Because the AI are AI, they aren’t clever at all. The final arena is called Death Bowl, which is absolutely hilarious. You spend more time attempting to free yourself from this pit than you smashing the other cars. This arena has it’s merits, but is kind of stupid at the same time as you drive forward and get stuck in a pit with around 20 other vehicles. With The Pit, you can make a fairly obvious assumption on what happens. The Colosseum was a simple oval shape which relied heavily on your ability to smash other competitors without destroying your own car. Red Pike Arena has a little jump in the middle so cars just go flying every way possible. There were four different arenas to combat the AI and each one of them were incredibly fun. Crashing into others as well as this happening to you causes damage, so you have to be aware at all times of this indicator or risk getting wiped out.

On screen, you had a damage indicator which allowed you to see how much damage you had received. By ramming into others and smashing their cars, more and more competitors were eliminated until only one remained. It was an arena based mode where the objective was to be the last car standing. Good times were had all round.įor me, the real fun of this game was the Wrecking Race. I totaled my vehicle and came in 3rd place. This isn’t always the worst thing as once I was losing quite heavily, yet there were only 3 racers left.

If this happens, the race ends and you come in last place, relative to the number of racers left. The Stock mode sticks to the traditional go around a circuit style racer, yet contains a slight twist where each and every racer (including you) can, and probably, will be destroyed. Didn’t see that coming, right? Aside from this, DD2 contains 2 other race modes in Stock and Wrecking Race. Destruction Derby’s main focus is it’s signature race mode, aptly named the Destruction Derby. There’s not much to say in the way of a set story (why would there be one, it’s a racing game), but then again, not many games of this generation focused on this point. A new love was born, a love of smashing cars and causing, yep you guessed it, destruction! This week’s Retro Recap focuses on the classic smash ‘n’ racer known as Destruction Derby 2! A game that I didn’t pay much attention to for a few years, that is until one fateful sick day when my Mom had forgotten to bring me all my good games.

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