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An above average racer for Dreamcast

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game and I want to bring up the most important
parts of why this game is not excellent. The courses are
very short, most are only a minute to complete with a few laps
in single player mode. I ended up spending more time between
courses tweaking my car than I did driving! The weakest point of
the game are the controls. Without the racing wheel you have
much less control than in other games. Mashing the buttons
down to take a hard turn or tapping the button a few times for
a short turn was common. Other racing games let you have full
control; you can hold the control and it will respond immediately
and control more like a normal car. The controls are def
made for the racing wheel and respond great with it. The bumps
and turns come out less realistic with the rumble pack than
in other games such as GT3. Graphics are very pleasing but much better in Test Drive Le Mans than here. The game is not
easy even on EASY setting; against a second player the game
is very evenly balanced though. Your buddy can get annoying telling you where the turns are, I turned them off. This game
was great back in 2000 but you can find much better on Dreamcast and GT3 beats just about every racing game out there.

Sega rally 2 kicks ass!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Sega Rally 2 kicks ass! I bought mine for $5 and you guys are selling it for $9.99! You guys are pathetic! But enough about that, Sega Rally 2 gives you the highest performance of Rally Racing. The best racing game in dreamcast is Tokyo Extreme Racer, but this is second best! The hard part is getting 1st in all races and beating each year! Thats what makes it so fun and exciting!

Terrific Game...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you are a racing fan this is definitely the game for you! If you like racing but don't eat, sleep, or drink it then this is a must as you won't care about the details so much. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST RALLY GAMES OUT THERE!! I haven't tried V-Rally yet but expect that it is just as good from all of the good reviews and seldom a critical one...

I would buy this if it was $25 but probably not more than that. ...

Hmmm....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is not a game that you beat. This is a game that beats you.

Overrated

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

An okay game, but hyped up too much. It's a decent single player drive, but not much competition or presence of others cars, not-so-hot 2 player mode.

This Game Rolls

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Sega Rally is in high gear all the while you play it. The graphics are very smooth and they paid attention to detail even down to rolling wheels and mud puddles. The multiyplayer rocks the single player is a lot of fun too. This game esily ranks as one of the best games for DC yet.

Lacks the depth of Gran Torismo, but is still a good racer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Sega Rally 2 is a perfect conversion of the arcade game on the Dreamcast, and there's also plenty of extras to keep you busy. Additional tracks, more cars to choose from, and the ability to customize your selected car add replay value. Keep in mind however, that Sega Rally 2 was originally designed with arcade play in mind. That means that it never approaches the depth of Sony's Gran Turismo games, and it's geared torward those who just like to pick up the controller and go. My only gripe is with the ridiculous difficulty of the game in the 10 year races mode. In some of the later tracks, you have to execute the race flawlessly in order to even get a decent rank. This gets extremely annoying, because you have to beat them in order to unlock all of the cars. Oh yeah, there's also some slowdown here and there. The game seems to switch framerate speeds in the middle of the action, but this can be fixed considerably with the 60 fps code (it removes effects like mud and water sprays to boost the game speed). If you are waiting for a racer with alot of depth to come out on the Dreamcast, you may want to pass this one up. If you just want a quick racing fix though, Sega Rally 2 should be enough to satisfy you.

Reviewers in General...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

For once can nobody compare every racing game to Gran Turismo. This isn't Gran Turismo, it's Sega Rally. This is an arcade racing game, not a driving sim. Two entire different types of racers. Even experts do it, I'm tired of it. A certain gamespot reviewer compared MSR to Gran Turismo when they're both trying to be two entirely different racing games. Stop it you morons!

Oh yeah despite a lower framerate then it's arcade version and horrible two-player mode Sega Rally Championship follows in the original's footsteps of having the best gameplay of any arcade raver to ever come out. Yes, better then ridge racer. Learn the controls and courses and you WILL love this game.

Seems good at first, but...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Some things are really good. Driving at night through the snow looks gorgeous, but there's a kind of strobe effect as the lights move over the snow that made me feel queasy after quite a short time.

I didn't think, even after quite a bit of practice, that the cars handle too well. Perhaps it would be better with a wheel.

And it's too easy to stay on the track: when you crash, nothing much happens, no matter how fast you go. And there's no reverse gear, which is silly.

The more you look at it, the more disappointing it gets. Water splashes are very odd looking, and in replay, the cars look simply awful: The Colin McRae Rally I had for PC a few years ago was much better in this respect. You probably won't want to watch replays on this.

Very fun, pretty involved...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you like racing, this would be one to get. Although, you gotta be pretty good. Unlike almost every other racing game, with this one you actually need to use you brakes. I think there are about 7 or 8 cars when you start out. There aren't that many tracks, but you gotta start out on the easy ones anyway. Well, if ya got some money, I'd say pull the old credit card out right now and buy it.

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