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Streets of Moscow is a racing video game released for Microsoft Windows in January 22 of 2010. In the Russian Federation, the game was sold as "Adrenalin 2: Rush Hour", the sequel of the previous Adrenalin game, while the Steam worldwide release was sold as "Streets of Moscow".

Gameplay
The gameplay of Streets of Moscow (Or Adrenalin 2: Rush Hour) consists of an open-world driving/racing game set in Moscow in which the player can enter into many different racing events to compete against certain types of opponents, in a very similar way to Need for Speed Underground or Midnight Club. With the money earned from the events, the player can buy another vehicle or tune the current vehicle with technical and visual modifications.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) To begin with, this game was never actually sold separately on Steam, instead, it came along with another three games in a bundle named "1C Racing Collection" at the price of $19.99. The real reason why the game was digitally sold like this is still unknown, but many people theorize that 1C Company was aware of how terrible the game was and decided to include it in a pack so people couldn't ask for refunds in case that they decided to buy it separately or to increase the sales of the game in a very artificial way.
 * 2) This game has probably one of the most ridiculous and non-sensical plots that have ever existed in the history of videogames: The game starts up with Max, a street racer who travels to Moscow to visit his girlfriend. After watching the news channel for a while, her girlfriend leaves the apartment for a meeting, but then gets kidnapped by a gang of unknown persons that employ sports vehicles to move. Max then chases the kidnappers for a while before losing them, from here, instead of calling the police or asking the locals for any possible information, he decides to enter into the street racing world of Moscow. The worst part of this is that Max was actually calling the police before losing the criminals, but in an attempt to look "cool", he cancels the call to search her by himself.
 * 3) In addition to the previous WiS point, the game barely explains anything related to the plot after the introductory part, thus, causing a lot of notorious plot holes, which include but are not limited to:
 * 4) * What is the exact reason of the robbers to steal a rocket engine?
 * 5) * How did they broke the security system of a highly valuable and top-secret rocket engine?
 * 6) * Why would a group of criminals that are looking for a fast engine kidnap the girlfriend of an unknown street racer?
 * 7) * How are the three main racing factions of Moscow related to the band of criminals who stole the engine?
 * 8) The way that the game explains a great part of the plot is through an excessively long introductory video that has a duration of four minutes, and if this wasn't enough, there are several problems related to this intro. To begin with, the whole intro never has any kind of voice acting and most of it consists of generic music tracks and awful sound effects to represent certain actions, and apart from that, the visual style is excessively ugly and inconsistent, sometimes the sequences are represented through comic-styled panels, and other times through CGI cutscenes that are way too dark to see what is happening or too shiny to differentiate the scenes on screen.
 * 9) Extremely poor graphics. For a 2009 game, the visuals are completely horrendous, the whole graphical aspect of the game looks very outdated and makes you think that the game is running on a crappy game engine from 1999, something that is even more noticeable when you see that other racing games with better graphics like Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Split/Second and Blur were released in the same year, and what's more, the raining and lightning effects will entirely blind the screen because of how opaque and exaggerated they are, something that gets even worse during the night time because of how dark the game can get. Also, in relation to the WiS point #4, the game never decides if it wants to have realistic or cartoony graphics and art style, and because of this, every single model has a strange looking, like if they were made on jelly or cheap plastic, especially on the vehicle models.
 * 10) * In fact, the previous game of the franchise: Adrenaline: Extreme Show, which was released on 2006, had much better graphics and visual effects and were also adequate for its time, there is no real reason to justify the horrendous graphical quality of the second game.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The soundtrack is probably the only authentic good aspect of the whole game, starting from the main theme that, despite being a bit out of place in comparison to the rest of the game's aesthetic and music tracks, is of a really great quality, and the rest of the songs that play in the radio of the game are also great and varied, ranging from russian hip-hop songs to black metal music of the same country. Unfortunately, none of these songs (apart from the main theme) have been posted on youtube.

Reviews (Russian only)
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Gameplay
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