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Moto GP
on the
Xbox
was always a classy affair, while the
PS2 equivalents
were programmed separately and always played like a bad ZX Spectrum conversion.
This actually turns out somewhere inbetween the two versions. It's more
playable than the PS2 versions, but if you've got any of the Xbox titles in
the series then you only need to get this PSP title if you absolutely must
play it on the move, as it's still not particularly wonderful but it'll pass
the time of day for a couple of hours.
Getting the basics out of the way, you can choose a quick arcade game, start
a full season or take a look online and see if there's any multiplayer action
out there (oo-er, missus!). Then choose the difficulty level, then the year
of 2005 or 2006 for the competitors featured, your choice of bike, track and
the number of laps.
Like any MotoGP game, it does take some time to get used to the handling of
the bikes since there's meant to be a skill in riding them, and this is where
it can fall down a bit as PSP games are meant to be very much 'pick up and
play' for those spare time moments when you're on a break at work or riding
on the train/bus to work, not 'pick up and figure out how to ride the bike
so you can get somewhere on it'.
You don't really get that feeling that you're going anywhere particularly
fast either. When you're going top speed at almost 300km/h it feels like
you're just getting going, and when you slow down for a corner - so you
don't flip over - that's apparently at a speed of around 60-70km/h, yet it
looks like about 5km/h.
The graphics are a little bit rough and not massively impressive, the sound
is your usual rasping engine with some dull rock-type music bashing away in
the background. Very annoyingly, just before the race begins, you must then
sit through a pointless list of 21 names scrolling up the screen in batches
of 3, as if it really matters who you're up against because they'll soon
dash off and leave you at the starting grid, and this bit cannot be skipped.
In fact, the starting grid is where this game should be left... oh no, now
I sound like one of those dorky reviewers on Cybernet, whether it's the
high-pitched American guy who used to present America's Top 10 after Casey
Kasem left, or the stilted-voiced Catherine Fox.
GRAPHICS SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC PLAYABILITY ENJOYMENT
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