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I had this game on PS2 called Test Drive: The Brotherhood of Speed (well, in the U.S. it was just called Test Drive. In the EU it had the way cooler name) and it was the most barebones, generic racing game ever, gameplay-wise. Couldn't even customized the cars outside of paint jobs.

But it had a singleplayer mode that was actually pretty awesome. It dealt with the an underground racing crew that have divisions set up in San Francisco, Japan, England, and Monte Carlo.
The game opens with a big race where one of the best guys in the crew gets wiped out by the "villain" of the game. The dude is disabled and out of commission. So that's where he recruits your guy -- this local street racer -- into this new brotherhood of illegal street racing. And he's guiding you through the story. You meet a bunch of fun, whacky characters all over the world -- some of them become friends and others are assholes. The game doesn't take itself entirely seriously.

You eventually take on the villain guy near the end and race him for his sweet Viper.

Then the guy who's been mentoring you the whole game reveals that he could walk the whole time and only used you to get the villain dude's Viper. He takes all your cars and shit and makes a deal with you -- he'll turn everything over if you can beat him in a series of races. And the only car you have to race him with is his shitty car that he initially lost with.

I played through that game so many times solely because I loved the story and the fun writing, even though it was a mid-shelf game at best.
Also, the soundtrack was dope.

Do you have one of those games (that aren't like that by design)? Meh gameplay, but a story you like enough to play it again?

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