ATV: Quad Power Racing 2

by Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.

Product 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 Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000083DZP
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 6.1 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 15, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,542 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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

Product Description

ATV Quad Power Racing 2 takes you off-road for bumpy fun on the dirt trails!

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Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pure fun!, August 27, 2003

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Play Ball (Torrance, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ATV: Quad Power Racing 2 (Video Game)

As an adult who doesn't have a whole lotta time to spare, this game is great for short 5-20 minute gaming, but can easily result in longer play time because of how addicting it is. The greatest things about this game are 1) the vastness of the tracks, 2) the serious air you can get with the ATVs, 3) the flexibility of the ATVs and 4) the wide range of play options.

The wide tracks allow a lot of room for mistaken swerving. Although there are some narrow spots, even if you bump into the walls lightly you won't fall off. This game is very forgiving when landing basic jumps. I've landed 50 yard jumps on only one wheel or even at an angle and still continued on racing. Landing after tricks is a bit more challenging but a good one for casual gamers. Speaking of tricks, only on another planet would you be able to pull off some of the crazy jumps in this game, but that's part of the fun. Who cares if you can't pull off a 360 backflip on an ATV in the middle of a rock quarry in real life. You can in this game and it's a lot of fun seeing how high and far you can jump during a mad dash to the finish line.

Some of the cons:
-The soundtracks do get old after awhile and allowing an option to upload your own MP3s onto the playlist would have been sweet.
This doesn't detract much from the game though.
-No replay cam. Would have been nice to rewatch some of the insane tricks.

I bought this game for $... at Fry's and it's worth a lot more than what I paid for.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The party game the xbox needs!, March 9, 2003

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Markus Egger "www.MarkusEgger.com/blog" (Spring, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ATV: Quad Power Racing 2 (Video Game)

This is a very fun game. End of story.

Well, there is a bit more to it, actually: This game is not a mile stone in entertainment software. It is not going to rival games such as Rallysport Challenge, Project Gotham, or MotoGP. But it is a lot of fun to play.

It is also easy to learn, which makes this game one of the few games one can play with friends that do not normally play a lot of games. Today, most games are so sophisticated, they just don't allow serious and casual gamers to play together. This game is different! (And has a few nasty features such as kicking the other drivers off their ATV... this can add some spice to a friendly rivalry...)

Just for being a fun party game, I would give this game 5 stars. Of course, that wouldn't be quite fair to games such as Splinter Cell.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very fun in many ways, September 15, 2003

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Robert Ruffo (Old Montreal, Quebec, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ATV: Quad Power Racing 2 (Video Game)

If you like laugh-out-loud, arcade-style racers, then you'll love ATV 2.

It's fast, the physics are totally spot-on, and it's just a ton of fun. Knocing other bikers off their rides, a-la Road Rash, is very satisfying, and will have you yelling at the screen with evil delight.

The graphics are smooth and beautiful, with bump mapping, specular level-mapping, and lots of road-side detail, as well as bikes that articulate and respond to the road in a very realistic manner. Each "world" in the game (there are 15) is unique not only in appearance, but in how the races within it are strategically won. Some have more twists and turns, others are wider and flatter, others still are so foggy that visibility is very short, and some depend more on obstacles suddenly smashing into view after a tight corner.

I only give the game 4 stars because:

- The arcade mode makes no sense. You race against other riders, but the only thing that matters is beating the timer, so who cares? Stick to the career mode. It's much more fun.

- Tricks are, well, tricky. You have to press a button while simultaneously pressing a direction on the thumbstick. Seems to me this could have been better implemented.

- The other modes (Freestyle, etc.) should have been integrated into Career. This would have made Career longer and more enjoyable, and would have given the game more structure. (Hey game designers, write me a book, don't just hand me a typewriter, you know what I mean?)

- This is more of a tip, but the default controls are awful. You can change them to something very functional in Options by selecting "controller one". Use "setup C".

Overall though, I in no way regret buying this game, and play it very often.