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Choo-choo! FFRacer Is A Train-Racing Moviegame

By Jim Rossignol on May 4th, 2012 at 12:30 pm.

You always did want to be a train driver.
So here’s a hybrid oddity: FFRacer, a game made from documentary footage of the train ride between Bergen and Oslo. The game plays the footage back at a speed depending on how you control the train, and the effect is quite dramatic. But it is just “go forward”? Apparently not: “The game includes 17 tracks that correspond to the 17 train stops between Bergen and Oslo. The player must complete each track before the time runs out by avoiding crashes and going at full speed. There is no maximum speed — the train accelerates as long as the player makes turns correctly.” There’s a 3-track demo on the site.

Video below.

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  1. 04/05/2012 at 12:43 roryok says:

    is this a train driver recruitment effort?

    • 04/05/2012 at 15:37 Kajo says:

      No, it’s a satire about modern day shooters

      • 05/05/2012 at 06:03 rokmek says:

        This game has potential to sell well in the market, adding a couple of terrorists popping out from time to time on the screen, some guns to fire at them and a story like “your mission is to protect the high-tech weapon transported by the train from those terrorists”.

  2. 04/05/2012 at 12:43 yhancik says:

    The graphics have been clearly dumbed-down for consoles, how is my bendezium-coated triple-SLIed ultra-cored GPU supposed to deal with such insulting shaders?

  4. 04/05/2012 at 12:51 Squire says:

    This to me is on the same level of pointlessness as computer game fan-films.

    Especially the ones where people pretend they are playing COD:MW, in their own clothes with airsoft pistols with the orange caps on them, in an alley at the back of their house and it wouldn’t be complete without a roto-scoped instanteous respawning effect. I just wish people would leave games and film separate.

    In all seriousness, how good/shit do you guys/gurls think the Uncharted film will be? I reckon it will watch like National Treasure with a pinch of Indy Jones’ slapstick. By this I mean its pointless. The actors won’t sound or look like any of the game characters so where is the connection to the game since action scenes and things blowing up are pretty common in films already.

    p.s. – Man I am angry this morn/afternoon, I just want some sativex…

  5. 04/05/2012 at 12:51 lijenstina says:

    The engine sound is great. Sounds like a 1300 cm3 4 cylinder at 3500 rpm.

    Is this the Desert Bus of the 21. century ?

  6. 04/05/2012 at 12:55 Spacewalk says:

    “Video below.”

    And in the game.

  7. 04/05/2012 at 12:58 gschmidl says:

    Oh boy, if only they could make one for Brighton’s Volk’s Electric Railway. The terrifying speed at which that thing moves is truly something else.

  8. 04/05/2012 at 12:58 Zeewolf says:

    Heh, I expect the sequel will be about driving a boat. For a very long time.

  9. 04/05/2012 at 13:07 Freud says:

    So how will the ‘crashes” look?

  10. 04/05/2012 at 13:12 Turbobutts says:

    I’m sure this is a railly great way to train your reflexes.

    • 04/05/2012 at 13:49 Vjaas says:

      Hope there’s a way to keep track of you best times.
      Also wondering on what other platforms it will be arriving.
      Maybe on the Play-station?

  11. 04/05/2012 at 13:13 Darth_Pingu says:

    An actual 1D game…

  12. 04/05/2012 at 13:13 Nemon says:

    Now I’m just waiting for the sequel, “Hurtigruten – minute by minute”. Which also starts out in the most beautiful of cities…

  13. 04/05/2012 at 13:47 Inverselaw says:

    I am so excited by this I dont know how to conduct myself.

  14. 04/05/2012 at 14:00 faelnor says:

    So like megarace but with less game, then.

    • 04/05/2012 at 17:34 Joshua Northey says:

      Megarace! Haha I remember I got that for free bundled with something else in 1994 or something. Boy was it uninspiring.

  15. 04/05/2012 at 14:10 fish99 says:

    I prefer sandbox games. This is clearly on rails.

  16. 04/05/2012 at 14:12 trjp says:

    The idea of using video in this way isn’t new – the Japanese have had arcade and PC games doing this with local railways/subways for years now.

    They feed on the sheer precision of controlling speed/time, obeying limits and all that jazz (which is all most train driiving sims are – at the end of the day).

    All train games are also 1D really – you can only follow the tracks, after all.

  17. 04/05/2012 at 14:26 Kefren says:

    Great! I’d love one for the Cambrian Coast (Wales).

  18. 04/05/2012 at 15:44 TheBigBookOfTerror says:

    There should be an on rails shooter that combines a train sim (worrying about slowing down for sharp bends etc) with er… shooting. A steam punk western type setting maybe.

  19. 04/05/2012 at 18:27 tehfish says:

    If anyone fancies the original footage at realtime speeds with added electronic music, here you go :)

  21. 04/05/2012 at 22:18 djbriandamage says:

    Choochoos and psytrance! What a sweet little game!

  22. 04/05/2012 at 22:45 Skyfall says:

    Can someone please confirm that they have played FFRacer and that it is a real game?

    I tried downloading the demo, and when the download was complete my web browser told me that it suspected the file I had just downloaded was Malware.

  23. 04/05/2012 at 22:50 Walter Heisenberg says:

    Watch out Sonic CD the Sega CD has a new “Killer App”

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