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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: January 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This games'graphics are very awesome and very, very lifelike. I think that anybody who ever played Star Wars Racer and this game can quess who the winner is. I would think that this is the best racer game ever.

An Absolute 5 star game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: February 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've only had a PS2 for a little while (about 2 weeks), and this was the first game i bought. For the first graphics to jump onto your screen, you really can't ask for better. i've played PC games for years and finally settled on buying a PS2 for the number of titles out as well as the number of friends who owned one, easier to trade the good stuff that way.
The effects are intense, the speed is amazing. If your a speed freak in your games then this is it. It really takes very little time to get the controls, and you can suddenly tell when you have it down. One lap you'll be trading paint with everything that's not moving and the next the scenary is just a vivd blur as you push that max speed of 600 mph. i highly recomend this game. It's STAR WARS (I'MASTARWARSJUNKIE"R"US KID), GT2 and a game of refining skill.
Kick the boost in and buy this one..

Pretty good little game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Just got this a few days ago, and it plays real well. The graphics are very good, with a nice "speed" feel to it. The little "cute" stuff detracts (and distracts) a little bit, in my opinion, like some of the voiceovers ("you can't beat a Jedi!" etc.). Overall, though, it's very challenging and has an excellent AI, and that is really what I look for in a game (especially because I play mostly one-player). One of the nicest touches is the excellent control- they did a great job of laying out the controls in a very intuitive manner. The L1/L2 and R1/R2 buttons are used very well, with one button being turbo and another button being "repair," and it just flows quite well. This is a great game so far, with many tracks and racers to unlock, adding to the replay value. Recommended, overall.

Thrill ride

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great race game with great graphics. I was able to win
two races already. I'm still trying to win the others, but it still keeps my interest. The game helps you wet your appetite for Star Wars Episode 2.

Quality game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Options include single events, tournaments, and two-player mode. The tournament is where the hard hitting action is at. In tournament mode, your pod racer works his way through different race courses and earns money for pod upgrades (speed acceleration, cooling, defense, repair, etc.) along the way. The first 2 or 3 tournaments may seem to lack a serious challenge, but that all changes around the 4th or 5th round. It doesn't take much to go from 1st to last by hitting a wall. I've won races by as little as .1 seconds with the top 5 pods all coming within a few seconds of each other. I've also taken a wide turn while in 1st and finished 3rd. The game description says that speeds reach up to 600mph, but I have gone in excess of 700mph. Quality game with excellent graphics and game controlls. Would have given 5 stars, but the 2 player mode just wasn't meant to be... not enough room on the screen to accommodate it.

REVENGE IS SUCCESSFUL

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Star wars: Racer Revenge is definatly a success. I had the first one for Nintindo 64 and throughly injoyed it. This next edition to the series carries on the enjoyment factor. The only shot fall is the two player game play, it is still fun to play but the limited view that you get with two player makes this game much more fun as a one player game. Never-the-less it is still a very good game and I would recomend it to any one who likes a fast paced racing game.

Boost and Bash'em, Baby!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Wow! This is a fabulous game - the action is fast and furious, the graphics are top notch, and the digitized competition is fake enough to make it beatable! Never has it been so much fun to smash into an opponent and watch them disintergrate into hundreds of flaming mechanical parts at five-hundred miles an hour! The courses are engaging, and the special "your last lap playback" feature looks ninety percent like it's right out of a Star Wars film! I've only had this game for a week, and I haven't even started the tournament functions of the game, so I can only expect it to get better and brutal from here on in!

Pad Racing, but not your N64s Pod Racing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When Pod Racer came out on the N64 it was an instant hit. My friends and I spent many weekends playing it and admiring the graphics, and the sheer brutal speed of the game. Sound and game play were great too.

Now Pod Racing comes to the PS2 which is cool since I don't own an N64.

First and foremost this is a good game, it's fast, adictive and has good gameplay. I don't think that it has the brutal speed of it's fore-runner though. Nor are the graphics quite up to the task either. I think the problem with the graphics is simply that the PS2 can't anti-alias the screen, so the picture has sharp edges, not actual jaggies mind, just slightly too sharp edges, which remind you you are playing a game.

The biggest problem, for me, is the exclusion of Watto's Junk yard and store. In the N64 game you browsed the new and spare parts you wanted to buy. In this one, you simply adjust a bar representing one or other attribute of your pod. I preferred the N64's junk yard, it added character to the game. It kinda makes me wonder why too, the N64 game was cartridge based, this PS2 game has an entire CD to play with, so it's not like there wasn't room.

The addition of a combat element to the game - you bash your opponents until they go bang, adds an element to the race, but at the end of the day it's still a pod race.

Is this a great game? Yes, buy it, play it. Is it better than the old Pod Racer? Well, it does remove the annoying screech of Annakin throughout the game, but apart from that, it's more of the same. The graphics are great, but don't have the smooth finish of the N64 version.

Lastly, no matter what *anyone* says, this isn't a "new" game, or "new" version, it's little more than the same game ported to the PS2. And to be honest I am very happy with that, I missed my Pod Racing. All I need now is that ice world track from the old game and a nice strong coffee to get my speed up.....

A worthy Successor

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: April 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Unlike most people, I owned the PC version of the original Racer and I absolutely loved it. Even before I had seen the movie I was deeply obsessed with that game. There's nothing coller that racing inches above the ground and near sonic speeds. The sequel offers everything the first offers with a couple of exceptions and a lot of extras.

First my few complaints: there seem to be fewer tracks on fewer planets offering less variety. Basically you get the water planet (Mon Calimari), the desert planet (Tatooine), the jungle planet (Gamorra, sounds like a venereal disease, and my least favorite world), the planet with one side day and the other night, which was my favorite and maybe one other. Maybe my memroy hypes the PC version into something better than it was, but it seems that there were a lot more planets or at least a lot more tracks. Lack of variety in the tracks means the game is potentially very short, even though replayability is good.

My other problem might seem trivial, but there's no first person perspective without the pods in view. It was my favorite view on the first one for a couple of reasons. 1: the pods obstruct your view even thought they're meant to make a more realistic simulation. It's hard to see the upcoming turns and the guys in your way. 2. Without the pods it really increases the illusion of speed. It just sucked you in and made you feel like you were hauling ...

Other than these two minor complaints, this is an excellent game. There are tons of racers both old and new, including an older (non-Jake Lloyd) Anakin with a redesigned pod. I've already beat the game once with Teemto Pagalies and have every racer through Sebulba ( I think there are more, but I'll get to that later).

The music and sound, as with most Star Wars games) is excellent. Sebulba's pod still makes that cool thumping noise and the John Williams score is well... John Williams. The visuals are very impressive, especially the characters and pods. It seems like the backgrounds are a little rough and blocky at times, but I think that's to improve the frame-rate and you're going so fast you don't have time to stop and look.

One of the cool features you can unlock is the art gallery. In the gallery there are all the pods plus three that I find particularly interesting: a pod for Watto, one for Darth Maul and one for Darth Vader. In the credits there are voice acting credits for Darth Maul and Vader voices. It seems obvious that there is some way of unlocking these pods, but I don't know how and I'm dying to find out. Those Maul and Vader pods look ruthless.

The game is a lot of fun and made me remember why I loved the first one so much. There's something very cool about hitting turbo in a big underwater tube and letting the centripical force carry you upside dwon over your opponents at 600 mph. Or bursting out of one tunnel into a cavernous gap and after some mad hang-time, flying into another tunnel waaay on the other side.

Even without the Star Wars theme this is a strong game that stands on it's own. Star Wars fans or fans of high speed racing should not miss out.

Well Improved

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Although the game is a little short, it is very good. I like the way you can kill off other racers for the rest of the race, and get more money for it. But, if you are KO'd, the race is over. The pods are much faster, even though the spedometer says you are going about half the speed of the other game.

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