Hooters Road Trip

PSX PlayStation Hooters Road Trip Black Label Retail Release

Jewel Case Release

 

Genre:
Racing
CDs:
1
Publisher:
UbiSoft
Released:
March 27, 2002
Developer:
Hoplite Research
UPC:
0 08888 31039 6
Sony ID:
SLUS-01394
PSRM:
023250
Players:
1 Player
Memory:
1 Block
Accessories:
Analog, Vibration
ESRB:
Teen  Suggestive Themes
Box Copy:

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!

Gas up and buckle in for some good ol’ full-throttle action as you bust out on a white-knuckle rally race across Hooters USA for the ultimate prize: a chance to kick back with the fun-lovin’ Hooters Girls of Hooters USA!

  • Hooters Girls: Take first place for your chance to hang out with gorgeous Hooters girls!
  • Hard Cross-Country Drivin’: Muscle your way to the checkered flag as you burn up the asphalt speedways from Florida to sunny California.
  • Garage Full of Smokin’ Rods: 16 cars to choose from, including 7 bonus cars to keep pace as the race heats up.
  • Total Control Radio: Blast some tunes from Hooters rockin’ presets.

 

 

 

Variants

  • There are no known variants – you never know though – could be a booby trap.

 

 

Misprints

  • There are no known misprints.

 

 

Review

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Final Score: NA – No Review

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Trivia

  • Despite the obvious production values in the video segments, there are some actual nice little touches to be found. Each Hooters girl is wearing the proper shirt for the location they are greeting you from, and the beach girls’ sequences change based on your final race outcome.
  • Programming assistance was provided by Miracle-Designs, the folks behind other PlayStation budget titles like Miracle Space Race and  ATV Racers.
  • The semi-truck features the infamous “Mud Flap Girl” design on its rear mud flaps, helping add to the eye-rolling in the game.
  • You can unlock the semi as a playable vehicle, the joke here is it is so large that in 3rd person view you can not see the road in front of you.
  • Despite their attempts to make it feel like each waitress is in a different Hooters by changing where they filmed each woman, one of the congratulations clips reveals they are all in the same spot.
  • The results screen and back of the box use screenshots from a different version of the game. Visually the HUD is completely wrong and some of the visuals are slightly different.
  • None of the waitresses/models/actresses are given credit in the manual or end credits of the game.
  • Rain will change direction with you, another nice little touch.
  • Thunder is the fastest car in the game with the best controls to match – once you have it, you can ace the game.
  • If you let the game go into demo mode from the title screen, you’ll see the CPU-controlled car bump into the NPC cars, and if you’re lucky, see a traffic jam happen where none of the CPU cars know what to do, so they all just start going in reverse.
  • By placing first 1st in every race across every circuit, you can finish the entire game in less than 2 hours.
  • The taxi’s rooftop ad board is Hoplite Research’s logo.
  • Recording of the Hooters girls was done without a microphone/boom mic, so their lines sound far away.
  • Every car you see on the road is the exact car you unlock, meaning it’s one of the few racing games where your full garage is 100% of the game.
  • This a funny little observation of how compressed video game travel time is. The final Road Trip stretching from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to Santa Monica, California, takes 15 minutes. In real life, it would take 39 hours!
  • The final video that can be unlocked by completing Pro Mode is bursting with interesting trivia. All footage of the game that plays is from either an early build, a concept video, or the original PC version. This includes different visuals, stage designs that don’t exist, and a sequence where the taxi flies off-road and you see a raised expressway in the desert. None of that shows up in-game.
  • Buried in the game data are 3 postcards that represent unused stages in the game. The three waitresses that would have represented them can be seen in the final group shot video (thanks tcrf.net!)
  • Something seems off with the CPU racers in Pro Difficulty. If the first-place car leaves your line of site for longer than 1 to 2 seconds, they’re gone. Literally, just restart the race because you will never catch them. If they’re even still there.

 

 

Secrets

Despite its budget title angle, Hooters Road Trip is full of hidden goodies.

Unlockables
  • Unlock Hidden Video and Credits
    Complete Pro Difficulty placing 1st in Every Race.
  • Unlock Pro Mode Difficulty
    Complete Hard Mode difficulty by placing 1st in every race.
  • Unlock All levels for Custom Road Trip Mode the Easy Way
    On the main menu, choose the Map option. Once it’s on-screen press R2, L1, R1, L2, Left, Up, Down, Right. You’ll hear the car horn confirm it worked.
  • Unlock All levels for Custom Road Trip Mode the Hard Way
    Just play the game naturally – every road trip you finish adds those tracks to the menu.
  • Unlock All Vehicles the Easy Way
    On the main menu, choose the Map option. Once it’s on-screen press Up, Down, Left, Right, R1, L2, L1, R2. You’ll hear the car horn confirm it worked. Now everything is available to you in Easy, Medium, and Hard.
  • Unlock All Vehicles the Hard Way
    There are a total of 6 Road Trips and each one awards you two prizes. Just finishing it unlocks the next regular car, but finishing first in every race grants you a second ‘jam’ car. The jam cars are the NPC vehicles you dodge while racing the other 5 opponents.

    • Rendan – Finish Road Trip 1.
    • Fugo – Finish Road Trip 1 with all 1st Place finishes.
    • Cuva – Finish Road Trip 2.
    • Taxi – Finish Road Trip 2 with all 1st Place finishes.
    • Plow-200 – Finish Road Trip 3.
    • Beater – Finish Road Trip 3 with all 1st Place finishes.
    • Saber – Finish Road Trip 4.
    • Semi – Finish Road Trip 4 with all 1st Place finishes.
    • Pantea – Finish Road Trip 5.
    • Camper – Finish Road Trip 5 with all 1st Place finishes.
    • Thunder – Finish Road Trip 6 on Hard Difficulty.
    • Big Rig – Finish Road Trip 6 on Pro Difficulty.
    • Cargo – Finish Road Trip 6 on Pro Difficulty with all 1st Place finishes.
  • Easier Access to Hidden Cars
    Cars and their licensing are tied to Difficulty levels. So if you unlock cars on Easy, they will not be on Medium, etc. However, if you complete a higher Difficulty, it will unlock those cars on the lower ones. So if you don’t want to do a lot of repetitive work, just start on Hard Mode. That way you’ll unlock the cars on Easy and Medium once Hard is completed. Then you only have to redo it all on the Pro level.

 

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