Racing Gears Advance (GBA)

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Racing Gears Advance
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Platform: Game Boy Advance
Year: 2004
Developer: Orbital Media

Racing Gears Advance is a combat racing game for the Game Boy Advance system released in 2004. This handheld racing game offers a range of 12 licensed cars (including models by Chevrolet, Dodge, GM, Lotus and Mitsubishi), several circuits, and a set of opponents. To these stock elements, it adds one more: weaponry. Now you can choose to nitro past the opponent ahead of you, or slow him down with a missile.

With each vehicle and driver pair you can race in Practice Mode to familiarize yourself with tracks or choose Championship Mode to progress through a series of circuits. After each race you'll need to spend some of the money you've earned (either by achieving a good placement or picking up money icons during the race) to repair and, if possible, upgrade your car. Upgrades can improve your car as a racing machine (e.g. a larger engine or better brakes) or as a war machine (e.g. adding more weapons bays or buying a new type of weapon).

The track design uses isometric view, and almost never puts the car behind an obstacle. However, among the twisty roads are a few shortcuts that require you to think outside the lines of the road, and occasionally take a leap of faith.

(Source - MobyGames, Published August 19, 2006)

Screenshots

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Title screen.

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Main menu screen.

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Driver selection screen.

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Gameplay 1.

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Gameplay 2.

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Gameplay 3.

Music

The soundtrack is notable for having been composed by Neil Voss, known for his prior work on Tetrisphere and The New Tetris. Voss also remixed and sampled various songs by rock musicians such as The Beatles and Ronnie Laws. This is first time, when Voss composed MIDI music used MusyX tools by Factor 5.

Recording

These recordings were made using foobar2000 with exporting to OGG (Vorbis) format.

# Title Composer Length Listen Download
01 Title Neil Voss 4:07
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02 Race! Neil Voss 2:13
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03 Rankings Neil Voss 1:14
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04 Starting Grid Neil Voss 0:28
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05 Boogie Days Neil Voss 3:10
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06 Cycl Neil Voss 4:17
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07 1985 Neil Voss 2:32
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08 Disco Danger Neil Voss 3:27
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09 Monotone Neil Voss 3:28
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10 Wooly Neil Voss 4:01
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11 Hotrod Megastyle Neil Voss 3:33
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12 Hyper Maximum Neil Voss 3:28
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13 Magnum Neil Voss 4:14
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14 People Mover Neil Voss 5:19
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15 Rbbrbrnr Neil Voss 3:39
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16 Repeater Neil Voss 3:30
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Credits

(Source: Game Credits)

Game Rip

Format

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(Info)


Releases

  EU.svg   EU
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Title: Racing Gears Advance
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Released: 2004-12-17
Publisher: ZOO Digital Publishing
  USA.svg   USA
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Title: Racing Gears Advance
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Released: 2005-02-08
Publisher: Orbital Media

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