Just as the Gnostics believe that earthly pleasure cannot compare to the heavenly vision, no racing game has ever been able to capture the exhilaration I felt from playing stone-cold arcade racing classics like Midnight Club or NFS Underground as a kid. But the newest game in the Tokyo Xtreme Racer franchise is somehow pulling it off, making old-style racing games seem brand new once again.
Tokyo Xtreme Racer is a series developed by Genki that's been around since 1999, when it was known as Shutokō Battle in Japan and Tokyo Highway Challenge in PAL countries. It's not, honestly, a series that I knew about until this year – until, after an 18-year gap of major releases, the simply-titled Tokyo Xtreme Racer hit Steam Early Access.
