Normally, we might pass on such news as this, but when the footage looks so absolutely superb for the system it is designed for, it's hard to pass up and not mention. Over in the GameSpot forums, a new tech demo of the upcoming DS title Raid Over the River is up and ready to view.

While the gameplay is your standard top-scrolling air shooter, the graphics offer a really nice glimpse of just the kind of power that can be squeezed out of the DS. Kinda makes you think what they can squeeze out of the Wii version of this game.

The poster, who we assume is on the development crew, had this to say (in broken English) about the progress:

Due to enormous positive feedback to dual screen action presentation, we decided to show You little tech demo, how this two screen gaming would look like in motion. I would like to point out strongly thou, that game itself is still in early development stage (that's why enemies don't shoot at us ;] ) and everyday we hunt our programmers to squeeze everything from DS power. That's why final version of the game is bound to look kinda different than this -- as we hope, way better.

[Via Go Nintendo]