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| From: Atari Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $11.20
You Save: $8.79 (44%)
New (17) Used (14) from $7.93
Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 4502
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Jewel Case
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 27149
Model: 27149
UPC: 742725271494
EAN: 0742725271494
ASIN: B000EGEX9E
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: This video game is brand new, never opened and never played! Buy today to be one of millions of satisfied B-Logistics customers.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 So So March 22, 2007
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
So far I have played this game for about 4 hrs. It's pretty good but it's definitely no NFS. The graphics are fairly good and the music is ok. This game is all about the cars, although I did read you get to purchase and ride motorcycles later on as well. Nice. =) They have some really cool cars from muscle cars to exotics and concepts. When you purchase your car, you choose the exterior paint job as well as the interior color scheme for your seats and carpet and dash areas. You can choose from several rims as well. Later on, you will be able to go to upgrade shops and upgrade your car's performance as well as looks from what i've read.
It's awesome to drive from the in-car view. To be able to look around inside your car while you are driving is very cool indeed. You can even roll your windows up and down! =) You can also change your radio stations. I read that the windshield wipers work but I haven't encountered rain yet to see that in work. Also, the in-dash gauges actually work. How cool is that?! You can also watch your avatar shift gears! =)
Traction control can be turned off to allow for more realistic racing. As far as the actual racing goes, it's not too shabby and is enjoyable. You can set the difficulty for each race on 3 different levels..easy, normal, hard. If you set it to easy, you will earn less money but are pretty much guaranteed the win. The harder you set the race, the more money you earn.
You use the money you earn to buy more cars and houses. When you first start the game, you purchase one car and one house b/c you are given a certain amount of credit to begin your game. The houses are on different locations on the map and can hold a specified amount of cars. A number of them only hold 4 cars, but I saw one you can buy later on that holds 10 cars. So looks like you will have to purchase a number of homes in order to store all your rides. And the rides you get are purchased from dealerships located around the map.
If you have driven to a specific location, you can later use your map and basically warp to that location without having to drive there again. But at first, you have to physically drive to the spots. The warp ability was a nice touch because it would stink to have to drive every time to locations you have been to a number of times already. For example, you can warp to one of your homes and save your game at that spot. You can save anywhere though. I just like to save at the home because I can check out my cars in my garage before I head out.
If you encounter an event and race it and it unlocks another event in that same spot, keep on racing until you totally beat that location because you can unlock cool stuff..won't say what though because I don't want to spoil anything.
Now for the bad. After purchasing the game, I found out you cannot choose your own avatar and you cannot customize him. I restarted the beginning like 4 times trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. Well I got online finally and did some digging and found out that they did away with some of the options that are available in the 360 version. So if you are thinking you will be able to pick male or female and customize their clothing and accessories and their appearance like in the 360 version, think again. It's not gonna happen. I was pretty disappointed once I read that detail after having already bought the game. But all in all, I do not regret purchasing it even with that disappointment. I don't really see why they had to do away with avatar customizing though b/c the PS2 is completely capable of handling that.
As far as game length goes, I am not sure yet. I played for 4 hrs and am 6% complete. Most of that time, I was racing and driving from race to race. I didn't really do too much dilydallying.
To sum up, I definitely recommend this game to car enthusiasts. I think $40 is kinda high though. Later on for $20 it would be a no-brainer. But at some point this is a worthy purchase.
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