Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months Binding: Video Game Brand: Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. EAN: 0021481403029 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Acclaim Entertainment Inc. Manufacturer: Acclaim Entertainment Inc. Model: XBACLM 021481403029 Platform: Xbox Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment Inc. Release Date: November 15, 2003 Sales Rank: 11162 Studio: Acclaim Entertainment Inc.
Features:
Pick your poison: Ride as one of the top 10 professional 4x4 riders in the world (including Dana Creech, Kory Ellis, Tim Farr, and others), or choose one of the 10 stylized characters. You have the option of the best of both worlds.
Choose a track: Careen through 15 massive tracks in five different globe-spanning environments. Or, use the two packed freestyle arenas to show off your wild side.
Fight your way to the finish: Use kick attacks to teach your competitors to not even think about passing you.
Pull huge air and ridiculously fun power slides: With the over-the-top control system and physics model, tricks take on a whole new meaning.
Express your wild side: Tearing up the competition on more than 20 freestyle tricks.
Product Description: ATV Quad Power Racing 2 takes you off-road for bumpy fun on the dirt trails!
Amazon.com Review: The arcade-style ATV: Quad Power Racing 2 is as much about big air and reckless hotdogging as it is about crossing the finish line. To make any progress in this game, you must not only win races, but master increasingly complicated tricks and combos. Taking the time to master tricks pays off in the end--there are no shortage of locked features that open up with each advance in skill.
The game incorporates a wide array of well-rendered racers, vehicles, and locations. The various racing courses are elaborate and nicely detailed. You can knock competitors out of your way by administering a solid kick while passing--not exactly sportsmanlike behavior, but gratifyingly reminiscent of the classic Road Rash. For tricksters and stunt-riders, the freestyle arenas offer a candy store of possibilities. But the standout feature is the physics model behind the game. The overall handling and responsiveness of the vehicles is surprisingly realistic--even the controller vibration is more convincingly incorporated than in other racing games. Some finesse is required to pull off even the simpler tricks, and as with the real thing, it's easy to lose control of these powerful machines. --Maile Bohlmann
Pros:
Great graphics
Realistic physics and handling
Fun multiplayer and freestyle modes
Lots of unlockable bonuses
Cons:
Music is grating, annoying
Offensive moves (i.e. kicking) are underdeveloped
Training/practice modes are oversimplified
Amazon.com Product Description: ATV: Quad Power Racing 2 is all about big tricks, big boots in the face, and big finishes. The game features fast arcade-style gameplay with 10 of the top pro riders (including Dana Creech, Kory Ellis, and Tim Farr) and 40 real-life sponsors. There are 15 massive tracks in five different globe-spanning environments, plus two freestyle arenas. You can fight your way to the finish with kick attacks that teach your competitors not to even think about passing you, and cruise with an intuitive control system. Two-person mode lets you rip it up with your friends without the hassle of going outside.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Love the game - When it doesn't lock up on the Xbox 360
I bought this game because it was listed as a compatible game for the Xbox 360. It works great in single mode, but when you try to race 3 or 4 players on a split screen the game locks up. I have the current software version and I double verified that Microsoft says that it will work with the 360, but from my experience, don't bother trying. Great game if you have the original Xbox.
Rating: - ATV 2 Quad Power Racing
This is an awesome simple game of tricks, racing, and kicking other people as often as possible! It's great for single player all the way to four players. I'm not sure if you hook up two systems together if it will work, I haven't tried it. But definately an awesome game!
Rating: - Awesome
This Game is my favorite game for xbox it is really realistic and the tracks are awesome if u like 4 wheelers and 3 wheelers u should definetly buy this game!
Rating: - Great Physics?! You gotta be kiddin' me.
I can't believe my eyes. I read the review from mmuscat9 from CANADA "EH", and I'm thinking that the 9 must mean he's 9 yrs old, and if so, forgive me son. You keep having fun with this game and don't read the rest of my review, ok? Anyway, I don't see how he and the editorial reviewer can say that the handling characteristics in this game are realistic. You can twirl the quad around any-which-way you please while in the air, even if you don't pre-load before taking off! Cornering at low speeds is ok but at racing speed, the experience ranges from totally detached to utter nonsense. Case in point: on the Dune:Lagoon course, there's a downhill left hander just before you go back up the hill and encounter water for the first time. If you go in there as fast as you can, you can't make the turn. That's as it should be if you are going for realistic handling. But when you take the turn too fast, you drift out wide and the quad slides up onto the almost-sheer cliff wall like it's on ice, then comes off the cliff about 30 feet in the air and you're falling face down toward certain death . . . but wait . . . there's no need to die! All you have to do is pull back on the left thumbstick and you land like a butterfly with sore feet. Ridiculous. I'd like to see mmuscat9 from CANADA "EH" do that on one of his "every weekend" rides. It's totally an arcade racer and not a very good one at that. ATV OffRoadFury2 is head and shoulders better than this one. In fact, the reason I bought the game was because I saw my friend's 3 year old playing ATV OffRoadFury2 on PS2. I thought it would be perfect for my 5 year old, but I have an XBox and QP2 is the only ATV title on XBox so I figured I'd take a leap of faith. I mean, it came out AFTER Fury2 so it's got to have everything it has and more, right? WRONG! ... The most frustrating aspects of this game are the sound and the lack of a Free Ride mode. In Fury2, the two stroke quads sound just like real two strokes and the four strokes sound just like real four strokes. In QP2, all engine sounds are the same generic buzz. In Fury2, you can take an endless free ride throughout any of the environments. Heck, you can even turn off collisions with the environment so you don't fall off your bike every time you hit a rock or tree - perfect for really young gamers! The water looks great too and as long as you keep the throttle hammered, you can keep riding even when you're fully submerged! Again, it's perfectly kid friendly while offering more true-to-life options for more seasoned gamers. QP2 has none of these features even though it came out AFTER Fury2!! Pathetic. When you go off track in QP2 you either run into a brick wall where the code ends or it respawns you back at the last check point after about 5-8 seconds off the beaten path - totally frustrating! My 5 year old hates this game and so do I. ...
Rating: - NEW PHYSICS GENERATION
This game is S I C K! I would call it the start to the new physics generation. The bike's reaction to your actions and to track conditions is bang on. I ride quads every weekend, and I can say from experience, this is the closest game yet. The only downfalls are: 1.- Engine sound effects- they all sound the same 2.- Freestyle- needs to be outside on seemingly endless boards (a la ATV Fury) 3.- Real Bikes!- there is not one real bike in this game. All that aside, definately a game to have in your cache. If there is a #3, I'm sure it would be a PHENOM!
- Love the game - When it doesn't lock up on the Xbox 360
- ATV 2 Quad Power Racing
