Including a selection of 20 highly detailed cars, ranging from small dirt buggies to fast supercars, and 28 routes in a variety of flavors make this a racer for all tastes - both dirt and tarmac.Ĭompete in the Career mode to earn money for new cars and car upgrades. Strap down and prepare for the ride of your life. Reckless Racing 2 isn’t just a sexy sequel to a fun racing title, it’s the benchmark to which other top-down racers will need to judge themselves by in the future. Alternate modes such as the challenge based Arcade and Multiplayer are cherries on an already delicious cake. The fact that all of this hard-boiled racing action is happening in a gorgeously rendered 3D world, complete with tracks designed for multiple iterations, only makes it harder to put down. Handling of the vehicles ranges wildly based on the type of vehicle, upgrades applied, the terrain you’re racing on and the controls you’ve chosen - all of which can be fine-tuned to perfection. Win enough and you may even need to ‘tune’ your cars to pull out that extra bit of performance on an individual track. However, should you master its unruly sliding and gain a podium position you’ll be rewarded with cash - the lifeblood of the Reckless world.Īs with other similar titles the act of racing exists as a motivational force for upgrading and purchasing a whole garage-full of vehicles, some better attuned for the terrain you’re racing on than others.Įarly on you’ll find yourself pimping out the best car you can afford in an attempt to keep ahead of the curve, but thanks to an AI system that modifies itself based on your performance, higher skilled players will need to think outside the box entirely and consider purpose-built vehicles to keep up their winning streak. Reckless Racing 2 doesn’t disappoint as it blasts on to the App Store, showing just how top-down racing should look, feel and play on hand-held touchscreen devices.įrom the outset the game feels rough and tough, throwing you in to a race with a vehicle barely capable of turning its way around the winding corners of the dirt-track it’s on. Strangely it doesn’t feel as though much time has passed since Pixelbite first introduced iOS gamers to their Reckless Racing franchise, though this may be in-part thanks to a mid-year release of Reckless Getaway reminding players of what the developer can pull off.

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