GameDaily have posted their impressions of Tourist Trophy. A few points from the article:
On changing bike settings:
“There are plenty of bikes in this game, but it appears that it’s not option intense. You can’t just go all out and customize your bike, though you do have modest control over tires, transmission, and riding form, which […]
Today marks the opening of MotoReview, my new site which has all the latest news from MotoGP, World Superbikes and British Superbikes. As well as the site itself you can chat with other bike racing fans in the MotoGP forums, and guess what? There’s also a dedicated Tourist Trophy forum which can also be accessed […]
In addition to IGN’s extensive preview, Gamespy have also had their hands on Tourist Trophy and have posted their TT preview. There’s not a great deal of new info available but they do clarify the in-game controls:
The left analog steers, the right analog controls throttle and braking, and L2 plus the left analog allows for […]
The official Japanese Playstation shop now has a listing for Tourist Trophy which includes the TT boxart:
Thanks to Alpha from GT Planet for spotting this.
IGN have once again come up with the goods, this time in the form of a new three page hands-on preview. Here are some of the most interesting bits of the article:
Whereas most every racing game gives you direct control over your vehicle, Tourist Trophy is a little bit different in that it simulates the […]
Perhaps unsurprisingly Polyphony announced today that Tourist Trophy’s Japanese release has been pushed back to February 2006.
Whether this effect’s the fairly vague ‘Spring 2006’ US release date is not not know for sure but, as C&VG suggest, it would seem likely.
Tourist Trophy has not yet been confirmed for European release.
A high-res version of the Tourist Trophy movie first seen on the US TT site has just been added to the Japanese Tourist Trophy site as well as 21 new screenshots.
If you don’t fancy going aaaalll the way over to the Japanese site then you can find all of new screenshots in our Tourist […]
The news a lot of people have been waiting for has finally been confirmed today: Tourist Trophy will be released in America. I’m not aware of any news on the European release yet but it is now surely almost certain. A new official US Tourist Trophy website has also been launched, with a flash movie […]
The official Tourist Trophy site has been updated again, this time with the play modes. There’s quite a lot of new information on the site and it’s still mainly in Japanese so exactly what’s there might remain a mystery a little longer.
A few observations from this update:
One of the captions for a screenshot is ‘RACE […]
Animalica from the GT Planet forums has spotted a couple of websites which are accepting pre-orders for the Japanese version of Tourist Trophy. Play Asia has Tourist Trophy down as a 26th of January release date and Lik Sang has an even more optimistic date of December 2005. These are almost certainly guesses on the […]