- 63/100
- Players31 ratings
- 69/100
- Critics4 reviews
2005 · THQ Digital Studios UK · Arcade racing · Racing
Juiced
Juiced is a racing video game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and mobile phone. The game was delayed for release in 2004 because its original publisher, Acclaim, went bankrupt. Juice Games and Fund 4 Games retained ownership of the property and sold the game to THQ, who funded the project for a further six months of improvements. In early 2006, British software publisher Focus Multimedia re-released the PC version of Juiced at a new budget price as part of its "Essential" games series.
- Released
- 13 June 2005
- Platforms
- PlayStation 2WindowsXboxLegacy Mobile Device
- Genres
- Arcade racingRacing
- Developers
- THQ Digital Studios UKJuice Games
- Publishers
- THQ
- Series
- Juiced
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- First personThird person
- Themes
- Non-fictionOpen world
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Age ratings
- PEGI 16ESRB T
- Languages
- English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese
About
Juiced is a racing video game by British studio Juice Games for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and mobile phones. The game was originally set to be released in 2004 but due to the original publisher Acclaim Entertainment going bankrupt, it got delayed to 2005. Juice Games and Fund 4 Games retained ownership of the property and sold the game to THQ, who funded the project for a further six months of improvements. In early 2006, British software publisher Focus Multimedia re-released the PC version of Juiced at a new budget price as part of its "Essential" games series.
The game offers different modes including career and arcade that present the player with challenges of increasing difficulty. The player can customise the car to suit their style and unlock new ones in arcade mode. The game features nitrous boosts, similar to that of other racing games. 5 million units.
›Story
There are four different racing types: circuit (standard racing with laps), point-to-point (single lap), sprint (drag race), and showoff (timed race). The player's reputation fluctuates with their wins and losses, and receives awards for raising their reputation.
Keywords
- street racing
- illegal racing
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
The game is set in a fictional Californian city called Angel City, based on Los Angeles. Angel City is composed of eight districts, San Ricardo, Campbell Hills, Downtown, Angel North Central, Angel Westside, Southside Beach, East Angel Island and Anderson. The districts are controlled by rival crews in the game, and the player can host events at different districts if they get enough Respect.
There are four different racing types:
Development
Juiced was originally intended to be published by Acclaim Entertainment, and released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC in late 2004. However, the game was caught up in Acclaim's Chapter 7 bankruptcy issues and never released by them. Game magazines around the world wrote reviews on nearly finished copies of the game. It was then picked up by THQ as the new publisher and later released in 2005.
Reception
Juiced received "mixed or average reviews" on all platforms according to video game review aggregator website Metacritic.
75 out of 10 in its October 2004 issue, stating that it "falls to the lower end of the goodness scale. [...] Depending on what I am doing, I yearn for any of the more-polished (and more playable) racing titles that it tries to emulate. Juiced's particular mix of sim and arcade racing is best summed up as a failed experiment."
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Title IDsone per regional release, with its latest update
Box artone per regional release we hold art for
North America
PlayStation 2
Decompilations and portscommunity projects that rebuild or port the game
- juiced-recomp ★ 0
Decompilation · Active · On gameport
Editions and related releases
- Followed by
- Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
- Ported as
- Juiced
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Genres
- Racing gamesList › 2000s
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