Wicked whispers from indiscreet tweeters may have revealed that the Sega classic, Afterburner is coming back.
Cliff Bleszinski, design director at Epic games tweeted “I demand an Afterburner reboot NOW. #barrelroll” and Hayden Walling, ex Ubisoft employee and now game lead at Nike, replied, “@therealcliffyb it’s in the works’.
Cliff then asked Hayden if had broken an NDA to which he replied, “@therealcliffyb nope, circle of trust maybe.”
Source: Twitter
Sympozium
Afterburner is amazing… they so need to do a new one even if it’ll just be the same as the last games.
Taylor Made
Pardon my ignorance but wtf is afterburner, should I be excited, what it’s about?
Sympozium
…its about explosions and afterburnin.
Alex C
http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2010/04/21/review-afterburner-climax/
cam the man
It’s a flight sim without the sim, an old style arcade shooter in fighter jets.
It was first released in the mid eighties in amusement arcades.
Taylor Made
Oh right I was only a baby in 88 lol…
Not into flight games, in struggling on starhawk as it is
cc_star
Afterburner is barely a ‘flight’ game, yes, you’re a plane but the gamplay is so tunneled you may as well be a skateboard.
You move up & down the screen & obviouslly side to side too, there’s over-travel in each direction where the screen scrolls a bit each way, but not that much.
It’s more about shooting everything that comes towards you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaiysAPBGZ0&t=30s
The Lone Steven
Does it really need a reboot though? As i thought Sega had put the franchise to rest judging by the lack of any new games for the past 5-10 years. Wonder if it will feature a bald space marine and a lot of QTEs? :p
I think Afterburner will be best suited to a PSN/XBLA/Virtual Store/Steam release due to it’s arcadey nature of it. Or am i thinking of another game? Unless they make the possible reboot massive and have a lot of replayabilty.
rSp8
“…game lead at Nike…”, as in Nike the sportswear brand? Why do they need a gaming division?
Tuffcub
They got loads of fitness apps
Ouninpohja
Sod Afterburner ( as excellent as it was back then), let’s have a Space Harrier reboot – then we’re talking :D
R1MJAW
Couldn’t agree more, I much preferred Space Harrier to Afterburner.
Sad Panda
Or maybe we could have both.
I have the arcade ports of Space Harrier and Hang On on the Wii VC, I’d kill for Afterburner and Outrun to complete the set.
funkyellowmonkey(ps3 id)
Yeah, port a HD version of Planet Harriers and SCUD Race, as well as an arcade perfect version of Virtua Fighter 3 Team Battle pls SEGA! :D