Shortly after the release of Grand Prix Legends the sim racing community looked forward to another title that promised to offer a similar insight into historic racing. Trans-Am Racing ’68-’72 ultimately never released, a victim of a publishers shady dealings, but as a part of my research I uncovered a VHS of a never-released trailer for the game. Watch the trailer and read about what sim racing missed out on.
Asobo, known today as the Microsoft Flight Simulator developer, created groundbreaking technology for large scale maps that was intended to be used in a high quality rally raid title. It was never released and ended up as FUEL, a post-apocalyptic open-world racing game. What happened?
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Trans-Am ’68-’72 Cancelled – Engine to be used for Dukes of Hazard Game
Tim Wheatley - Game News | Sep 25, 1999
0 CommentsAccording to Kenneth Verburg of High Gear over on RAS, this project has been cancelled. This is such a shame and we may never know the real cause of the cancellation, but rumors suggest the apparent poor sales for Grand Prix Legends made the creation of a hardcore historic simulation suddenly seem a lot less appealing to GT Interactive…
The software did look to be struggling to run at an acceptable framerate last year at E3. Perhaps we’re just not there yet.
Meanwhile the development team has apparently continued using some of the engine for the upcoming arcade title, Dukes of Hazard.
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