Price: £39.99 Players: 1-2 Widescreen: No DTS sound: No 60Hz mode: No It's not just BMX XXX. There are a number of these extreme sports games which base themselves on a seemingly random attempt at button-bashing in a bid to perform spectacular stunts, just as doing the same during a heavy bout of Virtua Fighter 4 will help you throw the right punches and kicks needed to win a point or three. However, this title has one thing extra that the Matt Hoffmans, Tony Hawks and even the rather childish Freestyle Scooter lack - nudity. Yes, you may be able to play on nine massive levels with over 50 challenges a pop each, plus the obligatory park editor and 'create a rider' features, but, here, the more coins you collect through the game, the more live strip sequences you get to see. That doesn't explain how come I managed to get my female rider looking like Sinead O'Connor in bra and boxer shorts, with knee-high blue socks, as if she'd just stepped off a Levi's advert from the 80s, alongside Nick Kamen.

The graphics are reasonable but aren't pushing the PS2 beyond what we've seen a lot of already. People, environments and textures are detailed enough to a point, but it takes a rare game that'll go the extra mile to give us that 'Wow' factor that I'm seeing a lot more on the Xbox these days. Sonically, there's very little from your biking character, but music tracks in the background come courtesy from a number of bands I haven't heard of, plus some I have - Motley Crue (Girls, Girls, Girls) , De La Soul (The Magic Number) and Green Day (Basket Case).

It can't just be me who finds this type of game a little on the pointless side, since once you've mastered the basics you find you can do little wrong, throwing yourself about the set and grinding along whatever straight or curved line happens to be passing by and, while I enjoyed 2001's Airblade, I think that's enough to be going on with for this console. This game comes with extras in the form of movies, viewable once completing sections of the game as you go, a place to enter cheat codes and check out special modes, plus Acclaim non-playable demos of Legends of Wrestling 2, ATV 2, Aggressive Inline and Burnout 2, the latter of which will be coming to Xbox and Gamecube after all. However, while the nudity is an element of the game, it's just a gimmick and hardly XXX...

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2003.