The game is set in a fictional Californian city called Angel City, based on Los Angeles. Angel City is composed of eight districts, San Ricardo, Campbell Hills, Downtown, Angel North Central, Angel Westside, Southside Beach, East Angel Island and Anderson. The districts are controlled by rival crews in the game, and the player can host events at different districts if they get enough Respect.
Racing modes[edit]
There are four different racing types:
Circuit (classic race to the finish line in a closed track with a certain number of laps)
Point-to-point (classic race to the finish line in a track from point A to point B)
Sprint (drag race, speed race in a straight line (or mostly) in which automatic transmission is disabled by the game so the player must change from gear to gear manually)
Showoff (timed event in which the player must do stunts in order to score points; the game includes a bunch of tutorial videos for these events, offered right before entering the car selection menu for the Showoff event and also available in Main Menu > Extras)
There are not only races in which every racer is a rival, but also crew races comprising two racers from one crew (2 vs 2 vs 2, as well as 2 vs 2), as well as composed of three members of the same crew (3 vs 3). In these races, all of the racers of one same crew must cross the line before any other crew does to win the race.
In the Career mode, if the player achieves a minimum of 600 respect with a certain rival crew, they can participate in Pink Slip races (Sprint, Point-to-point or Circuit races in which both racers bet their cars).
The Custom Race mode features an Alone mode as well so the player can race any circuit with no racers, no time limit and no laps count.