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Tube Slider: The Championship of Future Formula
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Tube Slider: The Championship of Future Formula is a futuristic racing game released for the Nintendo GameCube exclusively in North America. The game's main feature, as indicated in its title, is that all racetracks are set in oversized transparent tubes. Though developed by first party studio Nd Cube (with the vehicle and environment design done by the acclaimed animation studio Studio 4°C[1]), the game was published by NEC.
Tube Slider is the last game by the original incarnation of Nd Cube. Following its releases, most of Nd Cube's staff would leave the company and Nd Cube would not release another game before 2010, after an influx of Hudson Soft employees.
Blurb
"LIMITLESS VELOCITY
Get your adrenaline fix as you race at incredible speeds in hover vehicles that slide through gravity-defying racecources at over thousand miles per hour. The future of championship formula racing is faster, sleeker, and more dangerous - you may be able to avoid hitting the walls, but can you defy your opponent's power-siphoning Lock-On beams? You may be able to finish a race... but can you win it?"
Gameplay
Tube Slider follows a conventional racing game structure. The player must first select among eight vehicles with differentiated stats and handling models and participate in various racing championships. All of Tube Slider's tracks are inside transparent tubes.
Before each race, the player can select if they want their vehicle to be equipped with a "turbo" or a "booster". The turbo provides a poweful one-time burst of speed while the booster is a less powerful but more flexible speed enhancer that can be feathered. Boost energy automatically regenerates and can also be collected by siphoning other competitor's reserves, or by collecting Velocity Pick-ups scattered around the tracks. Blue items add to the player’s energy reserves, yellow items provides an immediate burst of speed like the turbo and rare red items accelerate the vehicle to a far greater degree.
Unlike most futuristic racing games, Tube Slider does not feature combat, but by placing their vehicle’s directly behind an opponent’s craft, competitors can syphoon away boost energy and add it to their own reserve, something called the"Lock-On" system. However, if the attacked craft boost before the lock-on attempt is completed, they will steal energy from the attacking craft.
The main gameplay mode of Tube Slider is Grand Prix mode, which task the player to compete through three racing tournaments alone or split-screen with one other player. Completing the final regular tournament unlocks Maximum mode, which features the same tournaments played at greater speed and difficulty, and the Tryal Road, an one-time race against a powerful boss vehicle named Spyder. Completing the Tryal Road in Normal mode unlocks an alternate model for the selected vehicle while completing it in Maximum mode unlocks Spyder itself. Other modes include Time Attack, Free Run, Course Pratice (which has the player collect orbs in some of the regular tracks and get graded on their speed and number of orbs collected)' and Tutorial, a collection of videos explaining various aspects of the game.
