Pimp My Ride: Street Racing

Pimp My Ride: Street Racing is a racing game developed by Virtuos and published by Activision, released for the mh:awesomegames:PlayStation 2 and mh:awesomegames:Nintendo DS in 2009.

Gameplay
Pimp My Ride: Street Racing is an arcade-style racer, where style matters more than anything else. Players are rewarded with new vehicles and customizations for participating in and winning street races around the world. Before races players can customize their vehicles to ensure that their personalized whip has what it takes to beat out the competition.

Why You Always Rice Cars Rather Than Pimping Cars
NOTE: Most of the game's issues can be attributed to the PS2 version.
 * 1) Unconventional release platform; this game was released near the end of the PlayStation 2's lifecycle, even though the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and the Wii were more popular during the time, so releasing it on an outdated system wasn't a good choice.
 * 2) Horrible, tedious, boring, and repetitive gameplay in both Championship and Arcade Mode. every race (except in Elimination modes) has 3 laps long and the challenges are the same in every race. The following challenges are:
 * 3) * The first challenge is beating the target lap time.
 * 4) * The second challenge is collecting all 20 Scrilla coins scattered in the track.
 * 5) * The third challenge is avoid damaging your car in the first lap.
 * 6) Terrible unconventional controls. Unlike most racing games where R2 is to accelerate, you hold the right analog stick to go forward.
 * 7) Terrible handling. The steering uses the same control as the acceleration, making it very difficult to handle.
 * 8) Graphics wise, the game looks as if it was released in 2001 instead of 2009. Need for Speed: Undercover released four months before this game in the same console and look way too much better than this game.
 * 9) No animation for the car's driver. When you turn the car, the driver stays still and is very pixelated.
 * 10) Horrible physics. The DS version however has better physics.
 * 11) The mini-game, Road Pimp, is really stupid. The objective is bumping into cars to make yours fully pimped, similar to Pimp My Ride where crashing into cars and objects causes you to gain money. This contradicts the show.
 * 12) The game tries to be hip by using "Skrilla" for money.
 * 13) Still, the cars are not licensed, similar to its prequel.
 * 14) Small number of cars and tracks.
 * 15) Rubberband AI in later championships.
 * 16) The Ares GT (a supercar based in the Saleen S7) the fastest car of the game, even it stats that has better handling than the Acheron Turbo (a sports muscle car based in the Dodge Viper GTS-R) when maxed out, it handles too slow and tedious thanks to the games horrible driving mechanics.
 * 17) * Worst of all in the last race in Arcade mode you're forced to use this car and attempting to beat it, it can be tough due to the aforementioned rubberband AI and poor handling.
 * 18) You can only put 8 vinyls on each section of your vehicle(s).
 * 19) No multiplayer option, despite hundreds of racing games released before this having multiplayer.
 * 20) Beating both the Championship and Arcade modes as well as unlocking all trophies will give you nothing, not even a Congratulations screen that you unlocked everything the game offers and credits won't even auto-roll making the game unsatisfying to play.
 * 21) The menu sound effects are stolen from RPM Tuning.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Many customization options.
 * 2) Catchy theme song, using the actual licensed theme from the MTV show.
 * 3) Decent soundtrack.
 * 4) It possesses a damage engine.
 * 5) The Nintendo DS version is a surprising improvement over the PS2 version.

Reception
This game has a negative reception, with GamesRadar+ giving the game 2 stars out of 5. Jeuxvideo gave the game 6/20. On GameFAQs, it has a rating of 1.21 out of 5 on the PlayStation 2 version, and 1.15 on the Nintendo DS version, a lower rating than Pimp My Ride ever received.