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New Xbox 360 game announced by Rockstar: You'll never guess

by Steven Williamson on 3 March 2006, 19:26

Tags: Rockstar Games (NASDAQ:TTWO), Sports

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Who would have guessed it? The next big game in development by Rockstar games is.......................Table Tennis! Yes, you read correctly. IGN have broke the story on Rockstars strange new game, exclusive to the Xbox 360.

Now we're big fans of Top Spin so we're quite excited at the prospect of Rockstar creating this sport's title. The screenshots look great, and no doubt it will be an action packed game with a few surprises along the way.

Sam Houser from Rockstar said, " We wanted to create a sports game with the intensity of a fighting game and the sense of speed and control that would make playing it a more intense and more visceral experience than has previously been possible with sports games. It's not just about looking better, feeling better or animating better but about using the power of the hardware to make a game that engages with you on a different physical and emotional level. Table tennis was the perfect sport because it is so fast moving that it has never successfully been made into a game before -- you have to hit the ball far more frequently than in tennis -- but we felt we could make something both very fast, but in which the player had unprecedented amounts of control."

To read the full article and see the new screenshots, head over to IGN



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Table tennis?! What the hell, did the developers get hit around the head or soemthnig? My reaction btw is the same as yours at hearting this news.“action packed game with a few surprises along the way”- Somehow they will make this into the first 18+ tennis game; where you can steal other peoples balls- lol- and then beat them around the head with the table tennis bat, etc. Still quite a shock to hear a game like that coming from Rockstar
Razor has stolen your bat and has made it to the top of the Green List, to take his place, and win back you bat you need to battle with fifteen top table tennis players in the struggle to take place as champion.
Will you have to steel a car to get to the sports hall?
Was hoping it to be a new GTA game when I saw the title :(
Headline link on the .gaming page takes you to the LOTR article.