Posted on: December 15, 2023

chlop

Spiele: 2575 Rezensionen: 106

Soft Core Racing

Street Racing Syndicate is like a higher-budget version of NFS: Underground 2, yet somehow much worse. Instead of a PowerPoint presentation in NFS:U2, we actually get videos to enjoy. But everything racing related is subpar. The world map is small and largely uninteresting, with too many roads you can't escape - ones that once you get on you have a while to wait for an exit. Points of interest don't show up in the in-game map, yet show up in a map you have to pause the game to view. So driving around, I constantly had to pause gameplay to search whether I was in the right direction. The game does offer a workaround, but a weird one for a racing game - you can instantly teleport into every race and challenge, no driving required. If you still want to drive around the map, you can, but for a street racing game, the map is fairly small and empty of cars. Most of the time you'll encounter cop cars, which will start chasing you around, and try to block your way. Cop cars are very hard to shake off, and them catching up to you only nets you a small fine, so it's better to just give up and get a fine than try to outrun them, damage your car, and get a fine. You can tune your car for better performance, but you don't need a lot of money or car knowledge in order to get a good enough car to win almost every time. Partly because the game only allows your opponents to pass you in specific areas of every track, and partly because hitting a wall and spinning always ends with your car pointing in the right direction. So being overtaken isn't the end of a race. There are collectibles of sorts, and a set number of challenges to complete for 100%, but you can race in the same tracks over and over again and it still counts towards 100%, and challenges seem built around hooking up with random women, and unlocking videos of them dancing to bad music. For a street racing game, races feel too much as if they take place in a race track - lots of 90 degree turns and uninspired loops.

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Posted on: February 5, 2025

Caban

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Spiele: 2963 Rezensionen: 33

Easy to play, hard to master

Awesome street racing game, despite feeling cheap at the start. It won't explain you all the mechanics but they are pretty satisfying when you discover them and try to master. If you want to max out all races with respect points it's really hard but if you just want some chill, unlocking cars, girlfriends and their clips it's very easy and not really that much grindy. Cars handle surprisingly realistic! It's definitely not Flatout with nitroing on the corners and overpowered RWD vechicles are really hard to drive. Tuning really matters and it's not only about maxing out all the stats. It's really nice you mostly drive very down-to-earth cars there, not supercars you could probably never afford in real life. Huge + for ability to start with Toyota Celica. :) Technically game runs pretty fine on modern pc, however I have a feeling of some strange input lag on menus. Enter seems to work sometimes and sometimes not. Definitely not a big deal, doesn't affect steering during races. Graphically nothing special, probably worse than most games from that era but atmosphere of early 2000' is just awesome. Game from real men for real men. :) Hard to believe it's that cheap though! Even without any promo. I could price it few times higher and it still would be worth it.

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Posted on: February 9, 2025

tmzinhu

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Spiele: 158 Rezensionen: 2

Nice classic game

Great race game and great underground stile

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Posted on: September 23, 2025

tadeososa

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Spiele: 28 Rezensionen: 1

it´s good

good

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Posted on: July 23, 2023

DabAByteWide

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Spiele: Rezensionen: 9

This game ain't going to hold your hand

Currently playing this game with all graphic settings on max at 1440x1080P, I have had no issues wit frame drops yet. Playing this game with a Thrustmaster T.FLight One HOTAS, took a little while to get use to. Though it does make for a better gaming exerience so far. Most of the controls I mainly need are on the joystick, the clutch for automatic engines is on the throttle & the NOS button is on a weird place. This game is from the early 2000's, back when games weren't holding your hand & you will eventually have to learn how to drift. I haven't really tried out Manual drive as often yet, it's not too great with my current HOTAS. But if you have a driving wheel & keep low expectations when playing a game as old as this. You will have a fantastic time, this game will bring out some rage in you that you didn't know you had. Even if you may be a passive aggressive person & if I am right. Then go ahead & give me a helpful like. Quite a bit of a learning curve once you get yourself immersed in to the classic gameplay. Though the points system could do with some touch ups, many times I pull off long drifts & have near misses with multiple cars. Police chases are 100% one sided, there is no possible way to get away from them early game, so you best behave & be a good citizen when authorities are present. Civilian Cars will be the bane of your existance if you are a perfectionist. They'll be in the worst places possible, it'll be a crash-fest & I would love to see that on multiplayer. I do appreicate this being added on to GOG, this is a game I would like to see with some sort of remaster at least. I loved being able to pay this in the local arcade back when they had weekly tournaments in the shop, back when we had to schedule a time to play games with each other in the community. I hope we get access to multiplayer for this game, maybe I'd eventually comete with someone I use to meet up with at local tournaments for games like this back when I was in middle school.

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