It’s been five years since the world was introduced to The Fast and the Furious, the movie that started the craze of tuning and modifying small cars in videogames. Sure, we had Gran Turismo before that, but this new type of tuning involved putting decals over your car, neon lights underneath it and half of Halfords under the bonnet.

Since that time, EA has moved their car-tuning games along, away from the bright colours and Vauxhall Novas, and gone for something darker, grittier, and a bit more sophisticated. However, Juice Games are still holding onto the original concept, and have released an updated version of their street racing game, this time on PSP.

At the end of the event you’ll often be faced with a cutscene, either from the racer you just beat, or the female friend who has introduced you to the see. You’ll sometimes also received invites from rival street racing clubs, either to join them in a race, or perhaps even join their race team. From here you can accept any challenges you may be presented with, or head to your garage where you can tune and modify your car. Just like the previous Juiced, you can change many, many things from the air filter, exhaust, right down to the body colour and logos on the vehicle. It’s mostly all real brand names too, which is a nice touch, as it gives you something to relate to if you’re into cars outside of videogames.

Although Juiced Eliminator doesn’t really do anything wrong, there are plenty of other racing games either out or coming out very soon for PSP which have progressed beyond theFast and the Furious style gameplay, and I don’t think this game does anything especially different to be able to recommend it above any of them.