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Dom Robinson reviews
Acclaim 
- 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 aseemingly random attempt at button-bashing in a bid to perform spectacularstunts, just as doing the same during a heavy bout ofVirtua Fighter 4will 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 andeven the rather childishFreestyle Scooterlack – nudity.
Yes, you may be able to play on nine massive levels with over 50 challengesa 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 stripsequences you get to see.
That doesn’t explain how come I managed to get my female rider looking likeSinead O’Connor in bra and boxer shorts, with knee-high blue socks, as if she’djust 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’veseen a lot of already. People, environments and textures are detailed enoughto a point, but it takes a rare game that’ll go the extra mile to give usthat ‘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 tracksin the background come courtesy from a number of bands I haven’t heard of, plussome I have – Motley Crue (Girls, Girls, Girls) , De La Soul (TheMagic Number) and Green Day (Basket Case).
It can’t just be me who finds this type of game a little on the pointlessside, 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 curvedline happens to be passing by and, while I enjoyed 2001’sAirblade,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 completingsections of the game as you go, a place to enter cheat codes and check outspecial modes, plus Acclaim non-playable demos of Legends of Wrestling 2,ATV 2, Aggressive Inline andBurnout 2, thelatter 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 andhardly XXX…
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.