When we talk about collector’s items that are worth their weight in gold, we usually always turn to games from decades ago with pixels like cathedrals or retro machines with very limited runs in which the condition of the box is almost always key. In the case of this ps2It is neither retro nor does it have a box.
Although retro would admit debate because we are talking about a piece with almost 20 years behind it, the key here is that we are facing a ps2 only. Such a rare version of the legendary black console from sony that there is only one in the whole world and nobody knows where the hell it is.
The BMW M3 that is a PS2
If we reviewed its characteristics like the one that makes an article on a motor page, this ps2 based on the characteristic BMW E46 M3 GTR It gives for a much more extensive review than it might seem at first glance. By boat soon it only seems like a ps2 with a car shell on top, right?
Well not exactly. With the hood serving as protection for the CD player, the rest of the machine is integrated by means of special connectors for two controls, under the car, and two rear ports for power and TV connection that simulate the vehicle’s exhaust pipes.
In addition to the two controllers, also personalized, a copy of the Need for Speed Most Wanted game, and the mythical DVD controller that Sony launched to remind our parents that what they were buying was not just a console, the special edition also had lights for the underbody and headlights. The tuning fashion got a little out of hand around that time.
The icing on the cake are two keys bmw that were used for actions such as turning on the console or opening the hood to insert the CD, which ended up giving an even more spectacular touch to this very strange edition.
The most epic PS2 mod ever made
Completely forgotten for almost two decades, it recently made noise again when the page of the project that had resulted in this curious console was found. There is only one in the world, and the lucky one who got it through a contest at the Leipzig Games Convention in 2006 is unknown.
Two years before Cologne took over the German video game fair and changed its name to gamescomEA commissioned a group of modders to create a special PS2 based on the well-known car game.
Released just a year earlier, Need for Speed Most Wanted It was the game that jumped the shark in the EA franchise, after reaching that summit supported by the success of the Need for Speed: Underground that had preceded it, never again generated so much noise.
If one day you meet one ps2 that looks like a bmwdo not hesitate to try to get it at all costs, because despite looking like a toy from a store with everything at 1 euro from the outside, you are actually facing one of the most special consoles in the history of video games.
