TOKYO XTREME RACER 2 FINAL BOSS DRIVERS
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Tokyo is split into two sections of the highway initially, the C1 Loop and the New Belt Line. Just look at its inclusion in Gran Turismo 7. The AI simply cannot handle corners well and the infamous toll road is where they tend to fumble hard.

This is the second reason why I recommend starting in Tokyo as the C1 Loop has many twists and turns to trap your opponent in. In the early game, the health bar system ensures that even a weaker car can win against a powerful one. Upon winning the race you earn credits and begin to build up a multiplier based on win streaks. If the trailing racer collides with the wall or other vehicles, it will also deal damage in relation to how direct the hit was. The greater the distance the faster the health bar depletes. The most reliable way of ensuring victory is simply driving faster than your opponent. A player's first experience with this game will likely compare it to a fighting game and they wouldn't be entirely wrong.

There is no 'point A to point B' sprint races or a 'finish line' to speak of, as the only way to win a race is by depleting your opponent's health bar to zero. After that, a cutscene will play and you'd have engaged in a battle, on the shutokou, hence the name Shutokou Battle! To challenge a rival, simply drive behind them and flash your high beams. On the map, there are blue arrows moving about, signaling a new rival you have yet to challenge. The initial maps in Nagoya and Osaka are simply too small to enjoy the early game (Osaka is literally a rectangle at first).Īs with the previous titles in the series, once you purchase your starting car, you start your street racing career on the highways.

As tempting as it is to go to the new cities, I recommend starting in Tokyo for pacing reasons.

TOKYO XTREME RACER 2 FINAL BOSS SERIES

Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 is the only game in the series that adds two new cities outside of Tokyo which is Nagoya and Osaka. You show up as an unknown, a cool cutscene plays with very questionable translation decisions, and you're told to pick a city. With that said, the overarching story was never its strong suit.

TOKYO XTREME RACER 2 FINAL BOSS DRIVERS

While the general plot for each game in the series is to be the best driver on the Tokyo highways, some drivers and teams reappear in each game with a follow-up on their lives from the previous games. Most are average everyday people including band members, salarymen, models, actresses, and students. These aren't just generic AI drivers you're going against, these are actual characters that speak through their driving style. What drew me into the 'lore' of the Shutokou Battle series as a whole is the biographies of the drivers. There are hundreds of rivals to race against, each with its own stories that can be read in the rival list menu. The Shutokou Battle series was always rooted in Japanese car culture, a trait that would continue through its spinoffs. The comparison couldn't be any more wrong, but I understand why one would link it to Underground. What poised me to come back to this title after almost two decades was a video I've seen that compares this game to Need For Speed Underground. Regardless, TXR 3 has been a game that received buzz lately. I suppose maybe '01' would have been hard to properly pronounce, but in the main menu, there's a voice that says 'ZERO ONE!' so I fail to see why this was named so. Thanks to questionable naming conversions in English, 01 was known as Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 even though this was the fourth game. A soft 'reboot' was released on the PlayStation 2 as Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero, followed by the direct sequel Shutokou Battle 01. The unique highway racer was successful enough to warrant a direct sequel on the same console. Often imitated and duplicated, the Tokyo Xtreme Racer series made its debut on the Sega Dreamcast, known as Shutokou Battle. Before you cast this off as me getting an excuse to talk about a game I missed out on during my childhood (despite you being right.) hear me out first. The final game for ' Anime NYC' week is a title that, at first glance, clearly isn't an 'anime' game.

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