Hmmm. This game is the fan favorite of the PS1 games and its certainly a marked improvement over the original. Things are more chaotic, and the maps are smaller and more interesting. The only problem is the singleplayer campaign is kinda annoying. It's one of those games where despite the battle-royale design of the characters and maps, every CPU player only focuses on you like some sort of freak hivemind. It definitely makes single player emphasize defensive play at a low level which is kinda lame. Speaking of low level, this is also one of those games where the game locks content and calls you a baby if you play on easy so enjoy the higher difficulty or get bent i guess. There are also secret weapons that can only be used by doing mfin fighting game inputs while driving and the game doesnt tell you this and the manual only tells you some but not all of the input weapons, so bizarrely enough it manages to be a guide game too...? I hope the whole command-input-exclusive-weapon thing doesn't become a mainstay in the series.

despite all the qualms its still decent fun when its not hair-rippingly frustrating. I think its like a fighting game where the real meat and potatoes is in the multiplayer whereas the singleplayer is more like a hellish training mode than anything else. Would definitely rec if you have a friend, but lonely gamers might wanna try something else methinks