Review: Supercar Street Challenge (PS2*)

Graphics- 3/10
Sound- 1.5/10
Gameplay- 3/10
Replay Value- 2/10
Overall- 2/10

Supercar Street Challenge simply put, is a bad game. A really bad game. I mean, this game is just shameful. The graphics suck. The gameplay sucks. Everything else sucks. The one good thing about this game only applies to certain people: the game features a techno soundtrack that only major techno fans will enjoy. Just don't buy it.

Supercar Street Challenge for the PS2 has a simple premise: design a car, and then race it. Actually, that is more or less the game's slogan. Here is the game's real slogan: "Design it. Build it. Race It." Yea, that's it. It was that simple premise that made me buy the game. Oh, and the $20 price tag, without being a "Greatest Hits" title. Me in my misguided youth... I really should have known better. The thing is, the designing of the car, the game's main concept, doesn't work well, whatsoever. On the back of the box, a picture of a designed car, which, might I add, looks pretty retarded, cannot even be made at the start of the game. And even if it could, the editing system is so bad that you would lose your patience well before you finished the car. However, the single player mode isn't all that bad. Oh, wait, yes it is. The cars have amazing handling at less than 70 mph, but over that, they become incredibly hard to handle. Not that it really matters though, because if you hit a wall, unless it is a head-on collision, you only lose 40 mph, at the most. And when you are going 150 mph, that doesn't really matter. Also, the first series of races is too easy, the second series is fairly difficult, but the last series is so frickin' hard, you will wonder why you are even playing this game. Which will probably happen quite often, actually. If, no, when you get bored of the single player, you can play some two player multiplayer with your friends. It's only you two, no extra computer players. And since you both should stay above 120 mph the whole race unless you get into a really bad crash, whoever gets the better start usually wins.

As if to add insult to injury, the game looks like crap. Gran Turismo 2, for the PS1, looks better. The nine cars available are nice cars, but the game simply doesn't do them justice. Also, hopefully you have some music of your own to play, because the background music sucks, with as much emphasis on "sucks" as possible. My friend was over, and we were playing this game. Less than 30 seconds into the first race, he said, "Sounds like a night club." And it does. Except for it sounds like a really bad night club. Apparently the music is by some good techno bands. But since I've never heard such crap before, I had no idea that this was actually licensed music, not just some cheap tunes made for the game. I bought this game for $20. If you really are stupid enough to want this game, you can probably find it now in a bargain bin at your local game store. Or, you could just buy Gran Turismo 3, or just about any other racing game, for a much better gaming experience. Just say no, kids.

Pros: Bargain price, soundtrack if you are hardcore techno fan.
Cons: Everything else.

Review: Eric

*Also available for PC. Review for PS2 only