One of the best racings out there was released in 2008 and still rocks out loud in nowdays.
Accordingly to the majestuosity and well made games that Rockstar Games is used to make, this street racing development is quite great and innovative in every aspect of a racing game. City of LA was hugely represented here with several iconic places and landscapes of the city, including the Hollywood sign and a few more. You can find here different type of vehicles to your adventure, all of them divided in 5 clases (A, B, C, D and E) depending of the potencial of the car, which could be muscle cars, classic cars, exotic cars, luxury cars, suv's and motorcycles. Any one of them can be tuned for personalization. You can paint it, add neon lights, add vinil stickers, improving body cars, spoilers, windows, doors, tires, and every aspect of the car so if you like customization, you'll spend hours in the garage making your 'ride' as you want it to look.
The game involves you in a classical rockstar games storyline, like GTA series, with a guy just arriving to the city, a foreigner who wants to make his dreams come true there, and for this guy, is all about street racing and earning money in order to get new and better cars for competing the main names of the city, the walkthrough is long and plenty of several challenges, like tournaments, time trials, racing series, personal challenges, etc. in 4 different sectors of the city, which is a big one, and therefore it has more than 100 different races in the entire city. In addition, it has other stuff to do like finding 60 barrells hidden in the city, stunt jumps, and of course... evading police, which is always fun. So here you have a lot of things to do in other to earn money, and make yourself a name beating local racers so you can finally challenge the champ of the city and proclaim yourself the new King. You can even make bet's, but carefull you maybe don't want to lose your 2 hours personalized car in one race.
Multiplayer is great fun and makes you want to spend hours racing another guys on LA, specially one of the type of game in Multiplayer which is capturing the flag (my favourite), that could be with teams or everyone of their own trying to get the flag to your base.
If you like racing games, this one has to be in your collection, and epic well made street racing game. The only "but" that I have for this game (and for almost every Rockstar Game) is that is only for 1 player, if you could play it at least with 2 players in split screen, it will be better.
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