PSP Juiced 2 HIN – Underrated

I got my hands on the Juiced 2 game on the PSP. The game has been around since October last year. In my opinion, it is better than any NFS or any Midnight Club game on the same console. But game reviews say it sucks in other platforms. Thus, the PSP version becomes undervalued.

The game greatly focus on street racing particularly on drifting. But this is not the typical illegal street racing game. Juiced 2 brings modified car racing, along with the hot chicks, in a legal manner. The game brings the Hot Import Nights on the PSP. HIN produces big street racing events that even closed public roads to be used as a race track. And don’t forget about the hot women.

Racing games today are all about car modification. NFS and Midnight Club lets you do that. Juiced 2 is not far from them. It is the only racing game I know of so far that lets you modify vinyls’ size and position in the car’s body. However, it does not offer other changes in the car that includes lights, neon, plate number, decals, and tint, and it also has small quantity of body parts to choose from.

In terms of graphics and control, Juiced 2 is ahead of the NFS and Midnight Club. NFS Most Wanted controls so bad that I stopped playing it again on the PSP. Midnight Club got good controls but becomes unrealistic when you activate the NOS. Juiced 2 has greatly tuned cars and in-game driving makes you feel the weight of the car. Now, how can you do that on a hand-held console?

The view modes of the game is quite awful. Sometimes, the back of the car cannot be shown in the third person view. That’s not handy especially when you are drifting. The first person view, like other games, gives a look like the camera is above the car’s hood. You can’t see the hood, the dashboard, and the side mirrors. Maybe it’s not even called first person view. But I haven’t yet seen any racing game on the PSP that gives a realistic first person view.

If you would focus on the gameplay, I bet there will not be any problem in Juiced 2. Except only if you drift for more than a million points and then the car bumps on the wall. Makes you want to throw your PSP.