While we’re talking about sound design, the main game theme music in the loading screens can get a little obnoxious after you hear the same song playing for the 12th time. The novelty and authenticity of the sound design wears off about two laps into a race. Outside of actually riding one of these bikes, the sound can be a little bit monotonous over longer periods of play. The experience is like having an angry bumblebee with hiccups stuck in your ear. The bikes sound authentic, but unlike some of the fantastic racing sims from this year, we’re faced with a bunch of vehicles that sound and behave almost identically. At least that would play into the sim feel of the game. We’d prefer to crash straight into the wall so that we can learn from our mistakes. It’s a significant negative factor to the experience of the game. There are no warnings or seemingly no reason for triggering either response. One minute the game lets you smash into barriers and the next there’s an invisible wall that will teleport you straight back to a standing start in the middle of the track the moment that you cross it. Pass/Fail margins for going outside the track lines are razor thin, although they have a bizarre quirk which will become a sharp and immediate irritation. It’s a physics quirk that will no doubt become annoying in multiplayer, when the game engine struggles to decide who bounces off who. You’ll bounce off their bikes into funny angles, causing you to come to an almost dead stop on the track. There are times where you’ll get air and the AI reacts like a rock. They’ll fight you on every corner and, more often than not, you’ll be nudged politely out of the way – most likely into the barrier. If there was an option to simulate a race event, you’d get the same result every time. They appear to ride the same line every race and the only distinguishing difference between each event is you.
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The AI during Race Series events is brutally efficient.
While there are some of those attributes in the Playground, a deliberate choice has been made to steer clear of opening up the possibility of further exploration. Mind you, it would have been great if they’d thrown in some alternative events like obstacle courses or jump tracks to really add depth to the game. Playground mode has some fun challenges in it, and the ‘Dexterity’ event is a personal favourite, as you get to tackle some challenging terrain while weaving through slalom gates. They’re exactly what they sound like, with no real bells or whistles outside of that. Players get to experience three different game modes – ‘Race Series’, ‘Playground’ and ‘Time Attack’. The buzz of the bikes and the splash of mud is every moto fan’s idea of a fun day out, and there is enough opportunity to experience that if it takes your fancy.
So how does MXGP 2019 go as far as reproducing the experience? Will you end up happy, or sad?įor the uninitiated, MXGP is a motocross simulator/arcade racing game where you face off against 21 other dirt bike riders for some high-octane excitement on some of the muddiest race tracks around the world.
To paraphrase a gentleman who we once met at a motocross event, “Have you ever seen a sad bloke on a dirt bike?”.
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