Playstation 2 car racing games

The playstation 2 car racing games are still high on the gamers list of some of the best and fun to play car games ever produced. Gran turismo 4 has been held as a benchmark in racing games that few game companies have surpassed.

Below you will find reviews of the most popular ps2 car racing games available and remember that if you click on the individual title you will find hundreds of honest reviews from driving game fans like you

Need for speed underground 2 review

Embrace the illegal racing underground, and prove you can dominate it.

The latest installment in a long-running series of EA racing games. The "Underground" element wraps the game up in a world of nighttime drag races and super-tuned and modified import coupes ala "The Fast and the Furious" movies.

The most engaging part of this playstation 2 car racing game is the career mode, which allows you to build your reputation and your bankroll by entering events found throughout a sprawling urban landscape.

The graphics are really good, not Gran Turismo good, but close. The cars are especially fine, and you've got ample opportunity to examine your customized baby. You'll occasionally get a mini-mission to have your car photographed for a magazine cover where you control the background, "pose" and camera angle. Sure it's kind of a silly way to build your bank, but not a total waste after you've spent an hour selecting the perfect color scheme and combination of paint and artwork for your car.

Arguably fans of the Underground series have really seen the madness of street racing at its fullest. Now, the madness has returned.

Need For Speed Underground 2 for the Playstation 2, is a wicked, wild and outrageous game for all gamers alike.

ps2 car racing games reviewed

Playstation 2 car racing games Burnout 3 review

EA takes over the Burnout series and does exactly what you want: make the game faster, longer, more fun, and more violent.

The game is excellent. The same buttons, the same concepts, and along the lines if it is not broken then don't fix it. The game is much, much faster, insanely so. The crashes feature more parts flying, more paint flying, tires, ripping metal, etc, etc. And the more cars you wreck, you get a chance to blow up your own car and cause even more destruction.

Burnout 3 Takedown is already a classic and always will be. It's all about the reckless driving and crashing and has little to do with anything actually related to real-life racing or sim style racing and that's what makes it so great. It does what it does and makes no excuses for it. It is a weird, wild, and wonderful arcade racing game which more than exceeds its promises and potential.

Gran turismo 4 review

I am in my 50s now and recently discovered this playstation 2 car racing games addictiveness. Yes, it is a bit difficult at first, and the directions for how to play are not so good in the supplied booklet, but a little effort to find out how it all works will yield you big enjoyment rewards.

This is way more fun than driving a real car, not to mention less dangerous, this game is a total winner.

Some advice for beginners. Buy a used car like the Honda S2000 as your first car. This model can be entered in more races in the Beginners cup races than most other cars, handles great and with a few upgrades is easy to win races with.

Get to the Spider and Roadster races as soon as you can, because they pay better than any others in the Beginners area. As you go along, you will find that more races become unlocked in Arcade mode.

In Arcade mode you can choose from a wide variety of tracks, cars, and level of difficulty without having to buy the very expensive cars, which can take a very long time in Gran Turismo mode.

And don't be misled by those who say Arcade mode is not as good as Gran Turismo mode. To me it seems the driving physics are the same, and you can race a lot of great cars right from the start.

In my opinion I think Arcade mode is better, unless you really enjoy spending endless hours tuning cars and earning credits to drive the fabulous race cars already available in Arcade mode.

As an older gamer I can say that this is my favorite playstation 2 car racing game that I have ever played.



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