Top Gear Coming To Consoles?

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Salt shaker at the ready, file this strictly under rumour and gossip but there has been mention of the BBC show ‘Top Gear’ on consoles.

An interview at MCV with BBC Worldwide’s vice president for digital entertainment, Robert Nashak, states that the BBC hired him because ‘BBC Worldwide needed a games specialist, one that not only knows consoles, but PC, online, casual, mobile.’

The interview continues with the following text;

“Nashak was the ideal candidate for the BBC. As well as EA, he held roles at Glu, Acclaim, Disney, Yahoo and Vivendi. But before he could begin taking Top Gear to consoles he had to build a team to build out the BBC Worldwide games offer.”

And then a little later,

“…developing games for the likes of Top Gear…”

So we put two and two together – the BBC are definitely working on a Top Gear game and if that little slip of keyboard is correct, it’s coming to consoles. Now before you get all excited it could just be the writer of the article casually throwing the word console about, however MCV do have a habit of ‘accidently’ dropping bombshells in the middle of routine news items.

Or course ‘consoles’ could include Wii and DS rather than the Xbox and PS3 but it seems sensible to have all that manly motoring stuff (rawr!) on the more ‘butch’ consoles.

I’d bet my left leg that it would end up terrible and cheesy. They would just rely on the masses who watch and love the brilliant TV show to buy the game, and send out an average racer. If it does come out, I’d want it to be good though, as I like TopGear, but I can’t see it being as good as F1 2010 or GT5, so I’d probably not buy it.

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Or course ‘consoles’ could include Wii and DS rather than the Xbox and PS3 but it seems sensible to have all that manly motoring stuff (rawr!) on the more ‘butch’ consoles

Who writes this crap?

Joking aside it wouldn't hurt them to make the game multi-format and the thought of a Top Gear game sounds like a budget bargin bin game any way.

thing is it would sell as Top Gear is huge and the die hard top gear fans would by it wonder carvans would be inculded

I agree Bosch and they should include Caravan Demolition Derby and Car football too, but with games like Gran Turismo out there I can't see this being a big hit.

Pretty much all games that have a tv/movie tie in are utter shite!

^^What Gunman said and also to back up his point check out BBC's other video game tie in: