The courses are primarily in extreme environments such as
deserts,
canyons, and other off-road locales. Players are allowed to customize their vehicle to their liking with a variety of engines, suspensions, wheels, tires, and other aftermarket parts and modifications.
Despite the PlayStation 2 version of this game being developed in North America by Terminal Reality (in the United States particularly), it was exclusively released in Europe for unknown reasons, unlike all their other titles released for the system. The Mac and GameCube versions, on the other hand, were exclusively released in North America.
Gameplay
Settings
Different settings for vehicles, time of day, and weather are available to choose from. Unlike the first 4x4 Evolution, the night and pitch black settings were removed due to a possibly unstable frame rate, which was never fixed — allegedly because it was just simply not fixable.
Missions
The player may also play through missions set in various locations, which typically revolve around locating various objects in the area. Each location has multiple missions, which revolve around a single profession or storyline. Missions between areas are not intertwined, however, and are unrelated to the racing portion of career.[5]
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The GameCube, PC, and Xbox versions of 4x4 EVO 2 received "mixed or average reviews" according to the
review aggregation website
Metacritic.[10][11][12] Jeff Lundrigan of NextGen called the latter console version "A case of too many options and not enough gameplay to back it up."[31] Steve Bauman of Computer Games Magazine gave the PC version two stars out of five, saying, "As with the original, the multiplayer is actually solid, it's really quite attractive, and there's all that… stuff… in it, but this is really more of a downgrade from a rather mediocre original game than a 'take it to the next level' sequel."[34]
Notes
^In Electronic Gaming Monthly's review of the Xbox version, one critic gave it 3/10, and the rest gave it each a score of 5/10.
^Rodriguez, Steven (September 24, 2002).
"4×4 Evo 2 Ships for GameCube". Nintendo World Report. NINWR, LLC.
Archived from the original on September 1, 2023. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
^Price, Tom (February 2002).
"4X4 Evo 2"(PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 211. Ziff Davis. p. 99.
Archived(PDF) from the original on May 8, 2023. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
^Sewart, Greg; Hager, Dean; Kujawa, Kraig (December 2001).
"4x4 Evolution 2 (Xbox)"(PDF). Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 149. Ziff Davis. p. 250.
Archived(PDF) from the original on July 2, 2023. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
^Brogger, Kristian (November 2001).
"4x4 Exolution 2 (Xbox)". Game Informer. No. 103. FuncoLand. p. 121. Archived from
the original on January 11, 2004. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
^Osborne, Scott (November 6, 2001).
"4X4 EVO 2 Review (PC)". GameSpot. Fandom.
Archived from the original on April 20, 2016. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
^Satterfield, Shane (November 14, 2001).
"4x4 EVO 2 Review (Xbox)". GameSpot. Fandom.
Archived from the original on October 30, 2021. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
^Mirabella III, Fran (September 18, 2002).
"4x4 Evo 2 (GCN)". IGN. Ziff Davis.
Archived from the original on October 28, 2021. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
^Adams, Dan (November 5, 2001).
"4x4 EVO 2 (PC)". IGN. Ziff Davis.
Archived from the original on October 30, 2021. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
^Lu, Cathy (August 2002).
"4x4 Evolution 2". MacADDICT. No. 72. Imagine Media. p. 47.
Archived from the original on February 5, 2003. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
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abLundrigan, Jeff (December 2001).
"4x4 Evo 2 (Xbox)". NextGen. No. 84. Imagine Media. p. 96. Retrieved October 12, 2021.