-James Dean died in ‘55. Goddamnit.

I hope this is special.

There were several mod projects over the years aiming to remake it but none ever got anywhere near completion. There were two that stood out. The first was a Battlefield mod called Battlefield 1982. It was based on i’82, but it still looked promising.

The second was a group who were remaking the game from scratch, coding their own engine and everything, but calling it Interstate Outlaws to avoid copyright issues. The site is still up. You can even download an early alpha, but the last update is Feb of this year.

Activision are releasing Vigilante 8, a sequel to the dumbed down console version, on Xbox Live (unless its out already? I don’t follow that live stuff) but they’ve said that the i76 franchise is dead.

If EVER there was a game worthy of a steam re-release, or a re-make, this is it!

Sooo I’d imagine 3rd person, sandbox style open world, lots of fighting and fat bikes.

I’m just imaging a GTA game where you spend most of your time riding around a large desert getting hideously lost, that sounds kinda bleh to me but there’s still plenty of unknowns and it certainly is a more original setting.

But what someone else said, this trailer reminds me a lot of Interstate ‘76 and that makes my old angry nostalgia try and pry its way out, but I know it’s best to wait for more.

I wonder if they’ll be accurate about the environs surrounding their pathetically requisite visit to West Coast Choppers and show the fish processing plant across the street.

At least that’s what it smelled like when I walked past on my way to work…