• Publisher: Ubisoft
  • Release Date: Sep 26, 2006
Metascore

Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critics What's this?

User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 15 Ratings

  • Summary: Import Tuner Challenge is an authentic and extremely customizable street-racing game that challenges racers to immerse themselves in Tokyo's underground to take on the fastest street-racing teams. Players can customize and race licensed import sports cars using real tuner parts and tuning techniques. 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. Includes everything from authentic aero kits from Mazdaspeed, C-West and Veilside to racing seats from Recaro and Bride. 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. [Ubisoft] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 20
  2. Negative: 7 out of 20
  1. For fans of Tokyo Xtreme Racer, Import Tuner Challenge is a must-buy.
  2. Sadly Import Tuner Challenge doesn’t re-invent the wheel and feels exactly the same as "Tokyo Extreme Racer." This isn’t necessarily a bad thing although I do feel more could have been added other than the obvious graphical upgrade.
  3. Import Tuner lacks either the impressive visuals we've come to expect from next-gen games (racing titles, especially), or a well-executed new feature that contrasts it from other offerings in the genre.
  4. Tuning the numerous parts of your car provides for some decent variation, but you’ll soon figure out that the actual gameplay just isn't very good.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. Other great racing title. Import Tuner Challenge can not be original, fresh, better, but is really funny. The system for personalize your car is great, the tracks are repetitive, the cars are cool. This game is funny, no more. Expand
  2. DocH.
    8
    Solid title that takes a couple hours before it gets it's hooks into you. Once you start upgrading your car and/or getting better ones, the game starts coming into it's own. For what it's worth, all 360 games have custom soundtracks...all you have to do is hit the middle dashboard button and "select music". Expand
  3. [Anonymous]
    7
    Haven't played through it yet, but it seems right along the lines of every other TXR game, if you like them you will like this one, loads more customization and the cockpit view is nice too. Expand
  4. JonD.
    0
    This game is horrible...I got it yesterday and I don't even play it anymore. Don't waste your money!

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