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Shockingly Tasty!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: November 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Expecting a budget title for a budget price I picked this one up along with a few other XBOX racers. What a pleasant surprise!

Developer Razorworks is the English studioe behind the excellent Total Immersion Racing of a couple years back and they have obviously got some skills when it comes to racing games. This title starts of with a weak subject and gives it the deluxe treatment.

Virtually every car Ford has ever made that didn't suck is here, along with a great many concept cars. Classics are in abundance all modelled very, very well. They look fabulous thanks to a state-of-the-art graphics engine on the NVidia hardware and the bright, over saturated colors fit the feel perfectly.

The sound is spot on too. The Mustang's 289 V-8 sounds exactly as I remember mine, only without the banging sound when mine blew up. The soundTRACK is all original and also surprisingly good. It's as though someone gave Weezer and Green Day testosterone shots.

The world is filled with abient animations that add to but don't distract from the immersion very much like TDK Mediactive's Mercedes World Racing. A huge variety of tracks is here with every type of racing from scenic rural highway to city streets and dirt tracks. Stock car ovals and rally type runs round out a staggering variety.

Every type of racing is included as well. The standard duel, time attack and such is here but also challenges such as cone gates, elimination, second off, and such add more of that thing this game has in spades... VARIETY.

The total quality of this game and depth of play value make it very much worth your hard earned ducats and I would recommend it ahead of the disappointing Midnight Club II, and execrable Need For Speed Underground.

No XBOX Live online play but there is support for posting your times and scores. Minimal but welcome nonetheless. No game which doesn't support Live is getting purchased in the new year (take note EA!) by this gamer. Head to head racing is split screen for 2 players only with no support for system link. Also HDTV 480p is NOT supported. Having said that it still looks very, very nice on an HDTV LCD display. Some titles have ugly artifacting when rendered on a fixed resoultion display, such as Sega GT 2002. Custom soundtracks are supported but the original music is such a good fit I haven't felt the urge to play my usual driving tune mix of Satriani and Meshuggeh. Nothing like the annoying gangsta rap crud that fills some other recent racing games.

Despite the missing features I am very pleased by this game and have spent many, many hours in enjoyable tension racing Mustangs, Gran Torino's and T-Birds by the sea. The driving physics engine is a credit to good design. Both a simple, fun 'Normal' mode and a meatier 'Advanced' model are available. The 'Advanced' is simulation style like say, Apex or Rallisport Challenge. The Normal mode is very forgiving and plays a lot like the excellent arcade racer Burnout 2.

You just can't go wrong with this level of play value, depth and quality for this price point. I'm buying a couple more copies to give for Chritmas presents. And no, I am not an Empire Interactive stockholder. :} From now on anything developer Razorworks makes is getting bought even if it is Mary-Kate and Ashley Practice Parking. These boys just have gotten it all right.

FANTASTIC ! ! ! Much better than I expected

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: October 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

FORD RACING 2 (XBOX)...WOW! This game is so much better than I expected. There's no slow down, the graphics are fantastic and it's fast, man is it fast! The since of speed is amazing. If for no other reason, you'll love this game just for it's since of speed alone.
The cars handle differently, but all seem to have a good since of traction and, in case I forgot to mention, speed. SPEED! SPEED! SPEED!
It's not perfect. There are only 2 views, 3rd person(behind the car) and 1st person(bumper view). I really would have liked a cockpit view(inside the car), but you can't have everything. There's also not alot of car adjusting/tweaking. So there are a couple of faults. But for it's price, it just can't be beat.
FORD RACING 2 is easily one of the fastest and toughest racers I've played on the XBOX to date(10-15-04). Where it lacks in adjusting and tweaking, it makes up for in fantastic graphics and super-fast racing SPEED!
A MUST FOR ANY RACING FAN.

A "rewarding" racing experience

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm not a Ford fan but I really enjoy this game. There are three things that I like: First, it rewards you for winning races and challenges. When you first pop the game in you have limited cars/tracks to choose until you earn them! The second thing I think is pretty cool is actually the sound...when you go through tunnels the echo is wild, when you skid on dirt you hear it like your ear is out the window! Third, tons of variety in regards to tracks, cars, and scenarios from standard race to stock car/NASCAR theme to driving skills challenge courses. One last note...I picked up mine in the "bargain" bin for 9.99 but don't let the low price fool you it's worth full price! One caution...if you crave "true to life" as possible racing...may want to pass on this one as it's really not obsessed with minute detail more on gameplay and variety.

Yes its Ford racing...wish it were Chevy! But its great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: October 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

WE purchased this game for our little boy because he loves his Papaws Ford truck, and there is a truck that looks just like it in this game so this was a BIG HIT when he played it! Its really a lot of fun, even though my husband and I prefer if it would have been Chevy racing! Too bad we have'nt seen a Chevy racing game yet! Anyhow- its great and I would highly recommend this game. Its one that you should purchase. 2 player mode is the best!

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