{"id":26931,"date":"2026-06-15T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=26931"},"modified":"2026-05-25T00:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:08:28","slug":"nitro-city-racing-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/15\/nitro-city-racing-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitro City Racing (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You know those old arcade games and handhelds where you steer a car on a straight road in top down 2D fashion, switching lanes in order to avoid cars?\u00a0 Well, Nitro City Racing is just that in 3D.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

When you start, you\u2019ll need to choose your car.\u00a0 Only one is available at the start, but you can buy more with money you earn by playing.\u00a0 You can also use money to upgrade current cars and customize them with paint and whatnot. You can also buy nitro to give you a boost of speed.\u00a0 \u00a0To play, just simply drive forward and avoid other cars by switching lanes.\u00a0 If you can pass cars very close without crashing, you\u2019ll earn bonus points, and those points will increase each time you pass another car close by quickly enough to make a combo.<\/p>\n

There are several modes of play.\u00a0 In Career Mode, you\u2019ll travel around a map with stages to tackle.\u00a0 These give you missions like pass a certain amount of cars, get to a point in a certain amount of time, do a certain amount of close calls, etc.\u00a0 If you bump into a car before completing a mission, you must start over.\u00a0 In One-Way Mode, you simply drive forward as long as you can without bumping into a car.\u00a0 Free Ride lets you just play without a score and bumping into cars won\u2019t make you stop.\u00a0 In Time Attack you must drive as far as you can getting a high enough score in a certain amount of time.\u00a0 And in Two-Way, you drive but the left two lanes go in the opposite direction, making them harder to avoid!<\/p>\n

Controls are pretty standard racing stuff.\u00a0 They give you button prompts on the screen, but I wish some things were more intuitive, like switching viewpoints.\u00a0 Plus the simple nature of the game makes it get old and repetitive rather quickly.\u00a0 And it takes a long time to buy anything, especially since everything costs money, even paint jobs and new environments to race on.\u00a0 I do like simple arcade games, but this one didn\u2019t keep me interested for long.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other than being able to crash into other cars, there\u2019s nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Nitro City Racing is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know those old arcade games and handhelds where you steer a car on a straight road in top down 2D fashion, switching lanes in order to avoid cars?\u00a0 Well, Nitro City Racing is just that in 3D.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here. When you start, you\u2019ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26933,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26931\/revisions\/26933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}