Jak X: Combat Racing (PS2) Review

[RobRich]

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Of the various kinds of games out there, the car combat genre is, in some ways, one of the easiest to make. Why is this true? Well, the format is essentially a backdrop of various tracks for the competition to take place on, as well as a number of vehicles flying around at breakneck speed. You also need a handful of weapons to create some drama on the course, such as oil slicks, machine guns and land mines. Just to sweeten the action, you should have some unlockables to keep players coming back. But to make a car combat title really stand out, you should have some recognizable characters that gamers want to have tear up the competition. Over the past few Jak titles, Naughty Dog has slowly but surely introduced races and vehicular combat into their platforming titles, so it was merely a matter of time before they broke out and created a racer that stood on its own four wheels. The result is their latest extension of the Jak universe, Jak X: Combat Racing.

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