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newmug · 29-04-2012, 22:46

Hi all. Does anyone know if you can get Road Rash (any of them) or Doom for the PS2?

Thanks,
Newmug

**o1s1n** · 29-04-2012, 22:53

Doom, Doom 2 and Final Doom are all out on the PS1. (Which can play on the PS2)

There was a Road Rash game released for the PS1 but it was pretty bad. Better off sticking with the Megadrive versions.

**CiDeRmAn** · 30-04-2012, 08:20

I'll correct you there young o1s1n...
The first PS Road Rash game was a conversion of the 3DO Road Rash, a title that was the best in the series imho.
It's pretty easy to find too, although I'd naturally default to the 3DO edition the PS version is almost identical and will play on PS2 and PS3.
Doom, on the other hand, never came out on the PS2, Doom 3 was an Xbox exclusive but fun (in spite of what some here might say!).
The Doom titles on the PS1, Doom and Final Doom are well worth getting, the music is pretty nice and the system link option is fun and obscure at the same time!
Doom on the machine contains both Doom and Doom II so is well worth having, Final Doom I found to be relatively short and disappointing, oddly enough.

c - 13 · 30-04-2012, 09:42

Roadrash 3D and Roadrash Jailbreak are both available on the PS1

Roadrash 3D I think is the conversion that CiDeRmAn mentions and is pretty good imo.

Roadrash Jailbreak came after this and has a few extra modes and allows 2-Player co-op. Not bad but my preference is for 3D.

**EnterNow** · 30-04-2012, 09:45

I'll echo Cidey here, the 3DO Road Rash conversion on the PS1 is a damned fine game. Never played the other one, which must be the one o1s1n mentions.

**CiDeRmAn** · 30-04-2012, 10:13

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Originally Posted by c - 13

Roadrash 3D and Roadrash Jailbreak are both available on the PS1

Roadrash 3D I think is the conversion that CiDeRmAn mentions and is pretty good imo.

Roadrash Jailbreak came after this and has a few extra modes and allows 2-Player co-op. Not bad but my preference is for 3D.

NOoooooo!

Road Rash, the conversion from the 3DO, is simply called "Road Rash"

Road Rash 3D and Road Rash: Jail Break both suck Donkey Kong Country Balls!

Road Rash 3D....

Road Rash Jailbreak....

And Road Rash...

The main game characters are in sprites which have a better, cleaner look compared to the 1st gen polygons of the other two games.
Also the tracks are smoothly rendered in RR, with real character in each environment, I still love bombing along the pacific highway, all good baby, all good.

waveform · 30-04-2012, 11:30

I was staying in a friends house for the weekend when we rented Road Rash for the PS1.

I remember enjoying it all lot back then,
but now playing both the PC version, and the PS1 version in an emulator, I didn't enjoy it much tbh.

I think the Mega Drive versions have much more variety and action in them.

One of the biggest things that sets them apart is how a rival will stay at your speed on the Mega Drive games, and you'll have a battle on your hands.

But on the PS game, this would rarely happen, and the gap widened between rivals, not half the amount of action.

The video sequences were awesome though, the intro still gives me chills down my spine today:

**CiDeRmAn** · 30-04-2012, 12:08

Each to their own I guess, I just have a lot of love for the 3DO edition.
The videos were wonderful, victory or defeat, but they were, of course, evolutions of the nifty animations in the second game, again when you won or lost.
The 3DO videos, in turn, were present in the original edition of The Need for Speed, on the 3DO, with your opponent giving you kudos or smack talk depending on how you did, sadly missing from the PS edition of the game.

I found that, getting by the pack with skill left the only opponent, in the 3DO and PS Road Rash titles, being the road and traffic, this is fair enough.
No matter how great you were in the MD games the pack was always right there, rubber banded to your race position this, for me, was irritating.

I also preferred almost every feature video, audio, track design, over the 16 bit versions, I really love Road Rash II in particular, owning it since it was released, but the 3DO game trumps it completely.

Sad and lonely in the corner is the misshapen anachronism that is the Sega/Mega CD Road Rash game, taking the sprites from the 3DO game and the level graphics from the earlier titles, and getting it all so wrong!

**o1s1n** · 30-04-2012, 12:36

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