Outrun 2 on CRT JPN Scud Race Bonus Stages (Xbox)

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Published on November 8, 2020 10:36:26 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxZA9e27II0

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OutRun 2 (2003)

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So, the videos I uploaded not that long ago of me playing some Outrun 2 on the original Xbox using my old 4:3 CRT TV went down surprisingly well. The only reason I'd originally recorded them was because I'm trying to sell the TV and just wanted to show it working with a classic retro game.

Someone in the comments asked if there was a way I could play Scud Race or Daytona USA 2 on the TV, which I cannot, I haven't got any means of plugging my PC into an old telly. What I can do though is the next best thing and show some footage of me playing on the Scud Race and Daytona USA 2 bonus stages in Outrun 2. I'm even sticking with the F40 for that classic Scud Race experience, a professional level car in Outrun 2 and it's noticeably harder to handle than the Intermediate and Beginner level ones.

This is actually the VS rival race at the end of Mission mode 4 - the race you need to complete to unlock the Scud Race bonus tracks in the first place. Unlike the VS Rival race in Mission 6, that unlocks the Daytona USA 2 tracks, you play on this one with traffic, and it does make getting a perfect run through all the levels considerably harder. It all got a bit much for me at the start of the 4th stage, when a collision with an NPC car resulted in a bit of VERY spicy language issuing forth from me. I decided whilst editing the video, I probably ought to bleep it out, so I don't get in trouble with YouTube...

Outrun 2 is definitely harder than Coast 2 Coast and Online Arcade from the traffic point of view. Collisions with Rivals and NPC cars here result in severe loss of speed and generally ruining your drift. This also makes doing the gear drifting method a lot, lot harder, because you need to be going a specific minimum speed, normally in top gear around 150mph, to initiate a gear drift. If you're not going fast enough, because you've just clipped a CPU car and lost a ton of speed, you'll just change down a gear and the drift won't initiate, normally resulting in you driving straight into a corner and crashing. It's why I cocked up the corner at 01:58, I didn't think I was going quite fast enough to gear drift, so I hit the brake instead and then drifted out too wide. In C2C and OOA you can just plough through the NPC cars, with a far less severe amount of speed loss.

Also, a collision whilst drifting doesn't result in the dramatic crash animation you get in Outrun 2, where your car seems to bounce right off the track and you completely lose the line of your drift. There is a crash animation and you lose some speed, but you'll manage to keep the drift going. I must admit, I much prefer it that way, as it makes the game feel like it's far more seamless as you drift from corner to corner. Also, as I mentioned above, there's definitely more of a difference in the handling between the Professional, Intermediate and Beginner level cars which again seems more noticeable than in the latter games.

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