Need For Speed II - 24 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
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A review of Need For Speed 2 from 1997, focused on the Special Edition presented in all its 3dfx Glide mode glory. And it is a downright goofy game when compared to its predecessors! A dozen supercars and one-off concept cars to drive, plus dinosaurs and outhouses. Superb.
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● Background music is from the NFS2 OST:
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Ahh dang it, I wish I'd seen this before... I was wondering how they went about filming the game's intro cinematic and well, here's a making-of video from 1997 that shows some behind the scenes stuff regarding exactly that. Fantastic: nldron.info/work/video/rJWAd5aifoalgnU
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100% with you on the gt90. I had the 1/18 mastio in black too! I also got this game in ‘97 when I was 11. Are we the same person?? 😳 throwbackkkk
That's what I wish as mobile game
Playing with friends on LAN, lot of fun. And oh, i remember that concept car S2000? Or something like that, super fast or fastest car on that game or just in the SE.
Haha miss the pre-underground NFS mang
My first NFS experience, what a great day
One FZR2000 for me please... 😍
Amazingly, I had forgotten I ever played this until the menu music started playing. Totally forgot about the GT-90 too until now.
Still have the NFS II disk from when I was a toddler! Thank you for reviewing this game!
i feel it... best game back in the days
Please review nfs 3 !!!
the first videogame i ever played
the main menu in this game is 90s PC as hell
Hey, Clint! Your channel inspired me to get into retro computing, but I really don't know where to begin. If you could really help me out, I wanted to build a Windows 95 machine but I don't know what to get or even where to start. Help!
Why did kids save pictures of everything? I remember I did it aswell during the 56k era.
Ah yes, I had tonnes of fun with that game
The menu music makes me want to play unreal tournament.
was 5 years old when i played this game and remember i couldn't stop playing this game.
Say what you will about this game but damn it was fun to play!! I got myself grinning watching this video alone lol The new ones got nothing on the first two - specially the PSX version that had a much better graphics for some reason (my friends had the Saturn and damn it the graphics sucked in that platform). They should remake this like they did with the first Resident Evil ones… That would be awesome!
Did you stopped reviewing sims stuff?
24 years.. I'm old now.
Hey Clint, that Mclaren F1(shown about the 3:25 mark) isn't black, but rather British Racing Green. It's just so dark that it looks black!
The SONG! hahaha This song appears in the NFS 2016
Been waiting for this
Ooooo brings back memories!!!
Review killing Time it's a pc game released in 1996 or 7 by studio 3DO it's 10.99 on Steam more expensive on GOG and free on the zoom platform
How to play this in windows 10?
Wish I still had those pixelated pics of the Dodge Viper I downloaded as a kid!
Check out Toca Race Driver 2 (2004) if you want to see the GT90 in another game
I wish I would've experienced '97 through the eyes of an innocent 11 year old, but I was a troubled 21 year old instead.
I still play this and Porsche Unleashed on my dimension all the time lol (mostly PU) and I still got my GT90 hotwheeles too xF
My God! One of my first PC racing game back then, this bring back time..
You're my idol
Those FMV videos about the cars remind me a lot of Top Gear.
This is the best CHANNEL ON NLdron EVER!!!!!!!!
Cheat codes was the most fun my sister, I and my friends had with it
its my first video game
plz plz plz plz review 3
I still have this on my PS1
In NFS 2 my buddies and I spent hours on each map flipping over one of each civilian car. The ONLY way this was possible was to have eyes on all the flipped over vehicles otherwise it would despawn. So one of us would go flip a car and push it back to the pile and we did this on most if not all maps. Then Hot Pursuit came out.. wtf is NFS 2?
Fuckin' good old days
Dude I was born in 1985 and this was a halcyon days time machine episode for me to watch. I totally forgot about driving the T-Rex and school bus LOL great times! Great stuff
Can anyone tell me why every version of the game i try now has down graded smoke effects like in this video. In the original burnout smoke would cloud up stay for about 30 seconds and float in the direction of the wind.
I'd like to see an LGR style review on the original Dungeon Seige game.
Hey man, now days there is a 3dfx wrapper for diablo 2 that actually worked very well on unreal tournament, try it out!
will you ever do a retrospective of Diablo II LOD? Played it a ton but would LOVE to hear your thoughts as you play. plus with the remaster coming up it might be a good time for it?
I’m miss the days on MS dos
I had that game😍
This game defined my childhood, probably the game I played the most as a kid. Pure nostalgia watching this! I had the SE version but for some reason it had software render graphics. I tried a lot of things at the time but never actually got to play the 3dfx version.
Thank you very much for this review. You drove me back to my childhood and I went digging through my boxes to find NFS2 CD.
Whats about the mighty FZR 2000? I loved this car...
NFS2:SE was my first original big box game, good times.
My memories
Oh, I still remember the amount of hours I spent having fun with psx's NFS2, it was a great game!
This video made me feel things. From an owner of a Maisto black GT90 model to another.
I'm trying to install it but it says 64bit error
Early 3d accelerators had very limited memory, so no space for car interior.
Early 3d accelerators had very limited memory, so no space for car interior. It seems the accelerated mode has lower rest textures too.
Still my favorite arcade racing game with road and track nfs close behind. Simple mechanics, fun environments and insanely fun cheat codes.
Greetings! 😎 As always, Clint, your collection brings back the memories!
Never played the PC port, couldn't afford it, but I did play the PlayStation version of NFS II. Still have fond memories of driving the Monolithic Studios course in the slowest car in the game, the Movie Tour Bus.
I'm waiting for NFS2SE to ever be out on GOG... Day 1 buy.
My first ever pc game for my first ever Pc back in 97. It didn't work out of the box but once I got my compaq Presario up to spec with those direct3d drivers i was hooked. My favorite thing about it was the sound track!
MY GUY! WE HAVE THE SAME LIFE! I had all of the same GT90 models/cars. And I was a NFS 2 fanatic.
Rubber band AI killed Need For Speed.
With how much you like the nfs and cars idk how you didn’t become a car guy. Now I’m pretty sure someone asked before but what car/s do you drive/have
Clint, you probably did this: get NFS2SE+FZR200 cheat car+ monolith track + wild mode, it becomes a wipeout game
This game actually looks really fun for 1997
Have you ever played Ark'kritz the Intruder? Seems up your alley!
Ok, the bomping mouse cursor got me.
How do you install the game on windows 10?
Hey LGR, I have a suggestion for a game covered in the future: Since you've covered Cities Skylines and all it's DLC, what about trying the Console Edition? (Beware no mods make this game a million times harder to play)
Oh.. look, im not the only one who remembers this game.
GT90 still looks super awesome
That menu music is a fucking tune!
Now do hot pursuit!
ELECTRONIC ARTS!!!! They make the best games!! (How it was in 1997) Electronic Arts.. More licensed franchise shovelware, yay.. (Now)
It makes me wonder: say, Clint, do you know Screamer? It's more arcadey, maybe the first "Daytona clone" on the PC.
PIONEER
Intro: Can 100% relate
Man this is the first nfs i played on my first PC, a K6-2 266Mhz haha, great fun times, thank you for the memories!
This was the first ever video game I ever played. I was about three. Is it as good as NFS3, High Stakes or Most Wanted? Not really, but I still love it a lot. Monolithic Studios is one of my favorite tracks in any racing game and the music is top notch throughout
I hope you do a follow-up with Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit. That is the one that got me into the Need for Speed series.
Juegazo!! Lo gasté.
I loved this game, remember playing this in 1997/1998 with split screen with a buddy of mine, both on Keyboard, can you imagine!!! I thin we played the regular or SE. I also fondly remember the intro TRACK trance song at the main menu. booming.
Yesssss! Do Hot Pursuit next!! So much nostalgia. Thanks for the videos 🙏
Yesssss! Do Hot Pursuit next!! So much nostalgia. Thanks for the videos 🙏
i used to cheat on this game all the time on psx - i would get the army truck and just plow every car off the road to win
I loved the physics, because NFS3 felt like the cars nannot turn at all. An Bomber car was the most fun in the bends doing drifts.
1. Watched video. 2. Felt nostalgic. 3. Dug out copy of NfS2SE. 4. Installed on P100. 5. Realized how badly I need to plug a Voodoo-card in there... A least it controls great with my Sidewinder gamepad!
I HAD THAT 1/8th scale gt90 as a kid, lost it for sure, wish i took better care of my stuff now
My favourite NFS game when I was young. I loved everything about it and of course the F50 is my favourite car ever. I remember being excited to play it on high detail because we had a 3DFX card
Oh hey! You managed to get the non-SE gate fold box for NFS2 that you mentioned in your "Remembering the Classic Need For Speed Games" video! NICE!
14:42 Tom Scott made a video about this particular track. It's titled "I Drove My Childhood Favorite Racing Game In Real Life".
I remember when I went w/ my dad to buy my first Pentium 233 Mhz MMX with 64MB of memory and 6MB of video, the seller asked if I was going to use Autocad on that machine... Nah, just for games. LOL Cheers from Brazil!
NFS 3 Hot Pursuit for PS1 was my jam back in the day. The fact that you could drive away from the cops in a high speed pursuit was such an awesome concept
Such a great game McLaren f1 all day any day
Fun Fact: The Main Menu theme of NFSII got remixed in the Wii/3DS versions of NFS The Run by Mick Gordon. It plays as the very first stage in the story. The original theme returns as one of the garage music in NFS 2015.
That main menu music just gave me shivers. I didn't realise how burnt into my brain it is and I haven't heard it since the 90's.
Ohhhh the nostalgia.... That menu music. Those cars. The cheat codes.... Outhouse races in split screen with the horn crash cheat, pretty sure I never ever laughed as I did trying to get away from my friends in that mode =D =D Great review as always 🙏🙏😁