GT Advance Championship Racing
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GT Advance Championship Racing | |
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Developer(s) | MTO |
Publisher(s) | THQ |
Release date(s) | June 8, 2001 |
Genre(s) | Racing |
Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
Rating(s) | ESRB: E |
Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance |
Media | Cartridge |
GT Advance Championship Racing is the US version of the Japanese game Advance GTA, which is a racing game for the Game Boy Advance that, much like Gran Turismo, boasts licensed vehicles from manufacturers such as Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi, and other Japanese car makers and features a championship mode that will reward you with unlocked tracks, additional cars, and performance parts depending on how well you race.
In all, there are 48 cars in the game--all of them licensed--although only about half are available to you from the start. You can enhance the performance of all of these cars by upgrading certain components, including the engine, suspension, muffler, limited-slip differential, ECU, chassis, body, air filter, and even the seats. These parts are interchangeable between all your cars, so once you unlock the stainless steel muffler, for example, all your cars will receive that upgrade. These upgrades will, in some cases, change the physical appearance of your car. Additionally, some upgrades have multiple levels that can be unlocked more than once for an added boost in performance.
The game's championship mode has four different classes, each of which has eight different racetracks, for a total of 32 courses in GT Advance. These tracks are divided into five categories--circuit, highway, city, winding, and dirt--and they all vary in difficulty and length.