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Summary: Sorry Sequel
Review: My 6 & 3 year old sons loved the original. They actively dislike LR2 & I agree with them. What happened to the jaunty music and simple, eye-catching design of the original?The sequel is a poorly designed, badly implemented mess with cheap & nasty production values. It looks and feels like one of the crummier download games at real.com. Whatever inspired LEGO to trash their good name with this rip-off?
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Summary: LEGO Racers 2 rocks!!
Review: My 8 year-old son and I became thoroughly entrenched in this game for several weeks. The play is fast-paced and recklessly enjoyable...and the visual effects are great fun to watch! We especially liked having the ability to explore the different words and run action replays. In fact, the game was so good it surpassed our expectations and fostered new ones. We can hardly wait for the next Racers title. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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Summary: Sluggish, something wrong, NO customer support.
Review: My son was so anxious to get this new release I couldn't keep him in place. And yet I've never seen him so dissapointed. My computer is a power-house that way exceeds the game's minimum requirements. Yet it's slow, sluggish, low frame-rate, no details, nothing. My boy gets impatient and turns the game off after a few minutes. I expressed my concern to Lego, but in a form e-mail simply replied that it not tested on Windows XP. Some nerve they have. The OS is out, and Lego isn't aware of it? Just to be sure, I checked with my video-card manufacturer (ATI Radeon) and their support service was just as useless. Caveat Emptor!!! Buyer beware.
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Summary: Sluggish, something wrong, NO customer support.
Review: My son was so anxious to get this new release I couldn't keep him in place. And yet I've never seen him so dissapointed. My computer is a power-house that way exceeds the game's minimum requirements. Yet it's slow, sluggish, low frame-rate, no details, nothing. My boy gets impatient and turns the game off after a few minutes. I expressed my concern to Lego, but in a form e-mail simply replied that it not tested on Windows XP. Some nerve they have. The OS is out, and Lego isn't aware of it? Just to be sure, I checked with my video-card manufacturer (ATI Radeon) and their support service was just as useless. Caveat Emptor!!! Buyer beware.
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Summary: TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT
Review: My sons love the original Lego Racers, so naturally had to have Lego Racers 2. What a pitiful excuse of a game and a waste of money. As for technical support when we ran into ALL KINDS OF SYSTEM ERRORS after installing Lego's program, forget it. None of the "technicians" I spoke to had played the game and could only offer "canned suggestions" such as "maybe you need to increase your memory or get a different video card" (not according to the system requirements on the box!). When my sons were finally able to play the game (after some expense), it turns out that only one can play at a time. In other words, if the other child opens a game, his overwrites the first child's. I was certain we had to be doing something wrong, but once again the fault is Lego's. "Sorry" said technical support, but that's the way it was designed. If I could rate this product a "0", I would. I will never again purchase a Lego Software product.
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Summary: Bad install
Review: My whole family loves Lego Racers 1, and we couldn't wait to install Lego Racers 2. The problem was that it appeared to install OK, but wouldn't run. What's worse, it hosed up EVERY other game and graphics-intensive program on my system. Uninstalling Lego Racers 2 didn't help, and I never did get my system running again. I ended up having to re-load my whole system from scratch and restore from backups. I've never had *anything* mess up my system this bad before.
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Summary: VERY ADDICTIVE !
Review: The boys loved the 1st version of this game and were totally thrilled to get this 2nd version. It's a load of fun for them but way too addictive. I also don't like it because it doesn't work perfectly, even after tinkering with the settings and computer drivers (just like the first one), and the boys don't learn anything from it. I guess I'm asking too much from it...
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Summary: Absorbing, addictive racing game
Review: The first Lego racers is fantastic and like others I rushed out to get this expecting more of the same. In fact the game has a very different look and feel which makes it easy to conclude that it is not as good. To get the bad news out of the way: Lego Racers 2 is more demanding on hardware, somewhat harder to play, only supports one saved game, and lacks the some of the friendly-fun appeal of the first. On the plus side though, this game is far more absorbing. The various locations are complete little worlds, with villages, inhabitants you can chat to, and exotic terrain that you get to know really well. In order to progress you have to beat certain characters, like Sam Sinister who deposits slippery oil behind his car: it seems impossible at first, but as you get to know the track you gradually get better. It's a more sophisticated game all round. The idea of bricks coming off your car every time you crash, and replenished by the pit stops, is great and adds excitement. The landscape has lots of interest, such as drive-thru waterfalls, cliff-side roads you can fall off, ice mazes, volcanoes with molten lava, wobbly rope bridges, and ... well, you get the idea. Looking for a first racing game for a kid? Lego Racers 1 is it. But for sustained, compelling interest, Racers 2 is light-years ahead.
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Summary: What a shame
Review: We loved Lego Racers (the original), and my son couldn't wait to spend some of his birthday money to buy Racers 2; I feel sorry for the poor kid. Although we have the computing horsepower to make it work (P3, 128MB RAM, 16MB video card, etc.), it still is not as smooth as the original, and the screen goes "funky" after one race, even after "dumbing down" the graphics. We have tried it on different computers, and get the same results. It's really a shame...
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