Kaido Battle

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Kaido Battle

Developer(s)	Genki
Publisher(s)	Genki (Japan), Crave Entertainment (North America)
Release date(s)	Kaido Battle (2003), Kaido Battle 2: Chain Reaction (2004), Kaido Battle: Touge No Densetsu (2005)
Genre(s)	Racing
Mode(s)	Conquest Mode (Story Mode), Versus, Time Trial, Free Run
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2

Kaido Battle (街道バトル) is a racing video game series for the Playstation 2 created by the Japanese video game developer Genki. They are focused on Touge racing and heavily centered on drifting. The franchise currently has three games, with one of them being released in North America under the Tokyo Xtreme Racer banner by Crave Entertainment, being called "Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift", even there is any race in Tokyo.

1 Gameplay
2 Tracks
3 Trivia
4 Games in the Franchise

[edit] Gameplay

The game, like Genki's Shutokou Battle franchise, includes licensed cars and authentic Japanese mountain roads as courses. In Conquest Mode, the player competes during the day in drift contests, earning more points for holding a drift longer or for a quick combination of drifts, but earns no points in the player bumps against the wall or a guard rail. Doing this, the player earns money to buy new cars and modifications. Daytime racing also features racing for sponsors, which includes a kind of racing challenge determined by the sponsor. Beating a sponsor challenge earns the player a sponsor. Sponsors give the player better parts and extra bonuses for winning drift contests.

Kaido Battle

At night, the player can challenge rivals in the parking lot, and race them in a vein similar to Shutokou Battle/Tokyo Xtreme Racer: the first one to have their life bar depleted loses; however, the first racer to cross the finish line will win the race. Through the night, the player will face the "Trickers", a type of mini-bosses in the course. After all the Trickers have been beaten, the main boss of the course (called the "Slasher") will challenge the player through an in-game BBS system. After the Slasher has been beaten, the player may advance to the next stage. The final boss in the last course is called the "Emotion King."

In Kaido Battle: Touge no Densetsu, after the retirement of "Emotional King", some racers from Shutokou Battle series came to conquer the mountains of Japan. To make the situation worse for Kaido racers, some professional pilots came too, like official Imprezas and Lancers from WRC.

Some gamers compares the physics engine to Gran Turismo series.

[edit] Tracks

Hakone - Length: 4.79km - Height: 256m

Haruna - Length: 8.37km - Height: 454m

Omote-Rokko - Length: 3.80km - Height: 341m

Iroha-Zaka 1 - Length: 6.30km - Height: 409m

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Aso - Length: - Height:

Akagi - Length: - Height:

Zao - Length: - Height:

Hokkaido - Length: - Height:

Happougahara - Length: - Height:

Nikko - Length: - Heigth:

Usui Touge - Length: - Height:

Myogi san - Length: - Height:

Yuki no Otani - Length: - Height:

Kiragamine - Length: - Height:

Shiga Kusatsu - Length: - Height:

Ura Rokko - Length: - Height:

Hiroshima - Length: - Height:

Otarumi - Length: - Height:

Hakone nanamagari - Length: - Height:

Yokohama - Length: - Height:

[edit] Trivia

A team on Nikko's Irohazaka course are named "Emperor" and drive Lancer Evolutions. The leader's name is "Sudo Kyoji." This is a nod to the anime/manga Initial D, in which the leader of the Emperor racing team is Sudo Kyoichi.
One of the rivals on the Hakone course is named Takuya Hagiwara and drives an AE86 with a black and white color scheme. This is both an Initial D nod and a Shutokou battle nod, the first referring to protagonist Takumi Fujiwara who drives an AE86, the second referring to the leader of the team Diamond Image, whose street name is also Lightning Shift. However, he drive an AE86 coupe.
The themes of the "Lovers" (female racers that become fans and offer email support once defeated) are heavily derivative of Eurobeat, a type of music popular in Japan and prevalent in Initial D, and may possibly be another nod to Initial D.
After a player completes the game, rivals appear in the parking lot during the daytime. These rivals are based on actual Japanese professional race drivers, including 2001 D1 Grand Prix champion Nobuteru Taniguchi, who is a technical advisor for the Kaido Battle games and a member of the Genki racing team. And with Manabu Orido, that actually is in JGTC and D1 Grand Prix, are technical advisors of Genki Racing Project (GRP)
The game also features famous tuned cars that were featured in Option Magazine. Among them is technical advisor Nobuteru Taniguchi's famous HKS Silvia S15 and RE Amemiya RX-7.
Kaido Battle: Touge No Densetsu is considered by many to be a crossover between the Kaido Battle and Shutokou Battle franchises.
In Kaido Battle: Touge No Densetsu, one of openning videos shows the cars from Initial D.
Crave Entertainment released Kaido Battle in US as Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift.
Konami released Kaido Battle 2: Chain Reaction in Europe as Kaido Racer in November 2005. They are also relasing Kaido Battle: Touge no Densetsu as Kaido Racer 2 in October 2006.
Until now, there is no release date for Kaido Battle: Touge no Densetsu in US.