Pimp My Ride is a Horror Game

[@MrSilnev]

As one of the few people to actually beat this game, some of the later "Pimps" become an actual challenge when you need to plan your route around going to the right shops. If you don't you can run out of time and for the later cars, unless you max out every part, the rival will beat you. Also if you do play this game again some small things: 6:37 That guy is how you access the secret shop during the pimp session. To activate him in the free roam, you have to go slowly (like you do for the Cruise Now bits), and honk the horn. Sometimes you have to do it in a specific direction. 6:53 The countdown isn't a countdown for you to get to the house, it's a countdown before the free roam ends and you can't earn more money. Ideally you want to earn more money than what the game recommends. So if it says "5000" you want to go for like "6000". Because of this I get all the tokens first then do the Cruises, then the two minigames to max out the cash. The later cars, you need to have more money because the rival will beat you if you don't have enough expensive parts. The Blue tokens on the map, you have to get those. They open up a secret shop during the build session, that's marked by a red star. They give a max level part that you can't get from the other stores. Ideally you want to go to the secret supplier first, so you can get whatever special part is, so you don't waste money on the same kind of part from another store. These are required to get a perfect rating and in some of the later builds to beat the rival. 10:20 The Xzibit bar is related to the Xzibit challenge you see at 9:40. Basically see how the rival has a green box with a pink star? That is an Xzibit part. These are free parts that help boost your rating and most importantly add time to the clock. They appear when you reach a certain threshold with the build you are doing. There are 3 tiers to the parts and each one gives you more time. Again these are required to get perfects and heck even beats some of the later builds. The last set of builds have a massive stretch of road that separates some of the shops and you lose alot of time going from one side to the other. You need the Xzibit challenges to just get enough time. Finally most people who play this game only do Andrea or Marcia's cars. So they don't ever meet any of the characters later on and their cars with mad parts. The best one, is the last guy who, I kid you not, is a larper and is dressed as such. It is the best the cutscene in the game. Also all the cutscenes feature bad lip syncing and dead eyed character models who flail about. Obviously they were trying to capture the show but it didn't turn out well. Also the PSP version, actually cuts 3 of the builds plus the industrial area out and gives you 3 new ones to do, on an island that appears to be in a snowstorm. (Yep I beat this game on both PS2 and PSP, I was that big of a fan of the show). Additionally there was another Pimp My Ride game called "Pimp My Ride: Street Racing". It is a very basic racing game that felt like it was made in 2004 but released in 2009. It has nothing to do with the show, no X-Z-Xzibit nor any of the build shops. It's also incredibly tedious with rubber banding AI, that makes you race the same 12 races like 40 times. I beat that game aswell (probably the only guy to do it) and there is like no purpose to doing so. It is a terrible game and has no real value.

[@pallav8725]

I commend your sheer determination.

[@MrSilnev]

@@pallav8725 I actually have a funny story about this game. So it came out in 2006 and I didn't know it was out since I was like 10 at the time, but I did watch the tv show and really liked it. So one day I went to my local video store and I saw NFS Carbon was for sale (I was also really into NFS) but I didn't have enough money. So I saved up the money and a month or two later, I had enough to get the game, I ran in (it was almost closing) and I saw Carbon but also Pimp my Ride the game. I was so shocked because I didn't know about the game. So because of that, I impulse bought Pimp my Ride instead of Carbon as I intended. Anyway at the time, I didn't think it was that bad (I had already had the disappointment experience with Simpsons Skateboarding and Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly) but it was kinda just another game, so like a month later I got NFS Carbon. So I'm probably the only dingus to have ever chosen Pimp my Ride the game over Need for Speed Carbon. Also something I forgot to mention about Pimp My Ride in general. The traffic car modles. The Xbox 360 version is the only version to have variety. On every other platform the traffic models are Dodge Challenger Concepts only.

[@ThePsychicFish]

You're the Pimp My Ride Jesus! You've suffered for our sins...

[@benny7682]

A true gamer right here

[@JB2FROSTY]

Holy Moly this dude is the professor of the PMR game

[@blakegriplingph]

I love how they turned a scripted "reality" show into a survival horror game. Truly one of the games of all time.

[@coisnotpog]

NASCAR saw this back in the day and thought, "We should let them make our games for 5 years with exclusivity rights."

[@neoncaelestis]

when i saw the cutscene with andrea live on stream i genuinely was close to passing out on my desk with laughter. pimp my ride on the 360 nearly killed me

[@i-never-look-at-replies-lol]

okay bro

[@TrollDecker]

The more I look back on Eutechnyx, the more I wonder how the hell they haven't been bought out by a far more competent studio and quickly snuffed out of sheer pity.

[@crimson-foxtwitch2581]

I looked up Eutechnyx’s page on Wikipedia, and the answer to that is “Well no, but actually yes”. The company got downsized in 2015 and much of their staff got relocated to sister company ZeroLight, which is now in a completely different industry making products for other businesses.

[@Krieger22FS]

Eutechnyx's car modeling tech was used to start up a sister company called ZeroLight. ZeroLight does a lot of work making online car configurators for car manufacturers, and I wouldn't really be surprised if Eutechnyx is basically the modeling manpower for that now.

[@crimson-foxtwitch2581]

@@Krieger22FS sounds about right

[@LotsOfToubleUsuallySerious]

Their most competent work was probably the Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift game and Street Racing Syndicate

[@killingtimeonline]

This game is a subversive masterpiece. Almost avante garde in its design. It takes everything you think you know about driving games and morphs them into something you couldn't imagine. It was ahead of its time by throwing in the waggle controls before people were sick of them, genuinely impressive. The devs knew that this piece of art wouldn't be loved by everybody so they made an executive decision to have it hard crash to remind you to step outside more, maybe even take the time to pimp your own rides. This is truly something special

[@m0nkuu]

i had this game on psp and it was super stable on that platform, although i remember reaching a complete brick wall part way through because the rival car would always impossibly zoom around to all the shops and make a better car than i ever could. absolutely peak tv tie-in game but dumb fun nonetheless

[@bruh_machine]

Also stable on PS2, could probably emulate it just fine

[@father042]

"Pimp My Ride was developed by Eutechnyx" That's how you know it's a quality game

[@ssxtier]

nah in aint no sh*t way ima buy a game by the dudes behind ride to hell

[@Baby_boodle]

That is the scariest illustration of a floor jack I've ever seen, it's so weirdly proportioned and the perspective is all whacky, this game hurts me. 😭

[@jaysonovo4778]

God bless Tennesse.

[@ChevyboyCaprice_]

Looks like a normal jack to me

[@yaboyfrresh]

Looks like a regular 3 ton

[@ChevyboyCaprice_]

@@yaboyfrresh thank you! I said the same thing, but maybe homie just sees something we don't

[@some-replies]

Yea it looks fine.

[@Kohaku233]

Lost it with the Streetpass Dancers. That was hilarious.

[@samus2008matt]

Died laughing when Andrea showed up with her non-moving eyes.

[@0uttaS1TE]

Andrea looks like she should have an Akira Yamaoka song playing whenever we see her

[@Under10Hours]

I do love the idea of the show being so held together by gum and duct tape that the show runners had to go out and secure funding for every car they had to pimp.

[@stargazer2312]

According to what Xzibit said about it that's not too far from the truth

[@Yngdady]

This game reminds me of the ps2 lowrider game a couple of college kids made and it somehow got massive marketing for being so far from a car game in terms of gameplay I'm surprised you didn't just play the ps2 version, it's practically identical with far less crashing, and trusty PS2 memory card saving

[@KeiDoesManyThings]

2nd the PS2 comment. I remember getting farther on the PS2 version. I didn't know there was other versions of Pimp My Ride.

[@beat-man5167]

learning that this game is made by a japanese dev is how i became aware of japan's lowrider scene

[@Mandarin9900]

What PS2 lowrider game are you talking about? Thanks

[@Hans013]

@@Mandarin9900 I think is "LowRider: Round the World" because that the one i play on PS2 back then.

[@Mandarin9900]

@@Hans013 Never heard of this game, thank you

[@sanity000-x2r]

FIRST GAME TO SELL OVER A PIMPILLION COPIES #XZIBITSWEEP

[@purplegill10]

I'm in love with this comment

[@saturnsrings1164]

>new kacey video finally, good food is back on the menu once more

[@TooMuchSascha]

The more comedic editing style used in this video is fucking gold, the Stand User bit got me lmfao

[@williamlim5234]

The first thing i noticed when i picked a copy for this game in my Ps 2 is the photo used for customizing the cars on the back of the cover are from Need for Speed Most Wanted, which was hilarious and also quite weird that EA didn't sue MTV or the game devs for this

[@forevercomputing]

I love how the Americans pronounce the brand Nokia as No Kia. Like - No Kia for you. You get a Ford. Knock, Unles it's a noke noke joke

[@Alien_Bob]

"Pump My Ride was developed by Eutechnyx" Oooooooooh, that explains everything!

[@jaysonovo4778]

The woman narrating this was pretty funny! Definitely subbed to her.

[@MaxPower-zw7xr]

That cut scene at 7.10 with Andreas reaction had me rolling. Someone needs to make a gif out of that.

[@NadiaClawson24601]

PIMPING STARTS IN TWO MINUTES?!?!

[@bigman2352]

“There’s no subtitles so if you’re hard of hearing go f*** yourself I guess?!” - Brilliant comment. 😂👏

[@crimsonkate8241]

More random oddity videos are welcome if their as funny as this one, had me crying with laughter.

[@galaxygamer247]

This is truly one of the games of all time

[@PSXDRIVERPLAYERBSTH]

"Eutechnyx - advanced game science" -007 Racing Eutechnyx logo bit

[@ThatTonnatoTenrec]

Watching BlackPanthaa's series on the game back in the day was certantly something. In fact it was also him that i found more weird games id prob not play like LA Rush.

[@Father_Pyle]

Solid video! I give you props for getting through it enough to make a video. I played like 10 minutes of the game before and couldn't bare it any longer lol.

[@ghostgetsbusy]

i did not even know....this existed...and I watched the freak out of pimp my ride when I was in secondary school

[@TheG_Boy]

There is a pimp my ride map with pimp with ride assets truly this is the gaming

[@samronin1141]

I remember first encountering Eutechnyx for their Max Power Racing game and Le Mans 24 Hours. At that point I thought they had the makings of a good studio. Oh, how their other titles killed any such thoughts after.

[@mazda9624]

I was pretty surprised to see that DSiWare Ferarri game in the background at 0:06. I always just assumed no one else knew it existed.

[@exonymat1471]

Considering that you mentioned playing a LOT of different racing games, it would be cool to see you showcase some of them that you thought were underrated/great to play. Bringing these games into the public light for the first time in years/decades would be interesting as it could spawn a whole new fan base for these games

[@crimson-foxtwitch2581]

most of those games aren’t playable on PC without setting up emulators for older consoles and/or aren’t available to purchase on any modern storefront. entire subgenres of the racing game genre have just simply died off, and most attempts to resurrect them by indie devs have failed(see: Dangerous Driving) the SOLE exception I’ve seen within the last 5 years was Victory Heat Rally, which, while having had two playable demos, doesn’t even have a release date yet. mind you, it was supposed to release last year.

[@scrustle]

I've had some experience with Eutechnyx as well, but never played this one. I had no idea it had a 360 version, let alone that it had a sequel. I tend to get it mixed up with other games from around the time that focused on the LA custom car scene. I noticed some footage of Auto Club Revolution in there too. I did play that one in the short time it existed, and I remember liking it. Is there any way to play it these days? Even if it never got finished.

[@Krieger22FS]

ACR is very dead. They wiped everything for a "2.0" closed beta that copied progression from World of Tanks, and it evidently didn't go well because they just didn't do anything afterwards and started hoping everybody would forget it

[@supermoe1985]

When the world needed her most, she returned.

[@supermoe1985]

@@WhirlingMusic Doesn't matter how she sounds, she's a girl.

[@supermoe1985]

@@AkeoT9 She's a girl.

[@supermoe1985]

@@AkeoT9 Triggered snowflake :)

[@Lobotomite12]

@@supermoe1985 Trans?

[@RedzaMalaysianCrossover]

I hate to say that I enjoy this game as a kid where internet is not my thing yet that time.

[@IanRB26]

This game is my guilty pleasure. Its SO bad that its good. I just love seeing all the wacky customisation options they have from a mechanical bull to a runway 😂

[@Ape_Tero]

Just found this KZbin channel. When I was a kid, me and a friend where obsessed with games that allowed customization, especially racing games of this nature on the PS2. I'm so glad we didn't buy this game, because at the time, we'd put money together for games, and we chose an F1 game over *THIS* and L.A. Rush (and I'm so glad we did).

[@BlackWidowMac]

Hey Kacey! I love the new format, feels like it would be a nice addition to your rotation. Love to see content creators experiment, keeps things fresh.

[@j.peters1222]

0:58 That haunting blank stare 👀

[@PrettyGothBoi6085]

Ending a cut scene takes you to the main menu instead of skipping? Definitely a game made by the devil himself.

[@naoeoforfeitport]

0:19 game?

[@Totone56]

4:15 "A Playsation 2 exclusive from 2009" Wait what ?

[@Nobody44112]

11:41-11:51 "KING CRIMSON, ERASE TIME AND JUMP PAST IT"

[@Oldschool1943]

9:56 ZERO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 2 CARS. LMFAOOO😂

[@mazdaroadster-mx5]

damn the SWDC gameplay. that caught me off guard. takes me back a few years

[@Artificeral]

Crazily enough, there is a decent game in this franchise: Pimp My Ride Street Racing on DS. Dustineden covered it in his DS racers video.

[@bigman2352]

Also reminds me a bit of The Crew as well

[@shadowspike74]

4:54 the timing of the animation to the music. 😂

[@n00btube45]

God, I remember getting this game as a kid for my birthday years ago on PS2. If only knew how terrible it would be. Also, what game is that at 0:19?

[@crimson-foxtwitch2581]

Sega World Drivers Championship. It was an arcade-exclusive game running on UE4 only released in Japan.

[@collinmc90]

Felt like my computer was gonna crash the whole time watching this lmao.

[@High_Bread]

My friend had this game. I remember going to his house and immediately wanting to go home

[@MrAeroHD]

The 3DS bit had me ROLLING

[@WarzoneXProductions]

The npc’s lack of facial expression gave me nightmares As a child

[@jaahnnn]

Don't know how I got here but this dude had me cracking up

[@roguedogx]

1:45 that is a big statement. I have no doubt you can back it up, I just fail to fathom how.

[@roguedogx]

5:02 this has no right to be this funny, but some how it is.

[@roguedogx]

5:45 wow, okay.

[@roguedogx]

11:58 what you said.

[@gmodderr]

The Pimp My Ride theme song is a banger tho

[@Sharkle_Bunwich]

The mii street plaza bit at 4:47 needs to be re-uploaded as a KZbin Short.

[@Kaceydotme]

Already did

[@tylerdye9629]

if I remember correctly, you have to honk at the guy with the glow and you get a special item for the car

[@montikore]

I read this as "Pimp my Ride AS a horror game" and became VERY intrigued lol

[@Unknown_Ooh]

I remember my friend gave this for free and I also remember trashing it shortly later 😂 my local non corporate game store has a copy for $3 that's been sitting for years

[@wind_reader]

Maybe the real pimpin' was the friends we made along the way.

[@Spazbo4]

I was expecting to hear that cursed sonic cd boss music when that abomination showed up on screen

[@Playr0ne]

this must be something like My Summer Car gameplay, in theory

[@derpedfox]

This gave me flashback to Peanut Butter Gamer's Ghost Ride the Whip....damn that was 7 years ago

[@KylarTyphlosion]

Street pass the whip

[@Lisazoeytranz]

This game was so much fun when I was a kid and didn’t care about time and quality but now as an adult I just don’t know how to feel about it lol

[@NONOOBZ4EVR]

00:19 what racing game is that with the prius?

[@Kaceydotme]

Sega World Driver's Championship

[@tommykhong6148]

Seeing Dead Heat the arcade racer has me beamin’!

[@IPlayKindred]

12:36 what is this game? I remember playing it in an arcade

[@Eleven17Studios]

Looks bad, sounds bad, plays bad...I'M IN! Bad games with Nokia product placements just can't be beat!

[@RacerC45]

Your gameplay is hilarious. That's a compliment.

[@LotsOfToubleUsuallySerious]

The woman wasn't excited, she was Joker-ing (basically turning ito The Joker, u know, Batman's main villain. And this joke probably only works in Brazil)

[@mrmm1110]

I remember this game, it's indeed a horror XD Also, I think it's less buggy in PS2

[@TheFatSandwhich]

This world in this game is kinda eerie and really creepy.

[@lincarrey]

The dance part cracked me up!

[@YourFavoriteUrsine]

I miss ACR. It was the closest thing to a Gran Turismo clone that I had access to at the time. Being 16, driving an RX-7 around Silverstone, on the PC, FOR FREE??? Yeah, no, it had its hooks in me. Nowadays, I go to Asseto Corsa for my sim fun on PC, but y'know.

[@KawaiiReviewsReal]

Banger video by kacey

[@kramer5772]

I have to say, I laughed for a good minute after seeing the thumbnail - good thumbnail game bro 🤣

[@carlbrown1000]

Melvin dodged a bullet.

[@peterbrown3285]

i completely forgot abt this game, used to play it for at least 3 hours everday on my ps2 .

[@some-replies]

I hate when menus have those animation delays. I still have the button combos to upgrade cars in GTA 5 memorized

[@chrome5964]

i would have bought this game if i knew you could drive around. i was a kid and i always thought you only pimp'd the ride out and thats it lol

[@bigxavipg]

Ayo bro was beefing like ish doing this review Lmaoo keep at it

[@thehwguy4293]

What game appears at 12:36? I played it as a kid in the arcade, but I keep forgetting what it's name is.

[@Kaceydotme]

I thiiiink that's R-Tuned, it may be Dead Heat.

[@cannedbeverage7687]

0:07 gameloft moment

[@speedtracker9556]

To make matters worse, the Ghost Ride The Whip move has the word 'Ghost' in it. Does that mean a ghost is in this game?

[@stargazer2312]

I remember having this game as a kid but always getting so fucking mad at it because my 10 year old self wasn't mentally prepared for QTEs and just lost every time.

[@Umar2010ist]

the driving physics and driving camera reminded me of The Fast and the Furious (2006) on ps2

[@Kaceydotme]

same dev

[@GravitronGaming]

Mii Plaza was the best part of this game 100% hands down

[@yanholliday8876]

eutechnyx really was a funny studio.... they made genuinely nice stuff like the 24hours of le mans on ps1, ferrari challenge on ps3, that weird fast and furious psp thing that thinks it's a tokyo xtreme racer game, big mutha truckers is fun, too.... but the bulk of their production.........oh, dear!.... to me they're the british titus. titus also has good racing games (crazy cars 3, roadsters...) but you only remember superman 64. (.....i love titus. that's the kind of jank i live for.)

[@thetexanhusky]

If the Xbox 360 version is THAT prone to crashing a lot, I'm glad I didn't get that version when I was young. I had the Wii version, and as far as I remember, I didn't experience any crashes (Eutechnyx very likely patched them out for this version, seeing that it came out about a year and a half after the PS2 and Xbox 360 versions). I was halfway done with the game, but I got stuck on a certain level and I never got to finish it since I decided that I couldn't even bother. Here's hoping you'll have better luck when you pick the game back up and try to finish the thing. It's gonna be one hell of a ride.

[@gofast7907]

Hey Kac! when is the retrospective on the oddest yet most perfect cinematic universe, the Hot Wheels World Race/Acceleracers cinematic universe coming out? need.

[@bigman2352]

This game reminds me a bit like Test Drive Unlimited (in fact you should do a video on that game and it’s sequel if you haven’t already) in terms of the driving physics of the game and the comical moments

[@NadiaClawson24601]

ghost rifing the HwhiP

[@icarusgaming6269]

Thank you for pointing me too another potential so bad it's good game

[@skateboardinguitaris]

Still somehow better than Fast And Furious Crossroads 💀💀💀💀💀

[@DaCrow199]

Okay I need to ask, what is that Super GT themed game in 0:19? I *must know*

[@mahiru20ten]

sega world drivers championship

[@r3uvsgaming]

actually, you know what those physics remind me of? Tokyo Drift on the PS2, also developed by Eutechnyx, and also just as horrible, if not worse.