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JOE DANGER 2
Platform: Xbox 360
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Joe Danger 2 Review

Expect your thumbs to blister, bubble, and bleed before you give up on this one

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The jetpack is a real change of pace compared to the other vehicles that make you feel like you should combo the whole stage at full pelt despite the ridiculous amounts of danger from start to finish. Here you’ll need to hover through spiked gauntlets and fly around chasing coin trails.

The action takes place on various movie sets with multiple levels for each. Rather than work through one movie at a time, Joe changes between them constantly, making for a pleasing lack of repetition. We have a jungle setting, underground mines, snowy mountains with missile silos or busy streets perfect for cop chases.

Joe Danger 2

The obstacles are made up of giant buzzsaws, flame belching totems, spiked road traps, barricades, grenades, gunships, exploding barrels and much more. Later stages become a stern challenge of memory and reflexes as the amount of obstacles suddenly become very compact, leaving you little room for error.

The game comes with a level editor allowing you to create anything that you might find in the main game, along with a few things you won’t. It’s very simple to use, especially compared to something like LittleBigPlanet. Although, you can feel free to try other players’ creations instead of making your own.

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Multiplayer is heavily reliable on competing for times and scores on the leaderboards of the single-player levels. It’s brilliantly integrated and will have you hitting restart over and over to climb local, friends and global leaderboards.

There are no direct competitive multiplayer options online but there is local support for four players. This is the only really disappointing side of the game with only five events available. Vehicles, track and race type are all locked over these events, meaning you’ll be bored of them in half an hour. Races, capture the flags (think of it more as having lives), wheelie-boost only and staying on screen (like Micro Machines) make up the modes and they’re entertaining enough, but not being able to choose certain modes for certain stages with different vehicles is a real letdown and not the ending this otherwise excellent game deserves.

Our ratings for Joe Danger 2 on Xbox 360 out of 100 (Ratings FAQ)
Presentation
85
Bright engaging colours make this stand out from the competition and the movie-settings add enough variety to keep things interesting. The music can annoy though, especially in Create mode.
Gameplay
93
Despite getting tough later on, this is a compelling ride throughout. There’s always that feeling that you can get that medal. The simplicity and forgiving nature of the controls make this incredibly fun to play.
Single Player
91
You can pass all the events in one thumb-punishing day, but to get all the medals will take you much longer. Despite the despairing difficulty of the latter stages, you’ll want to master as many stages as possible. The new vehicles stop this being a mere expansion to the original game and will keep old and new players entertained.
Multiplayer
66
Limited local multiplayer options are very disappointing, but competing for leaderboard dominance is compelling after every stage.
Performance
91
Aside from a few duck commands not registering, this is flawless. No load times for restarts are part of what makes this such an addictive experience.
Overall
89
The new vehicles and level variation make this a real winner. Fans of the first game will adore it and new players should snap up both immediately. Even when your fail you can’t wait to try again as it’s such a fun game to play. The lack of decent multiplayer options hold this back from a truly epic final score though.
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Joe Danger 2
Joe Danger 2 box art Platform:
Xbox 360
Our Review of Joe Danger 2
89%
Great
The Verdict:
Game Ranking
Joe Danger 2 is ranked #41 out of 1957 total reviewed games. It is ranked #5 out of 145 games reviewed in 2012.
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