Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2by Acclaim
Platform: PlayStation2
ESRB Rating: Everyone
ASIN: B00005ML0Z
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Features:
• Extreme-sports BMX game
• 8 new interactive environments and raucous soundtrack
• More than 1,500 tricks and signature moves
• Expanded park editor and fully interactive environments
• 10 multiplayer games support up to 12 players
Amazon.com: The first BMX game out of the gates for the PS2 is Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2, developed by Z-Axis. Like any extreme sports game, the key here is the trick system, and this one is incredibly deep with more than 1,500 tricks to perform. Basic tricks are easy to execute and can be modified with an additional button-and-direction combo. Unfortunately, these trick modifiers aren't always responsive.
The game's modes are Session, Free Ride, Park Editor, and ProQuest. Session is a timed run on any of the game's levels. Free Ride lets you nail the game's timing and become familiar with its courses. The extensive Park Editor lets you design your own levels. The meat of the game is in ProQuest, which has two submodes: competition and challenges. The ultimate goal is to win enough competitions to become the king of freestyle BMX. The challenges help you earn "respect," which can be used to upgrade your gear.
The game's excellent soundtrack includes songs from Fenix TX, Ozzy Osbourne, and A Tribe Called Quest--three acts few in their wildest dreams envisioned together. The game's addictive gameplay is marred by several programming glitches, the most annoying of which is haphazard respawning. After crashing, the game often places you in positions where you'll instantly wipeout or appear inside an object. Polygons sometimes appear on the screen for no apparent reason and the frame rate slows down at times. Still, this is a very addictive game that will have no competition until Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2 is released. --Raymond M. Padilla
Pros:
Addictive gameplay
Improved graphics and larger levels than the original
Basic tricks are easy to pull off
Cons:
Respawning can be frustrating
Trick modifiers can be fickle
Graphics glitches such as pop-up, slowdown, and poor collision detection
Amazon.com Product Description: Customization is key in Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2. In this release, players can create their own riders (or ride as BMX champ Dave Mirra, Ryan Nyquist, and others in an impressive posse of BMX pros), choose their own sponsors, and even design their own parks in which to complete a variety of challenges. As players progress through the game, they'll earn the respect of fellow riders. The ultimate, though, is to unseat Mirra himself as king of the BMX hill.
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 also supports up to 12 players and features 10 multiplayer games, including an extreme bikathalon competition. Also, the release includes eight additional game levels, and they're four times beefier than before. Tear and trick through a total of 11 levels with this edition. The game is completed by integrated traffic, including moving cars, trains, trucks, and even other riders and pedestrians.
The open trick system in Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 holds more than 1,500 tricks and signature moves--many of them motion captured off Mirra himself. And a fitting soundtrack accompanies the game, featuring cuts from Ozzy Osbourne, Methods of Mayhem, the Cult, Godsmack, and others.
Customer Reviews:
A riders game, November 20, 2002
Reviewer: Rider146 from CAlifornia
A great game no matter who you are, but if you dont like bikes you probaly wont like the game. But if you ride then this game will be the best game ever, which i do ride and think it is. Everyone should buy this game.
Best Bike Game In a LONG Time!, November 12, 2002
Reviewer: A gamer from LANCASTER, CA United States
Hi this bike game is really cool, because you can do about 100 different tricks. The levels are really big and full of jumps. The are plenty of riders to choose from. All around this is really really good bike. It is well worth small price like ... I would pay around ... for this game. So it is a really good game. It is a must buy for any real gamer like myself.
A big improvement over the original, September 3, 2002
Reviewer: Nick from Reading, PA
While the original Dave Mirra BMX for the PS1 and Dreamcast wasn't much to look at, Acclaim and Z-Axis managed to make some big improvements here and there to make this sequel stand out on it's own, for the most part. Graphicly speaking the game is superb, except for a few glitches here and there. Controls are tight, fans of Tony Hawk and Mat Hoffman will feel right at home for the most part, and a surprisingly good soundtrack (featuring Ozzy with the late Randy Rhodes doing "Paranoid", along with Rage Against the Machine and The Cult) keeps the game moving along nicely. But there are a few flaws worth noting as well. Collision detection should have been improved upon greatly, you'll run into a wall and fall off your bike unknowingly sometimes, and now and then the screen will freeze up for a second or two and then keep going, which can detract from the gameplay. All in all, there is nothing wrong with Dave Mirra BMX 2, but those who have discovered the recently released superb Mat Hoffman Pro BMX 2 will be disappointed when they play this.
Bad Views, July 21, 2002
Reviewer: AmazingThugGirl from Denver, CO USA
I didn't like this game at all. I might've liked it, if not for the horrible camera views. I may just be bad at the game, but I found the controls confusing...And I found it a waste of time to turn the camera around so it faces the player, making you turn around...The above view gave me a head ache...Stay away from this game...Bad graphics for the ps2.
Borarama, June 29, 2002
Reviewer: Mitchum from Nashville, TN United States
Good graphics boring game.There is only 1 way to describe this game "BORING" my advice stay as far away as possible from it.
Pretty darn good, June 16, 2002
Reviewer: smcombs3 from Los Alamitos, CA United States
I would give this game a five if it wasn't for some of the insanely frustrating mission things. When I read reviews for this game I was thinking the wierdos who wrote that the challenges were hard were just plain old wierd. Not so. Find four ladders with like one square mile of level in three minutes, hard. It is also one of the first challenges. Owch, bad way to start off.
This game is really good though, don't let the beginning put ya down. This is one good game. Maybe not as good as THPS3, but hey, that was one great game. DM2 isn't far off. The huge levels and great lines of play make this game really good. The glitches aren't that bad(I didn't mind them in the first game and they fixed a lot of them up). The system of making up tricks is simple to understand and is really cool. It has been improved from the first game by adding things like no handed or no footed manuals or grinds. Also, wallrides look cool and are very smooth feeling for some reason, I just like how it feels, but anyway: I'd say buy this game if you like extreme sports and if you don't it is probably still worth a rent.
Huge Game, May 13, 2002
Reviewer: weatherboy-dot-org from Erie, PA
This game has very massive levels I am surprized at how much they could fit on this non DVD PS2 cd. It has great graphics, great looking tricks, massive levels, and decent proquest mode, also has the usually track builder.
Ok the problems I have with the game is its 2 player mode, it lets one player play of full screen then other goes its a odd way of doing it and anoys many. Can't beleive we used to do that back with the mario brothers ehh.
The other problem I have is when they tell you to find things like the first was the one that made me shelf the game for a few months. Sounds simple knock over 4 ladders, but heck if I could find them took me a while. But after I got over that I really enjoyed the game most of the time it doesn't have you find the things and if you drive by one it will be highlighted and the top right of screen will tell you what you need to do.
I still do wish one of these games would do a point series instead of the find this and grind off this mode. The finding stuff is only so hard cause the levels are so huge.
A damn Good game!, March 21, 2002
Reviewer: Šã†ãñ~špåwñ from HeLL LeVeL 6
This game does have its draw backs.
1. after you crash it always sets you up in a weird posion
2. The tricks are somtimes very hard to complete to get to the next area.
But in the end the pros out way the cons.
the replay value is insane. I hidden charaters are hillarious. True to life signature moves. The trick modifier is very easy to use.
This game is a must of any X-games or gravity games fan
FUN FUN FUN, March 17, 2002
Reviewer: A 12-year old gamer
the game if fun, you can choose from your favorite bmxers, and bikes. If you like the x games this is the game to get. It good because it isn't like the concept of matt hoffmans and tony hawk because they are a like this is new. there are three sets of tricks per level. This game was fun and exciting. After beating all the levels, besides playing a two player it was somwhat gets borning.
not quite the original, March 6, 2002
Reviewer: A gamer from CWU
well, after playing the first dave mirra on playstation( and beating it numerous times) i had high standards for the second and it did quite well. the graphics are good and so are the tricks. what major benefit that i saw was the manualing between tricks. this not only improved the gameplay but extended the fun. i would also say that the challenges are a bit harder too( havent beat the second one yet but i will)but what is so bad? i would say the levels have dropped even though the area in them has increased. if your looking for a great alternative to tony hawk and what not then dave mirra two is your game.
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