The whole thing feels like the track has been caked in bacon grease, and steering properly under those conditions is a dicey prospect. Your only job is to maintain some level of control and avoid hitting barriers. This was probably done on purpose-this mode is all about drifting your car through turns, but the game basically sends your car sideways with even the slightest twitch of your controller. Even if you're driving a car you just drove normally on a race track, the handling becomes a slippery mess. Drift races, on the other hand, are a whole different animal. Races are like any other racing game you've ever played, except you may need to get used to the loose-feeling controls. The interesting thing is how differently the circuit races and drifting events play. But eventually, the imprecision of the car handling and sometimes questionable sense of speed conspire to dull up the proceedings. Sure, there are momentary thrills to be had during the circuit races as you find a quick shortcut to zoom past a rival driver or pull together some ludicrous combo while taking on one of the game's drifting events. It toes the same middle ground as the original Juiced, and like that game, it isn't especially exciting.
There's nothing remotely realistic about the physics or handling of these cars, yet at the same time, the driving isn't so over the top as to be entertaining because of its ridiculousness. Juiced 2 drives like some unholy hybrid of Midnight Club and Midway's old Rush series of arcade racers. A Juiced sequel might not have been one of them, if Juiced 2 is any indication. Sadly, PlayStation 2 owners are left on the side of the road with no online play at all. The one, saving grace is the Xbox 360 version's online play, which includes a whole career mode that you can play online against other armchair Paul Walkers. It offers up yet another arcade-heavy street racing experience with driving mechanics that do little to impress, an offline career mode that's laudable only because you don't experience the teeth-gnashing frustration you may have had with its predecessor, and presentation that's cut from the same swath that every generic street racer in the world uses. Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights is the follow-up to that unmemorable game, and this sequel is equally forgettable. Instead, it offered up a mostly competent take on a well-worn genre that had some interesting, yet flawed, design concepts. THQ and developer Juice Games' unassuming arcade-style street racer didn't exactly set the world on fire. If you actually remember 2005's Juiced, you've got a better memory than most.
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