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I like LEGO Racers 2 more than LEGO Racers 1 for the open worlds, a soundtrack that doesn't make your ears bleed (*ducks*), the collection and minigame aspects, destructible vehicles, and improved multiplayer (Battle mode is quite fun with two people). The only thing where I think LR1 did a better job is in character and car creation, where LR2 really falls flat. The power-ups system for LR1 was cool in concept but terribly unbalanced (warps especially were WAY over-powered and easy to get), LR2 fixed that by instead giving each power-up multiple uses and assigning them pseudo-randomly, influenced by your position in the race. It's good rubber-banding that LR1 lacked, and still provides some strategy elements (firing slizer disks backwards can take out incoming homing rockets for example). And yes, while LR2 certainly had problems with cars drifting too suddenly, may I point out that cars in LR1 also oversteered quite a lot, leaving the player to tap the powerslide button in order to simply drift somewhat normally? Not to mention the weird collision glitches LR1 had, there's many places where if you ram a wall you go flying into the air. I do prefer the LEGO themes in LR1 over LR2, but both games were based on the themes that were out around the same time as they were, and the LR2 developers really had a lot less to work with. Still, Life on Mars was one of the themes that got me into LEGO in the first place, so the sheer nostalgia of it makes up for the slightly less variety, for me personally at least.

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The only reason they were cut is due the fact it gave the player a huge advantage over the AI.

I find that equally bad good as the first, but each for their own reasons. Can we stop pointing at games and going "oh this is bad compared to this" "oh well this is bad compared to this" now? Everyone has their own opinions as to why they like one better than the other, but without giving reason, it is just pointless. At least Lair did that.

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Windows 2000 or better? Linux! Anyway, I can add to this list: Parallels -- About the same as VirtualBox, better is some aspects, worse in others.

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WHAT? TT HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO.

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My issues with it: It is incomplete, full of bugs and has a lot of cut content that would have made it better. Then again, a lot of LEGO games are like this. It isn't in the spirit of the original LEGO Island. It doesn't have the craziness of the original game, the animations and voices are dull and lifeless sometimes. The story is stupid and could be resolved easily if any of the citizens actually did something. In the first game, Pepper was just helping the police. Here, he does all the work and Nick just eats donuts. I mean, there's a super hero living here, why does he just toot around and kidnap children crossing the railroad? Really, I don't hate it as much as I act like, but this is mostly because it's LEGO. There are good things about it, and I used to like it more than I do now. Plus, I've found worse games.

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LIES !!! ALL LIES!!! (lol jk) download PPJOY. that program will make your computer "Sense" that there is an Attached controler on your computer, and then just set the player 2 keys to AWSD. i did that and it worked fine. so start thinking with P(ortals)PJOY.

Ah, I see you get the same problem I have. I have Vista, and it freezes for me as well. (though I did try it on a W7 as well, so don't go tell me it's just because I'm using Vista.) Btw, you might want to change the 3 in the title to the actual game name, because some might get it confused with the fangame called Lego Island 3.

1. EVERYTHING except the AI. 2. My brothers got Rock Raiders and Lego Racers for their birthday, and we typically shared our games around that time. I tried it because it was already there and I wouldn't have lost anything if I didn't like it. 3. It's a unique game. I had not seen an RTS combined with a mining game like this before, and the closest modern game is heavily text based. 4. I like quality games. I still play older games because they were made well and provide significant entertainment. They are also typically challenging, which is something I don't like about modern games: either they hold your hand or they're frustrating. Not difficult, like F-Zero GX, which I've been playing for years. I mean frustrating like GTA San Andreas, where drive halfway across the map to pick up someone to drive them to another side of the map only to make one small mistake and flip the car, then watching as the person you were chauffeuring dies in the explosion. OVER AND OVER AGAIN. And there's no strategy involved. It's just "drive here and don't frost up, then shoot these guys and don't get hit." 5. If we can make the game more fun than it was in 1999, then it's worth it. 6. Oh please. Most modern games pale in comparison to ones made a decade ago in terms of gameplay. The gaming industry now thinks that most gamers have such a short attention span that they can't even count to twelve, so we get dozens of shallow games, including slews of cardboard-cutout FPS games. Others are based on or are built like movies, so there's little point in actually playing. Then there's the reliance on online multiplayer, which means developers will put less effort into the single player.