Smugglers Run 2: Warzones

A superb unbeatable price for a good game. The game has a huge map for you to explore in various different modes of games. Up to 4 players can play in a selction of 5 or 6 multiplayer games! The detail in the game is great and there is a huge amount of landscape on the horizon; with virtually no pop-up.

The car models are detailed and the damage is fun to see - watching your doors and armour being ripped off when you get attacked or go too fast over a jump. The game is intense; fast fun and there are many extras for you to enjoy and unlock. The selction of vehicles is nice - choosing your favourite car with it's countermeasures - it really is fun and will make you come back to complete it. Countermeasures are similar to weapons - where you have bomb; cloaks; smoke screen etc. I am sure you or your child will enjoy it.

The game is compulsive and you'll probably want to unlock the North America map...


Merely Average   October 22, 2002
Mr. Darren Halford (Lincoln, UK)
25 out of 28 found this review helpful

The first thing that hits you about this game is the presentation - the intro and menus are all great and give a nice atmosphere before you've even hit start. The game itself (especially in the free-roaming Joyride mode) is good looking - the distance you can see is spectacular, and you can actually drive to any point you can see which is real nice. The levels aren't infinite though, and eventually you'll come to a cliff or glacier to stop progress. But the levels are impressively big, anyway. They are also a bit brown...or boring, at a push. Maybe I've been playing super-colourful Mario too long.
Some of the cars feel a bit slow to use, but there is a good selection of light and heavy vehicles and the physics of them as you bounce around the off-road environments is top notch.
The problems start when you start the Smuggler (or story) mode. This is the main single player game and it eases you in nicely with some training missions. When completed you unlock a new car. All good so far. But when you come up against some computer controlled opponents you realise that they are that most heinous of computer game enemies - The Flawless Baddie. They are so unbelievably rock hard it just feels unfair. And then you realise that the difficulty has been put through the roof to cover the fact that all the missions from the word go are very similar - to the point of being the same. There are only so many times you can collect package A and take it to point B via enemies C. The programmers have made an attempt to spice things up with the inclusion of Countermeasures - or "weapons" to you and me - but these generally are fairly useless...blow yourself up with a bomb, sir?
So - A nicely produced game, if a bit of a one-trick pony. If driving fast and collecting stuff while avoiding other stuff in nice, large (if slightly boring)environments floats your boat, you'll love it.