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First details emerge of Speed Racer mobile game

All action in this movie spin-off racer

First details emerge of Speed Racer mobile game
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Like fast cars? You'll quite possibly be dribbling over the prospect of Speed Racer.

Not only is it a high-octane film featuring an array of superfast motors, but it's been written, directed and produced by the Wachowski brothers. You might know their previous work: an obsure movie trilogy called The Matrix.

Anyway, Speed Racer the game is being published by Glu, and will give you the opportunity to pit your racing wits against a colourful cast of characters in a bid to become the ultimate racing champion behind the wheel of a Mach 6 car.

How? You'll be mastering the art of Car-Fu (isn't that a holiday destination in Greece?), while also bamboozling the competition with your drifts, slides, jump-jacks and defensive manoeuvres. The game's tracks are based on those in the film, as are the drivers.

Speed Racer will be available in both 2D and 3D versions, and as you can tell from these screenshots, it looks pretty spiffing. Glu previously made the excellent mobile version of Project Gotham Racing, so the film looks to be in good hands.

What's more, when we met Glu's Jill Braff at Mobile World Congress earlier this year, she told us to watch out for a car in the film itself with Glu's logo on it. It was apparently a happy coincidence stemming from working with the team behind the film...

Stuart Dredge
Stuart Dredge
Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)