LA STREET RACING / FULL / I CD

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The term "budget game" has taken on a nasty vibe, and there's good reason for it. Too often discount titles simply don't deliver the goods—even when the rock bottom price tag is factored in. They're usually too short, too boring, too ugly, or too flawed. Accordingly, "budget game" has become almost synonymous with "it sucks."

Shows how wrong expectations can be. While L.A. Street Racing—a game about, you guessed it, street racing in Los Angeles—likely won't win any awards, it's far from a clunker. Indeed, one gets the impression that if developer Invictus was able to spend a little more time in the development and testing cycle, fleshing it out and subjecting it to a thorough beta program, L.A. Street Racing could have skipped the budget thing entirely and become a damn good "regular" game.