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Jet Rider 2 for PlayStation 1
Jet Rider 2 for PlayStation 1 lets you race hovering bikes that travel over land, water and snow. The European title belongs to Jet Moto 2: a futuristic racer that does not confine you to asphalt. You ride through canyons, a ruined city and a roller-coaster-like setting. Changes in elevation, waterfalls and sheer drops make the route at least as important as your top speed. Each of the ten new circuits offers its own combination of corners, jumps and obstacles to learn to read.
You steer with the directional buttons, lean forwards or backwards and use shoulder buttons to turn more sharply or roll your bike. At certain corners, you can attach your magnetic grapple to a fixed point and swing around it. Turbo helps on straights, but accelerating too early may instead send you off a narrow route. The differences between bikes call for practice: a smooth line through a corner often achieves more than another jump ending in a poor landing.
Choose a single race, practise a course or work through a series of competitions. You can also ride with two players simultaneously on a horizontally or vertically split screen, with one controller per player. The ordinary PlayStation controller is supported; an analogue controller is not required. Save game data on a PlayStation memory card. This original disc release focuses on mastering tracks and trying again, without the rewind or quick-save functions of later digital versions.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 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
Jet Rider 2 for PlayStation 1 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 Jet Rider 2
SingleTrac made Jet Rider 2 with Sony Interactive Studios America for the original PlayStation. Sony released the game in North America in 1997 as Jet Moto 2; the European release followed in 1998 under the name Jet Rider 2. The different title therefore does not mean it belongs to another racing series. The sequel built on hovering bikes that move between different surfaces, with the magnetic grapple providing a distinctive way to take a sharp corner at speed.
The ten new circuits received more varied themes than those in the first game. A damaged city, dangerous mountain landscape and a course over roller-coaster rails also changed the movements you needed to learn. The starting field became smaller than in its predecessor, while attention shifted towards those individual track designs and their obstacles. The original packaging description emphasised corkscrews, waterfalls, volcanoes and bottomless pits. The series thus moved further away from ordinary water sports: a hovering bike now had to conquer an increasingly improbable three-dimensional landscape.
Not every later release of Jet Moto 2 plays exactly the same. The American Greatest Hits reissue contains the modified Championship Edition, with changes to the racing setup. Even later digital adaptations added functions such as rewind and quick saving. This description concerns the original European PlayStation version, Jet Rider 2. The distinction matters because the same international game name can otherwise refer both to the original sequel and to a technically modified reissue.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Jet Rider on PlayStation introduced the same combination of hovering bikes, changing surfaces and magnetic grappling points. The sequel retains that foundation, so lining up corners and correcting your landing feel familiar. Jet Rider 2 places greater emphasis on individual, sharply contrasting environments, such as a damaged city and a roller coaster. You recognise the first game's controls but must learn new routes rather than simply ride familiar beach and snow landscapes differently.
WipEout 2097 likewise has futuristic vehicles hovering over PlayStation tracks, with turbo and rapid steering corrections. Its races take place on designed circuits with weapons and separate air brakes. Jet Rider 2 brings you closer to off-road racing: leaning, rolling and the magnetic grapple help you past natural obstacles and major changes in elevation. Knowledge of the route matters in both, but the way your vehicle moves through a corner and over a jump differs considerably.
Moto Racer alternates between road bikes and motocross bikes on PlayStation. Like Jet Rider 2, it requires timely steering and attention to jumps, but its vehicles remain ordinary motorcycles with wheels. Jet Rider 2 also lets you hover over water and snow and uses grappling points to negotiate corners. Moto Racer therefore stays closer to recognisable motorcycle sports, while Jet Rider 2 stretches track shapes and the laws of physics further towards a futuristic sport.
Hydro Thunder uses fast boats, boost and spectacular routes with jumps and shortcuts on PlayStation. It shares the feeling of an unusual racetrack with Jet Rider 2. However, Jet Rider 2's bikes leave the water without changing vehicles and respond to land and snow too, with a grapple for sharp corners. Hydro Thunder remains organised around boating and boat selection; here, you must instead learn how one hovering vehicle connects different surfaces and heights.
Rollcage combines high speed with unusual vehicle movements on PlayStation. Its cars can also drive along walls and ceilings thanks to their large wheels, and use weapons against other participants. Jet Rider 2 gives you a hovering bike, a magnetic grapple and stretches of open terrain instead of that reversible car design. Both encourage spatial thinking during races, but a safe landing and well-chosen grappling moment matter more here than continuing to drive along a wall.
