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SPYRO 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I HAVEN`T RECIEVED MY ITEM YET!ITS BEEN OVER A MONTH!!!!!IF I KNEW THAT IT WOULD TAKE THIS LONG I WOULD NOT HAVE BOTHERED!THIS REALLY SUCKS!

My favorite game of all time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

When I first go this game when I was 8 I immediately fell in love with it. It's much better than the first Spyro, and the new levels and abilities make it even better, I especially love the Winter Tundra world. I noticed that this game seems to be easier than the 1st one. This game is definetely worth buying, if my disc still worked I'd be playing it right now!

GREAT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is an GREAT game. The game was shipped and received when they said. I also got it in perfect factory condition. I would recommend any one purchasing Spyro 2 for Playstation from this site.

A KIDS GAME THAT'S ACTUALLY ENJOYABLE 8.25 OUT OF 10

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was surprised that I actually had fun with this game, because I usually hate kids games aside from retro Nintendo classics, Over the Hedge, and the Cars games. The storyline is about Spyro and his dragon fly companion who want to go to the beach, but instead get caught up in trying to stop an evil villain named Ripto and have to retrieve fourteen talismans to stop Ripto and save many worlds in the process. This game may revolve around killing stupid enemies, finding items, and collecting a lot of jewels, but it never really feels repetitive, mostly just fun and over the top because of your strange companions and enemies. The biggest problems with this game are the graphics, controls, and camera troubles, which can get you killed during certain gameplay sequences. But while this may sound like a long list of complaints, this game never really feels hampered by its flaws, but rather fun that anyone can enjoy if they appreciate it enough. Too bad the series seems to suck with critics these days, ever since the time Insomniac Games and Sony Computer Entertainment officially sold the rights of the series to Vivendi (a.k.a. Sierra). Hey Vivendi, can you get a developer who's good at making games to make the next entry so the series doesn't suck anymore? Because it really doesn't deserve it. This game will always be a fun platformer and while it may not compete with other platformers of its time like Super Mario 64 and Tomb Raider, it does put up a good fight despite its age.

Bought it for the kids.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Bought it for the kids. They can play it for hours on end. Me - I can't stand it! The levels are all basically the same and so it gets repetitive in hurry. Kids will love it, adults will get bored quickly. Makes a great Christmas present for the kids!

READ THIS BEFORE YOU BUY THIS GAME PLEASE! 2ND BEST GAME OUT OF ALL 6 SPYRO GAMES

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

he first Spyro game I ever played was the 2nd (Ripto's Rage) one for the good old Play station 1. Then the 3rd(Year of the Dragon),and then the 1st(Spyro The Dragon). The worst of the 3 was the first. The second one was a lot better,but the ultimate and my favorite Spyro game is definetly the 3rd.I highly recommend it. Since they got better every time I thought the 4th (Enter the Dragonfly) would be even better. I WAS DISIPOINTED! THIS GAME IS A RIP OFF. BUT... If you haven't played number 3 or 2 it's an ok game.

Cute!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game for my kids. It was one of the best things I have done in awhile. They love it!

Great Game for the Younger Gamers

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I highly recommend this game. I bought the third Spyro for my 10 yr. old and then found this one used. It is a great incentive for him to keep up with schoolwork,chores,etc.to earn play time.

Spyro's back for another classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Spyro's first adventure was a groundbreaking experience that took place inside a giant world filled with colorful, breathtaking beauty. It was *awesome* the way the game encouraged you to roam around many graphically-appealing worlds searching for gems and dragons. Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage proves to be an even BIGGER journey.

I honestly didn't think it was possible to surpass the original Spyro game. It was truly one of the greatest adventure games on the Playstation. I can only find a couple VERY minor problems with Ripto's Rage. Let's get them out of the way:

- I think the biggest problem is the fact that, once again, the up and down buttons on the directional pad are *still* reversed. This means, for example, when you go underwater in one of the water levels, you have to hit the Up button to swim down, and the Down button to swim up. There's a couple other places in the game where the controls are reversed, too. As far as I know there's NO way to change it to normal. None of this may seem like a big deal but there's certain obstacles in the game that require you to move quickly through the water, and you want *everything* to be as perfect as possible while you swim to your destination, but thanks to the controls, it won't be easy. Personally, I've never been able to adjust to it- every so often I will forget that the up and down buttons are reversed when I enter a water or flying stage, so I might swim or fly STRAIGHT into an enemy. It's mind-boggling to me why the game creators haven't corrected it, or at the very least, gave the player an option to change it.

- I find it slightly disappointing that, this time around, every stage has exactly 400 gems. In the original, each stage had a different amount of gems for you to locate, which made Spyro's first adventure seem like more of a mysterious guessing game. Not really complaining, though.

- A TON of cutscenes are included in Ripto's Rage. You can skip over them if you want, but I'm amazed that EVERY level has a cutscene in the beginning of a stage and another cutscene after you successfully complete the stage. Don't worry, Ripto's Rage is still a huge game, maybe even bigger than the original. In other words, the cutscenes don't suck up all the space on the disc. Ignoring the cutscenes you STILL have a lengthy game.

- This brings us to the next minor problem: the reason we have so many cutscenes is because each stage has a different odd-looking creature living in it, and these creatures (who happen to speak English very well) always want to discuss with Spyro the problems inside their world that they'd like you to fix for them. Just the fact that EVERY stage features a different talking creature is both a good and bad thing. A player might think Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage is throwing in TOO MUCH and therefore, you may assume you need to try and remember all the characters you come across in order to follow a story (which isn't true because once you complete a stage, most of the time you never see that character again, so please do NOT worry about having to follow along to any kind of complex storyline). BUT, on the other hand, all sorts of wild-looking talking friendly creatures communicating with Spyro makes the game THAT much more adventurous.

Those are the only complaints I can find, and when you think about it, those are pointless complaints because the game does so many things right.

I honestly believe the challenge has been increased significantly in Spyro's second adventure. Instead of three or four dragons scattered throughout each stage waiting for you to find and rescue, you now have to search for three or four bonus games per stage and you HAVE to successfully complete most of them, which would be an extremely positive thing EXCEPT for the fact that a small handful of these bonus games are REALLY hard to complete.

Each time you complete a bonus game you receive an orb. There's 64 orbs in the game total, and to reach the final boss, you're required to find 40 of them. In my opinion, probably no more than 10 bonus games are impossibly hard so you SHOULD be able to go through the stages, collect 40 orbs, and beat the game. Just don't expect to get all 64 orbs because, again, some of those bonus games are difficult.

I'm not knocking the bonus games. After all, it's more interesting to tackle a creative and exciting bonus game than to simply walk up to a frozen dragon and rescue him, like in the original. In Spyro 2 you don't know WHAT kind of bonus game you'll encounter, which makes the game overall one notch better than the original. To give a few examples of the bonus games you play: one of them has you playing hockey on ice where you have two minutes to make five goals, another bonus has you trying to quickly burn eight dangerous dragons before they eat the good guys (don't even ask me WHAT these good guys are supposed to be- let's just say they're friendly people that really love you!) another bonus stage has you swimming through rings. A whole bunch of creative, interesting bonus games await you. Even if you lose at some of them, you will want to try them again because they're so much fun.

People who are familiar with the original might be confused when they reach the end of the game and realize that they only explored three worlds. The original game featured five worlds, however, the three worlds in Ripto's Rage feature more stages. So it balances out.

The graphics are *exactly* the same as the original. I can't find a single improvement, or at least, anything different. The exact same graphic engine. Oh, and thankfully the creators remembered that very important option to change the camera angle to "active". VERY important!

Stewart Copeland from the rock band the Police returns and succeeds with another fantastic soundtrack. Another all-around excellent job.

My favorite thing about this game are the three boss fights you encounter at the end of the three worlds. All three of these bad guys are EXTREMELY AWESOME to fight (sorry, I'm in the mood to whip out the big letters!) It is SO much fun shooting fireballs at them. They also force the player to find a strategy in order to defeat. You never really came across a boss fight in the previous Spyro game that required a certain strategy.

I love the fact that everywhere you go you find LOADS and LOADS of gems and other things. The levels and worlds in this game are packed with things to find. Positively PACKED. A truly awesome game. The first Spyro the Dragon game was awesome too. Swimming around really adds more flavor and magic to the game. Yeah, despite the control problem I mention above, swimming around still manages to be pretty fun. Of course, there's a lot of running around too. In fact, there's more running than swimming overall.

Pick up Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage.

Better than Spyro The Dragon

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great game. It has awesome worlds.The music is good. And it separates itself from the others. The only thing I don't like about it is that it doesn't really have a big story line. Spyro The Dragon, you had to find crystal dragons around the worlds. In Spyro Year of the Dragon, you collected eggs. In this one, all you really did is collected gems. But besides that, it's a good game. I do recommend it.

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