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

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.

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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 found the following review helpful:

The party game the xbox needs!Mar 10, 2003
By Markus Egger "www.MarkusEgger.com/blog"
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 found the following review helpful:

Very fun in many waysSep 15, 2003
By Robert Ruffo
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.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Pure fun!Aug 27, 2003
By Play Ball
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.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

Not again!!!May 30, 2003
By TwistaG "Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore"
Don't you hate when someone makes a sequel to a already bad game?You do? Then it's time to quit hating, Climax's latest is light years better than it's ugly-as-sin predecessor and is already worthy to compete against Sony's Offroad Fury series. The visuals have taken a giantic leap forward, the tracks are more intelligently designed (but still have stupid obstacles that require no memorization to avoid), and the controls have gotten the reworking they desperately deserved. If you can live without that "other" game's online support, then this is golden.

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