One of my childhood most played game | Ford Racing 2

Updated: 29 Nov 2024

Hello CT community, today I want to speak a bit about one of the games I played the most when I was a kid, FORD Racing 2.
I must admit that this game is not very good or had the greatest physics or graphics. It was just pure fun arcade racing.
What I loved the most was that there where a lot of different environments , You could race in a erupting volcano, in an oval circuit, there were also street circuits and even in the desert.

The Ford FR200

Ford Racing 2 is the second game in the Ford Racing series and was released on October 28, 2003 for the PlayStation 2, PC, and Xbox. It was released for the Mac OS X in October 2004 by Feral Interactive.The sequel includes 30 Ford cars, 16 racing tracks, the ability to race head-to-head, over 30 challenges and other features.[4] It is the successor to Ford Racing and precedes Ford Racing 3. In Ford Racing 2, the player plays as various cars and trucks made by the Ford Motor Company (although some have been altered a bit in terms of shapes) through various challenges and races. Each car has a different challenge, when the player has beaten the challenge with a particular car, the challenge, car and track will be unlocked to play as in the Ford Collection mode which allows players to create their own races and challenges with which car and track. Depending on the difficulty easy, medium or hard, the player can choose the maximum difficulty of the challenge. For example, if you unlocked a car on easy difficulty the challenges and races could only be on easy whereas if you unlocked a car on medium difficulty you could choose the challenge to be on easy or medium.

I got the game free with a box of “Frosties” cereals. When I first got it my computer couldn’t even run it, but after a year I got a new computer and I started playing it like a possessed.
At the time I thought that it had great graphics and the soundtrack was great (including different genres of music to choose from).
The car list in the game was also very complete, including all variety of Ford cars, from the first gen. ford focus, to the concepts, and the absolute beast, the FORD GT 40.

The Ford GT

The indigo concept

What are your thoughts about this game ? leave a comment.
It doesn’t mind if you say this game was trash. I just want to know the opinion of the community :D

This was my first “Elaborate” post so please don’t be very punishing.

PD: there where several mustangs in the game but unfortunately you couldn’t run into crowds.

Comments

Wow this takes me back! Ford Racing and Ford Racing 2 were my prefered racing games as a child on the ps2!!, I love the variety of cars new and old and the range of tracks available. I love the old wild west track!!

I haven’t had the pleasure to play the first ford racing. That track was very tricky especially the second to last corner I used to spin many times there.

Lol im remember playing this game on the pc and there was this one part were you had to match the time which was impossible

I brought out my old ps2 and busted out ford racing, ford racing 2, and burnout. Took me way back. I hated doing the time attack challenges where you had to pick up the hour glasses around the track. So much fun though.

“Seconds out”

I played a similar game, Street Racing XR I believe on PSP, full of great cars and concepts. Oh and a Falcon for each class.

I actually remember this game. Me and my cousin would spend hours on it

Here ya go:
Quick Teleport
During a race, enter the following button combination to teleport from last place to first place: CIRCLE, X, UP, UP, X, CIRCLE.

All Cars and Tracks
To unlock all cars and tracks, enter the following button combination while you are Selecting your cars and tracks: R2, R2, L1, R2, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, UP, UP, RIGHT, DOWN, LEFT.