Juiced

by THQ

Product Features

• Collect and customize over 50 real cars with authentic mods from more than 30 aftermarket brands -- Over 7.5 trillion car customization possibilities
• Intuitive car handling - you'll feel the difference your mods make to FWD, RWD and 4WD cars
• Highly realistic damage effects - a first for a game featuring real cars
• Recruit and manage your own crew and control their behavior while you race
• Gain or lose Respect by driving, modding and gambling your car in a pink-slip race

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009813SQ
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 1.6 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,605 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Starting as a rookie, with not even a set of wheels to your name, your aim is to build up your own crew and dominate the established street-racing scene of Angel City. By showing off your modding and driving skills, you'll gain respect from the rival crew chiefs, and will soon be invited to their race events, challenge them to race "for pinks", and bet against them for cash. As your notoriety grows, new drivers will ask to join your crew, opening up the never-before-seen "crew races" where your skills at managing your drivers while you race are key to beating your rival crews.

Features:

• Collect and customize over 50 real cars with over 100 real mods
• Over 7.5 trillion car-customization possibilities
• Realistic and rewarding car handling--feel the difference your mods make to your FWD, RWD, and 4WD cars
• Full Xbox Live! online feature set--six player races, multiple-modes, and world leaderboards; take your crew on-line, race for "pinks", and show-off your car collection
• Crew Racing--recruit and manage your own crew and control their behavior while you race
• Bet against your rivals for cash, or gamble your car in a "pink-slip" race

Product Description

Starting as a rookie, with not even a set of wheels to your name, your aim is to build up your own crew and dominate the established street racing scene of Angel City. By showing off your modding and driving skills, you'll gain 'Respect' from the rival crew chiefs, and will soon be invited to their race events, challenge them to race 'for pinks' and bet against them for cash. As your notoriety grows, new drivers will ask to join your crew, opening up the never before seen 'crew races' where your skills at managing your drivers while you race are key to beating your rival crews.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars NOT PERFECT, BUT GOOD ENOUGH, July 4, 2005

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Newcement (Sherwood, OR United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Juiced (Video Game)

I'm currently renting Juiced and at first I thought, "Man, this game sucks!" But then, as I progressed through the game, I started to grasp the racing style and found out it wasn't half-bad.

The storyline is like every other street tuning racing game out there: You're a brand new racer trying to make a name for yourself.

The gameplay is really frustrating at first, but as you race more and more you really start to enjoy it. Unlike Midnight Club 3 and Need For Speed: Underground 2 where you never have to touch the brake button, Juiced takes more skill making you weave through turns with precision and timing.

The graphics are pretty average. The cars look pretty good, but the environment graphics are pretty bad.

The sound is average. The music gets annoying very quickly. It's a good thing they included custom soundtrack capability, because you'll be needing it.

Well, that concludes my review. In conclusion, if you're looking for a tuning racing game for a little bit, rent this game. However, I would not recommend buying it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars it's fun even for an old guy, October 13, 2005

By 

F. Davis (Yokota AFB, Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Juiced (Video Game)

I'll start off by saying that I haven't played any other racing games - and this game (Juiced) is my teenage son's game. I watched him play it a couple of times - thought it looked like fun - and decided to try it myself.

Apparently this games key feature is "respect" - it's what the focus of the game is. To compete in certain races, you need a certain level of respect with other drivers. And different drivers have different criteria for granting respect. Some value good driving, some value agressive betting, some value the ability to win pink slip races.

As you gain respect with different drivers, you can race them for pink slips (they'll call you on your in-game cell phone and ask you to race for pinks), invite you to host a challenge at their "track", among other things.

The one review who said that this was more of a budgeting game must not have been winning many, if any races. Yes, as time goes on, there are less and less "free" (i.e. you don't have to pay and entry fee to race). However, if you're a reasonably good driver, you can pay the entry fee for a race, and if you win (and sometimes - depending upon the race - if you place second) you can still make money on the race. Even when you figure in repairing your car.

Obviously, the further you go in the race, the more you can make winning races. I've been playing off and on for a couple of months, and I just won a "class 1" race where the prize money was $450,000.

One of the other nice aspect, from my standpoint, is building a "crew" of other drivers who want to drive as part of your team. Personally, I suck at cornering - I go in to fast - I usually hit the barricade - and generally beat up my car, and don't do very well with races that have a lot of cornering.

My solution? Have one of my crew race for me. Granted, I cannot bet with other drivers in the race, but I can win the prize money if my driver comes in first (my car - my entry fee - my prize money).

It's also pretty fun to develop a series of cars. The way it works in Juiced is there are 8 classes of cars. The class is solely based upon the cars base horsepower (BHP). From 0 BHP to 199 is class 8, 200 BHP to 299 is class seven, all the way up to 900 BHP up to 1200 (I think) BHP is class one. The highest I've gotten a car's BHP is up to 1043 (a "prototype" Dodge Viper). There are several different types of upgrades you can purchase for your cars. Also, to "unlock" new upgrades, you have to win races. The different parts are fuel filter (I think), shocks, muffler, brakes, tires, turbo, and nitrous oxide (NOS or NO2). Each part has 3 different levels, and a "prototype" level. Obviously, the better the parts on your car (except for brakes, shocks and nitrous oxide) the higher your BHP, thus the higher the class of your car.

There are basically three different types of races, circuits (go around a course a given number of times), point-to-point (follow a course only one tme) and sprints (a usually straight stretch where you do three heats). Since I suck at cornering so bad, I've started sticking to sprints.

Also, you have the option to race for "pinks" - pink slips, or the ownership of cars. Basically, if you lose the race, you lose the car. And, it always seems to be for your most powerful (i.e. highest class) car.

One neat - though initially I didn't like it - feature is that the XBox version of the game (don't know if the other versions do it or not) does an "autosave" before a race. I don't know specifically how it works, but if you're racing, and loose your nerve - or get pissed off - and shut the game off - you're still screwed - you still lost the race. Apparently the game writes a little file or something that says "he's racing this race, for this amount of money, on this track" - and if it doesn't get the little piece of info that says "he won this race" - then obviously you lost.

Like I said, I've been playing it on and off for a couple of months, I just started playing it again a week or so ago - and I've gotten to the point where I have $3,000,000 in my account, about a dozen cars, 8 of them are prototypes - which includes 5 prototype class one Dodge Vipers (every upgrade is a prototype) that I won in pink slip races.

All in all, for somebody who's never played a racing game before - I think it's pretty fun! Even for an old guy!

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 3 TRILLION CUSTOMIZATIONS AND MORE!!!!, June 14, 2005

By 

BubbaL (New Martinsville,WV USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Juiced (Video Game)

Yes, there are many great street racing games at the moment, however does NFS Underground or Midnight Club 3 offer 3 trillion customizations? I don't think so. Thhis is Juiced's strong point. The car you have will be different from anybody else, so basiciclly, your car is one-of-a-kind. No one else is going to have it. Beside from customizations, when THQ has taken this game from the ashes and made it a contendable street racer. With you and your crew, you rise to be the best racer in Angel City(the city where the game takes place). Real time damage takes place on the vehicles, effecting the car and how well it works. Example: If you want to drive 100 mph into a brick wall, the engine and front of the car is going to be heavily damaged. Most racings all together have this feature nowadays, but some games do not have this, Grand Turismo series is one. You also try to rise up in Angel City, like I mentioned earlier, by racing of course. How well you race depends on how much respect and money you earn from your oppenents. The more respect you earn, the higher your name will be. That's Juiced for you. A wonderful street racing game with more customizations than you can count, a load of cars, and respect from you and your oppenents. This is one street racer you do not want to pass up.
P.S. The cars in this game are mostly imports and US cars, but there are many great muscles cars. And with customizations, you car can go well over 300 mph. Also it seems to me that me, Jeremy Whitman, you didn't even write a review. Isn't that what this page is for? Oh yea, you spelled concider wrong- it's spelled consider><