Street Racing (2016)

Street Racing is a mobile racing game developed by The Rise, introduced in 2016. The game currently has over 1 million downloads on Play Store and can safely said to be inspired by Need for Speed: Underground and Street Racing Syndicate, mostly former.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Developers actually care about this game, in fact Street Racing still gets updates after 4 years of release.
 * 2) Like the Need for Speed: Underground duology (trilogy if you count Underground Rivals) and Street Racing Syndicate, this game offers lots of customization options; like bumpers, spoilers, roof scoops, neons, vinyls and headlight colors and cambers.
 * 3) The game has a great list of cars, which also grows in quantity (25 as of November 18th, 2020).
 * 4) * Along with cars you know from Need For Speed: Underground duology, you can also drive other cars that are out of the duology like the Mitsubishi Eclipse GTS (D53A), the Mini Cooper S (R50), the Ford Mustang SVT Cobra R (SN95), and even the BMW M3 (E46).
 * 5) * At car buying screen, with a late update, you can listen to selected car's engine before you buy.
 * 6) You can upgrade your car's performance heavily and even tune gear ratios of it.
 * 7) A late update replaces old garage screen with a new, more detailed one.
 * 8) You can synchronize your device with Google Play account to save your progress.
 * 9) Speaking of progress, there is a leveling system that makes you unlock things; performance upgrades, visual upgrades, vinyls and cars are unlocked gradually with this leveling system. You can unlock things up to Level 27, where you unlock the Subaru Impreza WRX STI (S204), the most expensive car in-game. The level up system works like this: If you're advanced to level n, you need to win n+1 races to advance to level n+1.
 * 10) A city map mimicking Street Racing Syndicate and Need For Speed: Underground.
 * 11) * Developers updated the environment heavily circa 2018, adding highways, traffic and advertisement billboards.
 * 12) No microtransactions. No false advertisements.
 * 13) The prize you win from races depends on how many horsepower your car has, makes money farming easy if you have a powerful car.
 * 14) Car physics are on-par with the Need For Speed: Underground duology.
 * 15) You can drive in manual transmission if you want.
 * 16) You can join multiplayer and play with up to 10 players at a time.
 * 17) *Speaking of multiplayer, it is actually more fun than single player.
 * 18) You can also do free roam, akin to NFS: UG2.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) There are unfortunately still advertisements in the game.
 * 2) There are only three types of races; Sprint, Drag and Drift.
 * 3) * Opponents in drag races don't seem adjusted to player's status, unlike Sprint.
 * 4) * Getting high scores in Drift races in weak cars (<250hp) is impossible. Scores are not adjusted towards player's stats, though this is not truly a "fault".
 * 5) * There is a fourth race type called "Pursuit", which is online only.
 * 6) Race marks (donuts) actually don't appear in city. Even if you go to that point, you won't see a race mark, unlike Need For Speed: Underground 2. The only thing to enter races is by going through the map, which can also be convenient since you don't need to drive to the mark anymore.
 * 7) Newbie players can get stuck at garage screen or free roam, due to advancing to map (to select races) being a bit cryptic.
 * 8) The game may still feel like a cheap knockoff of Need For Speed: Underground. Thankfully it's not as in early versions (2016-2018).
 * 9) Speaking of races, there are always four different races at a time, you participate all four then another four appears.
 * 10) * From level 10, a "pursuit" race appears as well, increases this number to 5.
 * 11) There are no difficulty settings. An ability of selecting difficulty per race would be better.
 * 12) * Speaking of difficulty, opponents in Sprint races offer little more than no challenges.
 * 13) While the game offers heavy upgrades to cars, handling upgrades do not seem to work for some reason.