And it looks as if another would be PS3 title is getting ready to bite the dust on the format. KOEI has announced that its futuristic racing game called Fatal Inertia will ship to North American retailers on September 11th 2007 for Xbox 360 but has unfortunately been delayed indefinitely on the PS3.


PRESS RELEASE: FATAL INERTIA™ TO USHER IN A BRAVE NEW WORLD OF COMBAT RACING THIS SEPTEMBER 2007

In KOEI’s Futuristic Combat Racing Game for Xbox 360™ the Battle for Supremacy is Won in the Untamed Wilderness

Burlingame, CA—July 2, 2007 -- KOEI, recognized worldwide as the premier brand of strategy and action games, today announced that Fatal Inertia is scheduled to ship to North American retailers on September 11, 2007 for Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

“KOEI has been at the forefront of creating the most engaging action games, so with Fatal Inertia we’re now lending our action game talents to the racing genre to deliver an experience that is as fun as it is fast,” said Senior Vice President of KOEI Corporation Amos Ip. “Armed with an eclectic variety of weapons and racing challenges, plus elegant and intuitive driver controls, Fatal Inertia is quite simply bringing high-speed fun and excitement back to the combat racing genre.”

“By designing Fatal Inertia’s gameplay around a physics engine it not only allowed us to create a truly different driving model, but it also helped us create a set of dynamic weapons with multiple tactical applications,” said Lead Game Designer Michael Bond. “We’ve based many of the game’s weapons on straightforward physical principles, and by doing so we’re giving players the freedom to come up with their own creative ways of using them- ways that even we are still discovering.”

Fatal Inertia is the debut title from KOEI’s Toronto-based development studio, KOEI Canada. The team is led by Producer Takazumi Tomoike, creator of the Dynasty Warriors® series, and KOEI Co-Founder and Chief Advisor Yoichi Erikawa, who under the pen name Kou Shibusawa is regarded as one of the world’s top video game designers.