This anime series sure took me by surprise and on first looks it might not give you any wow effect when you just start the anime but the real action and story starts to develop right in the middle of the story which already starts to buildup development towards the last episode.
The story takes such a turn in quality from start till end that this anime certainly is worth a try even if you have to search wide and for for subs or even watch the raws but I can tell you it is totally worth it! Heck this anime even made me play the old games again!
The story itself is fairly decent, a slow but quite decent build up together with various different ways like: racing, action and even slight romance development.
What I personally also enjoyed is that there weren't that much side stories and only one recap episode near the ending of the series so it's a fairly amount of good story and character development combined with futuristic racing!
The art is a bit old but for the time it was created in combination with the CGI it is still pretty decent. The combination of the 3D models and 2D art of their vehicles is pretty well done! It's a bit getting used to in the beginning but when you're enjoying the racers it will only get better later on!
The quality of the sound is a bit on the lower side as the dub wasn't always the best quality nor were the sound effects, although the casting for the Japanese dub was actually quite good especially for Black Shadow which was voiced by Wakamoto Norio
The Characters were quite unique and do follow the games character concepts quite good. The best characters in this are of course Captain Falcon, Ryu and Black Shadow as they're mainly the lead characters and more or less determine the whole story!
I quite enjoyed watching this anime especially the last couple episodes where the quality really increased with really interesting story development and pacing! So all in all a pretty good anime which I'll give a solid 8/10