With Paramount Entertainment's prior mining of their movie catalog with Star Trek D.A.C and The Warriors on the Xbox Live Arcade, it's no surprise they're doing it again - this time taking on 1990's Tom Cruise Vehicle Days Of Thunder.

The game is "inspired" by the original movie, featuring 4 tracks of Nascar variety where you can race against the characters from the film in single player modes, or hop online and race against 12 other players online.

The game is being developed by Piranha Games - the same fellows behind the upcoming Mechwarrior reboot, but also the guys behind Need For Speed Undercover for PSP and helped a bit with Need For Speed Shift. They do have some racing games under their belt, but the footage shown above looks very unfinished. Either they had a lot of trouble dealing with the video codecs, or that framerate is chugging like nothing else.

I'm a little worried about the project - like The Warriors it has a decent enough premise, but whether it has the budget to make it a top tier title is another question altogether.