Makes sense. This is a localized Wii port of GT Cube which was a Japan-exclusive Gamecube title in 2003. It's also basically a 3D rendition of the GT Advance titles on the GBA.
@@2007ghettonissanaltima thats awesome i wish i still had my copy, i hacked my wii and have it on my sd card as well as the original GT Cube now tho so we good
reviewers at the time of release said the graphics suck. I imagine probably due to anti aliasing issues you get when you play it on the wii. I cant see any of the turns until the last second because of it. For me, that only adds to the enjoyment, but I understand their frustration. The game is actually a port of gt cube from the GameCube, which probably explains why reviewers felt graphics were outdated. They did say the controls were very nice though.
I bought this game because it looked a lot like Auto Modelista. I wasn't disappointed :-) I've also spent a lot of time playing gt advance 3 on the gba so it felt very familiar straight away. Definitely one of the more underrated games on the wii...
Back in 2008 as a little kid I loved playing car games on the Wii. I spent hours playing this game, need for speed nitro, and emergency hero's. Good times
Never knew how this game worked when I was little so I didn’t play it. My wii broke but I decided to bring the disc over to a friends cause the last racing game we played was unexpectedly good and omg I need to emulate this right now. I totally didn’t expect the soundtrack to be this good!
Ubisoft also published Import Tuner Challenge/Shutoko Battle X in the west so they probably like Wangan Midnight too. A damn shame that was also the final mainstream Shutoko Battle entry, though. Had some nice ideas going on but it's just way too easy and the car roster is miniscule compared to TXR3's. I can at least excuse the Wangan/Yokohane/Yokohama routes being absent since construction at the time prevented them from being scanned. We could really use Genki's racers in this era of modern racing game stagnance, though. AFAIK they're currently with Bandai Namco helping them scan routes for the Maximum Tune games or something along those lines.
@@ArbitraryOutcomeit’s a damn shame that most of these types of games don’t make it to western audiences. The PS4 and PS5 are really lacking in racing games. Xbox as well, but I miss Enthusia and other games like that
I remember when I played this game on my Wii, I had it compketed, and also the drift challenge were a bit difficult for me when I was doing those, pretty much I used the Beat to beat them, this game was great for the Wii.
Ubi only published this game, this game was developed by a japanese developer MTO, the game comes from a gameboy advance saga with a similar name developed by the exact same people, but ubi didn't do anything with those, ubisoft only made the job of publishing the game on american territory with this game
@@ziqqerlad Yeah. I remember the cel shaded game boom back in the early-mid 2000's. I miss those days. Everything just felt so much cooler back then, especially stuff from Japan.
Joguei muito quando criança, nunca reparei que tinha tantos JDM, hoje sou fan de initial D, deve ser pq tinha memoria desse jogo perdido na minha mente, até um eurobeat de fundo.
The other day, I looked through the internet to find this game. I remembered renting it all the way back in 2008, and that it had a very cell-shaded appearance. Turns out that you made a video on it a couple days earlier, which I am now watching. I was thinking about getting this game again, but the reviews I found say that it is very shabby and “every car feels the same”. Would you say that’s true? Also, this game is a port of a GameCube game that goes by the name of “GT Cube”. I can’t find any differences between the versions other than the motion controls because 1. This game isn’t really documented much anyway and 2. The GT cube wiki page is basically empty. The only text is the area above the box with the game’s box art and info about the console it is on, release date, etc. Also turns out this game had some GBA installations that came out before the GameCube game. Very interesting how there is this much about some Wii launch game that seemingly has “influence” from Gran Turismo has this much backstory.
I played all 3 gba games and pro series. There is one new things in the Wii version, it has widescreen. It has nothing to do with the 2nd game, wich was a rally game but the menus are clearly based on the first one. The handling feels more simmilar to the one in the third gba entry, on it, the cars kinda felt different but not too much, but there were definetly some you could push harder, enough so you can feel a difference, i guess it's the same here on wii, idk, i only recently got it. In any case, i wouldn't worry about it, it has a really arcadey feel wich negates the need for cars to really feel different
When I played this like 15 years ago I didn't know there's arcade drift and thought it's somewhat realistic because I can't full throttle all the way like nfs
xTimelessGaming: *introduces the cars* Me, an experienced player of this game: *Knowing what he's going to see when he reaches Toyota* Heh heh heh... (Toyota AE86)
Drifting in this game kicks you so towards :D If u wanna speed-run this game... Forget goin street line... Just drift it all from start to finish xD. Edit: ( And imagine watching it in replay XD )
i played through this on dolphin emulator recently and a hilarious glitch happened on downtown street, i drove by a car and the front half of it was stuck inside a wall and it was just sitting there
This is so cool! It's very 90's arcade style, right down to the menu music and the generic courses.
Takes you back in time a little.
Makes sense. This is a localized Wii port of GT Cube which was a Japan-exclusive Gamecube title in 2003. It's also basically a 3D rendition of the GT Advance titles on the GBA.
this is the first racing game i ever played i was 5 at the time, nostalgia here for sure 😂
i thought i was the only one 😭
same lmao the memories
I still have it
@@2007ghettonissanaltima thats awesome i wish i still had my copy, i hacked my wii and have it on my sd card as well as the original GT Cube now tho so we good
@@droolgool YOU TOO?!
I got this game for christmas as a kid and had no expectations. It's now a big part of why I love JDM.
How to make a game visually timeless and ages gracefully in the future:
Make it cel shaded.
reviewers at the time of release said the graphics suck. I imagine probably due to anti aliasing issues you get when you play it on the wii. I cant see any of the turns until the last second because of it. For me, that only adds to the enjoyment, but I understand their frustration. The game is actually a port of gt cube from the GameCube, which probably explains why reviewers felt graphics were outdated. They did say the controls were very nice though.
I bought this game because it looked a lot like Auto Modelista. I wasn't disappointed :-)
I've also spent a lot of time playing gt advance 3 on the gba so it felt very familiar straight away. Definitely one of the more underrated games on the wii...
Back in 2008 as a little kid I loved playing car games on the Wii. I spent hours playing this game, need for speed nitro, and emergency hero's. Good times
BROOOO WE PLAYED THE SAME GAMES OMG
Never knew how this game worked when I was little so I didn’t play it. My wii broke but I decided to bring the disc over to a friends cause the last racing game we played was unexpectedly good and omg I need to emulate this right now. I totally didn’t expect the soundtrack to be this good!
Who knew that Ubisoft loved Initial D
Yeah initial d is reputed in France
Ubisoft also published Import Tuner Challenge/Shutoko Battle X in the west so they probably like Wangan Midnight too.
A damn shame that was also the final mainstream Shutoko Battle entry, though. Had some nice ideas going on but it's just way too easy and the car roster is miniscule compared to TXR3's. I can at least excuse the Wangan/Yokohane/Yokohama routes being absent since construction at the time prevented them from being scanned.
We could really use Genki's racers in this era of modern racing game stagnance, though. AFAIK they're currently with Bandai Namco helping them scan routes for the Maximum Tune games or something along those lines.
@@ArbitraryOutcomeit’s a damn shame that most of these types of games don’t make it to western audiences. The PS4 and PS5 are really lacking in racing games. Xbox as well, but I miss Enthusia and other games like that
AE86, but of course. Also, Wii drifting!
Edit: Holy shit when you get THRUSTED when you drift! Takumi would be proud.
懐かし....
子供の頃やったわ。またやろうかな
I remember when I played this game on my Wii, I had it compketed, and also the drift challenge were a bit difficult for me when I was doing those, pretty much I used the Beat to beat them, this game was great for the Wii.
10:06 when you got an itchy nose
yeaa.. 😂 lol
I can relate
Ubisoft worked with cell-shaded graphics? that's cool
Ubi only published this game, this game was developed by a japanese developer MTO, the game comes from a gameboy advance saga with a similar name developed by the exact same people, but ubi didn't do anything with those, ubisoft only made the job of publishing the game on american territory with this game
@@Noire_. MTO also published the game but only in japan did the publish
The Cel Shading?
Japanese Cars only?
The Eurobeat music?
Guys, this is basically an Initial D video game!
HOLY CRAP THE NOSTALGIA
Looks a lot like Auto Modelista to me
Cell shaded graphics is the shit, my dude. Good stuff
@@ziqqerlad agree
agreed man
@@ziqqerlad Yeah. I remember the cel shaded game boom back in the early-mid 2000's. I miss those days. Everything just felt so much cooler back then, especially stuff from Japan.
Though I think AM is better.
とても懐かしい…よくWiiの中でこれ好きだった
We need more cell shading games, they look fantastic!
Thanks for posting! Been looking for other cel-shade racers.
Auto Modellista and I guess Drift City are the only ones people are familiar with afaik.
I never got to play this game unfortunately. Looks like Auto modellista 2.0 i like it
عكرمة
@@djawadferaoune4571 yeah man! Dope right?
My dad bought this at a yard sale and I played it
Played and completed this cool Wii game. Pretty solid music!
I had no idea this game was made by the same studio as the GT Advance games… I would’ve bought this back in the day lol
Memories! I had this game on my Wii.
OMG this game brings me back to when I had my wii I use to race the Toyota Alford all the time 😂
I remember how it was trashed by ppl on release, but its actually a pretty good game.
Kind of like the shining, which was also smashed by people
絵の感じはアウトモデリスタっぽいですねぇ。
車選択BGMがAdvance GTAの選択BGMっぽい
This is basically Gran Turismo but on the Nintendo Wii.
マリカーを思い出してしまった。
Request: recreate Lucky Star Initial D Parody in GT4
You used: any blue compact
Opponent: just yellow RX7 FD
I second this recreation. Add the music too 🤣
Ce jeu aujourd'hui aurait été bien noté car c'est à la mode les jeux coloré et arcades. Mais je me souviens à l'époque d'avoir détesté ce jeu...
待ってくっそ懐かしいwww
ゲームキューブのソフトじゃんw
確かGTCUBEだっけ
よくやってた覚えある懐かしい☺️
俺は今やってますw
それをwii用にアレンジしたものですね
I remember that game it was my childhood
omg please. How is it looking SO good.
Joguei muito quando criança, nunca reparei que tinha tantos JDM, hoje sou fan de initial D, deve ser pq tinha memoria desse jogo perdido na minha mente, até um eurobeat de fundo.
Bro making sure these tofu deliveries is 5 star while racing at the same time. I might get this tbh
It's a swarm of bees! Bees!
I remember this game! Good thing I still have it.
Looks really fun, with these graphics like Sega Naomi early 3D era
Looks kinda like arcade stage 3
This could be the successor to the GT Advanced series on Game Boy Advanced
It is
@@leftindarkness870 It's also a localized version of GT Cube.
@@bloodedge1528 yeah i know
Hah! I thought I recognized the car select screen BGM.
Recognized it from the car select music
Shit I remember playing this when I was about 3-4 years old
The other day, I looked through the internet to find this game. I remembered renting it all the way back in 2008, and that it had a very cell-shaded appearance.
Turns out that you made a video on it a couple days earlier, which I am now watching. I was thinking about getting this game again, but the reviews I found say that it is very shabby and “every car feels the same”. Would you say that’s true?
Also, this game is a port of a GameCube game that goes by the name of “GT Cube”. I can’t find any differences between the versions other than the motion controls because
1. This game isn’t really documented much anyway
and 2. The GT cube wiki page is basically empty. The only text is the area above the box with the game’s box art and info about the console it is on, release date, etc.
Also turns out this game had some GBA installations that came out before the GameCube game. Very interesting how there is this much about some Wii launch game that seemingly has “influence” from Gran Turismo has this much backstory.
I played all 3 gba games and pro series.
There is one new things in the Wii version, it has widescreen.
It has nothing to do with the 2nd game, wich was a rally game but the menus are clearly based on the first one.
The handling feels more simmilar to the one in the third gba entry, on it, the cars kinda felt different but not too much, but there were definetly some you could push harder, enough so you can feel a difference, i guess it's the same here on wii, idk, i only recently got it.
In any case, i wouldn't worry about it, it has a really arcadey feel wich negates the need for cars to really feel different
Forgot to add, if you don't like motions controls, you can always use the D-Pad. It's simmilar to the gba controls so it works well with the physics
I played at my uncle's house one time. I couldn't even get past the first race due to it's frustrating difficulty.
Same thing happened to me...found out i had to change the controller settings
I hated the control on this game but somehow the car list puts modern forza to shame
俺はこのゲームを高校生か大学生の頃にやっていて、特にハマったコースはサーキット(公道含む)と高速道路(首都高湾岸線のようなコース)だった🛣️
I think this game is perfect to learn how to race in circuits if you put the view in first person.
When I played this like 15 years ago I didn't know there's arcade drift and thought it's somewhat realistic because I can't full throttle all the way like nfs
*Deja vu intensifies*
Shame MTO never made more games, their option tuning car battle games were good
one of my fave games on my wii.. rx7
Seems fun, would try one day
Good thing I still have a Wii
The menu theme sounds a bit like Daiki Kasho's "Strike Breaker" (from GT3)
xTimelessGaming: *introduces the cars*
Me, an experienced player of this game: *Knowing what he's going to see when he reaches Toyota* Heh heh heh...
(Toyota AE86)
Drifting in this game kicks you so towards :D If u wanna speed-run this game... Forget goin street line... Just drift it all from start to finish xD.
Edit: ( And imagine watching it in replay XD )
Used to love this game
Alternative title: Gran Turismo 3 on cocaine
Once again, SlapTrain's car which is playable can be rarely seen in other different games.
Honda CR-X or Infiniti G35?
@@michaelbreckshot6589 Also, his CR-X "Rexy" is permanently wrecked so he still has a G35 in his own.
@@B4RC0D3_YT dang
That first screen nearly knocks me of my chair😅
I remember playing this as a kid and thinking the graphics were next level. Now I'm only just realising since we have forza and all that stuff now.
i still have this game lol the controls and gameplay are awful but its still very nostalgic and fun 👍
Gran Turismo but on the Wii
Nintendo really needs it's own Gran Turismo
two words: *DEJA VU*
Initial wii
Is this a spin off of gran turismo? Because this game looks different from the gran turismo games.
Nostalgia...
I dare you to try and speedrun tracks of this game and try to beat me ;)
thank you for driving intial d cars only
omg It still uses the GBA sound effects for the cars too. lol
NAKAZATO DOESNT DRIFT YOU KNOW
I remembered you can do burnouts in this game
If Takumi drifted city streets
Gran Turismo with Japanese cars and MPVs only...
*hurt thumb intesifies*
Initial D but Jet Set Radio Graphics
このゲーム日本版はないのか。
Wliiで見たこと無いからな。全部英語だし、あったらやってみたかったな
ありますよ！結構前ですがwiIでやってました
the only thing that sucks is the engine sound, looks great anyways
Do you have a discord server? If not could you make one! Love to be apart of a small community for pcsx2 players
i played through this on dolphin emulator recently and a hilarious glitch happened on downtown street, i drove by a car and the front half of it was stuck inside a wall and it was just sitting there
this games physics make my head hurt :C
Jotaro came here for the emulator.
Nostalgia
Woyeeeeeeee
Woyeeeeeeee
Woyeeeeeeee.
I recognize that music from somewhere , a GBA game I forgot the name
Gt advance
ハチロクって5速マニュアルじゃない？
エンジンの音がハチロクの音じゃない件
7:54で一瞬5速にあげてました！
20万キロくらい走ったスカスカのVTECみたいな音ですねw
全部6速でエンジン音均等なんじゃないかな
Inertia Drift!
It looks like that one racing game by Capcom
Noteks _ Automodelista?
burai the real green ranger yes
[Insert Eurobeat here]
‘Pro’ and ‘Wii’ don’t belong in the same sentence
*laughs in Mario Kart Wii and Project M*
Why does literally _every car_ sound the same?
But hey, the game does have pseudo-eurobeat though...
Why does this looks like the same game with GT Advance on gba?
This game is made by the same developers who made the GT Advance games, MTO. So this pretty much a 3D Console version of those games.
How do I get 60 fps in this game?
Can someone not get a soundtrack for the menu screen?
Any controller mods?
Mitsubishi Colt (GT4) + Light Speed HP = ????
Initial D fan haha
KANSEI DORIFTO
Dear! I'm playing well.
Good game!
It is me.or all cars sounds the same?