OutRun 2 (アウトラン2?), usually stylized as OutRun2, is a 2003 racing game released by Sega for the arcades. Although this is the first "official" sequel to Out Run, it is the fourth title in the OutRun series.
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Make another OutRun and make it beautiful.
ended up racing against a 12 year old girl who was racing on manual and drifted constantly, i just barely won
Sega hood classic
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.
an absolute masterpiece. shame that we never got an OutRun 3.
also all my homies hate Ignition from the mission mode.
also all my homies hate Ignition from the mission mode.
picturesque beaches, plains, and deserts lay the groundwork for our adventure. castles, tunnels, even pyramids swelter from the sun in the open air. the breeze caused by our bewilderingly precise driving is positively intoxicating. nothing else gets the blood pumping like so. the open road is a living obstacle course: dominated by family road trips, oil tankers, and party busses that only seem to get in the way of our high-octane blast-processed driving. heart-wrenching drifts and turns serve as dopamine infused climaxes when nailed with perfect accuracy. the retro-futuristic ost acts as a motivational serenade to keep us coming back. outrun 2 emphasizes the astounding journeys within driving (to an almost cliche degree), alongside continuing the original game’s legacy in an evolutionary way.