Road Rash II - Sega Genesis Review
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- The original was one of the Genesis best. Could the sequel do anything at all better?
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured from the Mega SG.
2. There is a password system here to resume your game.
3. I consider the first two to be the best looking of the 16-bit releases. Part 3 played well enough, but its digitized "upgrade" was ugly as sin.
4. This is also available on the PSP thanks to EA Replay. The Sega Genesis Mini also had it as one of the default games. A Game Boy Color Road Rash II exists as well.
5. There were 2 very distinct releases of this game in the US. The first was a standard oversized EA yellow tab cart. It also has a budget cardboard release that saw it come on a standard sized cart.
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Thanks. The channel has really grown into something special for me.
@@SegaLordX Do a review of Skitchin.
@@MikeDixieWrecked I think he did.
Big time. Sega Lord X has been my go to channel for all things Sega for a long time now. His work rate is phenomenal.
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This is the road rash my Dad and I spent countless hours playing way back when. The music is timeless for me
Dad 😲 I’m that age now and can remember when I first played road rash 2 in 94
My dude bringing me some great SEGA content at 2am. Let’s go!
I would love to see you do the Strike Series, (Desert, Jungle, Urban) for the Genesis. Road Rash and the Strike game were some of my favorite series growing up and I still play them today.
I second this request!
This game was dope playing it as a kid. Imagine a 2021 version. 🤔
It would be awful..........god im a boomer
@@orderofmagnitude-TPATP Why? Same game with today's graphics.
@@jjthapyro4130 wouldn't be the same game... difficult to describe. Im an old skool that grew up on atari vcs and my son has the latest xbox - this isn't a "i know more than you" thing... road rash worked because it wasnt 3d... just look at the attempts later on with the playstation and n64... its difficult to describe but i just get the feeling it would be awful playability wise.
My point is - it wouldn't be the same game.
@@orderofmagnitude-TPATP I agree, graphically it would be more realistic like Gran Turismo, but I don't think it would work. Maybe a Sega Saturn 2D upgrade would be better.
@@StrokedGT bingo
My absolute favourite genesis game! Couldnt get enough back in the day and was the reason i decided on buying a genesis last year and re-establishing the game library I had as a kid :) Still find myself humming these tunes 20 years later
Did you get an original Sega Genesis or did you get a Mini or Flashback or something?
SEEEGAAA! That jingle never gets old. 😁
Mom bitchass mom used to sing “SMEG-
MAAA!” She disapproved.
This game is so impressive, like an early GTA! Third person perspective, can walk around the world on foot if you want, or get on your bike and drive. 3D, kinda. And it's all on the Genesis. Always loved it from a technical and gameplay perspective.
Road Rash was a revolutionary game. In addition to being able to walk differently as in a 3D game, there are several other features unique to the 16-bit generation, such as taking down opponents from their vehicles. The undulation on the road was also very rare at the time, since the snes games and other competitors had flat tracks (the only exceptions I remember are Super Monaco GP 2 for Sega Genesis and Batman Returns for Sega CD).
I used to run the whole race on foot as a kid if my bike was going to blow up. Even if it took like 10 minutes. Lol
Unfortunately, overclocking breaks the controls and causes the bike to turn slower and slower the higher you turn the clock speed. I also discovered the exact same thing happens if you overclock the 3DO version, which leads me to think it was heavily based on the Genesis code.
Speaking of different - how about Skitchin’? It’s basically the weird cousin of Road Rash, and just as fun, if not mostly unknown.
For me the best in the series, even better than the 3D0 version. You really felt the pain of the falls in this thanks to the animation, which was lacking in the 3DO version thanks to the use of digitised sprites
Just got my boys into this one a couple weeks ago. This game is easy to lose an afternoon with. Thanks for the great vids man.
This is the best RR ever. Espesially music.
I remember playing this as a kid...I was absolutely hopeless at it! 🤣
Same here. I have so much Nostalgia for old school games but truth be told I was and am pretty terrible at a very large percentage of them lol
Yep, I’m still playing it. 😁
@@chiarosuburekeni9325 I was recently playing through some games on the NES classic and was getting absolutely bodied on the first levels of some games! Ghosts and goblins for instance!
yeah but these games were also hard as hell! I remember the road rash games as being fun and pretty easy on the first few stages, but then they quickly turn into nightmare difficulty once you upgrade the bikes. Some of those bikes are just too fast!
One of the biggest thrills in a video game is punching your opponents while driving a motorcycle.
This is one of the things that Genesis does that Nintendoesn't.
Mach Rider
Great review. I still really enjoy the Road Rash series to this day. I think there never having been a true modern successor (Road Redemption probably closest) means the originals are still great go to games for this kind of arcade racing. As SLX notes though, the choppy frame rate seems much more noticeable these days than I found it at the time. With that in mind could you advise what settings and emulator you used for the 150% in your video please SLX? It seemed massively better than it runs on normal hardware/speed.
EA were critical to the success of the Genesis/Mega Drive. A real shame they eventually dropped the likes of Road Rash and the Strike series to focus on sports games.
They were the rebels back then, fighting against the big corporations. They eventually became what they originally hated.
But their good games are still good games. People still make roster updates for NHL 94 every year, and play online tournaments of it. Still the best hockey game, which is probably quite a sad fact.
Just got the mega drive mini, rolling back the years.
its my 3 year olds first console :)
@@southendbusker7534 🥰
@@southendbusker7534 you're a great parent. You ever read that article where a guy raised his daughter first with a NES, until she could beat all the classics for that, then moving onto the SNES, then N64 etc? She seemed to appreciate it. Good games are timeless. They don't become retroactively less fun. Like all art forms, what's good once is good forever.
@@duffman18 she's a huge sonic fan, oddly she found sonic cd herself on her tab, sonic 3 is her goto though ...3 years old
Road Rash II is one of my all time fave Mega Drive games. The soundtrack is just epic and I crank the volume right up whenever I play it. 👍
indeed! best music to any racing game ever IMHO
It's actually really good and not farty like 90% of genesis
@@NintenDub To be fair the fact that so many Mega Drive/Genesis games had poor sound/music was down to some developers not being experienced with the system's hardware and/or having strict deadlines to meet. Lazy programming played a part too in some cases, but none of this had anything to do with the hardware itself. Musicians/programmers like Matt Furniss, Yuzo Koshiro, the sound team at EA and Sonic Team based at Sega, all produced music on the system to such a high standard that it's still listened to and celebrated today. The soundtracks to the original Sonic games and the Streets of Rage trilogy being stand out examples.
@@johnbowles5399 Agreed, I even think the Megadrive/Genesis had some of the best music of any 16-bit system. The 4-op fm synth made for some great rocking soundtracks like Thunderforce 3&4, m.u.s.h.a, bio hazard battle, streets of rage, etc.
@@bleepintunes Oh yeah, the soundtrack to Thunderforce IV is godly. Another fantastic soundtrack is Rocket Knight Adventures. The music in that game is beyond epic!
This was my favorite Genesis game. I didn't have a huge Sega library but this was 90s awesome.
The kick is OP, just hold the kick at all times when you drive, then when an opponent comes along side swing out then into them and release the kick. Awesome video as usual man, you're a production LORD
@Gaylord Focker I'm saying, hold the kick and have it ready not refering to the direction
Still remember finding out about the secret bike "Wild thing 2000", it goes 220mph. Hitting good sized hills/bumps would ramp you completely off the tv screen. My mom use to freak out yelling down the stairs at us playing on the basement tv "What is that screaming noise?!?" Was the noise the bike would make firing unlimited nitrous shots while my goofy 10y/o ass was double mashing the B button all afternoon... Good times.
That wild thing was amazing and you’d crash and fly miles away
@@GamerGee It's always been fun smashing into a street sign towards the end of the race and watching the poor rider sail like half a mile through the air before bouncing across the finish line.
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It was so good I was still playing it in 2 players mode during the 32 bits consoles era
Road Rash 2 was one of my favorite games back then. Used to spend so many hours playing it as a kid. And even today I still play it sometimes on my Genesis emulator.
Same here, can pick up and play in 30 seconds
This was on of my favorite games. One of the few racing games that I finished top to bottom.
That intro music for RR2 is kick ass!
This is my favourite Road Rash. Love it!
How is it superior to the others?
@@matttherrien9608 I like the added variety and love the 2 player mode. Prefer the graphics style and music to part 3. Like the 3DO Road Rash a lot too, but it doesn't have multiplayer.
I'd love to see a new Road Rash made with the Switch in mind. Intense motorcycle racing with optional motion controls would be seriously fun.
The Pacific Coast music tarck from Road Rash is still pure awesomeness!
"Road Rash? Oh, you mean Hang-on for MEN!" - Manly meme guy.
This is my favourite road rash. The final scenes at the end of every race are hilarious.
I love the soundtrack, it's an acquired taste but it's really great.
I like how the cop shoves you into the trunk when you're arrested like you're being kidnapped
@Gaylord Focker Do people really need to make a statement like that on a video from a game from 25 years ago… jeez
I watch videos like this & am reminded at what EA used to be like & it is depressing to think about what they are like now.
I loved the game as a kid. The ost of the first game is so iconic. Pacific Coast \m/ Give Road Redemption a shot. This game takes a few things from Road Rash and mixes it with a little bit of Mad Max.
It was amazing to see how much smoother the scaling was compared to OutRun.
Wow, can you imagine a EA game with no microtransactions!! Mindblown
Jedi Fallen Order?
Excellent content as always ! The 3DO version of Road Rash is still my favorite. The Genesis ports are fun as well.
My stepfather Ronny introduced me to this game way back in the early 90s. We played this game constantly. Very good times & memories. I still play Road Rash 2 to this very day. I have been playing this game for almost 30 years now. My daughter & I now play this game together. That is 3 generations of family that have enjoyed playing Road Rash for nearly 3 decades now. Road Rash 2 is a very meaningful game to me. Thank you for the great video Sega Lord X. And i also have never beat this game, its one hell of a challenge.
At 43 I'm still playing this game.
Same. It's a game I can pick up and play any day any time, forever.
I've literally never beaten a Road Rash game, but the replay value is endless. I preferred the games that you can customize your own name for some reason, we used to pretend Natasha was our girlfriend when we were little.
I'd love an "updated" version of this masterpiece, with extra frames of animation, 60fps, same graphics - just more of it, extra play modes, extra tracks of possible, more cloud and background layers with that awesome Genesis dithering. Not interested in a 3d version, i just want 16bit 2d style graphics with tons of frames of smooth animation and parallax scrolling. Seems like a no brainier to me and an easy update on 16bit racing / combat perfection. Imagine if it was included on the Genesis 2 mini, obviously the game being updated will probably never happen but I'm just wishing out loud.
SLX is just consistently kicking out the quality content! Thank you! I don't know how I missed out on this series on the Sega Genesis the first time around but I am making that up know. I love this in depth look at specific games. Keep up the great work!
Road Rash 2 was a game my brother and I would play together for hours. With my brother being 5 years older, it was one of the few games we would still play together.
Literally the same for me. My brother is 4 years older and even when we got older, we'd still put in our passwords and come back to this for hours. So much fun
There was nothing more satisfying than managing to push a another bike or a cop bike into the path of an oncoming car and seeing them get splatted. Brilliant. 🤣🤣🤣 Man I absolutely loved road rash as a kid on the mega drive. 👍👍👍👍
Hey man, to go along with the road Rash videos, you should do a video on Lotus Turbo Challenge series for the mega drive. Here in the UK, all my friends and family back in the day considered that to be sort of a sister series to the Road Rash series, cos they were both published by EA and looked and played similar, and came in those weird cartridges with the yellow bit on them, and had more of that great music that the Road Rash series had. Me and my cousins would swap games periodically, so that they got our Lotus Turbo Challenge cartridge and we got their road Rash cartridge.
Lotus Turbo Challenge was one of those games that EVERYONE had, in the UK. Like how everyone had James Pond II, and Strider. I honestly never heard of Outrun back then. Although I was very young, only like 6 years old. But it's almost like Lotus Turbo Challenge is just Outrun but with more European weather. Lots of rain and snow and stuff in the game instead of sunny beaches. Some levels even had obstacles caused by the weather, like fallen tree logs across the track that you could use as a sort of ramp to jump in the air, or big patches of water or ice that you had to dodge. But yeah, I don't know if Outrun was just not as big a deal in the UK or whether I was too young to know about it cos I wasn't reading gaming magazines at the time yet. But everyone had Lotus Turbo Challenge, and nobody had Outrun. It's weird how stuff like that happens. The US gets very different games that are the popular ones, compared to what was popular in the UK. Like James Pond II, it was as big as Mario over here, but I rarely hear Americans talking about it. Over here, the mega drive outsold the SNES, just like how the Master System outsold the NES, so we just had a sort of alternate universe going on over here lol
Lotus Turbo Challenge was the only game our parents would ever play, too, cos they knew how to drive real cars and so they thought they'd be better at it than we were. And they were right, they were better at it. Though me and my siblings were too young to be good at any game yet
I sometimes go listen to the soundtrack of Lotus Turbo Challenge. And when I've emulated the game before when I'm with my sisters and other family members, all of whom quit gaming 25 years ago while I carried on, they STILL remember that music when I start playing it. You can never forget a good tune
Road Rash II had more polished gameplay than the first, IMO. The first one's handling was very slippery and made for a more frustrating experience. Road Rash II is also tough as nails, but somehow feels a bit more fair. They're both incredible, but I always think the 2nd more a bit more refined. =)
HUGE Genesis Road Rash fan, and I'm in complete agreement about the soundtrack. The original has some of my favorite 16-bit tracks ever, the sequel, not so much.
If you havent already, you should check out a game called Road Redemption, it's basically a new road rash, Lotta fun and on steam
Yeh yeh, the new nitro bikes, split screen 2-player mode, victory/failure cut scenes are good and all. But the best new feature was finally being able to knock the cops off their bikes ;)
The Road Rash trilogy on the Mega Drive was really something else. I rented Road Rash 2 a whole lot back in the day and still enjoy it; a lot of people don't like the third game but I do, actually; the idea of a globally reaching illegal motorbike competition is pretty neat, as are the new weapons and the option to upgrade bikes, which meant each one could potentially be useful for longer.
Man... I LOVE the songs in this game, so much nostalgia
Road Rash 2. The best game in the Road Rash Series apart from the original.
Absolutely love this version of the game. There wasn't much I didn't know about it, figured out a glitch that allowed you to get back on the bike when it's going to explode if you touch it (if you do this and wreck again the game glitches out in hilarious fashion).
Great video, Sega Lord! My new (and ultimate) Road Rash for Genesis combo: Sega Genesis 3, HD Retrovision cables (component), 2.4 gHz wireless Genesis controllers from CastleMania Games, 58 inch flat panel TV (mine's 10 years old). The RGB colors pop and the bikers are huge! Game on!
desert strike series next please SLX
I completed this game and let me tell you - it has no credits. after you qualify all tracks in level 5 you race police officers and after that game crashes... Also in Road Rash 3 game you cannot complete game in 2 player mode, because of a glitch - after you qualify in all tracks of level 2 you can't go to level 3, you're stuck in level 2 if you play in 2 player mode. Yeah guys, EA was still EA even back in those days... if you don't believe me try it for yourself. try to complete stage 2 in RR3 on two player mode and tell me how it goes lol.
I thought the music in 2 had good personality and was much better than what was in 1.
25 years playing road rash 2 and I only ever beat it once. Got all excited to race all the cops at the end of the game.
The animation at the end of each race is on point.
I like your vids before I watch. I know already.
The Weekend & Kavinsky totally stole their sound from this game.
Definitely one of the best genesis games ever made, me and my friend would stay up all night playing this lol. Even today this game still looks, sounds, and plays awsome. Yet again, sega lord x showing a great game!
Awesome content! Thanks for this, man. 💥
Hey man, never change your style. You're my favorite video game youtuber because you aren't fake and you tell it like it is. Again bro, don't change.
I much preferred the first in almost every dept except the pigs but this is still a classic. I wonder how great it could've been had it been made into a Sega CD title.
@Oscar De La Hoya Road Rash II was never made into a Sega CD title. There was a gameboy color port and a PSP port. It was also emulated on the SG mini.
Saturday morning as a kid playing this 😎
Never got why Americans liked Road Rush so much, maybe because is a road rage simulator?
So Americans love attacking each other in traffic?
This game is awesome and it's in the Sega Genesis Mini
Wait a second - 9:36 talking about seeing the credits roll - I never came across credits, it just rolls around on level 5 indefinitely for me
I don’t think he noticed that when he wrote the script. He just wanted to give props to anyone who beat the game.
I was just playing the game
That gamegear game looks tight.
3:20 5 frames
Per second and we were happy
Road Rash and Skitchin' are some of my favourite games.
I’m gonna be doing Skitchin as well.
Skitchin' is pretty overlooked.
@@SegaLordX You legend! 🤘 I still have my original version boxed.
I love the roadrash games but i like skitchin better.. its such a fun game.
Very overlooked game.
Also the music kicks ass 👍
That theme song is a monster
I remember the first time I ever played this, because it was yesterday.
Road Rash 2 IS AMAZING.
My friends made me cry one time by taunting me about not being able to beat Lawson and P.E. No. 1. Best days of my life.
The game that made me want to have a motorcycle!
For me, this is the best Road Rash on the system. The Diablo 1000 N was always my end game bike.
I also loved the jumps in this game. Hit a stone on the side of a hill at the right moment and your bike will jump so high it legit disappears off screen for a few moments haha! Amazing stuff!
On a Road Rash kick i see!
SLX, you seem to be the resident Road Rash historian. Have you reviewed the N64 version yet? It's the only Road Rash I own, but I like it a lot.
It's been in a few vids but never covered in depth.
@@SegaLordX Keep up the great content. I hope you review it in the future.
Honestly the Road Rash series kinda spoiled me to the point I found every other bike game I tried a bit boring. I wish we got a spiritual successor to the series with either retro graphics (as to keep the budget low and the sales expectations realistic) or modern ones as long as we get tons of tracks, rivals with different ai behavior/storylines and kick-ass combat and progression.
The main aspect of Road Rash II that hasn't aged well at all is the choppiness; I like the 16 bits graphics but man that framerate is hard to deal with.
Agreed about the music, Road Rash 1's was overall better, RR2's is good (and the title screen music is just as good as 1's) but 1's is just better.
I'm sure someone has said this but a Road Rash/Twisted Metal crossover with the Trackmania engine would rake in millions.
Oh the memories
As far as music I feel like music from a three Genesis games is essential. I love it all. It's like arguing about your favorite Star Wars movie. Just enjoy it all.
This is my favorite game on the Genesis I can remember playing two players crashing at the same time and both are players bodies have hit each other in mid air and we laughed for about 10 minutes. I have preferred road rash 2 music and compared to that of road rash one. one has music that sounds experimental and too twangy for my taste
Great review as usual for one my favorite Genesis games. I'd love to see you do one on Skitchin'. Ever try that one?
Do you ever sleep?
I got so good childhood great memories with the Road Rush series. I agree with you the music in the first was better to my taste. But RR2 has some cool animation. I completed both
i am at work but a new SLX video dropped, so came for a like and a comment for support and i will catch him when i go home, but now i know i will have a good time later today, peace out!
Pocket money in hand check.
Tires on bike pimped up check.
Local video store has road rash double check.
Life as kid... SIMPLE.
listen up guy's there a great game called road redemption.
A faithful game to RR.
been playing it on the switch.
Great video SLX 👍
Just picked this up for ten at my local retro shop. Loved it as a kid and still loving it today! Thanks for the vid bro
Only downside was the police baton has a massive downgrade compared to the original
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Imagina Electronic Arts doing a reboot of Road Rash, with a Flight Simulator engine, or Forza Horizon engine, with the gameplay of Sega Genesis mechanics, like the extreme over the top jumps!!😳
I remember when they (GamePro? EGM?) published the Wild Thing (had to look it up) code. Unwieldy, superjumpy, but very fun once in a while just to relax and rocket through a course or two. 😂
I don't think I've ever gone more than a year of not playing Road Rash II, since I got it when it was new. Play with the Wild Thing 2000 for that extreme speed and difficulty. That black beauty separates the boys from the men. At the title screen hold Up, A, and C, and press Start. If you hear, "YEAH!" Then you did it right.
SuperB vídeo. Please, make a Review of mortal kombat games on Genesis!! People Say that UMK3 on Genesis is better than SNES version...
1 definitely has better music.
The graphics are absolutely amazing! And it plays better than Hang-On....