:55 What's in a name? An awful lot if you're a Rare fan with an active imagination, it would seem. As a result of what is believed to be an accidental internal leak, the name of a hitherto secret Rare title has been revealed.
"Conkers Bad Fur Day Online," the title of which is said to appear on internal documentation, is now the third known Rare title currently in full production at the studio, alongside Kameo and Perfect Dark.

Conkers Bad Fur Day is a mature-rated, foul-mouthed title which originally released for N64, featuring a squirrel as the lead, who swore and abused his way through a sprawling platform adventure, which offered humorous pastiches of Hollywood movies like Saving Private Ryan and The Matrix.

Nothing is known about the game save for its title, but speculation conjures up the possibility of a massively multiplayer online experience, involving competitive elements amongst others.

This now leaves two further secret Rare titles in full production, plus a series of further design concepts, including Sabre Wulf, which we exclusively revealed (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/r/?page=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/news/news_story.php(que)id=88099) some time ago.

One is believed to be a racing game - Rare was working on Donkey Kong Racing for GameCube before its acquisition by Microsoft - but we'll have to wait until E3 for a clearer picture, where Rare is expected to make some major announcements. Stay tuned.
I would've thought the Donkey Kong license was held by Nintendo, just like Star Fox. :confused:
Hmmm, so the other is...Banjo Kazooie racing?

[Asz]

Donkey Kong is still a nintendo owned propertie, Nintendo just asked them to do the DK games, didn't give them to Rare. But i'm gonna guess that rare will build a new racing game from what they developed of DK Racing, possibly including Conker as one of the characters in it ;)

[ChrisRay]

They will probably use the Donkey Kong racing engine. As its probably licensed by rare and not Nintendo.

Having the engine makes developing the game all that much more simple.

[caipirinha]

rare own´s the engine, what they don´t have is the permission to put nintendo characters on it.
so they just take their work that was thought to be used with donkey kongs, rewrite here and there, put some others characters and presto!!! it´s done :) .

[F-3582]

Thy'll perhaps also do a PC port...who knows?

[F-3582]

Thy'll perhaps also do a PC port...who knows?