Xanae : Battle Racers



Xanae : Battle Racers is a 2001 racing/vehicular-combat game by Jeanjean Games released on PS1 and PS2.

Gameplay
The gameplay is similar to both Mario Kart/Crash Team Racing and vehicular combat games such as Twisted Metal and Vigilante 8.

The player chooses a character whom controls a vehicle to do race or battle with it, finding and equipping weapons found around the level.

Eeach character gets their own individual weapon only found in special crates within the stage, known as their Special Weapon.

Each player must get the opponent's health down to zero in order to win the match (or get into the finish line in race mode), with the defeated vehicle exploding with the last hit.

Plot
2015,

Earth,

A massive earthquake has turned the planet into a wasteland where chaos, car races and vehicular combats rules.

A group of rebels leaded by teenage girl named Xanae plots to overthrow African Dictator Aliou N'Golo N'Golo Konaté and prevent him to aquire the "Miche" a powerful and deadly weapon that Czernobyl scientists created but hidden after 1986.

Characters/Cars

 * Xanae, a teenager who wants to avenge her parents who died in the hands of N'Golo N'Golo Konaté (drives a Citroen Xsara Picasso, her special weapon is a giant scorpion tail hidden in the trunk)
 * Leon O'Malley, a milkman who becomes Xanae's right hand man and love interest (drives a Ford Transit mkIII, his special weapon is a cannon that throws milk bottles-like grenades)
 * Queenie, Xanae's high school rival who teams up with Aliou N'Golo N'Golo Konaté (drives a BMW Z3, her special weapon is a big screen TV that hynotizes other players)
 * Aliou N'Golo N'Golo Konaté, a teenage Idi Amin-like african dictator who seduced Xanae before killing her parents in cold blood (drives a Wanshan Special Vehicle DF-11 with a missile on it)
 * Nathanael "Babtou" Adenor, N'Golo N'Golo Konaté's white advisor who's responsible for the bankrupty of Leon's milk company thus becoming his archenemy (he drives a AM General HMMWV and his special weapon is a machine gun)
 * Hemu, an alien posing as a dog who helps Xanae and Leon (he flies in a helicopter and his special weapon is a death ray)

Tracks & Arenas

 * Indianapolis 500, USA (Track)
 * Pikes Peak, Colorado, USA (Track)
 * Circuit de Monaco (Track)
 * Suzuka International Racing Course, Japan (Track)
 * N'Golo N'Golo Konaté's Palace (Track) (a Bowser Castle like circuit)
 * Earth Track 2096 (Track) (a CTR's Oxide Station like circuit)
 * Death Valley, California, USA (Arena)
 * Area 51, California, USA (Arena)
 * Sahara Desert (Arena)
 * Czernobyl (Arena)
 * N'Golo N'Golo Konaté's Palace (Arena)
 * Earth 2096 (Arena)