Tokyo Highway Battle Game Sample - Playstation

Original Air Date: December 17th, 2009

Tokyo Highway Battle is one of many games within the long-running Shutokō(u) Battle series, known as many different things Internationally ranging from "Tokyo Highway Battle", "Tokyo Xtreme Racer", " Tokyo Highway Challenge", "Import Tuner Challenge", "Street Supremacy", ecetera. This was one of the first games released stateside along with the Sega Saturn "Highway 2000, aka Wangan Dead Heat", though they are different games, just to clarify (and HW2000 came first).

This is an old, but pretty good racing game that isn't particularly hard to find, but has very little information or recognition, much like Highway 2000 (though this game is much better than HW2000). It was uncommon for a 3D racing game of the time to have as much car customization as this game allows, and you can drive a number of cars while competing for cash. It's also known partially as "Drift King" for a reason, as you can bob in and out of traffic and drift on really tight turns. Otherwise, it's your standard arcade-style racer by Genki.

The graphics aren't as good as some of the competition of the time, though the opening movie is very nice. The sense of scale is pretty good, but it seems to have come at the expense of relatively low draw distance and lots of graphics clipping. The game doesn't have a large selection of music, but this isn't uncommon to old racers. Some good tunes include Labyrinth and Night Wind.

The game originally got the subtitle of "Drift King" after the trademark nickname of street racing and professional racing driver Keiichi Tsuchiya who is featured in the first Shuto Kousoku Trial episodes and endorsed the game with, then team manager, Masaki Bandoh of the Bandoh Racing Project. It's really cheap these days, so I'd get it if you're a collector or fan of racing games. Enjoy.

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