Racing looks to be the break-away advance for the next Game Boy. Portable gamers haven't seen a killer racer on any handheld game system yet, and outside a few simple but enjoyable spins in the best of these, speed has been utterly lacking in every pocket racer. Prepare for the boom, as a burst of speed kicks handheld racers in the tailpipe with the blustering speed of the Game Boy Advance. And Kemco's next lap is first to show how it can be done with style.

Looking at what's been done in this incredible-looking racer, the power of the Game Boy Advance to do Mode-7 scaling and rotation can be used to unbelievable extremes -- the game looks so much like Sony's landmark Gran Turismo series, it's astounding. Between this and MTO's Pocket GT Advance (which unfortunately hasn't been confirmed for the US yet), racing on the Game Boy Advance takes a giant leap towards realistic driving zen. Unfortunately, MTO's earlier Pocket GT games haven't seen light of day in America, so we might not be seeing that one on US shores just yet, but Kemco's driving excellence experience in All Japan GT Championship is breaking out on the success of a proven series, and should see US shores perhaps even by launch day.

On ahead to the finish line, Kemco is tweaking out the engine of this game for superior realism. The cars will be fully customizable in All Japan GT Championship, which is based on the real-life Japanese Zen-Nippon GT national circuit. The engine can be customized, and assumedly the rest of the car's features, like brakes and gear box ratio will also be open for monkey-wrenching. The game has a host of real Japanese drivers (not so fascinating to US gamers) and real automobiles (quite fascinating for all gamers) licensed for added realism.

Kemco is aiming for a breaking sense of speed with its latest racing game, and are promising that this game will book even with Link Cable play of up to four players Head-to-Head -- a very welcome feature that seems to becoming the standard for multiplayer gaming on the GBA. Kemco has also upped the ante for race enthusiasts with a Course Design mode. If the look of the sheen on this shot are evidence enough, there's going to be a rush when this game is released. The flag drops with the release of the Game Boy Advance: March 21, 2001. It's a good chance that Kemco will release this game as a Top Gear property because, up until this point, the game had been referred to as Top Gear All-Japan GT.

-IGN.com