Phobus
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Hellbent said:
We picked up the PS2 today and played some NFS:Underground 2 that came with it. The game was pretty fun but the graphics are terrible. We went into video options but there was nowhere to change the resolution or graphics detail. The text is hardly legible in the game. Is this just the way PS2 is or ... are we missing something? We were both surprised by how small the PS2 unit is.
Any info/advice is greatly appreciated!
EDIT: the game is hooked up to my friend's 42" LG PLasma tv.
Edit: we feel like we are playing on a system from 1996.
Model number: SCPH-79001, which apparently is the newer, better version of the system. Surely something is amiss. Also, we found a year printed on the back of the system that says 2007, so at it's at least manufactured in 2007.
Size- and date-wise it sounds like you've got a slim PS2, which was near the end of the consoles production life and taking advantage of technology advances of the 7 years or so the PS2 had been in production without giving it any more power.
As far as the video is concerned... 42" TV, game from 2002, on a console that has hardware dating from 2000. As Bucket has said, you're trying to stretch a 2000 standard TV display over a gigantic TV. Also, of course the game isn't going to have display options to change resolution or graphics, it's on a console. They've already made the best of the hardware they can at the time and left the game optimised for that.
If you want to have the graphics look better, get a smaller TV for the console, or a reasonably sized CRT if such things are even available these days.
Also, if you want fun racing games on the PS2, most definitely get Midnight Club 2 or 3. You'll need to get through the career in both to unlock the cars (much like in NFS:U2) but you get much more arcade-y physics, a much greater sense of speed and open world racing in the form of checkpoint races. Obviously 3 has better graphics, more recent cars (a better range of cars as well, plus customisation) but I think 2 has the more interesting cities to race in and explore and probably balances the sense of speed against control better. NFS:U2 was basically Need For Speed's answer to Midnight Club 2 popularising open-world racing games, but it stuck to the NFS:U formula as that was very popular at the time too.
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