I do like the scrappy-youngster-mov-ing-up-in-the-world career mode see: Tony Hawks Underground , but I couldnt help wishing I was playing MX Unleashed once it was time to hit the track. Racing games are fun, but even the best-designed car game can't touch a good motocross game with a ten-foot pole. You'd need a stick long enough to poke the moon to even tickle MTX Mototrax.
Activision's new motocross game blends the fun of a well-developed trick system with the rush of technical racing and offering up something for anyone who is a fan of down and dirty racing. The most interesting element of this robust racer is the trick system which uses a blend of well-timed button mashing and joystick movements to give you access to seemingly endless array of cool air tricks.
The single player game is broken into trick competitions on freestyle maps and races in both indoor supercross tracks and outdoor motocross ones.
Many of the freestyle maps require you to land specific tricks in a set time, or jump through targets in order. The trick to tricking is getting good air, something accomplished by mastering the art of compressing your suspension and letting up at the right time. Once you're airborne you can string together tricks to land extra points and accomplish those tasks in record time.
The races on the moto and supercross tracks are all about powering through the straight-aways and taking the sharp turns without getting flung head-over-heels from your bike. You can pop off a few tricks mid-race, but don't mess up or you can kiss the victory goodbye. The single player game rewards short times and high placings with cash, new tricks and endorsement deals.
The multiplayer offerings include offline, split screen races and trick competitions and a nice selection of online games which include freestyle competitions, standard races and a cool king of the hill mode. Gameplay on Live was lag free, easy to start and fairly rewarding. The Sims 2 Create a Sim.
Ok We use our own and third-party cookies for advertising, session, analytic, and social network purposes. Any action other than blocking them or the express request of the service associated to the cookie in question, involves providing your consent to their use. Check our Privacy Policy. The tracks themselves are pretty straightforward for the supercross tracks that start off with plenty of straightaways and escalate into complicated messes that look like a wet noodle dropped on the ground when seen from above.
They provide plenty of work and twists and turns to hone one's skill on for plenty of technical action, but it's the motocross tracks that are where the most fun are.
The motocross tracks are all about the big jumps that require plenty of speed, rhythm, and skill with the preload. There are twists and turns here, but it's timing of the jumps that will launch racers off into the distance towards the finish line.
With dramatic launches and opportunities to fly past a competitor, there are plenty of chances to. There are two parts to the freestyle experience: the Free Ride tracks and the Freestyle competition tracks. Each section contains four tracks. The Free Ride tracks are open areas such as a bayou or a quarry, that have challenges within them that are unlocked by finding different people in the map and talking to them, like in the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games.
These challenges can be races through the map, a trick challenge, or a challenge unique to an area, like jumping from boat to boat or riding through pipes.
All of these challenges will award points that go towards unlocking the next map, but it's the trick challenges that introduce new tricks into your library that can then be used in freestyle competitions or the races for fun. Other tricks can be unlocked by finding specific ramps that will make a new trick flash on the screen. Complete that new trick on that jump and it's in your library as well. While these Free Ride tracks educate the rider about the new tricks and provide a little stomping ground for practicing, they felt too small in terms of overall size and range of exploration.
I was hoping for maps that would have plenty of secrets and challenges, but they were over way too soon. After learning the new tricks and unlocking the next map, there was little incentive to keep on riding around.
The Freestyle competitions contain a closed in arena with lots of dirt humps and ramps to launch off of. Each Freestyle map has four challenges as well, but except for the high-score challenge, the other challenges are tutorials that teach new tricks and help with timing jumps.
Overall, the Freestyle mode left me feeling a little let down as well, providing only the challenge of getting a new high score, but after placing first for that challenge there was little left to go on. After completing all of the Free Ride and Freestyle challenges, I wanted to have more to go after, but there was little left to dig into. In the end, the Freestyle and Free Ride modes were one large tutorial mode. While it's great to break in players with this introduction, which wasn't really an introduction, I couldn't help but feel like there could have been so much more.
The graphics are clean and colorful and it's easy to make your way around the track and see what's coming up. Windows Windows. Most Popular. New Releases. Desktop Enhancements.
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Use the money to modify your rider's attributes, purchase equipment upgrades, or buy access to freeride environments complete with new goals and objectives.
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