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This sequel improves on the original by offering larger racing environments, more modes of play, and much more detailed graphics. The environments now have a full complement of trees, cacti, bushes, and other solid objects to smack into, and some game modes even introduce highway traffic into the mix. There's nothing like jumping over a moving semi on your way to the finish line! The new Pro Circuit career mode adds a lot of replayability (and long-term strategy) to the game, and fun multiplayer modes like tag offer a refreshing break to standard racing when playing online.
On the downside, all the new graphical goodness requires some serious computer hardware. While a 3-D accelerator isn't required, that's a little like saying your car doesn't need an engine because you can still push it. With a decent 3-D card, at least a 350 MHz processor, and plenty of RAM, however, the game really comes to life. Those of you with 3-D audio cards are also in for a treat, as it becomes possible to tell where other riders are just by listening.
It took some time to get used to Motocross Madness 2's completely over-the-top physics. Hitting even a minor jump launches the bike straight up into the air, and bigger hills can leave you staring down at the treetops for over five seconds. It's a little ridiculous, but once we gained some familiarity with the tracks it actually made the game a lot of fun. More air time means more chances to perform outrageous aerial stunts, from the Tail Grab to the back-bending Cordova. Unfortunately, it also means unfortunate encounters with trees are much harder to avoid.
If you buy sports games based only on their ability to realistically portray the sports they are simulating, Motocross Madness 2 will disappoint. For those of you who like big air, big stunts, enormous open environments, and lots of challenging arcade action, this game is better than its predecessor in every way. --T. Byrl Baker
Pros:
- Detailed, interactive environments
- Career mode keeps players coming back for more
- Outrageous arcade physics model
- Steep hardware requirements
- Computer opponents are extremely challenging regardless of difficulty level
| PLATFORM: | Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95 |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Microsoft |
| ESRB RATING: | Everyone |
| TYPE: | motorcross two (II) |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| ACCESSORIES: | |
| UPC: | 659556912208 |
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Customer Reviews of Motocross Madness 2
fun and adictive - by levi first you install it then you play it then you can't stop playing it. I enjoy this game very much and advise all motor cross fans who don't have a motor bike\dirt bike & love computers to buy it i think you will enjoy it.
Very buggy on today's machines
Graphics are still nice even today. Strangely, the game becomes virtually unplayable on today's hardware as game breaking graphic
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>glitches and sound bugs show up very often. These problems alone push it a couple notches from being a top game now. Further dropping it down, are the unresponsive controlling of stunts. One is very lucky if buttons work in time to avoid trouble. Though never reaching a five star rating Motocross Madness 2 had its day...several years ago.
MCM2, I miss you
This is/was one of the best PC games of all time. Several Co-Workers and I played it multiplayer on the net quite a bit back in the late 90's. We can't really run it nowadays, since MS made it impossible to play it on their Zone.com (formerly Internet Gaming Zone, formerly...) service in the WinXP era. LOL, the self-proclaimed kings of backward-compatible software published both the game and the OS. They do have a kb article suggesting manually opening a few firewall ports required to play it on the Zone, but it didn't work on either of my routers. MS expects those who want to play it in XP to use a UPNP-compliant router and enable the dreaded UPNP service. No thanks, UPNP is still a major security risk for boxes that spend lots of time on the net.