Konami announced Driift, a stylized top down racer for WiiWare with hints of the classic Super Off Road. Keep reading for the first info and pics.

Konami showed off Driift (working title) for WiiWare, a top down racer with cartoon-style graphics and chock full of features. Allowing 8 players to play simultaneously in offline mutliplayer by using the Wii Remote together with nunchucks and classic controllers (no Gamecube controller support) choosing from 34 different cars divided in 4 categories and 12 different tracks with City, Snow, Hills and Oasis Themes.

Top-down madness in the snow!

Driift features 7 different modes, one being a single player Championship and the other 6 offering different multiplayer experiences like Multiplayer Championship offering free customization, Team Race with 2 teams race for points and VIP where each team has one car that must be protected.

In Contamination, a player is contagious and contaminate everyone else within a time limit, while Cold Potatoes, like the name implies is the opposite of hot potato, since the player has to hold on to the potatoes as long as possible and finally Meteorite, a normal race with the tiny difference that meteorites are raining down.

This is how dinosaurs went extinct.

Martin Schneider, European Marketing and PR Director for Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH commented about Driift:

"We established our European development studio to create games for mobile phone devices. After a successful start and positive, high-value products, they are now moving to other formats, too.
This WiiWare title offers a new approach in a more traditional console business and we are looking forward to this download title and further contributions from our European development studio."

Click to enlarge and see the 6 new screens!

Driift was announced for Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand and is set for release in July, although Konami didn't specify if that's when all regions will see the game available in the Shop Channel. Don't forget to click the screens to see the entire gallery!