Dirt Track Racing 2

by Infogames

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005MHMH
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches ; 6.1 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 24, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,582 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Track is Back! Capturing the exact experience of competition, Dirt Track Racing 2 straps you in the driver’s seat with a realistic racing simulation like you’ve never seen before! Get down and dirty on the track with a faster class of vehicles and progress through various series from hobby stock to the late models. Dirt Track Racing is back! Offering an extreme style of exciting gameplay that made its predecessors so successful! With new tracks, mind blowing graphics, intense special effects, amazing sounds and introducing a new class of cars to race, the "Modifieds". And if that’s not enough, Dirt Track Racing 2 will be "backwards" compatible, meaning the racetracks of Dirt Track Racing and Dirt Track Racing: Sprint Cars will work for Dirt Track Racing 2. Game Features: Race 3 classes of cars! Choose from the Stock, Modified and Late models! Extreme realism! A graphically enhanced "fresh" look to all vehicles! 14 original tracks! Race on oval, D-oval, tri-oval, egg shaped and 3 all new figure-8 layouts! Replay function! Watch your race again and really learn the track! Spectacular effects! Exhaust smoke, flames, lighting and particle debris! Career and resource management mode! Purchase or upgrade new vehicles, rise up from Street Stocks to the powerful Modifieds, do repairs and more! Real world physics and handling. Training, practice, Quick-race, Championship, and Career Modes. Spectacular collisions and dramatic visible damage modeling.

Product Description

The Track IsBack!      Leave 'em Dazed in the DustProduct InformationIt's the heart-stopping high-speed Dirt Track exhilaration likeyou've never experienced!  You're in the cage. In the fray.  In themost immersive Dirt racing sim on four wheels! Mind blowing graphics and specialeffects awesome sounds 14 challenging tracks and 3 classes of cars! Rev it uphang on and go for the checkered flag as you throw a cloud of dust in thecompetition's face! Get your car in gear or get offthe track.  Feel the whine of the engines the roar of the crow and thedirt up your nose! Product Features Career mode! Purchase or upgrade vehicles from Street Stocks to Modifields! 14 unique tracks: D-ovals tri-ovals egg-shaped all new figure 8 layouts and more! Enhanced graphics Incredible collisions mode Vehicle damage mode Exciting multiplayer racing Copete with up to ten racers via Internet or LANMinimum Requirements Windows 98 Me 2000 or XP Pentium II 800MHz or higher 128MB of RAM 32MB nVidia GeForce ATI or better compatible with DirectX version TBD or higher 520MB Hard Disk space 8X CD-ROM Drive DirectX compatible force feedback device 16 bit windows 98 Me 2000 XP compatible sound card compatible with DirectX version TBD or higher DirectX version 8.1 (included) or higher 56k baud or TCP/IP compliant network (for modem/Internet/LAN play) 

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good graphics better tracks, October 10, 2002

By 

Mr. Wan (y) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dirt Track Racing 2 (CD-ROM)

DTR 2 has less tracks, only 14, but they are more detailed. Unfortunately there is not one "all out" track like Oldero. These tracks take more finesse to get around. Some new names in this one, some old names don't show back up, however all tracks showing up again are different and now you need to find the right racing lines again at all tracks.

Car handling seems the same. Cars respond similar to before.

Graphics are much better. There is more detail in cars, background, track, etc. A great improvement in that regard. Grandstands have individual people in them as compared to a mix of colors it was before.

Unfortuantely I cannot get DTR or DTRSC tracks to show up on DTR 2. I think the software is incompatible. Hopefully developers will create new tracks you can get off internet soon, would like more tracks.

Cars are lot faster. For Knoxville current record time is 14.06 with late model, with tweaking sure it will go down. Still haven't found consistent fast lane and setup is not really worked out. This was just minor tuning to resemble setup on DTR 1. Can imagine people can take 2 or more seconds off that time as time goes on and setups develop to get 12 second 1/2 mile track times or better. So the cars are unrealistically fast, even faster than WoO sprints. This makes it a more challenging game since stuff happens quicker, and difficult to drive with a keyboard because the limits of pushing a button as opposed to more control with a steering wheel really start to show up at these speeds.

Don't care for supermodifieds, but they included them in the game. They are very ugly cars to begin with don't understand people's interest in them when they can play with the late models. Hey, it's not like you have to worry about money on a PC game like you do in real life.

After I bought this game I think it was worth it however don't have the same enthusiasm as I did when I first bought DTR and later DTRSC. It's a rehash-how much can change? However I think that it is a better game than DTR 1, and worth buying even if you have DTR 1 and are real dirt track enthusiast as I am.
Also I am sure all online playing is going to go to this from DTR 1. If anybody knows of free online racing like onlineracing.cc used to be, please e-mail me at [e-mail] I want to get back into it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dirt Track Racing gets better, December 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Dirt Track Racing 2 (CD-ROM)

This is one of the best racing games of the year. It feels like your really racing in a dirt track. I bought this game because i enjoy going to local dirt track races. It has a career mode that puts you in a realistic run at a local dirt track championship. I really love the modifieds that they added, they are so cool, thats the main reason i got it because those are my favorite cars to watch at the dirt tracks. So if your into action packed dirt track racing this is the game for you.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dirt Track Racing 2, July 7, 2005

By 

Reuben Hamilton (OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dirt Track Racing 2 (CD-ROM)

This game is a blast. I thought I'd give it a whirl and was very impressed with it.