Enthusia Professional Racing

Enthusia Professional Racing (エンスージアプロフェッショナルレーシング, Ensūjia Purofesshonaru Rēshingu) is a racing game for the PlayStation 2. It is the first sim racing game developed by Konami.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Over 211 vehicles to drive ranging from compact cars, 4-door saloons to even featuring vans such as Chevrolet Astro, Toyota Estima Hybrid, and Toyota Alphard.
 * 2) A better reskin of Gran Turismo 4 compared to many reskins appeared in Crappy Games Wiki.
 * 3) 40 tracks to race. There's even a track named "Dragon Range" which resembles the Akira Touge from Initial D series.
 * 4) Balanced vehicle handling model.
 * 5) Challenging and lengthy difficulty in both Career Mode and Driving Revolution.
 * 6) Unlike many other racing games, the player can switch opponent's cars, in addition, to feel that you're creating your own vehicle restrictions and even swap positions including you in Free Run mode. For example you can make a restriction with 80's japanese cars, classic american muscle cars, kei cars or even vans.
 * 7) Good soundtrack
 * 8) The racing like GT4 is intense.
 * 9) Beautiful graphics.
 * 10) During career mode it uses the Enthu Points in which determines of your driving. Exiting off the track, getting overtaken by a opponent, or colliding into a barrier or a opponent, it deducts your Enthu Points bar. Winning grants you the amount of points depending of your Enthu Points bar in which raises your level from both driver and your car. Leveling up your vehicle it makes even more faster and maneuverable.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The controls it can be stiff at times especially if you're attempting to handle an heavy car with the directional buttons which are even more stiffer than the analog stick.
 * 2) In most cases in Career Mode some opponents are driving a car that is way too overpowered to the player to the point you think into the infamous Ford GT40 in the second race of Historic Car Cup or the Vector M12 LM Edition in the Trial Mountain 30 Lap Endurance in Gran Turismo 2 would be underpowered.
 * 3) Some Driving Revolution tests forces you to drive a car that has very wonky handling making those Driving Revolutions a very tedious to complete such as the Driving Revolution where you drive a 1971 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray C3 that has very wonky, unstable and sluggish handling.
 * 4) To unlock all of the cars in Free Run mode you must achieve S in every Driving Revolution mode in which it can be extremely tedious as like trying to achieve a gold trophy/medal in any Time Trial based event in any other racing game.
 * 5) Despite the game's rating in GameFAQS is 4,08 being the eight highest rated racing game, the reviews are average. However it cannot be delisted in Crappy Games Wiki or have a "Decent Games" category.
 * 6) As there is no in-game credits system, you can obtain these cars for free in Career Mode. While on hand its quite forgiving, it feels rather questionable for a sim racing game.

Reception
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight and three sevens for a total of 29 out of 40.

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