Tokyo-based independent developer I-Friqiya today announced Fuel Overdose, its first-ever game, due for PlayStation Network and PC this spring. The studio dubs it a “Tactical Action Racing” game.

Here’s why:

• Tactical: With Fuel Overdose, the choices made before and during the race have a real impact on your chances of success. The game leaves no room for luck and features a resource management system for the vehicles and weaponry, a super/ultra attack gauge inherited from the versus fighting genre as well as auction events than can bring a decisive edge to win races.
• Action: From the large array of upgradable weapons one can expect for such a game, Fuel Overdose also features innovative and fun weapons and game mechanics such as a grapple that can be used both offensively and defensively, bomb detonators along the road, and a whole fighting system that offers unique skills moves and attacks to each character of the game.
• Racing: Fuel Overdose is not a combat-arena game, it is, as its core, a racing game that requires driving skills and that allows and values different racing styles and a diverse garage of vehicles, themselves all customizable to improve their driving and performance.

The developer keeps a blog where it chronicles the game’s development. View it here.

A set of screenshots for Fuel Overdose can be seen at the gallery.

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