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Xbox Live-enabled: Live
Some games are made great, some are born great... and some
are better than sex. MotoGP 2 on the Xbox fits in the latter
category.
The basis of the game is simple - choose from one of many riders, and ride
around more tracks than you can shake a stick at. The better you do, the more
tracks and riders you'll unlock for later. It's also possible to tweak your
bike and any game specifics to your own exacting standards, but when I first
played the original online I didn't go to bed until the sun had come up.
As such, you'll be unlikely to play this in single player mode if you have
Xbox Live enabled between your console and PC. There's so much fun to be had
racing round the tracks and trading wisecracks and (gentle) insults.
Playing the online demo for the first game which came with the Xbox Live Starter
Package was a revelation in itself, given how the Playstation 2 games were such
dogs.
Graphically you really feel like you're there. Glorious
sunshine, torrential rain - all aspects of weather within are recreated
perfectly. The bikes zoom around the track in pixel-perfect style and the
competition really heats up when you're all jostling for position after the
start of a race.
I couldn't find a widescreen setting, but I have a WS TV and it's obvious that
it's configured itself correctly for it.
This time round there's also better camera angles when you take a tumble
from your bike and once a race is over there's the ability to watch the
replays in slo-mo, forwards, backwards - any way you like.
The game comes with a selection of tunes that are well worth a spin round
the tarmac to listen to, but this is one of those Xbox titles which allows you
to hear your favourite music as you go and my album of choice as I type this
is David Bowie's underestimated and critically-panned 1987 album,
Never Let Me Down.
In game sound is Dolby Digital 5.1 and this makes as good a job as it can do
since it's not the most taxing outing for your speakers, but then racing games
were never known for being more than the rasp of an engine or three.
One thing blighted the online demo but has now been rectified - it is now
possible to ensure that any idiots taking it upon themselves to go round the
track backwards do not become the scurge of the track as they smack into people
trying to win a race. Yes, there's now an option to make collisions
forward-only.
As I mentioned earlier, new riders and tracks are unlockable. Also, you'll be
able to view highlights of each track, access the 'legend' difficulty level
and play mirrored and reversed versions of each track depending on whether
you can pass muster as the game requires.
If I had one gripe about Moto GP2 it's that when I play Live, I can't
hear everyone. It's meant to be more realistic that you can only hear those
nearby to you, but even then that doesn't make sense since on a race with
few riders you'll still be able to hear and talk to those positionally in front
and behind you even if they're plenty distance away from you. It's annoying
when you're having a jokey conversation with someone and they fall outside of
earshot and you can no longer chat.
Why are you still reading this? Click on the Amazon link above and get online
with this game. Then, when your ass is being whupped by some Frenchies, you
too can snort comically back at them. Yes, Moto GP2 is an immense amount
of fun but not the title to restore diplomatic relations with those people
across the channel.
GRAPHICS SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC PLAYABILITY ENJOYMENT
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Playing the online demo for the first game which came with the Xbox Live Starter
Package was a revelation in itself, given how the Playstation 2 games were such
dogs.
One thing blighted the online demo but has now been rectified - it is now
possible to ensure that any idiots taking it upon themselves to go round the
track backwards do not become the scurge of the track as they smack into people
trying to win a race. Yes, there's now an option to make collisions
forward-only.
