Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Drift 2
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| Developer(s) | Genki |
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Genki (JPN) Crave Entertainment (NA) Konami (PAL) |
| Series | Kaido Battle |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
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| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 52.12% |
| Metacritic | 46/100 |
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| Publication | Score |
| GameSpot | 5.2/10 |
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| IGN | 4/10 |
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Tokyo Xtreme Racer DRIFT 2 (known as Kaido: Touge no Densetsu in Japan and Kaido Racer 2 in Europe and Australia) is a racing simulator by Genki that was released in 2005. It is the third episode in the Kaido Battle series and it borrows heavily to the influential Shutokou Battle series created by the same company.
The game is about touge racing, which rely on drift skills made popular in the western culture during the 2000s by Initial D, and is divided in daytime and nighttime. The player buy a used or new stock car, tune it with aero and engine parts, get sponsorship and challenge other racers in nocturnal illegal gambling touge racing or perform downhill / uphill time attack in daytime. Available cars become more and more powerful from the basic K-car, minitruck, 1600cc compact to the 3000cc sports car. Vehicle list features licensed Japanese and European import cars.
The career mode (or Conquest mode in the game as it's called) features a single driver (with name provided by the player) on his quest to become the best racer in all the Osaka area. The player starts with around ¥2,500,000 (or around $23,000) to buy a car (more than the previous game, which had only ¥1,500,000 to start). The Conquest mode has been significantly changed, with several new real-life locations of races being present in the game as of course, several new being presented in the game. Hakone and Haruna return from the original game, while several new locations, like Shiga Kusatsu, Hiroshima, and Mount Rokkō (divided into two roads, Ura and Omote) are new roads to race, and some of them being omitted from the game.
With the original tracks in the game, a new option in the game has been made: Short Courses. There are only three short courses in the game, and as the name says, they are much shorter than the long course tracks. They cannot be simply unlocked by passing the Conquest mode, but rather by winning the special invitation by beating the significant opponent in the game and winning a number of prizes to be allowed to participate. Several sponsors and many high-stakes drivers are on short courses, and several drivers from the original Tokyo Extreme Racer are featured in short courses. Also, short courses are only open during the day and during the good weather.
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