So, a week ago or so I was told I was chosen to be a beta tester on Ijji, a site featuring a bunch of online multiplayer games, usually of the not-MMO sort.

However, the game I'm beta testing IS an MMO. But not just any MMO It's an MMO, but with cars. This may or may not be new, I suck at knowing what's new, so let's just say it's new and nobody correct me. Naturally, I assumed "RACING SUX I HAT U DRIFT CITY!!11!" However, after I started to play it, it suddenly turned into Uber Awesome Omega Xtreme: Turbo Edition.Read more after the jump, if I could actually put a jump, so just read more, I guess.

When you start the game, some anime girl makes you get a drivers license, which is a lot simpler than in real life. You just make up any name (Lolllolol and Lollolllol are popular choices) and choose a photo of some anime peoples who look nothing like you, and there you go, one authentic driver's license!

Then you choose your car... and I have nothing to say about that. It's just choosing a car. Not that amazing of a thing.

So then you get into the game for reals, starting in this big city place. This city place is where you do missions, side missions, and... ummm... be a jerk and run into other people who are trying to do missions.

The game plays like a standard racing game. You can go forward, you can go backward, you can turn left, you can turn right, you can perform drifts, and you can use a boost whenever you fill your boost guage.

To fill your boost guage, you have a few options.
1) Sit around doing nothing.
2) Drive around doing nothing.
3) Drive around like a drunken maniac.

Choice 3 is highly recommended. It's also where an element from Crazy Taxi comes in. Drive on the wrong side of the road, and you get a boost to your boost guage every few seconds. Drive really close by other cars, and you get a larger boost to your boost guage. You can also go off jumps for a REALLY huge boost, but there are barely any jumps in the game, really. Finally, you can perform a drift.

In addition, whenever you do one of those things, it adds 1 to your combo counter thingy. The combo counter serves only one purpose: whenever you get a multiple of 10, you get an item, usually one of 4 crappy items nobody cares about, but soemtimes you can get parts to attach to your vehicle, which increase its stats.

Oh, right stats, about those things. Guess what? This is an MMO. You actually have to get XP and level up. To get XP, you just complete missions, side missions, or compete in the Battle Arena. More on the BA later. When you level up, all your base stats increase by 1. These stats are Speed, Acceleration, Durability, and Boost. If you don't know what these mean, you're a moron. The base stats are added to your car's stats.

Anyways, around the city, there are several rest stops. At these, you can do story missions, side missions, enter the battle arena, fill up your gas (which you rarely need to do), or go to the Hidden Base, which is just a place where all the shops and stuff are thrown together.

In the story missions, you do things. Sometimes you're going from point A to point B, sometimes you're doing that with a time limit, sometimes you're killing evil robot cars, and sometimes you have to trail cars (which is really boring, because all you do is tap on the up key whenever you're starting to get too far away).

In side missions, most of them are delivering things to multiple places. Also, each has a Top 100 list. That's pretty much all there is.

So, the Battle Arena. It actually has nothing to do with battles, nor is there actually an arena. Instead, this is where you race other peoples on a bunch of tracks. It's set up like a standard online game: join or create a room, wait for everybody to be Ready, kick the morons who don't click Ready, and wait 5 more minutes because everybody left while you did that. Don't worry, I'm exaggerating.

Then, when you get into the races, playing has a few differences to it. You now have a Durability guage, which is where your Durability stat comes into play. When you suck and burn, you lose HP. When you lose it all, you start going super slow, and a ninja mechanic will fix it in about 2 seconds. Ofcourse, this is high-speed racing, so that 2 seconds will often mess you up badly, as you also have to build up speed again afterwards.

Also, along the track, there are some electric gate things. Rather than killing you in electric death, like expected, they give you certain power ups. It could be a half Boost gauge fill, a full Boost guage fill, a limited time super boost, momentary invincibility (which comes with the speed boost), a longer invincibility (+ speed boost), and Skid Rush, a super-long invincibility, with speed boost. If you get it, expect winnings. Lots of winnings.

So, in all, Project Drift City is awesome. And I'm better than you for being able to play it. HAHAHA LOSERS! ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GAMECHAMP!

Fun Fact: It was originally Skid Rush in the original version from across the oceans.

Fun Fact 2: Due to weird Asia symbols exploding my brain, I couldn't find any of my own screenshots, so instead there's that one from Skid Rush I googled.

Fun Fact 3: I suck at not writing too much.