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2007 · Arcade · Racing
Drift City
PlayStation console exclusive
Drift City is a retro arcade racing game that lets the player race around a slalom track in a sports car. Test different cars and collect power ups to set faster times each lap.
- Released
- 1 August 2007
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4PlayStation 5Windows
- Genres
- ArcadeRacing
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- Naver Corporation
- Modes
- Multiplayer
- Engine
- Gamebryo
- Age ratings
- ESRB E
- Languages
- English
About
Drift City (also known as Skid Rush (스키드러쉬) in South Korea) is a massively multiplayer online Racing video game developed by NPluto and sponsored by several major automotive companies such as Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and U1 Technology. The standalone iOS and Android game (Drift City Mobile) was released on August 11, 2015, but has since shut down. On February 22, 2016, GamesCampus announced that the Drift City USA servers would close. On March 21, 2016, the USA server was shut down, although the Korean server is still playable.
On April 2, 2021, Arario announced that the Drift City Evolution server would be closing. On May 1, 2021, the Japanese server closed and the only remaining official server is the Korean server, hosted by Masangsoft.
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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Drift City is a cel-shaded racing video game which includes single-player (missions) and multi-player modes (team car racing, PVP) to play. The currency earned (named Mito) while playing can be spent on customizing owned cars, collecting new parts or buying some new rides. A large majority of missions involves reaching targets, occasionally with a time or crash limit, while following the arrow, similar to Crazy Taxi. Successfully completing a mission or a race gives a certain number of experience points and Mito. As an arcade-style racer, the physics make game feel faster and less prone to hazards.
There are 9 different types of cars, sorted by their power and overall quality. Before some of these can be unlocked, it is necessary to meet level requirements. At a certain point of time, the players will be informed of the location of a fugitive HUV that is near. If that request is accepted, the car chase starts with a time limit where the goal is to hit the runaway car until durability reaches zero.
Story
In the spring of 2007, a substance called Mitron was discovered on an island the size of Jeju Island in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean. Mitron is humanity's last resource in an age of depleting oil, and it is a near-perfect solid fuel source that is highly efficient, non-polluting, and produces no radioactive byproducts when fed into a fusion reactor. A U.S. university professor has estimated the value of Mitron energy buried on the uninhabited island the size of Jeju Island at $4 billion (KRW 4.51 trillion) per metric ton, with about 1 million metric tons of Mitron buried on the island.
An announcement is made that the OECD countries will build a massive development on the southern part of the island and then mine Mitron, declaring the entire island a Special Administrative Region under the jurisdiction of the OMD government. The OMD government then builds an international city called Moon Palace on the uninhabited island. Moon Palace was the only place in the world where Mitron energy could be used legally, making it far more abundant than any other part of the world, and many people in the world wanted to live there.
Development
Drift City was developed by NHN Game Development Center and published by NHN. Peppertones contributed the soundtrack.
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