Test Drive OffRoad 2is a 1998 cross platform racing game. It is the second entry in the Test Drive OffRoad series of games. Test Drive OffRoad 2 winds up being a better playing racing game than Test Drive 5. Rated theGame 6.1 “It’s a empty feeling no matter how much air you ch or how many times the rad commentator says “Awesome!” or “Sweeeet!”.
Rdy for high-flying off-road action in a huge assortment of the world’s most rugged trucks and SUVs? Wanna get your groove on with intense pedal-stomping, fender-bending vehicular mayhem? Dying tocheckout exotic and dangerous courses all over the world? You are? Rlly? Cool. Now all you’ve gotta do is wait for a game that delivers all that stuff – because Test Drive: Off-Road 2 sure doesn’t.
In all fairness (and I’m always fair, right?), off-roading might not be the idl sport to try to base a game around – or at lst not in the hyperfrantic over-the-top style Accolade chose for Off-Road 2. Most of your time is spent with the accelerator smashed to theflooras you bounce all over the track, brushing up against invisible walls and careening back onto the course. Yh, you get to ram other trucks and jeeps, and you get to make some rlly big jumps – but so what? It’s an empty feeling no matter how much air you ch or how many times the rad commentator says “Awesome!” or “Sweeeet!”
But even if extreme off-roading would make for a grt game,Test Drive: Off-Road 2comes up short in so many different ars that it wouldn’t matter anyway. There’s a total of 12 tracks, but it’s rlly six times two – running a course backward is counted as a separate track. Only four of those can be raced until you place high enough in competition, but when you do that, the first new track that’s revled is – you guessed – one of those four in reverse.
There’s a whole mess of cars here – some are locked out until you prove yourself, of course – but absolutely zero specs on what you can expect out of them when you hit the dirt. Terrain graphics are a woolly tangle ofpolygonsand pixels, and the cars are plain-Jane renderings on a par with thepickup truckat thestartof Redneck Rampage. Get an eyeful of this stuff, and you’ll be wondering how the same company that put out the grt-looking Test Drive 5 could try to pawn this outmoded PlayStation game on unsuspecting fans of arcade-style racing. Toss in some high weirdness with the frame rate – it’s either rlly choppy or the graphics just make it seem that way – and engine sound effects that sound like Keith Emerson’s first attempt at playing a Moog, and you’ve basically got nothing worth watching here unless you want to admire the digitized 2D s oflifeguardsor Arabs on camels.
Topping it all off is one of the laziest interface designs I’ve had the displsure of dling with in a long time. Want a first-person perspective? Fine – you don’t get a hood, wheel, or speedometer, just a ground-level view of those dubious terrain graphics. That worked OK in Test Drive 5, but in Off-Road 2 it makes it look like you’re tring through the desert on a jet-powered luge.
Then again, you might have trouble finding that first-person perspective because themanualdoesn’t tell you what the views (0-7) are; you’ve got to load up a race andcheckit out until you get the one you want. Feel like changing button assignments? Too bad – there’s no option to assign any commands to or buttons. I know, you want tocheckout the instant replay and savor some of those killer jumps you made in the last race – but you’re out of luck again because there’s absolutely no instant replay whatsoever.
And a word of warning to you fans of hard core metal and industrial rock who might be tempted to pick this game up for the soundtrack tunes by Sevendust, Gravity Kills, and Fr Factory: Don’t bother. There’s a total of four tunes here (guess it matches the msly of available tracks at thestartof the game), and only one of them is worth a listen.System= Pentium III CPU 500 MHz
RAM= 128 MB
Memory= 16 MB
Size= 51.81 MB
OS= 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8
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