Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune 3 DX

Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune 3 DX is a racing arcade game, which was released by Namco in 2008; it runs on the company's N2 hardware, and as its name implies it's the sixth title in the Wangan Midnight series. Much like in its three immediate precursors, the name "Maximum Tune" refers to the "Maximum Tuning Memory Cards", which were dispensed by the cabinet - and data stored on a card for any of those earlier entries may also be transferred over to one for this game. Furthermore, there are thirty-eight selectable cars that can be tuned up to improve on the way they look and perform as well as what they are capable of; like in Maximum Tune 2 and 3, it is also only possible to tune a car up in Story Mode (in which the original characters from the manga comics the games are based on appear as CPU-controlled opponents and the player must beat them in a race). Additional modes in this instalment include Alter-Ego Battle Mode (in which an alternate version of the player's chosen car is created and they have to race against it, and it is again also possible for the player to perform "Dress-Up Tuning" and change their car's appearance here), 10-Person Mode (for which ten CPU-controlled opponents shall appear one after another as the player beats them across five courses), Intrusion Mode (in which up to four people can play simultaneously when a maximum of four one-player cabinets or a pair of two-player cabinets are linked together), and Time Attack (in which the player must select a track and try to complete a full lap of it in the fastest time) - and like Maximum Tune 2 and 3, players may again attain "levels" according to their progress, and "titles" determined from their style of playing, of which there are over 5000 combinations. Once again, after attaining a new title (which shall be shown in the screen's bottom-right corner during gameplay), the game will ask a player if they would like to overwrite the current one on their Maximum Tuning Memory Card; as such, if they prefer their current title they earned at a previous date, they can choose to decline.