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Asphalt: Urban GT 2 for Nintendo DS
Asphalt: Urban GT 2 for Nintendo DS is an arcade racing game with licensed cars and motorcycles on city routes. You find room between traffic and rivals, slide through corners and use nitro to gain speed on a straight. Collisions and police pursuits are part of the street racing. The lower display helps you follow the route and other racers' positions while the race itself appears in three dimensions. You brake, steer and accelerate with the buttons.
In Evolution, you work through championships and earn money to buy and modify vehicles. A different engine or better tyres changes how your car performs. You can also alter its appearance, for example with another colour or different rims. Individual events ask different things of you: win a normal race, fight a duel, survive an elimination or pass a radar at sufficient speed. One badly timed collision can quickly erase a hard-won lead.
For a short session, choose a single race or time trial; pursuit events switch the task between escaping and chasing another vehicle. Up to four players can race through local wireless play. Each participant needs their own compatible DS system and a copy of the game. Additional systems and cartridges are not included. This local connection uses no link cable and is not an online race.
Region and language
Our Nintendo DS games are European editions, unless stated otherwise. This product contains a loose cartridge for the European market. A box is only included if explicitly stated in the product details. We note any different region in the product details. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
With Asphalt: Urban GT 2 for Nintendo DS, you receive a loose cartridge. A box and manual are not included unless we explicitly state otherwise in the product details. This is the standard way we supply this copy.
The history of Asphalt: Urban GT 2
Asphalt began as Gameloft's street-racing series for portable devices. The first Urban GT also appeared around Nintendo DS's launch and combined real car brands with short, direct races. In August 2006, Ubisoft announced that Urban GT 2 would come to DS. The cartridge appeared later that year. Gameloft, Virtuos and Game Source Studio worked on the DS adaptation. Its development therefore did not simply follow the same path as every other Asphalt release.
The sequel retained its predecessor's foundation: winning earns money with which to expand the garage and improve vehicles. Motorcycles joined the cars, and the collection of events grew. The release belonged to a period when street racers prominently brought tuning, police and music together. Ubisoft also announced music by Moby and an appearance by The Pussycat Dolls. That presentation gave the races a different atmosphere from the orderly closed circuits of many other racing games.
On DS, Asphalt 2 used the second screen to provide an overview alongside the three-dimensional race. The PSP release followed only in 2007, while other Urban GT 2 versions had already appeared on portable devices. The Nintendo DS cartridge from 2006 therefore has its own place within that wider rollout. It is a sequel that mainly builds on the garage, road traffic and varied racing tasks of the first Urban GT.
Similar games for Nintendo DS
Asphalt: Urban GT is the direct predecessor on Nintendo DS and uses the same combination of licensed cars, city routes and money for garage upgrades. Urban GT 2 builds on that with motorcycles and more events. You should not expect a completely different kind of racer: the similarity lies in nitro, traffic and buying vehicles. The sequel mainly expands what you can do with that existing racing setup.
Mario Kart DS shares fast racing on Nintendo DS and the possibility of a well-timed action changing a race. Mario uses items such as shields and projectiles on fantasy circuits. Asphalt: Urban GT 2 finds its variety in real car brands, busy roads, nitro and police. In Mario Kart, you choose a character and kart; in Asphalt, you spend earned money on vehicles and parts for your garage.
Diddy Kong Racing DS combines Nintendo DS races with exploring an island and opening track doors. Vehicles also differ there, but you choose between karts, hovercraft and planes. Asphalt: Urban GT 2 stays with cars and motorcycles on the road. Where Diddy uses Golden Balloons to move the adventure forward, championships and prize money structure the expansion of your Asphalt garage.
Race Driver: Create & Race likewise lets you drive recognisable cars on Nintendo DS and progress through championships. Its focus is on real racing circuits and an editor with which to design your own track. Asphalt: Urban GT 2 centres on street routes with traffic and pursuits. Taking a corner accurately helps in both games, but you build circuits in Race Driver and mainly upgrade vehicles in Asphalt.
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing also puts cars and motorcycles alongside one another on Nintendo DS, with other vehicles for the different SEGA characters. Projectiles, mines and unique All-Star attacks make the competition unpredictable. Asphalt: Urban GT 2 chooses real vehicle brands and street-racing tasks instead of character powers. You watch speed and corners in both, but traffic, nitro and garage choices have a much greater influence on how you approach an Asphalt race.
