World Racing 2

World Racing 2 is a video game by Synetic GmbH. It is the sequel to Mercedes-Benz World Racing.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Not only did it feature Mercedes-Benz cars as in the prequel, but it added cars from other manufacturers such as Alfa Romeo, Lotus, Volkswagen and other manufacturers that barely appear in any another game such as Westfield, Rinspeed, Irmscher and PGO. However, Rinspeed appeared in other games such as Supercar Street Challenge with the Rinspeed E-Go Rocket, Asphalt 8 Airborne with the Rinspeed zaZen and Westfield appeared in Live for Speed with the Megablade (aka Megabusa).
 * 2) Over 92 cars to drive ranging from sedans, sport coupés, concept cars to race cars.
 * 3) Over 170 track layouts to race throughout six maps including Hawaii, Test Center, Egypt, Italy, Miami and Hockenheimring.
 * 4) Very amazing-looking damaging model with bumpers detaching in pieces in a manner similar to the Alarm für Cobra 11 (Crash Time) franchise and damage affecting performance such as the engine blowing up.
 * 5) Realistic environment.
 * 6) The graphics are amazing especially on the PC version.
 * 7) This game features evaluation of skills that can vary for positive and negative accordingly by raising or decreasing Speedbucks. Positive evaluation is caused by drifting, overtaking opponents, performing jumps perfectly and driving on two wheels perfectly. Negative evaluation is caused by crashing into anything else such as traffic and barriers, which count as driving errors, cutting corners and hitting opponents which counts as a "Dirty Game", all of which decrease the total amount of Speedbucks.
 * 8) PC version has tons of moddability, you can download various car and track add-ons.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Despite the fact that on GameFAQS, the difficulty is rated Just Right-Tough on all platforms, some missions are very unforgiving. Examples are:
 * 2) *In one of the missions "Once in a Lifetime", you must complete the qualification by speeding 5 times at 300 km/h (186 mph) with an average speed of 285KPH (177MPH) in an Alfa Romeo 33/2 Daytona on an oval circuit that has four laps. It is considered one of the hardest missions in the game. Also, even if you go to the wrong path to reach 300 km/h 5 times and an average speed of 285 km/h (which can be tedious to reach) and when you go back to the correct way, it drops to 283kph of average speed making the mission even more impossible to complete since you can't even reach those speeds by doing the right path.
 * 3) *Many Waypoint missions that you need to complete gold with are frustrating that with a single crash you commit, you can't finish them in the gold time and you're forced to restart the race a lot. Also, in the second part of "City Whispers" mission, you're driving a Noble M400 and you must drive to the finish line under 46 seconds. Despite the track map showing a linear track, you're forced to follow the track map and the result causes you to lose too much time no matter if you use nitro or even if the car doesn't even lose control or crash into obstacles, making it one of the hardest Waypoint Race missions in the game.
 * 4) *Most of the races that you're supposed to win to get gold medal or else mandatory to finish first such as "300SL Classics I", "Like a Lightning" or "Biathlon PS" are considered harder to win due to the consistent rubberband AI as the opponents ram you in the back causing you to likely ruin the race or having a huge boost that catches you.
 * 5) *Racing with Class it's also considered one of the second hardest speed-related mission in the game has you must drive 8x times in a oval circuit that has 5 laps with an Mercedes-Benz Gruppe A while you also you must catch your rival to win the race.
 * 6) According to the previous section just like its prequel, there are no complete walkthroughs of the Career mode of this game in YouTube making the career mode even more confusing and unforgiving. The reason is because this game is not very popular compared to Gran Turismo 4, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Burnout 3: Takedown which those games are very popular that never gets old for a PS2 game,
 * 7) No online support.
 * 8) Many well known European manufacturers are absent such as Maserati, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Koenigsegg, Renault, Peugeot, Fiat, Audi, BMW, McLaren and Porsche. However, there are mods that has cars from those aforementioned manufacturers.
 * 9) Joyride is only available on the PC version.
 * 10) Some televisions obstruct the speed and gearing meaning you don't know what speed you are reaching and to make the things worse, there is no verbosity to adjust the screen position at all.
 * 11) The car sounds are pretty bland.
 * 12) The music gets old really quick. However, it's possible to play your own music in the PC version.