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WARNING DO NOT BUY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have a friend named Beebo he is sad me and him bought this game it is terrible whatever you do don't buy it AVOID AT ALL COSTS get MeTaL GeAr SoLiD 2 sOnS oF LiBeRtY.

The Worst

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This has to be one of the worst games ever for PS2. The controls are so sloppy it's almost impossible to control the car. After a race go have dinner the game may have reloaded by then. The clowns at Acclaim should be ashamed. What a waste...

Spend your money elsewhere

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is full of glitches, and load times are roughly equivalent to waiting for paint to dry.

The concept is good, but as others have said, once the extremely short campaign mode is completed (who's heard of a ten-stage Dakar?) there's not much else to do.

On the glitches; it's impossible to lose in Campaign Mode, because once you get past stage 8, you're automatically put into first place with a 60 minute lead over the next closest racer.

Don't buy this. Go buy a copy of V-Rally 2 for the PS1 and you'll have a much better time.

DON'T BUY IT....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Purchased the game, what a waist. Rushed home to play, looked pretty cool. Noticed it was a DVD not CD like some other ps2 games, which means more space, better graphics, and possibly a better game. ONE WORD FOR YOU NOOOOOPE! I wish I would have gone to the winghouse for happy hour instead. ;} At least then I would have had a pleasurable expierence when waisting $..

Why Acclaim went bankrupt

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love racing games and thought this would be a great concept for a video game, so I was excited to get this for Christmas. My friend and I sat around playing this for about an hour and we realized all of its downsides (we have yet to notice upsides):
1) No 2-player mode. Huh? This is a staple of every kind of racing game!
2) No attention to sound design. The same &*$! song plays between every stage throughout their abundantly long loading screens. Which brings me to point 3:
3) Abundantly long loading times. (I will never get that song out of my head...)
Most serious of all:
4) The game crashed about 4 stages in (the first time we played). We could tell, because the song, which by this time had become hard-wired into our brains, stuck on one note (while we were stuck on yet another "loading screen"). We re-booted the PS2 and then it crashed again--and sooner!

Briefly, I believe Acclaim must have spent $5 developing this game, and it shows. Don't even waste your money on a used copy (and if someone offers it to you for free, run away).

bad for children

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is so horrible for kids.recently my son fell in a pit of fire and said "women where's the reset button". I had to actually slap him silly for playing the game.

I've seen better on a PS1

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: October 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The game has so much promise and delivers nothing. The loading time between races is forever and the graphics do nothing to challenge the system. When it finally loaded and the racing began, all I could think of was Out Run. The handling is poor and difficult to manage. I dare not even try Campaign mode, this is just a poorly designed game. The upside and why I rated it so high is the FMV scenes are nice to watch. Overall save your money.

Save your money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because it was an off- road racing game, and ...its a waste of money. I would recommend test drive off road instead of this game, I have both. After playing this game once I probably won't ever play it again. The graphics and game playing are very poor, definately not playstation 2 standards. I gave it 2 stars only because I've played worse games.

Good for only about a week

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: November 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Paris-Dakar Rally is certainly an interesting concept for a game. It is rather fun to work through Campaign mode, but once Campaign has been completed once, the replay value plummets dramatically.

The graphics are definitely not groundbreaking, and the sounds are rather substandard even by PSX standards. The variety of vehicles is okay, but certainly not vast (unlike Gran Turismo 3 or Le Mans 24 Hours). The cut-scene movie clips are extremely sparse and repeated incessantly, and players must make literally NO errors in judgement to even have a chance at winning (although it is possible to beat the record time for certain stages). Of the racing "worlds," the volcano climb is certainly interesting and has some nice scenery (if you have the chance to let your eyes stray off the difficult, twisting, obstacle-filled road), but all other "worlds" rapidly become monotonous.

Still, this is far from the worst game in the world. It is certainly worthy of one or two rentals, but RENT FIRST, then decide whether to buy.

Just like the real event!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: July 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is simply awesome! It's fully realistic in every aspect of the actual rally and well worth the buy.

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