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Mar 11, 2008 · For Sprint Cars 2: Showdown at Eldora on the PlayStation 2, GameFAQs has game information and a community message board for game discussion.
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- More like Showdown at El-bore-a, ho hooooo!
- Verdict
By Sam Bishop
Updated: May 13, 2012 3:43 pm
Posted: Apr 10, 2008 11:46 pm
Do you see, people? Do you see what playing a game like Sprint Cars 2 will do to a man's brain? It makes you think rhyming "dora" with "bore-a" is actually clever. As the fog of stupidity starts to fade, I realize that now. But that's what hours of turning left at minimal speed will do to a man. When a one-off tractor pull mini-game is the best part of your racing title, you know you're doing something wrong.
It's not that the various wingless sprint, sprint, pro stock, "late model," rally and -- I kid you not -- police cars don't do what they're supposed to. It's just that what they do is monumentally boring. Racing games are generally about going fast and finishing before the rest of the pack, yet Sprint Cars 2 never seems to move beyond a snail's pace or make jostling for the lead compelling in any way.
There's a Career mode that goes a little beyond the usual progression tacked on to vanilla Arcade mode where you actually have to buy and manage cars, parts, drivers and sponsorships. But no matter how good the wrapper might look, if what's inside is bland and tasteless, it's not worth trying. And the actual racing, which really does consist of just turning left over and over again while trying to control powerslides and slipstream behind opponents, is most certainly bland. It looks like a circa 1998 effort. Little things like the car turning on a center axis, framerate drops when there's really nothing on the screen and other issues make it all feel lame.
Even the game box can't manage to accurately portray what's burned on to the disc inside. There's a screen of a cockpit view, though near as I can tell that doesn't exist, and claims of "spectacular crashes" and "serious vehicle damage" are hilariously wrong. When 95% of the game is about as entertaining as getting blackout drunk and body surfing o...
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