Banjo Kazooie 3 coming late 2008

by Ross Miller { Feb 11th 2008 at 3:25PM }

In addition to chatting about Alan Wake and the Marvel MMO cancellation, Microsoft Games Studio head Shane Kim revealed to MTV's Stephen Totilo at last week's DICE summit that Rare's Banjo Kazooie 3 is slated for a 2008 release. Said Kim, "I'm super-excited about what they're doing with Banjo' I think Banjo is going to be a big hit for us this holiday."

Kim also noted that Rare may go back to developing M-rated games as well as continue along the family-friendly route we've seen for the past few years. Last we heard, Rare was working on a vision cam-supported collection of party games dubbed The Fast and the Furriest for Xbox Live Arcade. With little to no information on Banjo 3, we're hoping next week's GDC will have more revelations.

Tags: banjo-kazooie, banjo-kazooie-3, BreakingNews, dice, Rare, shane-kim

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Huey2k2 @ Feb 11th 2008 3:28PM

Please Rare, PLEASE don't screw this game up.

I loved Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie back in the day. If you screw this up I will be forever sad and it give me further proof that Rare is not the developer it once was.

maverick_saturn_626 @ Feb 11th 2008 3:31PM

Don't worry, we can always go back to Viva Pinata

Lone Starr @ Feb 11th 2008 3:51PM

@ maverick

Say what you will, Viva Pinata was a great game though.

rv @ Feb 11th 2008 4:08PM

Viva pinata was fun, really different, but I was embarrassed to have it on my recently played list. I lost 50 man points every time I turned that game on :(

maverick_saturn_626 @ Feb 11th 2008 4:21PM

Lol, was too cutesie for me :P

tcc3 @ Feb 11th 2008 4:24PM

And you lost a 100 man points every time you worried what other people thought about you playing VP.

Its a great game, no need for shame.

C'mon its not like its Barbie Horse Adventures. =)

Mr.ESC @ Feb 11th 2008 5:19PM

Viva piñata was awesome,I'm playing that a game.

Also who said Viva piñata isn't manly? You beat the candy out of living animals with a shovel just to eat their insides (candy).

Mr.ESC @ Feb 11th 2008 5:21PM

Let me correct that.

Viva piñata was awesome,I'm playing Viva piñata again after I get every achievement of the orange box.

Also who said Viva piñata isn't manly? You beat the candy out of cute animals with a shovel just to eat their insides.

That's better.

Co @ Feb 11th 2008 8:09PM

"Please Rare, PLEASE don't screw this game up.

I loved Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie back in the day. If you screw this up I will be forever sad and it give me further proof that Rare is not the developer it once was."

Oh dont worry, Rare already screwed it up by putting this game out on the 360. There's going to be just as much a fan base for this on the system as there was for Viva Pinata. Sucks to be under contract....
Is it just me or did Star Fox: Adventures look every bit as graphically impressive as Conker: Live and Reloaded? Something about that Nintendo hardware Rare couldn't get enuff of!

Huey2k2 @ Feb 11th 2008 8:16PM

"Oh dont worry, Rare already screwed it up by putting this game out on the 360. There's going to be just as much a fan base for this on the system as there was for Viva Pinata. Sucks to be under contract....
Is it just me or did Star Fox: Adventures look every bit as graphically impressive as Conker: Live and Reloaded? Something about that Nintendo hardware Rare couldn't get enuff of!"

So the game is going to be terrible because there may or may not be a huge fanbase looking to buy it? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Look at Psychonauts, it was a fantastic game... that nobody bought.

Get over yourself.

Gun Barrier @ Feb 11th 2008 10:28PM

he meant that even if banjo is good, there wont be any sales on the 360.

maverick_saturn_626 @ Feb 11th 2008 3:28PM

By the time we actually get this, we'll be grown up :)

baby sea tuna @ Feb 11th 2008 3:48PM

Speak for yourself, buddy...I ain't never growin up!

deaftly @ Feb 11th 2008 3:55PM

Im still a toys r us kid!

xFenixKnightx @ Feb 11th 2008 4:02PM

Man I remember those commercialls, good times. What about the TRU big book...(TEAR)

colin @ Feb 11th 2008 7:41PM

we called it the "wish book" at my house.

samfish @ Feb 11th 2008 3:34PM

My buying a 360 in the future pretty much hinges on whether or not Banjo 3 is good or not.

...well that and the rumored game from Seeds/Platinum.

Fernando Rocker @ Feb 11th 2008 3:37PM

I thought that your reason to buy a 360 was to be Live friends =(

xFenixKnightx @ Feb 11th 2008 3:55PM

Wow Samfish, Banjo is a system seller for you? Really???
I loved Banjo, but a system seller?

samfish @ Feb 11th 2008 4:28PM

Haha – You'll be first on my list if I ever get one Fernando, I promise!

Fenix – ya, it is for me! There's a reason I'm something of a Nintendo fanboy. And Rare makes good Nintendo style games.
...except DK64 and Grabbed by the Ghoulies. Yuck.

Clover/Seeds/Platinum does, too.

Cyro @ Feb 11th 2008 4:29PM

I can honestly say I have not played a Banjo Kazooie game. Wonder if I am going to like it. I played ratchet and Clank size matters and loved it. Also played Daxter on the PSP and loved. If it is anything like these then I would like it I guess.

Noshino @ Feb 11th 2008 4:31PM

I didn't know that they had already announced the console for their untitled Seeds/Platinum project...

flameofdoom666 @ Feb 11th 2008 4:37PM

Banjo is a system sell for me too.

samfish @ Feb 11th 2008 4:40PM

Banjo is more like Mario than Ratchet, I'd say.

And to be fair, I used the word 'rumored' with regards to the Seeds/Platinum game.

GatorSax2010 @ Feb 11th 2008 4:50PM

Potential system seller for me, too. The day I found out about Microsoft buying Rare, I said a Banjo game would be enough for me to get a 360. Well, almost enough. Money would help.

xFenixKnightx @ Feb 11th 2008 5:00PM

So for Banjo you would? And not for...

99.9% of the time Better Multiplats- 2 many 2 list
Bioshock
Mass Effect
Halo Franchise
Gears Trilogy
Ace Combat 6
Ninja Gaiden 2
Viva Pinata lul
Alan Wake
Splinter Cell Conviction
Too Human Trilogy
Xbox LIVE
XBox Live Arcade
Xbox Originals
Achievements!!!
Gamercards
HD
Best controller out there-
w/rumble out of box
ETC, etc, etc!

Its ok, RROD is pretty much phased out =)

Wow Nintendo does have mind control over ppl after all.

xFenixKnightx @ Feb 11th 2008 5:04PM

Anyway, yea I know what you mean and I agree Banjo is more of a Mario type game (man I hope they dont fuck that up) so thats cool join the club. Everybodys doing it lol!

Fernando Rocker @ Feb 11th 2008 5:16PM

Nintendo doesn't have mind control over us... is just that Nintendo is so awesome, really. =)

We are fans of Nintendo, since long time ago, years ago... we are not brainwashed by Nintendo and we don't for them... they do not pay us for be Nintendo fanboys.

*This comment has been brought to you by Nintendo®. All rights reserved.

samfish @ Feb 11th 2008 5:24PM

99.9% of the time Better Multiplats- 2 many 2 list
-Don't care/depends on the game.

Bioshock
-Shooter. Don't care

Mass Effect
-Don't care (also technically a shooter)

Halo Franchise
-Shooter. Don't care

Gears Trilogy
-Shooter. Don't care

Ace Combat 6
-Don't care

Ninja Gaiden 2
-Definite buy

Viva Pinata lul
-Would buy

Alan Wake
-Don't know enough about it/not interested in what I've seen

Splinter Cell Conviction
-Don't care

Too Human Trilogy
-Shooter. Don't care

Xbox LIVE
-Not a factor

XBox Live Arcade
-Nice bonus, but not a factor

Xbox Originals
-Nice bonus, but not a factor

Achievements!!!
-Don't care

Gamercards
-Don't care

HD
-Don't care

Best controller out there-
-Don't care/not a factor/disagree. Nothing will ever be better than the Wavebird to me.

I'd like there to be 5 must-have games before I buy a system. Then I'll be happy with it.
360 for me has Dead Rising for sure and potentially Ninja Gaiden II, RE5 (although I'd rather have a Wii port for the controls) and Banjo 3.
There are other games I'd like to play, but I'm not buying one just so I can play Viva Pinata or Kameo.
I always go with Nintendo because I know I'm at least gonna get those 5 games from Nintendo themselves, if nothing else.

OTAM @ Feb 11th 2008 6:01PM

What the?! Did you just list Too Human as a shooter?! That game is like Diablo meets Phantasy Star Online. A hack and slash game with TONS upon TONS of item drops.

Vidikron (FU) @ Feb 11th 2008 6:49PM

Haha.. you say you don't care about Achievements, but you will. Maybe you won't become on of the so called point whores that rents bad games for the easy points, but just wait... you'll get BK3 and a new 360 and after playing the game for a while you'll find you are enjoying that "Achievment Unlocked" pop-up and then you'll find yourself browsing the Achievement list for other ones to shoot for. Any claims now to the contrary are meaningless. You'll do it, just like the rest of us.

xFenixKnightx @ Feb 11th 2008 6:53PM

Ill admit I was having somewhat of a brain fart on that list as I was busy trying to gather my things to leave work. Im a Nintendo/Rare fan as well (Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2, Killer Instinct 1 & 2, Banjo, etc. DAMN good times indeed) maybe not as big of a fanboy as my bud Fernando but I do and always will love Nintendo. I just dont agree too much with the direction in which they are taking right now.

Aero @ Feb 11th 2008 6:53PM

If you don't like shooters then the 360 isn't the system for you.

xFenixKnightx @ Feb 11th 2008 7:01PM

Listen to Vidikron,

He speaketh the truth. Very wise are his words. LOL, I dont NEED achievements to enjoy games...see (Uncharted, Resistance, Ratchet & Clank, other PS3 games I have) but damn do they make the game more fun. IMO of course. Thats why I get all multiplats on my 360 and not my PS3.

mike @ Feb 12th 2008 6:13AM

I used to be a nitnendo fan as well. I chose NES, SNES, N64 and gamecube. I was the biggest nintendo fan. I owned all the first party games. Then I found out halo 2 was coming out. you see I had played halo 1 on pc and loved the online multiplayer so much I needed halo 2. I hated the fact that I had to use a controller tho, and not the wavebird which I loved so much.

But you know what, thats only because your not used to it. I ended up buying an xbox with halo 2, burnout 3 and conckers live and reloaded. Thats it. But I loved the experience from those 3 games so much that I went and picked up a 360 on launch. Now im a microsoft fan, with nintendo all but abandoned. the 360 controller is far suprior to the wavebird (Ive used both controllers for thousands of hours so I can judge). And the 360 is about the future with online play and achievements, stuff nintendo cares little about to implament properly into their games. Rare is with MS (which is still my favorite developer to date) and the fact that the system can output at 1080 is a bonus to some1 like me who finally bought an hdtv.

Microsoft just brings the fun with the 360 now while nintendo choose the wrong route IMO, motion controls. I hope motion controls never come to the 360. And yes I played them before, my brother has a wii so Im quite familiar with motion controls and its not my idea of fun to fray the controller right to perform an action rather then just pushing a button.

Over the past 3 years of beening with MS and not nintendo, I have also come to love American games quite a bit. Now I play japanese made games and their not as fun as the american made ones anymore. I played eternal sonata on 360 and Its a good game, but after playing mass effect with proper writing I really cant take these rediculose cut scenes and storylines found in JRPGs.

As for the playstation brand. I always considered them a hybrid between nintendos quirky games and microsofts future endeveours. The one real thing thats stopped me from ever buying one is that controller. I tried so hard to get used to those buldgy sticks and the left stick being in the wrong spot on the controller (should be swapped with the d-pad) but Its just not as effecient or comfortable. I burrowed a friends ps2 several times and played his ps3 so I do have alot of time with the controller. I just find the playstation controller was designed the way it was because alot of ps1 games used the directional pad as primary but since the ps2 and 3, thats no longer the case. They need to swap that damn d-pad with the stick and do something to the size of the stick. of the 3 systems I find nintendos sticks are too small (Especially the c-stick on the gamecube), playstations sticks are too big/buldgy and MS sticks are just perfect size with tiny indent for thumb.

/end rant

Fox318 @ Feb 11th 2008 3:34PM

the 360 needs more platformers.

baby sea tuna @ Feb 11th 2008 3:35PM

Change "360" to "the industry" and that's about where we're at.

rikimaru @ Feb 11th 2008 4:02PM

true that!

Good platformers are gaming gems.

Lone Starr @ Feb 11th 2008 3:53PM

YUO MEAN LIEK ONE WIHT THE MASTER CHEF AM I RITE?

(stupid reply system; ignore the dupe plz)

Mr Khan @ Feb 11th 2008 4:46PM

nah, platformers are pretty healthy elsewhere. The PS3 doesn't have too many, but what it has are good (R&C Future) or WILL be good (LBP), while Wii has the great platforming dynasties, and the handhelds are awash with them (of varying quality, however)

360 is the only one really lacking them, much like Wii wants for a good Action games and RPGs, and PS3 needs better standalone Adventure titles, but it remains to be seen if the new Rare can knock our socks off.

B1gC72 - PSN: KillaKornbread @ Feb 12th 2008 4:07AM

platformers and RPG's are my favorites and i can say that their arent enough out there anymore. Ratchet & Clank Future and Mario Galaxy (though i havent finished it yet) are great but we need alot more platformers around the industry for sure.

Jonny @ Feb 13th 2008 1:03AM

Please fellas....

Dont give Sonic Team any more reasons to make another Sonic game. *Shudders*

xFenixKnightx @ Feb 11th 2008 3:38PM

Hope this does turn out good, cant wait =) You never know they might surprise everyone.

Jake11 @ Feb 11th 2008 3:42PM

Yesss! Jackpot millionaire!

Beatz @ Feb 11th 2008 3:42PM

I know it's cliched to say "it's a good year to be a gamer", but c'mon - Banjo 3 AND GTAIV? It is a good year to be a gamer.

Mr Khan @ Feb 11th 2008 4:47PM

And Metal Gear Solid 4 and Fallout 3 and Super Smash Bros Brawl and Mario Kart Wii and Soul Calibur 4 and Fatal Frame 4, and Crisis Core FFVII and GoW: Chains of Olympus and Dragon Quest IX and Ninja Gaiden 2 and LittleBigPlanet and Disaster: Day of Crisis

Yes its a good year to be a gamer