Street Supremacy

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Street Supremacy
Street Supremacy cover.jpeg
European cover art
Developer(s) Genki
Publisher(s)
Director(s) Yousuke Kawamura
Producer(s) Tomoharu Kimura
Composer(s) Riverside Music
Series Tokyo Xtreme Racer
Platform(s) PlayStation Portable
Release
  • JP: April 21, 2005
  • NA: February 28, 2006
  • EU: September 29, 2006
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Street Supremacy [lower-alpha 1] is a racing video game developed by Genki and published by Konami in North America, Europe and Australia. It is part of the Tokyo Xtreme Racer series, despite not being named as such. It was released on April 21, 2005, in Japan, February 28, 2006, in North America, September 2006 in France and Oct 6, 2006 in Australia for the PlayStation Portable. It received poor reviews from critics, primarily citing its loading times and driving mechanics.

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Reception

The game received an aggregate score of 41/100 on Metacritic, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [1]

Alex Navarro of GameSpot rated the game 4.5/10, praising the game's team battle mode but criticizing the loading times, driving gameplay and "broken" ad-hoc multiplayer mode, as well as the game's lack of free roam. [2] 1Up.com gave the game a D+ rating, calling the game's life bar mechanic "pretty intense", but saying that the racing mechanics feel "like ice racing most of the time". [3] Chris Roper of IGN rated the game 2.5/10, calling it "easily one of the worst racing games I've ever laid my hands on, bar none", and noting that the ad-hoc multiplayer was "completely and entirely nonfunctional", and that both racers became more and more out of sync as the race progressed. [4]

Notes

  1. Known in Japan as Shutokō Battle (Japanese: 首都高バトル)

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