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Super Trucks for PlayStation 2
Super Trucks for PlayStation 2 focuses on circuit racing with heavy racing trucks. You drive without a trailer, but the wide cab and weight still require different braking points from a passenger car. The participating teams include familiar names from European truck racing. Circuits such as Jarama, Nogaro and Alastaro give the events a real motorsport setting. You look for room to overtake while other trucks occupy a large part of the track and a late steering movement disrupts your line.
The championships gradually open up other vehicles and tracks. Individual races and time trials give you room to learn a circuit first. In the settings you adjust your truck's handling and take the conditions into account. Smooth steering and braking in good time help you carry speed through a corner. The trucks can hit each other hard; bodywork coming loose makes those battles for position visible on the asphalt too.
Two players can race locally at the same time in split screen. Each uses a separate controller and no Multitap is needed. You can revisit a familiar track with a human opponent who attempts different overtaking moves from the computer. Replays show the previous race from television-style camera positions. Super Trucks emphasises circuit knowledge, the width of your vehicle and finding an opening between the other heavy competitors.
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
Super Trucks 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 Super Trucks
Jester Interactive developed Super Trucks and released it in Europe in 2002. The studio was already known for music software in the Music series, but early that year it also announced its own publishing operation. This truck racing game was among the motorsport projects with which the company intended to take that step. The official announcement emphasised real teams, drivers, trucks and circuits. Jester therefore chose a specific branch of motorsport as the basis for a standalone PlayStation 2 racing game.
The subject shaped much of the game's structure. The trucks race on circuits with different corners rather than transporting goods between cities. Their size makes overtaking harder when several vehicles end up side by side. Recognisable racing teams and European locations connect those battles to an existing competition. Championships, time trials and individual races provide different ways of learning the same vehicles. Replays also emphasise the presentation of a motorsport event watched from the trackside.
The North American release followed in 2003 through XS Games under the name Super Trucks Racing. That longer title refers to the same original PS2 game and is not a separate sequel. The European name Super Trucks applies to this offer. The game is also separate from later stadium races with jumping pickup trucks: these are heavy trucks built specifically for circuit racing. That clear focus gives it its own place among the console's many sports car, rally and street racing games.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec on PlayStation 2 also asks you to learn braking points, a clean racing line and circuits. There you switch between many passenger cars and build a garage with earned money. Super Trucks keeps its focus on heavy racing trucks and their wide bodywork. The main difference becomes apparent when overtaking: a gap that looks usable in a small sports car leaves much less room to manoeuvre between two cabs here.
DTM Race Driver 3 brings together various racing disciplines on the same console, including truck racing. It therefore changes vehicle types and competition rules much more frequently. Super Trucks explores one subject through its own truck teams, championships and circuits. Both games have you place a vehicle through corners while opponents claim space. The choice is between regularly learning another discipline and spending longer getting used to a racing truck's weight and width.
4x4 Evo on PlayStation 2 also puts you in larger vehicles, but sends SUVs and pickups over off-road courses between checkpoints. You earn money for other vehicles and parts. Super Trucks uses closed asphalt circuits and purpose-built racing trucks without trailers. Both require you to look beyond the nose of your vehicle, but bumps and routes through terrain play a greater role in 4x4 Evo than following a fixed circuit line.
Colin McRae Rally 3 on PlayStation 2 revolves around rally stages where a co-driver calls upcoming corners and the clock is your opponent. Super Trucks puts several heavy vehicles on a circuit together, making overtaking and defending part of each lap. Both reward careful braking and positioning the car or truck well. Rallying more often demands reacting to the next unfamiliar corner, while repeated circuit laps offer more opportunity to refine a braking point.
Sprint Car Challenge on the same console also chooses a less familiar motorsport, but uses light sprint cars with large wings on loose surfaces. Sliding and contact are expressly part of earning points there. Super Trucks moves the battle to heavy vehicles on asphalt circuits and builds races around their size. Both have local two-player split-screen events; the main difference is finding grip versus carefully positioning a wide truck.
