Product Description

Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights evolves the current street racing scene, letting players experience the culture of the real-life HIN tour, the nation's largest lifestyle custom car show in an intense racing experience.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #581 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: THQ
• Released on: 2007-09-28
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights (HIN) evolves the current street racing scene, letting players experience the culture of the real-life HIN tour, the nation’s largest lifestyle custom car show in an intense racing experience. Featuring track and drift racing at real world locations around the globe, next-generation AI and unparalleled vehicle customisation, Juiced 2: HIN brings street racing to life, allowing players to test their skills at live street racing events against a back-drop of DJs, models and musicians. Groundbreaking new features include addictive drift/powersliding races and Driver DNA that tracks gamers’ personal driving traits. These profiles, along with the profiles of select celebrities, will be available for download across all online gaming systems. Racing developer Juice Games has evolved the game-play that revolutionised online racing, giving players the power to create their car, assemble their crew and put it all on the line in intense pink slip and crew races. Gamers will also be able to bet cash on each event, bringing a gambling element to the game that greatly increases the importance of each race.

Customer Reviews

Great fun, great online, and so much to do!
Having played the demo, I'd have to totally disagree with some of rather extreme reviews previously. Yes, the handling in Juiced 2 is a bit more 'arcadey' then Juiced 1, but this just serves to make the game a bit more accessible from the start, with still a great amount of skill and practice required to truly master it.

There's a great variety of races and race modes which you can take both online and off, and drifting is totally addictive whatever mode you're doing. And then there's all the other stuff - loads of cars, mods and a huge decal system so no two cars are the same, spectacular environments, like the sydney opera house and the eiffel tower, online trading of paint jobs, downloading celebrity 'driver dna' and racing them, online pink slip races and more! Well worth the money as it will keep you busy for ages!

Good for what it is...
I have to say I really enjoyed playing this game. Yes, the developers have concentrated more on the mod'ing experience than on the pure driving gameplay, but I think this is fine. It's not supposed to be a game to rival the driving experience of Forza & Gran Turismo etc.

The game's depth comes from the car & decal editors which provide nearly limitless entertainment if you're in to that sort of thing. If you're not, then don't buy the game.

There's a huge variety of different online & offline events to get involved in which is good.

I would however criticise (a) The balancing between drifting & racing...far too much of the former. (b) The variety of offline opposition and associated car decals (c) When I finally worked out how to use some of the online features (car / decal trading etc.), I could hardly ever find enough people at my level to meet up with.

Overall, great fun. Not a perfect driving sim, but very well built car / decal mod'ing features. Online activity already fading, but may pickup after Christmas.

James

Not as good as the first...
I knew what the game would be like, having played the demo, so when I found it for £5 I thought it was worth a shot. I know the racing isnt what you'd call "realistic", but the modding is awsome! I spend more time modding than racing, as there are endless combinations of parts! For those of you thinking "how good can it be?" you can even change the steering wheel! Pretty good! Unfortunately no show-off :( . That is a bit of a downer to me. I think if its the racing you are bothered about, buy the first! All in all it is a good game, and worth buying if you find it cheap.