Knight Rider 2 Demo

Knight Rider was a popular TV show back in the day, which featured a very advanced talking car and its driver, Michael, who makes use of the vehicle's capabilities in order to keep the city safe from a variety of criminals. Naturally, most of the action involves high speed races, shootouts and a large collection of special gimmicks that allow the car to outsmart its opponents.

Knight Rider 2 is the sequel in the video game series and it aims to provide you with the same excitement as the TV show, with the help of a hefty collection of missions. Thus, whether you have to chase bad guys on the highway at dizzying speeds, or survive an assault from a couple of heavily armed robots, action is guaranteed to be present on your screen.

As far as the story is concerned, you should not expect anything too deep or meaningful, since it all revolves around weird villains and companies that either want to destroy your car, or they want to put the safety of other people in jeopardy. However, every mission starts off with a short cutscene in which Michael talks to KITT, although some other famous characters from the show make an appearance as well.

Once the cutscene is over and you get full control over the vehicle, on the other hand, you quickly find out that not a lot of work went into making the game playable, especially when it comes to gameplay and the controls. Thus, it is almost impossible to properly steer the car, not to mention the fact that you also have to use various weapons most of the time, which makes things even more difficult.

You never get any kind of explanation or hint on what your objectives are at the beginning of the mission, which is extremely frustrating to deal with when the “game over” screen flashes only a few seconds after the cutscene ends. In additions, the graphics are very poor as well, especially when it comes to the animations and the level design itself.

Knight Rider 2 can prove to be utterly unplayable at times, unless you have the patience to slowly learn how to deal with the faulty mechanics and get accustomed to the excruciating controls. Other than that, the game can only be recommended to those who are really big fans of the TV show and they want to interact with KITT for themselves.