Here you will race other drivers in a series of progressively more difficult classes winning any race will unlock another car and potentially a new racetrack. Winning all races in a particular class will unlock the next class, all the way up to the GT class complete with fully tuned racing cars. There are several tuning options available, including suspension and gearing settings and unlike Gran Turismo, these settings do not need to be purchased . Tracks are a combination of both fictional and real tracks, with familiar names like Suzuka and Tsukuba mixing with newly created venues such as Urban Highway and Provence. 3.5 Engine sounds are realistic if a bit too muffled.
Music is standard arcade-style generic fluff.
Hey, it s better than the 0.5 we gave the Japanese release still, the steering response in the American Driving Emotion is well below average for a racing game. The game is no longer horrible, we ll give it that. Still, the slow but touchy controls make it feel more like work than fun, and there s not a lot of longevity. Maybe you ve already read our review of the import version of Driving Emotion Type-S, one of the PS2 s early Japanese titles. If so, you know we weren t exactly fans to be blunt, this was one of the worst driving games we had ever played since the early days of the Atari 2600.