I still enjoy playing Need for Speed 2 - Special Edition. I usually pick the McLaren as my car, and also as my opponents. I can easily get first place on every single track except Monolithic Studios. Seriously, unless I truly screw up, I haven't come in at any place less than first since I started playing the game.

However I've only ever been able to beat the MS track a couple of times. Most of the time, I'm lucky to get second place. At the start of the race, the other cars get an early lead and I have trouble catching them. Usually, after cresting the hill in the futuristic city part, I go flying past the lead cars. Then I either have to hit the brakes for the curve, or I end up scraping the wall. Either way I slow down and the next 3-4 computer cars go flying by me. Even if I somehow manage to maintain my lead, as soon as I go into the country area with the dinosaur and flying saucers, the second I slow down for a curve, the computer cars go sailing past me like I was standing still.

It's not sour grapes that I can't beat this track, it's that the computer cars seem several degrees harder to beat than they do on any other track. With any of the other tracks, I can crash into things, go flying off the track, end up headed the wrong way, etc, and unless it's near the end of the last lap, I'm still pretty much guaranteed to win. It's not even hard. I can easily catch the other cars and then maintain a lead. With the Monolithic Studios track, if I make even the tiniest mistake, I end up in last place.

Does this happen to anyone else, or just me?