Juiced (unpublished acclaim version)
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For the current video game by this name, see Juiced.
Juiced is a street racing and car modification video game to be published by Acclaim Entertainment that was set to be released for the Playstation 2, Xbox and PC in late 2004. However, the game got caught up in Acclaim’s bankruptcy issues, and it never got released. Game magazines around the world wrote reviews on nearly-finished copies of the game.
Gameplay and features
The player can choose a wide variety of car modifications, such as visual modifications, performance modifications and more. All of these customization options provide a personalized and unique car to suit the player’s needs. The gameplay offered to the player includes a career mode, sprint, race, solo, cruise, and a new show-off mode where the player does tricks with his or her car to keep the crowd entertained.
A feature that was seen in other car modification games, such as Need For Speed: Most Wanted, was a nitrous button, which was useful if the player was far behind the competition and needed a little boost. This feature was also presented in Juiced.
The original version of juiced affords 6 game modes:
- Career – this is the main point of the game – to race so you can clock the game
- Sprint – this mode offers an A to B race
- Race – this mode is simply to race around the track with 6 other AI-driven cars, and beat them
- Solo – this mode is simply to race by yourself
- Cruise – this mode is where you drive around a selected track, with no time limits or lap counts
- Show-off – in this mode you drive around the track and perform tricks such as a "burnouts", 360-degree "doughnuts" and so on, to keep the crowd entertained.
Acclaim’s bankruptcy issues
During the development of Juiced, Acclaim got caught up in their financial issues and eventually filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy before Juiced was set for release in late 2004. Delays were made as Juice Games did not have a game publisher to publish Juiced, so game developer THQ published the game instead. More delays were made as Juice games changed the game completely so THQ would publish it.
Copies of the game and promotional items
After Acclaim went bankrupt, they held an auction to sell everything they owned that had a reasonable value. All of the promotional posters were destroyed, but some made it out and was sold along with a few of their other items that were auctioned at the time. The promotional posters are highly coveted around the world today, and a whole set of them was seen on Ebay America in early February 2007. Copies of the game can be made illegally, but no originals are known to be at the hands of the public at this time.
