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Crash Drive 2 is a decent game that doesn't exceed at anything in particular. The fundamentals are all there, like good controls and a lot of goals to work towards, but the gameplay loop is just too simple to be worth more than a few minutes of play at a time. If you just want something to play while you're waiting for the bus then you could do worse,...

Playing Crash Drive 2 will provide some fun but don't expect it to fill the shoes of its trick-based sandbox contemporaries.

On paper, Crash Drive 2 should run out of gas, but with Joy-Cons in hand, it succeeds in spite of itself. It's not for multiplayer that it's a success – the lack of local support ensures that – but it triumphs as a solo romp, as there's plenty to accomplish and laugh at.

I appreciate budget games that set out to deliver a specific sort of experience, even if not terribly ambitious, and generally hit it...