Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed producer - Mario Kart 7 is 'falling with style'

“We were sitting in a meeting room at work watching the E3 conferences and Nintendo came on and we all wondered if they’d be doing a new Mario Kart. Then they had a montage of things and you had a kart sprout wings, and we all looked around the room, and then you saw a car go into water and we were all like ‘no f#%$ing way!’ But then they went into each one in dept, and although it’s kind of flying, it’s more falling with style because we’d discussed something similar to that in pre-production as we were trying to work out how to get these three modes in and we called it falling with style as you’re always falling but you have some choice. Whereas the driving under water… that’s not boating. So what they have is a kart game with additive options which are really well built on and add to the experience but we’ve gone away with that in what we were doing.” - Sumo producer Jem Lee
Mr. Lee also went on to state that SEGA and Sumo aren't copying Mario Kart 7, as they've been working on their title for quite some time.

“There will be a few people who think we’re copying them but no, we’ve been making this game for 18 months”, asserts Lee. “But that’s the nature of it and we feel confident from watching people play it and hearing opinions that people are really enjoying it, especially the freedom of flying and that the boating is actually quite challenging to do. It’s a different game.”

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