Rumor: Sega Revisiting Jet Grind Radio Franchise

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/...sega-revi.html

If a new trademark filed by Sega is anything to go by, we may very well find ourselves tagging and blading again in a new Jet Grind Radio game.

The updated trademark is dated July 24th, 2008, and covers every sort of gaming platform imaginable -- video, computer, downloadable, mobile phone, hand-held -- so it remains unclear what sort of plans Sega could have for the franchise.

Kotaku reports that rumors circulating at last weekend's Comic-Con not only mentioned that Sega was planning on revisiting the series, but also that it could be in the form of a Wii release. Tagging with the Wiimote sure sounds like fun to me.

Unfamiliar with the series? Released in 2000, Jet Set Radio pioneered the use of cel-shading, and was one of the best-looking games to come out on the Dreamcast. A sequel, Jet Set Radio Future, was released on the Xbox in 2002.

This would have made an excellent game for psp with a direct port of the dreamcast original because it is one of those games with graphics and gameplay that just never ages and would be perfect on a handheld device and probably be one of the psp's must have games but with all the piracy on psp it might never happen

Jet Set Radio Future wasn't too bad of a game and I could see it coming to the PS3 or Xbox 360.

XBLA and PSN FTW (just like Rez)

JSFR didn't live up to my expectations when compared to the DC Jet Grind Radio. Then again everything ported from DC aint the same on other consoles.