Dead Island dev's new game detailed

By Martin Robinson Published 22 November, 2011

Techland's ATV racer coming to XBLA and PSN.

Techland's new game has been shown, with the Dead Island developer working on Haste, an ATV racer that's being brought to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network by Ubisoft.

Bearing more than a passing resemblance to Nail'd, Techland's similarly themed game that was published by Deep Silver earlier this year, it's an extreme racer with a fleeting relationship to reality, with extravagant and unlikely jumps and stunts being the order of the day.

Haste was first shown by Ubisoft late last month, though we seem to have been looking the other way back then. A quick hands-on at today's Ubisoft Digital Days revealed the game to have more than an aesthetic relationship to Nail'd, with the light handling and simple boost mechanics of that game seemingly intact.

Nail'd met with a muted critical response earlier this year, though with its spiritual successor coming to digital platforms and with the reduced price tag that suggests Haste may be in for an easier ride. A loose 2012 release window is all that's been offered up so far.

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Martin is Eurogamer's features editor with responsibility for commissioning, editing and often writing our feature and preview content. He's also passionate about driving games.

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  • CaptainQuint #1 2d ago

    Oh no... not another ATV racer! :/

  • lssl17 #2 2d ago

    For a second there I thought I'd missed a beat and Apple had (finally) branched out into allowing gaming apps on the Apple TV..

  • octavedoctor #3 2d ago

    There aren't enough quad-bike games

  • Instinct #4 2d ago

    Some companies seem to be competing to make their games have the worst names of all time. I can picture some suit sitting in a darkly-lit office, writing random words into Word, right-clicking them and clicking synonyms.

    Oh, yeah, a synonym for speed; Haste! I'm a genius.

    I'm looking forward to their spiritual sequels Velocity and Pace.

  • Adamical #5 2d ago

    I wonder if there'll be a sequel: Post-Haste.

  • brseg #6 2d ago

    I guess they're re-using a lot of the old code and assets, which is not a bad move if the first game sold poorly. At least its xbla/psn this time. I kinda hope they do something more fun/original with it this time -- a zombies mode..? :)

    But yeah, its really not a good name. Its a bit of a strange word in normal use, let alone for a racing game.

  • Liquidoodle #7 2d ago

    @Adamical : That made me laugh out loud :D nice one!

  • Yeoung #8 2d ago

    wooh!! ring of fire, baby!

    Ring.. Of... Fire!

    Wooh!



    I don't care much for ATV games, though