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Cars for PlayStation 2
Cars for PlayStation 2 lets you drive as Lightning McQueen through Radiator Springs and the surrounding desert. The story takes place after the Pixar film and follows his preparations for a new Piston Cup season. Between competitions, you explore the town, look for flashing event markers and collect lightning bolts for bonus points. Familiar residents such as Mater and Doc Hudson connect the races to life around Route 66.
The events alternate road races with Piston Cup races on large circuits and short activities starring other characters. You can jump, tilt onto two wheels and later use powerslides, boost and backwards driving. Tractor tipping focuses on Mater's mischief, while Sheriff chases speeders. Trophies you win help unlock new Piston Cup races. Learning corners is therefore combined with tasks that reveal another side of the film's characters.
You spend bonus points on extra characters, paint schemes and other bonus material. Unlocked events can be replayed separately without travelling through town first. Two players can compete locally in selected races and minigames, each using their own controller; no Multitap is needed. The story itself is single-player. You can choose the full adventure or a shorter, easier version of the story, allowing the scale of the adventure to vary too.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Cars for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Cars
THQ released Cars in 2006 alongside the first Disney and Pixar film of the same name. Rainbow Studios developed the PlayStation 2 edition as well as the Xbox and GameCube versions. Other teams handled the handheld games, so the film title did not mean identical content on every system. On PS2, Radiator Springs became a world you could drive around between missions, with the new Piston Cup season providing the ongoing reason for racing.
The designers used events after the film to give familiar locations a new purpose. The town became more than a circuit backdrop: it contained residents, collectibles and entrances to activities. Piston Cup races kept McQueen's sporting ambition visible, while tractor tipping and chases made room for other personalities. The controls added movements that suit living cartoon cars, including jumping and driving on two wheels.
Cars thus laid the foundation for a series of racing adventures beyond the cinema stories. Rainbow Studios returned in 2007 with Cars Mater-National Championship, centred on an international festival. Cars Race-O-Rama followed in 2009 with other locations and further ways to change McQueen. The original game preserves the first version of that formula: a familiar town, trophy races and short excursions into its residents' everyday activities and jokes.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Need for Speed: Underground also has you win races to unlock opportunities on PS2, but ties progress to tuner cars and parts. You change the performance, bumpers and wheels of real vehicles there. Cars uses living film characters and rewards you with characters and paint schemes, among other things. Where Underground alternates night-time street races with drag and drift, Cars connects road races to an explorable town and comic tasks involving its residents.
Burnout 2: Point of Impact builds speed on PS2 by taking risks among ordinary traffic. Near misses and driving against traffic fill the boost meter; a crash interrupts your fast run. Cars also lets you use boost but places its races around McQueen and his friends. Burnout's separate Crash challenges ask you to plan a pile-up, whereas Cars finds variety in film-inspired activities such as tractor tipping and chases.
Sonic Riders combines familiar cartoon characters with races, jumps and special movements on PS2. Its floating Extreme Gear uses an air supply, and you can surf turbulence behind other competitors. Cars keeps its characters on car tyres and lets you drive around Radiator Springs between events. Both require knowledge of corners and jumps, but Sonic makes air management part of every lap; Cars connects things mainly through its story and residents.
Crash Tag Team Racing lets you explore a theme park between competitions on PS2, so like Cars it offers more than a circuit menu. Crash also travels on foot and collects items outside his vehicle. During races, two cars can merge into a combination with a driver and gunner. Cars keeps its living vehicles separate and alternates driving with character-based activities, without making vehicle merging a central racing system.
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 uses real sports cars, public roads and police who can disrupt races with pursuits and roadblocks on PS2. Cars also includes a Sheriff activity, but builds its main story around McQueen's Piston Cup goal and Radiator Springs' residents. Both ask you to read corners and rivals. Hot Pursuit 2 adds traffic hazards and police pressure, while Cars leaves room to explore the town between races.
