Pimp My Ride

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Single Player
• Roll with Xzibit!
• Turn Hoopties... Into Head Turners! Rip Through The City! Ghost Ride The Whip!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GVZ0GC
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 8.3 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 17, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,418 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

Enter Pimp City - Where Bling Is King and Speed Is Everything!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Amusing Game, December 7, 2006

By 

timp (Lancaster, PA USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pimp My Ride (Video Game)

My girlfriend bought Pimp My Ride for me for my birthday (for PS2), I wasn't even aware it was coming out (and like most of you, i had a lot of trouble finding any information on it after she told me she reserved a copy for me). But i've been playing it for the past 2 days or so and I find it to be pretty fun... The best way i can explain it is that it's like a cross between Need For Speed Underground (as far as the customizing), any of the Grand Theft Auto games after #3 (as far as driving around town and people trying to leap out of your way and being able to smash stuff on the side of the road and whatnot... if you've ever played Midnight Club, that might be a better comparison), and Dance Dance Revolution or Guitar Hero because of some of the games you play to get money to do the pimping... i mostly say that because it's got button combinations you have to hit within a certain amount of time to complete the task.

I was mildly dissapointed that all the cars in the game are made up for the game... i guess maybe they couldn't get licensing from real car companies, but all the cars in the game are loosely based on real cars (VW Microbus, Dodge Caravan, Older Mustang, etc.)

If you're not a fan of Xzibit's music (or rap in general), it'll probably annoy you as far as that goes... I've also noticed that the soundtrack is very limited, seems that it's only got 3 or 4 songs looping continuously... and if you're in the middle of a song and you do a 10-second "holla" mission (or anything else like that) the music track starts over at the beginning.

I really don't play with my PS2 too much... I'm not really what you'd call an "avid" gamer, i usually have other (better) things to do, but I've been playing this game for about 2 days straight, and in that amount of time managed to beat the game.

The biggest real complaint I have about it is that it gets kinda repetitive... after you figure out the sequence of how everything works, it's really easy to just keep using that same sequence over and over to keep completing missions...

But, if i were to give this game a rating, i'd give it a 4/5. Very entertaining, not perfect, but it got me hooked for a couple days and it's pretty rare for a game to do that to me... however now that I've beaten the game (and got perfect scores on all of the cars) there's nothing to keep me playing it.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not what i expected, January 21, 2007

By 

gameplayer - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pimp My Ride (Video Game)

when i got the game, i expected a kinda cool custom car game. but all it is a bunch of mini-games that never change and very bad car controlls...

when you have to make money in the first half, you play mini-games that involve "ghostriding". VERY BAD. Driving controlls are terible. and you always seem to crashed in a lightpost every 5 seconds.

The pimping process is kinda cool. but you only have 2 min. to pimp out sombody's car. and your going againts a rival pimper. but some of the car add-ons are cool


Bottom line: not that great, but fun pimping process. PS: there are only 2 mini-games that go on through out the whole game

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars very dumb, September 2, 2007

By 

Cheryl Young (Reed City, Michigan) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pimp My Ride (Video Game)

my son played once and thought it was stupid what a waste if my money I am pissed.

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