Super 1 Karting

Interactive Entertainment are currently developing a game featuring a full go-kart simulation of the Karting Grand Prix Championship for the PC and Sony Playstation. The game will include accurately modeled 3D replicas of all of the international circuits and go-karts used throughout the Karting GP season and the player will have a choice of different class karts in which to race. In addition to the eleven circuits, there will be a bonus, full GP circuit to race. The player will have to work their way through the various classes earning a racing licence for the next kart class, with the goal being to reach the GP circuit and win using a 150 mph kart.
To improve the overall appeal of the product, there is a separate, stripped down ARCADE mode as well as the full simulation. This feature will enable the player to race a far more simplistic handling model in single events or an arcade championship without having access to any of the simulation setup options of the kart model. Upon selection of an ARCADE championship, the player will start at the lowest class and have to progress through each class in turn by performing well in the individual races until the most powerful karts are then made available.
The game options offered while in simulation mode include Practice Session, Weekend Grand Prix Event, Championship Season and Endurance Events. The Practice Session will allow the user to access any track and race with unlimited laps to gain valuable knowledge of the track. The Weekend Grand Prix Event lets a player race against up to 24 computer controlled opponents through practice, qualifying and racing sessions over all the available tracks. The Championship Season will feature all of the tracks raced in season order and upon completion of the season the number of points awarded will determine whether the player is eligible to move onto the more powerful karts.
The kart models themselves will be highly detailed representations of all the different kart designs used throughout Karting GP (twin engine 4 stroke, Karting 1 and Karting 4). The driver models themselves will have detailed texturing and will be animated with motion capture data for such movements as leaning, bumping and crashing. Karts will sustain damage, which will be represented visually, along with tyres collecting debris from off road surfaces. Also karts will smoke their tyres and engines, leave oil/petrol on the racing surface and occasionally catch fire in extreme crashes. The game will offer genuine kart sounds and realistic 3D rain effects and lens flares in order to recreate the dramatic environment of race day. Also the designers have included as many aspects of the kart's handling attributes as are integral to game-play, so as to offer the player the full on 'thrills and spills' racing experience of karting at the highest level.
Two players will be able to play in split screen mode, with up to eight players in a link-up game.
With the technical assistance of professionals and officials from the Karting GP season, this game is sure to bring the most detailed karting simulation yet into the home games market.