Jet Moto 2

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Jet Moto was one of the first racing games for the Playstation, selling a good amount for units, so Sony put out a second one. Jet Moto 2 is almost the same game, because you have added different characters and gotten rid of others, and along with longer race tracks, this could be called the same game. You take the role of a racer who races in the Jet Moto, a dangerous group of races on jet skis that can go over land along with water. Each person has different faults and advances, and there are a few average jet skiers. There are different kinds of tracks ranging from a iceberg to a gorge and the wildest roller coaster ever. Each course could be run in a circuit to a backwards course (you ride the same part but going in a different direction) It takes 3 laps to finish a race and whoever wins gets the most points, and the points keep getting lower until the last person has one point. Along the race there are checkpoints where is any way the you get knocked off your bike or fall, you will start at those points, with a second delay because of it, and with the AI getting hard with each level, you can not afford to fall down.

Graphics: 7
These are ok graphics for the time, but now they show age. The colors are dark and get a feeling of this sport should be outlawed, (and it should) but you love it all the same. The jets and the person riding them look like they are getting bounced around, and that proves that they put a good deal into the physics engine. The character select screen that shows all of the pictures of, well, the characters show well defined features in the physique and mental stability of the Jet riders. The levels could be called the best graphical part of the game, with no jagged edges to be seen unless they wanted them to be there, so when you want fluid motion in a game, you got it here! So it isn’t the prettiest PS1 game of them all, but it was good for the time.

Gameplay: 8
This is a racing game, with no real plot at all besides to win lots and lots of trophies. And win them you do. You have different kinds of circuits, each adding more and more levels until you have all of them. To get more levels, you must get 1st place in that circuit. You race, and you can also have a VS. mode where you race in a duel or in the circuit. Each rider has there own balance or Speed, Weight, or Acceleration. With these advantages in one comes disadvantages in another, leading to you being better in some course with losing horribly in another. To move you press X, brake with square, grapple (to hold on to a pink pole with a beam to you don’t fall off your bike) with O, and Turbo with Triangle. You move with the D-Pad, and you can twist in air with the shoulder buttons. Make sure to always keep some turbo ready for any hard spot, and then the game should become easier. With each circuit, the AI becomes harder and faster than you, and you must pull out every trick to beat them.

Sound: 8
Each level has music that lasts for about 5 minutes, and then they begin to repeat, but with that many levels, you have a large amount of sound, along with the “uh” and “ahhh!!!” of falling off your bike, very little sound. You have the roar of the motors, the metal crashing sound when you hit something, and the turbo jet sound, but you really can’t call that audio. It’s like a warble of noise.

Fun Factor: 7
This game will tire after a few weeks, so it will line your shelf until you need a OK VS. racing game to play with your friend (or friends.) Nothing could be said about this game other than standard, but, you find that the standard was raised.

Buy or Rent?
I suggest that you would rent this game, because you also have the choices of the first or third.

Graphics: 7
Gameplay: 8
Sound: 8
Fun Factor: 7

Reviewer’s Score: 8/10

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 05/06/02, Updated 05/06/02