Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero Hands-On Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Zero for the PlayStation 2 allows you to climb the ranks of a nocturnal Japanese street-racing subculture. Check out our hands-on impressions. Tokyo Xtreme Racer is a one or two player racing game based on illegal street racing around the streets of Tokyo.The game starts by giving the player $15000 so that they can buy their car. There are three types of car; Class A has the most powerful engines; Class B.

Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero is a racing game developed by Genki for PlayStation 2. Despite its name, it is set between Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2 and Drift, and has enhanced sound and graphics. The game was released in Japan as Shutokou Battle 0, but was also a limited release in North America. The game was released in a PAL version in Europe and Australia under the title Tokyo Xtreme Racer (not to be confused with the Dreamcast title of the same name).

This is the first game in the series that has been released on a platform other than the Dreamcast. Zero was to originally be released on the Dreamcast, but was then cancelled and moved to the PlayStation 2. The Tokyo Xtreme Racer series has produced a total of six games, the first four being U.S. localizations of the first four Shutokou Battle series games and the final two being U.S. localizations of the first and third Kaido Battle series games.

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In this time, the hero defeats all the team and eventually the 13 Devils, lead by Motoya Iwasaki, The 'Speed King' or 'Jintei' and his blue Skyline GT-R and the Zodiac, lead by White Charisma, or Wataru Tate in his white RX-7 FD3S. After he defeats them all, he is challenged by ???, in his dark blue Fairlady Z S30Z (known as the Devil Z in Wangan Midnight) and defeats him as well.

Reception[edit]

Jeff Lundrigan reviewed the PlayStation 2 version of the game for Next Generation, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that 'This series has its fans, and if we can understand the attraction, we don't share it.'^[11]

The game was met with positive reception, as GameRankings gave it a score of 78.48%,^[1] while Metacritic gave it 76 out of 100.^[2] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 34 out of 40.^[5]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero for PlayStation 2'. GameRankings. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
2. ^ ^ab'Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero for PlayStation 2 Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
3. ^Thompson, Jon. 'Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero - Review'. AllGame. Archived from the original on November 14, 2014. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
4. ^EGM staff (June 2001). 'Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Zero'. Electronic Gaming Monthly.
5. ^ ^ab'プレイステーション2 - 首都高バトル0'. Famitsu. 915: 60. June 30, 2006.
6. ^Kato, Matthew (June 2001). 'Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Zero'. Game Informer (98). Archived from the original on January 30, 2008. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
7. ^Jake The Snake (June 4, 2001). 'Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Zero for PS2 on GamePro.com [mislabeled as 'Tokyo Racer']'. GamePro. Archived from the original on February 8, 2005. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
8. ^Ahmed, Shahed (May 11, 2001). 'Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Zero Review'. GameSpot. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
9. ^Carlock, Jamie (June 8, 2001). 'Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero'. PlanetPS2. Archived from the original on June 28, 2001. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
10. ^Smith, David (May 30, 2001). 'Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Zero'. IGN. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
11. ^ ^abLundrigan, Jeff (August 2001). 'Finals'. Next Generation. Vol. 4 no. 8. Imagine Media. p. 82.
12. ^'Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Zero'. Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine: 98. June 2001.
13. ^'Review: Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Zero'. PSM. July 2001.

External links[edit]

• Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Zero at MobyGames