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Solid gameplay at a rock-bottom price | | schuntzie from Seattle, USA says (8/Apr/2003): | I just picked this game up last night, after many months of waiting... Was somewhat hesitant, given that the price has dropped over time from $39.95 all the way down to $19.95. Turns out it may be the best deal going in the Gamecube world: this game is pretty solid, with a great premise (the Dakar Rally itself), decent graphics (especially the lighting and weather effects), great sound (listen carefully during replays...), an intuitive control scheme (the c-stick as the manual gearshift is dead-on!), and a realistic feel to the way the different vehicles drive and perform in varying terrain. It is a bit different from some of the rally games available on other platforms, especially in the racing format, as well as the vehicles themselves. Much more of a endurance-type rally race, as opposed to a format with many shorter, timed stages as found in other games. Very fun nonetheless, as the vehicles perform quite differently than the traditional Subarus, Fords, Citroens, etc. Different courses as well: some on the more traditional road courses, but also venturing off-road in the desert once one has advanced to those African stages. Combined with the depth one can setup up various car components & realistic damage-modeling, Paris Dakar II turns out to be a very enjoyable gaming experience!
| Great fun with minor problems | | Josh Parr from Wisconsin, USA says (15/Apr/2003): | Overall this a great rally game for any system. Even if your not interested in rally racing I suggest you try it. The campaign is a fun mode where you travel across 12 different tracks. From the forest surroundings of the niger river to the dry sandy deserts you will have a blast. Now that I've bragged the game up I have some minor problems. First the desert tracks are extremely annoying and frustrating to complete(on hard difficulty, medium isn't so bad.) Second, when your racing on some tracks a little hill or slope of ground acts as a wall. The most noticeable time this happens is on the Chateroux track. Many times I've come around a corner a little too wide and bumped one of the inclines of ground(on each side of the track) and I was sent rolling end over end. But that was the only major problem. Just one more small problem, sometimes it is hard to keep up with time on some tracks. One time I was in 1st place and came out of a corner too wide, I slowed down so I wouldn't fly off the cliff. No big problem right, wrong, my next checkpoint had me in 85th place!! I'm done griping now. Overall this is a awesome game, the tracks are well set out and if you mess up(in campaign) all you have to do is go back and adjust some things. I know this long, but I still have more compliments. Though the doesn't have the best graphics in the world this game is cool. I forgot to mention the great controls, the steering is realistic and you'll now what I mean if you played other games such as the Need for Speed series. For the 10th time this game is great, especially if you are a rally racer starved gamecube owner, like me. Pick this one up right away.
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