Pimp My Ride: Street Racing

Might want to include some actual pimping

Words: on July 8, 2009

For a game supposedly based on MTV’s shamefully addictive car-modding show, there’s very little pimping here. In fact, the options for doing up your vehicle don’t seem much more expansive than what you’d find in a Need for Speed title.

In a rather predictable turn of events, you start out with an old banger and then complete races to earn cash to buy rims, spoilers, paintjobs and the like. The game’s currency is ‘scrilla’, and we have to admit that with challenges called things like Bling Daddies and Panzer Rapper, this walks the dropped-shoulder West Coast walk. The racing is arcadey in a Burnout way but not particularly tough, with frequent nitro pickups and forgiving crashes.

This is totally average, but made more disappointing by the fact we couldn’t see Xzibit or the West Coast Customs ‘crew’ anywhere in it. Pointless!

Jul 7, 2009

You'll love
  • Earn scrilla to pimp your ride
  • "Cool" hip-hop vibe
  • Fast, arcadey racing
You'll hate
  • Very little pimping
  • Nothing beyond mediocre
  • No Xzibit or West Coast Customs

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  • zayleffein

    zayleffein  - 2 years, 7 months ago  - Report

    Ugh. The concept behind the show is pretty neat and nice for the recipient, but this is like playing any number of racing games already made. Another piece of crap using a television license.
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