While these shots were taken from a development computer, they give us a good idea of how this motorcycle racing bonanza will look when it finally hits the PlayStation. The game will also be available for the PC featuring 3-D acceleration capability and a new Stereo Doppler sound effects system as well.
Over the last few months, you could not open a gaming magazine that did not feature an advertisement for this game. The ads were fairly subtle and to be honest, all they really needed to do to get the attention of race fans was print the words "Motorcycle Racing for PSX that does not Suck! Well, as luck would have it, EA could have used the above ad campaign and it would be dead on. Not only does this game not suck, it actually kicks some serious ass.
Shred on these features; Two very different types of racing, 10 tracks, a decent split screen two player mode and, if you are good enough, Pocket Bikes. Finally, a motorcycle game that is worth talking about! Before I start this review, I want to take a minute and reflect on why I am a console gamer and not a PC gamer. That is exactly why I prefer console system.
Everyone has the same speed processor. Everyone has the same graphics card. Everyone has the same amount of RAM. The point is simple. I get a game, I put it in my Playstation, I start playing. There is no such thing as a system specific flaw. The game either flaws not at all or on every system. Ok, now that I have jumped down from my soapbox, let's talk about Moto Racer. First, let's talk about the different types of racing available. The game can be played on a single race or in the championship mode.
If you select Single Race, you have six tracks to choose from you are free to race on any of the 6 available tracks. If you select Championship mode, you will have 8 to 10 different tracks, depending on the difficulty setting. This mode handles the tracks a bit differently.
You will start at one track and until you finish in the top three out of eight, you can't go on to the next track. When you manage to finish the 8 or 10 tracks, they will reverse and you have to finish in the top three racers going counter of the original track. The differences in the tracks are not just the design. The differences are in the design and the type of bike you race.
For example, on the first race in the Championship mode, you will race street bikes called Superbikes. These are the ultra sleek motorcycles that fly by you on the freeway doing about MPH.
I think the street name for them is "Crotch Rockets". So you will blast down urban stretches of highway and wrap around hairpin corners. If you finish in the top three, it is on to the next track. This track has you driving a motocross bike. This is good old off-road, flying over jumps and playing in the mud tracks. Actually, you will see mud, sand snow and even the Great Wall depending on how far you can advance. I have to admit that I was disappointed in the few quantity of tracks available.
Sure, 10 is quite a few but I would have liked to see another couple tracks for each type of racing. Instead, what EA did to keep the replay value higher was to change the stakes of winning depending on your skill setting. What this means is that if you set the difficulty to easy, you will only have 8 tracks to beat.
After you beat the 8 tracks, you race the same tracks in the opposite direction. If you beat those eight tracks, game over. If you play with the skill setting at medium or hard, you have 10 tracks to beat. If you beat the 10 tracks, you must beat the same tracks in the opposite direction. If you manage to do this, you will enable the Pocket Bikes. What is a Pocket Bike, you ask?
It is a tiny little version of a full size bike that goes anywhere from 15 to 40 MPH faster. The pocket bikes are easy to control and you can really fly on the tracks. The best part about the Pocket Bikes is that the rider stays full size so his knees are sticking out like an adult on a child's bike. The look is perfect! I talked about the different skill levels effecting the tracks and activating the Pocket Bike mode.
I usually don't discuss difficult levels unless the game is too hard or too easy. In the Case of Moto Racer , the difficulty settings were perfect. It is rare that a game gets the right formula when computing the jump from easy to medium to hard. This game does a great job. The easy setting will help you learn the game and get a feel for everything.
After your first few races, you should come in first the rest of the way through the Championship. Now that you have kicked the easy level's ass, you will start to feel cocky and move up to medium.
You will finish last. You will get pissed and say that it is not fair that the computer bikes are so good. I was ready to launch my controller through the window. Well, after you try a few more times, you realize you can make one major mistake and still finish in the top three. If you make two, forget it. It took me hours to make it through all the tracks on medium skill.
Guess what? It was great because I could not stop until I finished that track I was on. I knew it was possible and I came close so many times so I was motivated to keep pushing on. A lot of racing games out there have missed the balance of too easy and too hard.
The most frequent question I am asked about this game is which type of racing do I prefer, the street bikes or the motocross. To be honest, it is a toss up. They did a great job on both types of racing. The motocross has you flying over mountain sized jumps and ripping through sandy beaches.
The street bikes are a rush because you are flying down streets so fast that you never know what will happen. Both types of racing have something to say for themselves.
The last thing I want to say about this game is that they did a great job giving you the sensation of speed. How many racing games have you played that you are driving along at what seems like a leisurely Sunday afternoon pace only to look down at your speedometer and see you are doing MPH?
I can think of a handful of games off the top of my head. Don't worry about that problem here. You will feel like you are doing MPH when you hit the speed burst button. The graphics were great and yet not so great. Let's start with the positives. Your bike and racer were awesome.
Every corner you would take, the driver would lean into it or drop his leg to help keep balance. Often times the driver would take a quick look over his shoulder to see the action behind him.
This is one of the best animated and realist looking characters I have seen. Also, the tracks are all littered with signs and different attractions. I really don't understand the giant dog waiving the checkered flag but it still looks cool. On the negative side, the crashes were lame. They all looked pretty much the same. Your guy would either fly up in the air or just fall off the bike. I want some Road Rash type crashes where the guy goes sliding or tumbling across the road. Also, the game had some tweaks.
Quite often, the track would have a couple blue lines of break up off in the distance. Also, if you got too close to a wall, it would disappear. This seems to be a common problem in lots of PSX games. On the whole, I liked this game. I think it got a higher score because it is diverse, original and good.
I would have liked more tracks because once you finish all the tracks in every mode, there is not much motivation to go back unless you are playing a friend in the split screen mode. I think that racing fans will enjoy this game and I think it is about time we had a good motorcycle racing game to play. By the way, I was going to play a game of Tetris on my PC when I finished this review, but I don't have 3 hours to spend changing all of my settings and drivers.
I guess I will just have to go for a couple more laps of Moto Racer. Motorcycle racing games have been a favorite in arcades for several years. You know which games I mean -- the ones where there's an actual motorcycle body you can sit on and you really have to lean into the turns.
The illusion of racing a bullet bike at breakneck speeds is sometimes irresistible. Even better are the arcades that have several machines linked for multiplayer racing.
This style of game has been mostly an arcade-only experience until now. Moto Racer brings the adrenaline rush to the PC, and even though it still has a long way to go to match the full arcade machines it is still lots of fun to play, especially with friends. When you first start Moto Racer you can select one of two modes -- a single-race practice mode where you can run a time trial, or a practice against the computer opponents and a Championship mode where you go through all the tracks in a preset order.
At first only four tracks are available; four more are made available as you win races in the championship mode. Windows Windows. Most Popular. New Releases. Desktop Enhancements. Networking Software. Trending from CNET. Download Now. Developer's Description By Electronic Arts. This motorcycle racing game is back, and now it's totally customizable. Build your own tracks with the new 3D track creator and share them with your friends. Feel the adrenaline rush of high-speed racing with improved graphics and more 3D acceleration.
Choose a tire-smoking superbike or a rugged motorcross bike, and hang on for the ride of your life. Full Specifications. What's new in version demo. Release December 5, Date Added November 23, Version demo. Operating Systems. Operating Systems Windows, Windows 95, Windows Mad Dojo. City Racing.
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