How did I miss this?

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.midway.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/App...ZZZ3H7ADYD

Midway announced a fourth Rush game, LA Rush, in late August... wow... only for PS2 and X-Box so far, but given that the other three Rush games came out on N64 and that after a long delay Midway eventually did announce MK Deception for the Cube, we probably stand a decent chance of initially getting this game...

All I can say is, I really hope it lives up to the past titles. Rush 1 was a fantastic game, Rush 2 was a quite good racing title, and Rush 2049 is one of my favorite games ever... maybe my favorite racing/vehicular game ever (with its main competition being F-Zero X and F-Zero GX), I'm not sure... so it has a very high standard to live up to. But if it can... well, I'll be looking forward to hearing more about this game regardless. Another aspect of Midway's obvious effort in recent times to improve back to the level they were once at, I guess.

It could of course also end up mediocre and forgotten, and there's definitely a solid chance of that (after all, this isn't the Rush team that is making the game!), but for now I'll choose to remain hopeful...

[OB1]

Yeah I heard about this back in august.

LA is crap for a Rush game though. San Francisco was perfect! LA is too flat...

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, that could be a problem... they have to invent hills (and keep the .01-gravity-car system!) or something, because Rush is all about jumps.

That said, for a Rush 2 track (and I find them invariably far too long and boring), LA was a decent track in Rush 2...

[A Black Falcon]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/641/641456p1.html

As I've thought for some time, yeah, it's just not Rush. It is Midway trying to get back into racing games, but this isn't Rush, it's NFS Underground / Midnight Club / SRS / Whatever... with a touch of Rush. Not the same. Which is really too bad, given how great Rush is and how unintrested I am in games of this kind... makes me care a LOT less that it's not coming out on GC. :)