Well, with the knowledge that we're driving a literal death trap fresh in mind, let's take it to the race track!


: I hope you win!


: Thank you


Thanks Chesty. At this point I'm just hoping we survive.





: Oh, there it is again.



Ok we're circuit side!

I don't know about you guys, but I could really do with a nice cold pint of FESTORS right now.


: I'm the race official here.This is probably your first time.I'll explain the rules here.



...Y’know Chesty?

That is entirely too little clothing for a race official to wear around a race track. Haven't you Americans heard of occupational health and safety?


: People who are participating in a race first decide on a bet. Bets can be placed in increments of $50, and then people with the same bet compete against each other.


: So you can't choose your opponent before the race?


: Yes, if you know your opponent before the race, The slower the opponent, the more money. You'll start gambling, right?


: That would make the race impossible.So I purposely made it so that the other person couldn't choose. Have you done so?



Oh, so we can't purposefully pick opponents with obviously slower cars than ours to ensure we beat them all the time?

But that was our whole strategy in the first game! :(


: But the faster you are, the more money you get. Because you are gambling, the higher the stakes. I think the opponent is fast.


:How much to bet?



Ok. So it appears we have the ability to choose in increments of $50 up to $300…

Now I don't know about you guys, but I'm not altogether confident in our little Jimny. I'll bid the lowest possible amount...


: Is the bet 50 dollars okay?


: Good luck!



Whoah this cool! I wasn’t expecting this... It’s in first person!





That is a clever way to save art costs. No wonder there are 24+ cars.

Also notice our car is right hand drive! Either the developers didn't know that Americans drive on the left, or perhaps Shifty has been illegally importing these from Japan….

Y’know, there was a mob going around breaking into cars in Japan, and reselling them, supposedly to afford parts for Zero4 races…. Or so I heard.

Perhaps these are just being reunited with Hiro.

Anyway, let's race! I recorded the first couple so you can see what it looks like in Zero4 Champ II.





Controls wise, it seems identical to the first game. Button for clutch, button for accelerator, and arrow keys to shift the gears. Y’know I got pretty good at doing this, thanks to doing it a million times in Zero4 Champ 1.

However, to the surprise of literally no one, I lost…

It looks like the first car was pretty ancient too. Is that a 1950’s Chevy or Ford?

Regardless, it pulled a 15.31. We only managed a 18.02.

I also tried another car, as you can see in the video. This looked like some sort of 90s Pontiac or something. Amerigoons any idea? I’m less familiar with American cars.

It was slower than the 1950’s car however, throwing a 16.58 0-400m. But, no small comfort when we're doing it in 18.0 seconds.

…we've got some work ahead of us if we want this beach cruiser to be competitive…

: That's a pity.



But I do see some promise... We did get the jump on both cars since our little sushi roll weighed next to nothing. Perhaps she'll come alive with some tuning...


: I'll be in the next race too?



Another translation error. In actual fact, she's asking a question, specifically whether we will be in the next race.

… I think we'll hold off on this one until we can be a bit faster.


: Come again.