Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights (pc: 2007): Reviews

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Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights


5.1

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Juiced

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Juiced 2: 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-gen AI and vehicle customization, 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, fashion, models and musicians. 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 in its 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 can bet cash on each event, bringing a gambling element to the game that greatly increases the importance of each race. [THQ]

PUBLISHER:	THQ
DEVELOPER:	Juice Games
GENRE(S):	Racing, Driving
PLAYERS:	Multi
ESRB RATING:	RP (Rating Pending)
RELEASE DATE:	November 1, 2007

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GameStar

Even though it doesn't deserve an award for innovation, as far as variety, track design, AI and long-term motivation are concerned, Juiced 2 is far ahead of the competition.

PTGamers

Problems appear in the shape of tedious tracks, extremely simple physics model, infuriating loading times and unremarkable playability.

PC Zone UK

An insecure game unsure of who wants to play it, but that's not to say it isn't fun. [Mar 2008, p.78]

PC Gamer UK

Cheap, brief, hard-to-control thrills. [Feb 2008, p.74]

Play (Poland)

One of the two original ideas - betting on the outcome of the race - effectively nullifies any challenge, small as it were. Contrary to its overly hard predecessor, Juiced 2 allows the player to instantly bounce back from defeat using this easy money. The other somewhat original idea, the DNA that is supposed to store information about drivers' traits and skills, is a complete fiasco. Raising the stats of your driver has virtually no influence on the handling of the car and who gives a hoot about the skills of all those losers who are seen mostly in the rear mirror? Other than that, it's a lackluster Need for Speed clone. [March 2008]

PC Format

The only steering you'll be doing is steering clear. [Feb 2008, p.113]

The average user rating for this game is 5.1 (out of 10) based on 25 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Daniel L. gave it a10:
This game is NICE!!

Paul M gave it a10:
If you gave a great pc then this game rocks...far better then pro street but you need dual proc and at least 8800gt to run smooth.

Jaco gave it a3:
Tony dear Tony. 9? No Game pad Support in the game setup. I must have overlooked it?. Where did u find it?.

Web H. gave it a2:
No comment.

Jay Z. gave it a1:
This game sucks! one tap of d keyboard and the car slides like crazy! drifting is so damn hard! Thumbs up to the models...HAWT!

Jake S. gave it an8:
People who have trouble using the controls in this game are just too inept to figure them out. The game seems to take more of a drifting approach, as that is what the physics engine caters towards, and that is what gives you nitrous. My single favorite part of the game is the fact that they actually made the drift racing part of it at least semi-realistic. Unlike the absurd drift mode in NFS: Carbon, it doesn't counter-steer for you. I noticed immediately while playing NFS:C that when in drift mode, if I pressed right while moving, it would move the wheels to the right, and then immediately turn them to the left to countersteer for me. Juiced 2:HIN instead chooses to put this important part of drifting into the player's hands, making it much more skill based than just pressing one direction and holding it to drift. This makes drifting way more fun and makes you actually feel like you're accomplishing a feat when you pull off a really close drift. Although this is a minor detail, I was absolutely delighted to see that they included the Veilside Fortune Wide Body-Kit for the Mazda RX-7, which no other racing game EVER seems to have included. On the down side, a lot of things are overdone. The dancing girls, the ridiculous attitude of all the racers, etc. This stuff just kind of gets on my nerves after a while.

Ian B. gave it a2:
This is quite possibly the worst racing game I have ever played. Juiced 1 was infinitely better and even that game was less than adequate. This game makes no sense. Hundreds if not thousands of scantily clad ugly models dancing awkwardly to horrible music is acceptable for this game, but heaven forbid you want to use the word "SEXY" on your license plate. I was notified that my license plate contained inappropriate language and therefore could not be used. The human models are terrible. Whoever designed them needs to lay off the pills. Gameplay is terrible. There is no support for my Logitech racing wheel, so I had to use my keyboard. IMPOSSIBLE! You cannot control the car with the keyboard it seems. One tap of the left or right arrows sends you directly into the adjacent wall or you are sent sliding sideways as it would seem that the entire game was given 'drift' physics. The graphics adjustments are lacking as well. Only three slider bars: Brightness, Quality, and Post Processing Effects If you don't have a monster machine, this game looks and plays like crap. My system exceeds the minimum requirements while not quite passing the recommended system requirements and it runs like crap. I can run need for speed pro street at the same resolution with all effects on HIGH at a better fram rate than this game with all settings to low or off. The games ONLY saving grace is customization. Basic Juiced customization methods and they work adequately. Body parts fit, vynils fit, paints look good and the selection of wheels is 'okay'. What it all boils down to is that this is an opposite sequel. While most video game sequels are better than their predecessors, this one is 100x worse. I would REALLY like to have my money back, but silly me, I bought the game on Steam. (why Why WHY!?) Don't waste your money; Don't waste your time. Do not buy this game.