L.A. Rush

by Midway

Product Features

• Variety - Race, modify, steal and pimp over 50 rides exclusive tricked-out street racers designed by West Coast Customs and Rides Magazine plus licensed muscle, tuner and exotic vehicles from manufacturers such as Mitsubishi, Cadillac and Chevrolet
• Open World Racing - Race across a fully-open and recreated Los Angeles through Hollywood, Santa Monica, South Bay, South Central and Downtown while surviving death-defying jumps and finding treacherous shortcuts
• Pimp It Up and Add Some Juice - Spend your hard earned cash at West Coast Customs to visually upgrade your rides and tune your performance at this world famous chop shop
• First Racing Game Story Mode - Re-acquire 30 cars taken from your personal possession and gain back your respect and street credit through missions

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009R1T72
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: July 7, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,170 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

In L.A. Rush, join the crew at West Coast Customs to pimp up your ride and live the fabulous lifestyle of an L.A. street racer. Feel the rush as you race over 36 licensed rides including muscle, tuner and exotic vehicles as well as exclusive tricked-out racers designed by West Coast Customs and Rides Magazine. An exciting and unique story-driven experience will allow you to race through 5 fully-open Los Angeles city re-creations while finding treacherous shortcuts and surviving death-defying jumps. L.A. Rush will be the next evolution in the highly addictive Rush franchise! Reacquire Missions - Race to earn respect, street credits, and clues to the whereabouts of your cars Retribution Missions - Steal your enemies' prized rides and then chop them for revenge and extra cash Retribution Damage Missions - Trash an enemy's property Intense Head-to-Head Racing - Pit yourself against a buddy in split-screen racing on routes opened previously in Story Mode Exclusive, Customizable Soundtracks - Decibel pumping, exclusive hip hop and rock music soundtrack including never-before-released music tracks from Twista and Lil' Kim's The Jump Off, plus much more from hip hop's finest Upgrades Galore - Tune the performance of your car through an array of aftermarket parts from manufacturers such as Mopar, Advanced Engine Management, ProCharger, BF Goodrich, Yokohama, Pirelli Brembo, Directed Electronics, House of Color and more

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worthy of the "Rush" name. Terrible., October 15, 2005

By 

Brady Hall (America) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: L.A. Rush (Video Game)

San Fransico Rush, Rush 2 and Rush 2049 rank among my favorite console games of all time. By far the games I replayed most. I have clocked about 5497329867397 hours on Rush 2049 for my N64. So imagine how excited I was when I heard that FINALLY a new Rush title was being released. Then imagine my DISGUST and ANGER when I popped in LA Rush. Obviously this game was made by a completely different crew of people at Midway or headed by some bonehead project manager who thought it would be a good idea to strip the white knuckled fun from the previous games and incorporate a bunch of stupid features. Let's go over the bad things:

1. The "crash cam". Everytime you crash into a wall or another car, the game immediately shows you this crash in excrutiating slow motion for upwards of 5 seconds. Not only does this completely take you out of the excitement of the race and disorient you as to where you are, but THERE IS NO WAY TO TURN THIS OFF. This is by far the biggest dagger in the heart of this game. The other Rush games succeed because it is a relentless RACE, not some stylized garbage concept game.

2. Rush is a RACING game, not an adventure game. Not Grand Theft Auto. Not Driver. Not anything but RACING. So why they added in this stupid storyline and lame cutscenes is beyond me. Not to mention that the entire game is one big, giant commercial for MTV's "Pimp My Ride". You never get a chance to forget that "West Coast Customs is gonna pimp your whip yo! Don't forget to go to West Coast Customs! YO YO! It's tight, that West Coast Customs".

3. Retrying a race takes way too long. If you place badly, you have to go through all these stupid screens, then drive back to where the race begins, then watch the dumb cutscene that starts the race.


Oh well, looks like there is still no reason to get rid of my N64. I'll go back and play Rush 2049 over this waste of time any day.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet game!, March 2, 2007

A Kid's Review

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: L.A. Rush (Video Game)

This game (surprisingly) is th ebest one I played!

When you go to modify a car, the game modifies it for you!

You have 350 miles of L.A. to cruise around!

And the races are fun to complete!

I highly recommend this game!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good game for lots of reasons!, July 31, 2006

A Kid's Review

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: L.A. Rush (Video Game)

L.A. Rush is a great game for a lot of reasons!

When you earn a car, you don't have to pay for it, you just earn it!

You haveover 50 cars to use to race from trucks, classics, and more!

I also like how you can race through 350 miles of L.A.! There's lots of places to visit there in the game!

This game is truely a 5 star!