

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.
