I've never been a huge fan of the original OutRun. It's a legendarily renowned game, but it's always just been too primitive for me to enjoy for more than a few minutes. It's a delight to spend a little time on when I see a machine out in an arcade, but I've always been puzzled at the diehard fans of it.
Sega's 90s racing oeuvre is something I'm very familiar with. I've spent quite a bit of time and quarters on Daytona USA, Sega Rally, and SCUD Race in the arcades and on whatever home ports I could find them at. I picked this up as an impulse buy and am glad that I did.
OutRun 2 is the ultimate refinement of the Sega arcade racing formula. The sense of speed is really fantastic and emulates well on the home console outside of the sit down arcade apparatus. The driving feels extremely good - learning to drive the Enzo is especially satisfying.
If the game had just been the OutRun arcade mode, this would still be a five star game, but there's an excellent challenge mode. The difficulty curve on the challenges feels perfect, and they do a great job of teaching you to play the game and the various courses. The music is phenomenal. You'll have all the Eurobeat you can handle.
I've only played the vanilla version, but the Coast to Coast version has even more of this kind of content so if you're emulating that would be the definitive version. For those of us who don't have $400 burning a hole in our pockets, I felt like the content in the vanilla version is still really great.
Playing this game is like listening to the album from a band that you love that just elevates everything you've ever loved about them to the highest point.
Sega's 90s racing oeuvre is something I'm very familiar with. I've spent quite a bit of time and quarters on Daytona USA, Sega Rally, and SCUD Race in the arcades and on whatever home ports I could find them at. I picked this up as an impulse buy and am glad that I did.
OutRun 2 is the ultimate refinement of the Sega arcade racing formula. The sense of speed is really fantastic and emulates well on the home console outside of the sit down arcade apparatus. The driving feels extremely good - learning to drive the Enzo is especially satisfying.
If the game had just been the OutRun arcade mode, this would still be a five star game, but there's an excellent challenge mode. The difficulty curve on the challenges feels perfect, and they do a great job of teaching you to play the game and the various courses. The music is phenomenal. You'll have all the Eurobeat you can handle.
I've only played the vanilla version, but the Coast to Coast version has even more of this kind of content so if you're emulating that would be the definitive version. For those of us who don't have $400 burning a hole in our pockets, I felt like the content in the vanilla version is still really great.
Playing this game is like listening to the album from a band that you love that just elevates everything you've ever loved about them to the highest point.