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Import Tuner Challenge | 
 enlarge | From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $17.79
You Save: $22.20 (56%)
New (15) Used (14) from $9.29
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 5306
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: car_and_truck_racing_and_flying_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.5
MPN: 52316
UPC: 008888523161
EAN: 0008888523161
ASIN: B000G5R8JU
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Authentic import street racing: Includes real Tokyo highways and regions, all the hottest licensed import sports cars and concept vehicles and the most prized import tuner part manufacturers. | | • | More than five million customizations: Select from a vast warehouse of specialized parts to customize a car’s interior, exterior and engine. | | • | Tune your car like a mechanic: Install custom parts with the click of a button and hit the streets wheels spinning. Players can fine-tune their parts to suit a specific race. | | • | Conquer the toughest and fastest street-racing teams: With more than 400 unique opponents with different strengths, weaknesses and custom cars, never play the same game twice. | | • | Take your ride to the Xbox Live online gaming service: See how your custom tuner stacks up in head-to-head in Versus mode – take your most extreme mods straight to the streets to dominate all who challenge. |
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Product Description
Import Tuner Challenge is an authentic, customizable street-racing game where you'll challenge the fastest street-racing teams. Customize and race licensed import sports cars using real tuner parts and tuning techniques. More than five million combinations are possible in customizing a car's interior, exterior and engine. Go online with Xbox Live & see how your custom tuner stacks up in head-to-head in Versus mode -- take your most extreme mods straight to the streets to dominate all who challenge
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Tokyo Xtreme Racer back again.. January 3, 2009
marc (New Haven, Connecticut)
i loved this game on Dreamcast back in 2000/01 with its Strictly Highway races that had you win by a Lead instead of racing from point A to B. this formula made racing a BLAST as it was suspenseful and never got Boring. also, the A.I. and Difficulty of the game kept you Challenged. this game is more of the same.
Pros:
-the graphics are Beautiful
-the map is Big Enough so you dont get Bored with the game too quickly
-the handling of the car is the Most Realistic, unlike alot of Current games out today
-the Customization is sure to Satisfy
-you can take your car Online and race against other racers tricked out cars as well
-the Races are just FUN.
Cons:
-theres no button to Look Around You when your racing, your stuck with the Front view and can never Gaze at the city as it goes by..but the Replay Mode should satisfy you i guess.
-the music could have been BETTER, they should have had more Electronica but the music is OKAY, it wont bother you too much.
besides that, this is a game that Well holds its own with the likes of Midnight Club LA, Burnout Paradise, Need For Speed: Undercover, and like Those games, its a game you can just Pick Up and Play..you dont HAVE to customize the crap out of the car to win races. its exactly like the Old School Tokyo Xtreme Racers though..so you dont have to track back and get those games, this game is Exactly like it with better graphics..but the same Awesome gameplay.
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Shutokou Battle X; Import Tuner Challenge October 22, 2008
Mason K. Hicks
Pretty good, but could do wihtout the silly bluring (speed distortion?).
Also a bit of a bummer not having the rest of the Wangan, Yokohane line, Yokohama Kanjou, or the Hanshin or Nagoya-city freeways.
 TXR fans May 14, 2008
Timothy Young (LI, New York)
this game is only a really good game if you have played the TXR racing series and like them. This game is very similar and is def just as addicting as the first ones. There are a few downfalls though. There are only like 10 cars, so you will be racing 300 cars that are the same cars throughout. Also the graphics dont appear to be 360 graphics except for your which you can modify a decent amount. One really good upgrade besides the addition of a few minor highways, is th parking area. The PA is where you will find racers parked and ready to race. Just as the last TXR games, there are many wanderers and still is a pain in the a$$ to figure out there requirements. I suggest trying to find a strategy guide if you plan on racing the Datsun that appears after all racers are beat.
If your a TXR fan and looking for a cheap and fun game then I recommend this game. Its pretty fun racing your way to the top of tokyos highways.
 import tuner challenge February 12, 2007
terribleatom
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
The people that rated this game over a 1 must have one to sell.This game was a joke. If they had a 0 rating that's what I would give it. I bought it last month for 20.00 and I felt like I got ripped off. I did however get 35.00 trade-in at blockbuster. I would advice anyone who purchased this to do the same because the price will definately drop SOON.This game looked worst than the Tokyo drifter series on ps2. I would not recommend this game for anyone. Tom B
 Excellent Game! Excellent Cars! TONS of races! October 10, 2006
Paul Arellano (VA, USA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
To feed my Forza Motorsport 2 hunger, I decided to purchase this game. I'm a big fan of Japanese cars. All my cars are Japanese. Import Tuner focuses on...you guessed it...import cars, mainly Japanese brand cars- Toyota, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Mazda, and Nissan. People ask..so where's Honda? Licensing issues prevented Genki developers from including Honda.
This game delivers TONS of customizations. You can basically calibrate and modify your car based on parts you buy. However, buying upgrade parts for your car isn't that easy. All upgrade parts are level-based meaning you need to beat a boss or win races against a few rival teams to get a new level of parts to purchase. Parts don't come cheap so just racing one rival after another won't get you the goods you need once you face a fully-modified car. You'll have to go back and find a rival team you already beat and race him over and over until you get enough credit points to purchase the parts.
The game requires a lot of patience since you'll be pitted against every import car. There are two ways of challenging rivals. You either hit the streets and challenge OR you can go to the parking area and challenge racers there. To beat the game, you'll have to challenge both street racers and those who hangout by the parking lot.
The tracks are based on real highways in Japan. All the the highways have been faithfully recreated in this game. Now...since this is a race along freeway, you won't be using much of your drifting skills here since you won't find any hairpin turns. Most of the turns are like the Exit ramps you take on our Interstate highways here in the US. This should give you an idea on what's in store for you. Majority of the tracks here are straightways, a few exit ramps turns will test your turning skills. Don't be fooled though. You'll be faced with traffic on the highways. There will trucks and cars driving merrily along the highway while you're speeding at 200mph. The traffic will sharpen your skills on avoidance and overtaking. The game is quite tough on errors you make. You hit a car or a railing and chances are the rival driver will be right on your tail.
There are two modes of races here: SP battles and Time Attack. SP battles are like health meters. The farther the rival is ahead of you, the faster your health meter goes down. You hit a railing or a car and that penalizes your SP meter. The object of SP battle is to run your rival's SP meter dry. That means you'll have to outrace him or punish him by trapping him on a lane where a slow moving vehicle is right in front of him and then you accelerate at high speed to leave him behind. You can use traffic to your advantage by nudging the rival car on the side and pushing him towards an embankment. I know it's bad but hey...you gotta win by any means necessary. Time attack on the other hand is simply a race to the finish line. Why it's called Time attack just boggles the mind. This game was made in Japan so expect some translation hiccups here and there. Poorly translated Japanese terms abound in this game so expect to see weird rival names like Betelguese of the Night, Mundane Omnipotent, Cornering Opera, Mundane Zeus, Astellion Flower, and my favorite... Cat X Cat.
Graphics was where I was a bit disappointed. Genki didn't use the full power of the Xbox360. Somehow it didn't look quite next-gen to me. Also, there are horrible frame rate issues. The game just grinds to a stuttering frame rate when you have three or four rivals on screen. There are a few drawing issues as well. Sometimes, while driving, you'll notice that there's just a black empty space at the end of the ramp. Fear not, the game suffers from redrawing issues. But these issues shouldn't deter you from playing this game. AI is something that's a so-so. You will find rivals who drive like Ms. Daisy or sometimes against a rival who drives like Mario Andretti, Nicki Lauda, and Colin McRae. Most of the AI seem to be afraid to take the risk of making sharp turns at full speed. They seem to brake quite a few meters too far from the turn's entry point. As a result, you can easily take advantage of this and cut in front of them.
So...what's a good gaming tip here. Like any other tuner games, there are three things you need to focus on to win in this game: SPEED, WEIGHT, AND HANDLING. That means you need to upgrade your engine, your body, and your suspension. Don't dwell too much on making your car look like Fast and Furiousque. Concentrate first on winning a few races and invest on the three main aspects of the car. ANy part that will make your car 100lbs heavier should be compensated by a body upgrade that will make it lighter. I've beaten this game by using just one car.
Here's what I did: I purchased the Nissan Fairlady (fastest among the cheapest starter cars). I raced the hell out of it and upgraded it. Then I began challenging several rivals over and over again till I was winning 500K credit points per race. Once I got to about 4 million credit points, I bought my favorite and possibly the fastest tuner car in the game: Mitsubishi Evolution IX. I then sold my Fairlady and then upgraded the engine to the highest possible level I could get. Slowly I began upgrading the three main aspects of the car. By the time I got to about 80% of game completion, I was beating every car and rival I was up against. The Mitsubishi Evolution is by far the best tuner car I have ever dealt with, be it Forza Motorsport or Import Tuner. Try the Evolution and win every race.
In closing, this game is highly recommended. It has it's own technical issues but the fun factor is definitely in the game. Go for it.
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