Once upgrades are added to a car in the career mode it is possible to alter the steering sensitivity, which certainly does make a difference, but every car still feels overly heavy and prone to under steer. There is no feeling of a shift of weight as a car turns into a corner, which makes it almost impossible to correctly judge how much to brake or lift off in order to make it through a turn. When this is combined with the stuttering frame-rate, the outcome is a decidedly boring and at times unplayable racing game.

The main bulk of the single-player experience is the career mode, which takes a young illegal street racer named Ryan Cooper and plants him into the world of professional street racing, with the ultimate goal being to defeat the current ‘Showdown Champion’. To do this he must progress through a number of smaller events and city showdowns until he obtains enough of a reputation to challenge the current champion.

Alongside the normal races (referred to a grip races here) and time attacks, the player may also have to enter Speed Challenges, Drag Races and Drift Challenges as part of the events. Speed Challenges are just point-to-point races; Drag Races are one-on-one straight line sprints to the finish; and Drift Challenges do just that, challenge the player’s drifting skills. Unfortunately, Pro Street falls into the same trap as many other racing games of a similar ilk, giving the drift challenges a completely different and crudely over the top handling model that feels more like driving on ice than it does a race track.

It says a lot for Pro Street that the time spent choosing a paint-job and decals for the car and upgrading the parts is a lot more enjoyable than the time spent out on the race track. There are literally hundreds of different combinations that can be joined together to create an entirely unique version of one of the showroom models and it is relatively fun to sit there and put together a car to your liking. Petrol-heads may also like to spend some time creating a part and tuning blueprint, which can then be shared over EA Nation for maximum kudos from the Pro Street community.