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Times Online July 23, 2005

Big Mutha Truckers 2: Truck me Harder

Xplosiv/PS2, Xbox (£19.99)

When a game has a title like this, you don’t pick up your controllers expecting a bout of Myst-like subtlety. But BMT2’s wilful crassness would be far easier to accept if it were funny, or even — and here’s the real problem — if the game were any good.

The first title in this series combined an interstate truck-racing challenge with the need to acquire cash and build up a haulage business. Here, such refinements are largely gone, leaving you to blast your way down America’s freeways with the cops in hot pursuit.

Sure, swatting aside police black and whites and colliding head-on with other vehicles has a certain appeal, but after ten minutes of sliding around to an American hard rock soundtrack, you start to wish that you were playing something more involving. The fact that the graphics are so impressive, and the road maps so brilliantly extensive, only adds to the disappointment of the overall experience.

If it’s driving thrills you’re after, The Getaway: Black Monday already does it so much better.

NIGEL KENDALL

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