pretty fun

User Rating: 8.6 | L.A. Rush XBOX
By burnoutx1985 | Review Date:
L.A. Rush tells the archetypal tale of the underground street racing champ who has all of his cars stolen by a zoot-suit wearing opponent. As is the logical thing to do after having all of your cars stolen, our young hero by the name of Trikz decides to re-enter the underground racing circuit with nothing but his beat up old jalopy and steal back his cars. Obviously, when your cars are stolen away you wouldn't want to involve the police, because... down with the man?

Anyway, LA Rush is a pretty straightforward street racing game that takes place in a free-roaming and full-fledged Los Angeles, California. The meat of the game takes place in straightforward races in an underground circuit where you'll try to rank up to compete with the pro's for big bucks, but there are a few more modes to keep things semi-interesting. As you progress, your friends will clue you in on the locations of some of your stolen cars that you'll need to go steal back. The second you get in the new car, however, some thugs (about 500) of the bad guy will come careening at you in blue SUVs. For some reason or another, they'll try like the dickens to destroy your car before you can get it home.

Overall, the graphics of the game are pretty good. All of LA is under your reign, and it looks better than any other full-city games we've seen in history.

The soundtrack is sort of interesting in that you can choose your flavor. From the menu, you can choose between rock, hip hop, and techno music to serenade your driving adventure. Much of the voiceacting (the acting done by voiceactors and not ridiculous celebrity cameos and the ridiculous announcer) is pretty good, save the choppy dialog peppered with more "yo" than a Duncan factory

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