Juiced

"Starts off good then goes straight downwards"

Juiced seems like such a great game in the beginning but once you get to the faster cars the realism of the sim racer that you experienced before is dashed.

CONTROLS 7/10
The normal controls for the Xbox racing games and nothing along the lines of new features or originality so I can't really give this game that good of a rating or I would have to rate every Xbox racing game the same.

GRAPHICS 8/10
Not much to get too exited about, cars do look kind of realistic and the scenery is pretty good it's limited to tracks but does have a good numbers of cars.

SOUND 8/10
Cars do sound nice in this game but every car in each of the eight classes sounds the same. The sound track like the majority of sim racing games is primarily rock so I just add in my own custom soundtrack so it really won't affect my final rating of this game due to it being an Xbox game

GAME PLAY 5/10
With the slower cars about class 4 and lower its very good controlling the cars but once you get into class 3, 2, and 1 it becomes hard to drive and turn the car with out spinning out or losing control. The only upside of the faster cars is drag racing which sometimes still is hard to control your car because there are some times turns in the drag races which makes no sense what so ever to me. But if you like the sim racers don't get a car that exceeds class 4 or 5 because any higher and you will have to deal with the unnecessary spinning out and losing control. I did like the feature where you could bet with certain drivers before the race and if you don't choose to bet some times you will even be asked to bet. The one bad part is the car that you bet with tends to be in first or second place the whole time depending what place you are in. The pink slip racing and respect system was pretty cool too but gaining respect from some people got to be really hard. I didn't like when you hit walls your car would deteriorate very quickly after a few taps you start to leak nitrous, damage steering, or damage your turbo and even a combination of the three at times.

OVERALL 6/10
Like stated above slow cars is fun and sensible but fast cars are really hard to control.

BUY RENT OR DON'T BOTHER
Really my review might make you think I'm going to tell you to rent this game but I recommend not bothering because after having fun with the lower classes when you think your doing good and get fast cars and you just get kind of annoyed with the uncontrollable cars and long races.

Reviewer's Score: 6/10, Originally Posted: 03/13/06