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Juiced: Eliminator for PlayStation Portable
Juiced: Eliminator for PlayStation Portable combines street racing with building a garage and a reputation. In Angel City you buy cars, improve their performance and change their appearance with paint and body parts. You collect money and earn respect from other crews by taking on their challenges. It is not just about finishing first: your decisions about bets, tuning and teammates also determine how your career develops. After all, a fast car costs money that you first have to earn.
You select events through the calendar and decide for yourself when to enter a race. In crew events you also direct other drivers from your team. Show Off calls for stunts and precisely executed manoeuvres, while Eliminator removes the slowest driver from the event each time. Pink Slip races make the stakes personal: you can win an opponent's car, but also lose your own. The garage therefore demands as much attention as the track.
Alongside the career there are Arcade challenges and custom races. Up to six players can race locally when each has their own UMD and PSP with wireless networking. For a separate two-player duel the game supports Game Sharing: one UMD is then enough, but both players still need their own PSP with wireless networking. This shared component does not replace the full career on the disc. You use a Memory Stick Duo to save your own progress.
Region and language
Our PlayStation Portable games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
You receive the physical UMD edition. You need a PSP with a UMD drive to play it; a PSP Go cannot play this disc.
Manual
Juiced: Eliminator for PlayStation Portable includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Juiced: Eliminator
Juice Games developed Juiced: Eliminator and THQ released it in 2006 for PlayStation Portable. It built on Juiced, the street racer that had appeared on home consoles and PC in 2005. When announcing it in September 2005, studio head Colin Bell described the PSP project as a next step designed around the handheld's capabilities. The recognisable cars, crews and races remained, but the portable version also received new content and a revised career structure.
In its May 2006 E3 presentation THQ emphasised the new wireless events, including Eliminator and Relay. The publisher also announced different crew leaders, locations, tracks and cars with extra body parts. The team was therefore not simply using the PSP as a smaller screen for existing races. The direct connection between devices made it possible to continue the rivalry over teams and cars locally with other players, alongside challenges against computer-controlled opponents.
The release came during a period when publishers were reshaping their major racing series for Sony's first handheld. THQ had meanwhile acquired Juice Games as an internal studio and presented Eliminator within that broader development line-up. Retaining money, respect and races for car ownership distinguished Juiced from games mainly selling individual lap times or spectacular crashes. Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights later also appeared on PSP; Eliminator belongs to the series' earlier generation.
Similar games for PlayStation Portable
Need for Speed: Underground Rivals for PSP shares the collection of recognisable cars and improvements to their performance and appearance. You earn points through races and skill challenges, then spend them on your garage. Juiced: Eliminator links progress to money, respect and contact with rival crews. Both call for a car you build up yourself, but Juiced makes the consequences of a lost bet or a race for car ownership particularly tangible.
Burnout Legends on PSP lets you unlock cars through races and challenges, but uses collisions as an objective in themselves. Takedowns earn boost and Crash challenges revolve around the largest possible chain collision. Juiced: Eliminator focuses on managing and tuning the cars you use to win races. Where Legends tempts you to hit an opponent hard, the money invested in your car also makes caution important in Juiced.
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition for PSP combines street racing with changes to wheels, bodywork and performance. You drive through urban streets and have to keep accelerating between traffic. Juiced: Eliminator also offers a personal garage, but builds a calendar, crew relationships and races for car ownership around it. Your car gets its own appearance in both; in Juiced, bets and earned respect also determine what you can do next.
Ridge Racer on PSP builds its arcade racing around drifting and accumulating and using nitrous. The emphasis is on learning the corners and maintaining a fast line. Juiced: Eliminator uses recognisable cars that you improve in a garage and links events to a career with money and crews. Both reward better driving and unlocking new vehicles, but Ridge Racer does not demand the same attention to stakes and relationships.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted 5-1-0 for PSP combines tuning with a succession of opponents you try to pass on a Black List. Police pursuits and the ability to drive police cars yourself in Tuner Takedown define its atmosphere. Juiced: Eliminator mainly builds tension through respect between crews and cars you can win or lose. Both lead towards increasingly demanding races, but the source of pressure on the driver is different.
