Shutokou Battle Zero
Posted by @ 1:38 PM, EDT
IGN also posted an article about Genki’s recently announced PS2 racer, Shutokou Battle Zero.
A slice:

The Shutokou Battle games are built around a one-on-one racing system, with brief drag encounters that are decided when one racer or the other maintains a lead for a certain amount of time. You hop in your car and cruise around the highways, looking for other racers to challenge. When you find somebody to race against, two energy bars appear up at the top of the screen, and you tear off down the road trying to pull ahead and stay there. When one racer falls behind, his energy starts to drain - slowly if he's only a little bit behind, but the rate of loss increases as the leader pulls farther ahead. The race is over when one driver's energy is gone.