![]() Arcade mode lets you choose a car, a race type, and an area so that you can get right down to business. Street Racing Syndicate breaks down into a few different modes. Street mode is where you'll spend most of your time. The game tries to deliver an authentic street racing experience, but the racing itself tends to be rather unexciting. The British developer Eutechnyx has developed several racing games over the years, including Test Drive Le Mans and Big Mutha Truckers, and now it has an import driving game to call its own in the form of Street Racing Syndicate. ![]() ![]() Thanks to the success of films like The Fast and the Furious and games like Midnight Club 2 and Need for Speed Underground, this subgenre is now in full swing. SRS rarely generates more than a murmur of excitement, and more often than not makes you like other games all the more.Driving games-especially the subset of driving games that go after the import tuning and underground street racing scene-are on the rise. Street racing games are all about excitement and the thrill of the race. Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition has everything of note from SRS and a lot more. SRS just can’t compete with the top games in the street racing genre. The audio is just what you’d expect, with a mixture of hip-hop genres, but it doesn’t pack the same punch as the soundtrack featured on Midnight Club 3. ![]() The lack of speed makes the entire experience rather dull and completely devoid of the thrill that you’d associate with games of the same genre. As in all street racers, you can use turbos to give you a much needed speed boost, but despite the blur that indicates speed, you still look like you are moving at 50 mph. Even when you get into a high performance vehicle you barely feel like you are reaching 50 mph. The main problem with the game is its complete lack of speed. Cars can take damage, but it isn’t on the same level as Burnout 3 or the more recently released Forza Motorsport. Car models and environments are adequate, but lack the detail we now expect from a racing game this late into a console’s lifecycle. Visually the game looked dated last year and things haven’t got any better. The game is still slow and it just can’t generate the buzz that other games in the same genre do. Online play for up to four players is supported, but the problems that plague the single player game are carried over to the online experience. If you’re expecting a similar experience to the seat-of-your-pants thrill ride that was Midnight Club 3, you’ll be disappointed. This makes the city seem lifeless and the races rather low-key. Unlike games like Burnout and Midnight Club 3, there is barely any traffic on the roads. Trying to see what the selected upgrade is going to do to your car’s performance isn’t obvious and the colour scheme makes reading the text a real strain on your eyes. While this is probably an idyllic situation for a number of men, it’s one of the stranger rewards I have seen in a videogame.īeing a street racing game there is the usual car tuning and upgrading, but the menu system is, unfortunately, rather poorly designed. Just like you can with cars, girls can be changed at any time by heading to your garage and choosing a new model. You unlock new girls by completing respect challenges, but you must continue to drive well in order to keep them interested. Girlfriends and how they are portrayed in the game is pretty ridiculous. You often have to repair your car mid way through a series of races, so driving carefully is a skill you have to learn quickly. Money is very important, as you need it to buy upgrades, repair damage, enter races and accept wagers. Here you can build up respect, earn cash and even win girlfriends by taking part in street races. Arcade mode lets you get straight into the action for some quick, instant fun, but the street race mode is where you’ll want to spend most of your time. The game offers the standard game modes, with arcade, multiplayer and a career mode being all the game has to offer. Codemasters must have thought the game had something, but I just can’t see what that something is. Some eight months later the game has hit UK shores, and with games like Need for Speed Underground and the brilliant Midnight Club 3 already on the market, you have to wonder what SRS has over its rivals. In August 2004 Street Racing Syndicate was released in North America.
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