Taking motorcycle racing where it's never been before, Road Rash 2 is a cross-country race you'll not soon forget. Using high-powered weaponry and dirty tricks, you'll try to knock your opponents out of commission in a variety of environments. All-new wipeouts and deadly obstacles make for a truly harrowing ride, while an angry police force is out to stop the action entirely. Do damage on five new tracks, racing one of 15 cool bikes.

Such stories of the road seem unlikely, but you're never in short supply of these seeming tall tales if you've been riding with Road Rash 2, a motorcycle racer hardcore enough to make your limbs sore just from watching your hopeful newcomer fly off his bike a hundred yards, then get hit by a truck as he's scrambling back to find it.

Road Rash 2 is a game with the audacity to welcome you to the biker scene, where winning the illegal races nets you a hefty fist of cash, and then turn around and have one of your rivals clothesline you with a metal chain as you're doing triple digit speeds along the curving roads. It isn't just the added variable of violent onslaughts being thrown around that makes Road Rash 2 the whiplash-inducing asskicker that it is; it's the insane speeds at which you'll travel, struggling to overcome the pack and survive the five hellishly blistering minutes that each contest lasts. You'd be surprised how much can happen in those five minutes.

Split-screen action lets you easily differentiate between opponents, and cool graphics make the play realistic enough to give you whiplash. Play alone or take on a friend and turn him into a foe.

Road Rash 2 features:

• 15 new bikes.
• Five new levels.
• Deadly weaponry.
• An angry police force.
• Two-player action.