Initial D: Arcade Stage 4 drifts onto the PlayStation 3

By Spencer . March 3, 2008 . 1:05pm

This summer Sega has Initial D: Extreme Stage as one of their Japanese PlayStation 3 titles, which is essentially a port of Initial D: Arcade Stage 4. Previous home versions of Initial D: Arcade Stage included in online racing and Initial D: Extreme Stage is no exception. Players will be able to race rivals over the PlayStation Network. The first screenshots over at Famitsu look pretty nice, but besides a few pictures of a night battle there isn’t much else known about extra features, if any, over the arcade version.

TAGS: Initial D, Playstation 3, Sega

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Ryu Kazama

YES!!! This is brilliant news! I've been waiting for this! Ahh, this is so awesome! Now, to make it truely awesome it'd be nice if they re-add tracks removed from Version 4 that were in Version 3 (Akina Snow and Tsuchisaka!!!).

This is great! Playing it on the arcades for Â£1 ($2....) a go can get really painful to my wallet.

thaKingRocka

hot damn! i was hoping for a 360 release, but expecting a ps3 one. either way, i'm sold. thank the lord for region-free gaming. it's about damn time sega announced this. i can't wait. i may just play through stage 3 and the psp version some to get psyched again. damn, this is good news. as the bearer of such good news, spence, you get to move up 3 notches in my proverbial book. when you add these 3 to the starcraft english study post points, you're pretty high up there. seriously, that book is the most fascinating thing to me. sorry, i'm an esl teacher ... and i currently work with a majority of koreans.

fokkusuhaundo

hmmm from the screenshots i cant say the visuals look too impressive. i would've expected some stylistic cel-shaded graphics to set it apart from other racing games. i remember a ps2 racer with cel-shaded graphics called auto modellista. it had amazing visuals but horrible gameplay (what kind of racing game does not make use of the ps2's pressure sensitive buttons!?). ahhh being a fan of the anime i'll still be sure to import a copy thanks to region-free ps3, i just hope it supports my logitech driving force pro wheel =]

Ryu Kazama

Graphically it's not bad....on the arcade anyway. The gameplay is good though. Takes some getting used since it's quite a fair bit different to Version 3 and removes some of the techniques used in that.