Possibly the worst racing game ever to rear it's ugly head upon society!
IMPRESSIVE: Decent car-pimping
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BAD: Graphics are weak, recycled and ========== bland // No variety in the races // Bad traffic physics // Always seems to be the same stretch of motorway // Dodgy character names // Totally lacks the sex appeal of games like PGR3 and Burnout
Shotoku Battle X (or Import Tuner Challenge) was first seen as a racing game with potential, that could equal Need For Speed: Most Wanted, and people thought that with such high levels of car customization, that the game couldn't possibly be bad ... those bastards were wrong! Import Tuner Challenge is such an uninteresting racing game that tries so hard to be like NFS but fails so very much. This 30 MPH "racing" game, makes you race around dodgy motorways in skectchy looking cars, and thats not the worst part, Import Tuner Challenge is filled with un-necessary inconveniences, such as the long loading periods, hundreds of messages, which are spread across mediocre looking menu's, and the fact that their is absoluelty NO damage modelling, something that all 360 racing games should have, but wait ... PGR3 didn't have damage modelling, and no-one put it down because of it, because it was good, clean graphics, great sound, and absolute thrill. But this game is so drab, that the only sweet release from the horrififc gameplay, is to try and kill yourself (in-game obviously), but it denies of that privelidge.
Import Tuner Challenge is a sorry piece of Japanese racing that should be cast aside, along with many many other Japanese titles, and not even be allowed anywhere near the good racing games.