Enthusia: Professional Racing
Description
Enthusia: Professional Racing is a driving simulation that features hundreds of licensed vehicles from dozens of various manufacturers. The cars vary in type, class, and time periods, so you can find some old timers as well as family cars and test them on the given tracks, race against another player in split-screen mode, or play the Enthusia Life mode and fill in your garage with as many cars as you can hold, or try the Driving Revolution to tune up your driving skills.
You can drive in first-person view or looking at the car from the typical back third-person view, with some extras you can turn on, such as the VGS (Visual Gravity System) which provides detailed information about car handling and tire traction. The cars in this game are true to their physics (you can see a movie comparison of real car and Enthusia in-game car if you wait a little while on main menu), more than 300 different physics parameters were reproduced for every car.
Spellings
- 狂热职业赛车 - Chinese spelling (simplified)
Groups +
- Automobile: AC Cobra
- Automobile: Alpine A110
- Automobile: Aston Martin Vanquish
- Automobile: Audi A4
- Automobile: Audi A6
- Automobile: Audi TT
- Automobile: BMW 3 Series
- Automobile: BMW M1
- Automobile: BMW Z4
- Automobile: Bugatti EB110
- Automobile: Chevrolet Camaro
- Automobile: Chevrolet Corvette
- Automobile: Citroën Xsara
- Automobile: DeLorean DMC-12
- Automobile: Dodge Viper
- Automobile: Ford Focus
- Automobile: Ford GT
- Automobile: Ford Mustang
- Automobile: Ford Thunderbird
- Automobile: Honda Accord
- Automobile: Honda Civic
- Automobile: Honda Fit
- Automobile: Honda Integra
- Automobile: Honda NSX
- Automobile: Honda S2000
- Automobile: Jaguar E-Type
- Automobile: Lancia 037
- Automobile: Lancia Delta
- Automobile: Lancia Stratos HF
- Automobile: Lotus Elise
- Automobile: Lotus Esprit
- Automobile: Mazda 787B
- Automobile: Mazda MX-5
- Automobile: Mazda RX-7
- Automobile: Mazda RX-8
- Automobile: McLaren F1
- Automobile: Mercedes-Benz C-Class
- Automobile: Mercedes-Benz SL-Class
- Automobile: Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren
- Automobile: Mini Cooper
- Automobile: Mitsubishi Lancer
- Automobile: Nissan Fairlady Z
- Automobile: Nissan Primera
- Automobile: Nissan R390 GT1
- Automobile: Nissan Silvia
- Automobile: Nissan Skyline
- Automobile: Opel Astra
- Automobile: Peugeot 206
- Automobile: Peugeot 406
- Automobile: Pontiac Firebird
- Automobile: Renault 5
- Automobile: Renault Clio
- Automobile: Subaru Impreza
- Automobile: Subaru Legacy
- Automobile: Toyota 2000GT
- Automobile: Toyota Celica
- Automobile: Toyota Corolla
- Automobile: Toyota GT-One
- Automobile: Toyota MR2
- Automobile: Toyota Prius
- Automobile: Toyota Supra
- Automobile: Volkswagen Beetle
- Automobile: Volkswagen Golf
- Automobile: Volkswagen New Beetle
- Automobile: Volkswagen Polo
- Console Generation Exclusives: PlayStation 2
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Credits (PlayStation 2 version)
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Reviews
Critics
Average score: 72% (based on 23 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.9 out of 5 (based on 5 ratings with 1 reviews)
The Good
Unique unlock system and progression system. Some of the best original tracks you'll find in any racing sim. Amazing music. Wild selection of cars. The physics are interesting.
The Bad
'Free racing' requirements are too strict (make one mistake = fail). Daily system in Enthusia Life is annoying (switching to a different car punishes you). "Driving Revolution" is a cute gimmick mode but kind of pointless. Some cars have undrivable handling (Bugatti).
The Bottom Line
Not quite Gran Turismo but close enough to be worth playing. There's no other racing game like it.
PlayStation 2 · by capes everywhere (1) · 2023
Trivia
Tracks
Several of Enthusia's tracks (Speediapolis Ring, Autumn Hill, Löwenseering, Burgenschlucht, Dragon Range, Victoria Garden, Mystic Caveway, Rev City) appeared in 2010 arcade racer Road Fighters.
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Related Sites +
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IGCD Internet Game Cars Database
Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games. -
Konami: Enthusia Professional Racing
The official site. -
Wikipedia: Enthusia Professional Racing
Information about Enthusia Professional Racing at Wikipedia
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Game added by MAT.
Additional contributors: Unicorn Lynx, Apogee IV, DreinIX, Victor Vance, Infernos.
Game added April 12, 2005. Last modified March 1, 2024.