Top Gear 2

STORY / GAMEPLAY:
In Top Gear 2 you simply have to race around the world in a league against 19 other drivers, through various weather conditions. You receive championship points at the end of each race, but you also receive an amount of money reflecting your final position too. There is a shop waiting for you at the end of each race to spend your money, loaded with stuff to buy for your car (better engines, tires, side-car protection etc). Before any race, there is information regarding the track, weather conditions etc, so take care of adjusting your car accordingly (e.g. get wet tires for races in the rain). There are also bits to collect on the track like nitro boosters (which by the way are limited, but you can buy more in the shop). But there are also a lot of obstacles to crash on them too, which will slow you down easily, which will also, damage your car's engine too reducing its top speed etc. Try not to hit any obstacles that come in your way, as every time you hit something, your Hit Points decrease and you will go slower.
There are a few major flaws though. You will notice that you do get a tremendous difficulty in gripping the road on a corner, and so you have a far harder time actually completing a lap of any given track than the other drivers on the road! Also, the car is quite slow respond most of the time, and you end up fighting the controls more often than not, where you should actually be in tune with the game itself.
In general, Top Gear 2 is an adequate racer, especially when compared to the similar Lotus series, Jaguar XJ220 or Crazy Cars 3. Just don't expect Lotus level quality.

GRAPHICS / SOUND:
Top Gear 2 has some great music and pleasing graphics (car models nicely drawn, especially the pre-rendered model when your car spins after a crash), but it doesn't offering the visual (and maybe the sound) quality of the Lotus series. It is also awkward that, frame rate drop severely on the OCS/ECS versions, which is rather strange for an Amiga racer not running perfectly in 50fps without a sweat! It doesn't make sense why developers used a hi-res screen mode causing the game to run slow.
The Amiga version uses the EHB color mode that gives up to 64 colors on-screen (comparably, the AGA version has about 50 more colors in the sky background -a smoother color transition). The landscapes are nicely drawn with different palettes featuring daytime and nighttime courses. There are plenty of objects on the sides of the race road too, such as trees and signposts.
Sound is fine in terms of music during racing, though you need to switch either to music or sound effects to hear sampled car engine and other ambient sounds.