Pimp My Ride

Pimp My Ride is a racing video game based on the eponymous television show of the same name. It was developed by Eutechnyx and published by Activision for mh:awesomegames:PlayStation 2, mh:awesomegames:Xbox 360, mh:awesomegames:PlayStation Portable, and mh:awesomegames:Nintendo Wii. The game was released in 2006.

Why It Doesn't Pimp

 * 1) The gameplay is very boring and repetitive, making it feel like a poor man's Need for Speed: Underground.
 * 2) The car designs are very generic and there are no licensed vehicles from brands such as Dodge, Toyota, Porsche, Chevrolet, etc.
 * 3) Poorly animated cutscenes with bad lip-syncing.
 * 4) Laughable and cringeworthy dialogue such as Xzibit's "Whoa, that Tornado! That looks like it's been hit by a tornado!"
 * 5) Pixelated, blurry graphics that look awful for a game released in 2006. The cars look more like RC cars, the levels looked washed up with a bad color palette, and the character models look more like plastic figurines. It even suffers from an awful framerate, especially on the PS2 version. In fact, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, a game released a year earlier, looks better.
 * 6) Terrible car handling that is on par with Eutechnyx's later game, Ride to Hell: Retribution. It attempts to be arcady, but it feels like you're trying to drive a bumper car on ice.
 * 7) One of the ways you can earn cash for the budget for pimping a customer's vehicle is to crash into others, which is contradictory to the premise of the show because in it, West Coast Customs (Galpin Auto Sports from Season 5 onwards) takes beat up cars, and enhances them into ones worthy of being on the streets.
 * 8) The only other ways you can earn cash are via dull minigames, all of which are completed by pressing buttons.
 * 9) Customization options are limited due to them being catered towards the customer's preferences. This also means it's impossible to pick a wrong part to purchase.
 * 10) To install the parts, you press buttons in an order like a minigame. While you can skip this process, you'll be paying full price for the part if you skip it.
 * 11) As long as you keep buying the most expensive parts, you'll win.
 * 12) Many of the characters are outright obnoxious and unlikable, especially Marcia (the first customer).
 * 13) The PSP version has worser visuals, less content and an even more unstable framerate. It also replaces 3 customers named Leon, Alix and Aiyana with Kass, Conway and Heather, the last one having shops that have a very long distance.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Decent hip hop soundtrack, including Styles of Beyond's Bleach and Suni Clay's in a Hood Near You, the latter previously appearing in Need for Speed: Most Wanted.
 * 2) The PSP version has a route planner where you can map out where you want to go instead of having to use the manual DFMS.

Reception
Pimp My Ride received negative reviews, and has a Metacritic score of 38/100 on Xbox 360, 36/100 on PlayStation 2, and 26/100 on Wii.

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