Top Gear 3000 (known as The Planet's Champ TG3000 in Japan) was a sequel to the 1993 video game Top Gear 2 for the Super NES. It is a racing game similar to the original in gameplay, but set in the distant future with 48 different tracks on alien planets, and a variety of environments.
As the name implies, the game is set in the year 3000. The introduction states that anonymous benefactor and funders have created a massive galaxy-wide racing camp...
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Top Gear 3000 (known as The Planet's Champ TG3000 in Japan) was a sequel to the 1993 video game Top Gear 2 for the Super NES. It is a racing game similar to the original in gameplay, but set in the distant future with 48 different tracks on alien planets, and a variety of environments.
As the name implies, the game is set in the year 3000. The introduction states that anonymous benefactor and funders have created a massive galaxy-wide racing campaign at the outset of each millennium, and reward the winner with "riches beyond belief." Placing this game a thousand years in the future allowed the developers to plausibly include futuristic and improbable technologies, and abandon the relative realism of Top Gear 2.
Car upgrades were more extensive than in Top Gear 2 , and "weapons" were featured for the first time in the series. Upgrades included a nuclear fusion engine, a cobalt-titanium armor kit, and a liquid polymer gearbox; weapons included a device to jump over cars, a warp device,...
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