The game spanks along at a quite awesome speed and with no noticeable slowdown, it is all very impressive. The city location is all very nice and detailed.and shiny, but there can certainly be no complaints here. Thankfully, the game looks really quite lovely, the car models all damage fairly nicely, but not so badly as to make them look like crap-sacks. It makes concentrating on a race at high speed quite confusing at time and could probably give one or two people quite nasty headaches. There is something uncommonly distracting about a gaming world in which everything (and we mean everything) reflects everything else, and every other thing lights up and reflects off the next thing onto the next thing. However, the vast majority of it does take place at night and thus once again we have the problem of neon lighting. Unlike most games of this ilk, there is such a thing as daytime, and every so often you will actually see the sun, so be warned. Here you race in various different locales from the streets of Philadelphia, Miami and Los Angeles. The main meet of the game is in the Crew Meets. Garage, Warehouse and Showroom are the default ones, so you can repair and add parts to your ride, check back at your HQ or buy a new automobile for grand driving pleasures. From here you can 'warp' to various different areas.
If you're the sort of person that likes to drive about, being leisurely and finding things then simply hold down the R trigger and steer your way to challenges various, if like us, you're lazy, simply press Z to open up a city map. You're dunked out on the streets with your car and a whole lot of exploring to do. You can take an average 'family car' and pump it full of speed, neon lighting and flame stickers, paint it fluorescent pink and go and tear up the streets. Being able to take your out-the-box auto and REALLY beef it up is very rewarding. This has to be one of the best bits of the game. Off to the garage we went to put on some banging trims and the like. We would just be embarrassed to put this into a hard-core street race, so some severe pimping was in order.
So, we take our very bog-standard Imperza and try to drive it, hit a corner at over 40mph and you will go skidding all over the place, try to go over 70mph on a long straight and you might be in quite a bit of trouble. We chose the Subaru as nobody in his or her right mind would want to drive a Golf or a Mitibushi. After picking one of a number of available (crap and good) cars like the Mitsubishi Evolution VIII, Subaru Impreza S202 and Volkswagen Golf VR6 you get to do some serious pimping. You obviously oblige and so long as you hold forwards enough and steer around the corners you should get through that one no problem.īaldy then gives you a massive amount of money to go and buy and pimp up your own ride, then you're on your own in the big city. You 'hook up' with some uber-experienced shaven headed character who stupidly gives you the keys to his super-pimped 'ride' and asks you to win a race for him. When you enter Street Mode you are a total rookie. Then there is Arcade Mode and Multiplayer mode which are self-explanatory really. Street Mode is the main one, from here you buy your own car, customise it, take part in races and challenges, meet woman and do various other 'hip' things. There are a number of game modes to get into.
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