Customize and upgrade your bike! Progress through Moto Racer 4 and take in the stunning environments. From the United States to the Asia by way of the desert, Moto Racer 4 takes you through perilous, breathtaking courses at miles an hour.
Obstacles, hell-bent opponents, traffic and even police will get in your way to try to stop you. These are the ultra sleek motorcycles that fly by you on the freeway doing about MPH. I think the street name for them is "Crotch Rockets". So you will blast down urban stretches of highway and wrap around hairpin corners. If you finish in the top three, it is on to the next track. This track has you driving a motocross bike.
This is good old off-road, flying over jumps and playing in the mud tracks. Actually, you will see mud, sand snow and even the Great Wall depending on how far you can advance.
I have to admit that I was disappointed in the few quantity of tracks available. Sure, 10 is quite a few but I would have liked to see another couple tracks for each type of racing. Instead, what EA did to keep the replay value higher was to change the stakes of winning depending on your skill setting.
What this means is that if you set the difficulty to easy, you will only have 8 tracks to beat. After you beat the 8 tracks, you race the same tracks in the opposite direction.
If you beat those eight tracks, game over. If you play with the skill setting at medium or hard, you have 10 tracks to beat. If you beat the 10 tracks, you must beat the same tracks in the opposite direction. If you manage to do this, you will enable the Pocket Bikes. What is a Pocket Bike, you ask? It is a tiny little version of a full size bike that goes anywhere from 15 to 40 MPH faster.
The pocket bikes are easy to control and you can really fly on the tracks. The best part about the Pocket Bikes is that the rider stays full size so his knees are sticking out like an adult on a child's bike.
The look is perfect! I talked about the different skill levels effecting the tracks and activating the Pocket Bike mode. I usually don't discuss difficult levels unless the game is too hard or too easy. In the Case of Moto Racer , the difficulty settings were perfect.
It is rare that a game gets the right formula when computing the jump from easy to medium to hard. This game does a great job. The easy setting will help you learn the game and get a feel for everything. After your first few races, you should come in first the rest of the way through the Championship.
Now that you have kicked the easy level's ass, you will start to feel cocky and move up to medium. You will finish last. You will get pissed and say that it is not fair that the computer bikes are so good.
I was ready to launch my controller through the window. Well, after you try a few more times, you realize you can make one major mistake and still finish in the top three. If you make two, forget it. It took me hours to make it through all the tracks on medium skill. Guess what? It was great because I could not stop until I finished that track I was on. I knew it was possible and I came close so many times so I was motivated to keep pushing on. A lot of racing games out there have missed the balance of too easy and too hard.
The most frequent question I am asked about this game is which type of racing do I prefer, the street bikes or the motocross. To be honest, it is a toss up. They did a great job on both types of racing. The motocross has you flying over mountain sized jumps and ripping through sandy beaches. The street bikes are a rush because you are flying down streets so fast that you never know what will happen. Both types of racing have something to say for themselves.
The last thing I want to say about this game is that they did a great job giving you the sensation of speed. How many racing games have you played that you are driving along at what seems like a leisurely Sunday afternoon pace only to look down at your speedometer and see you are doing MPH?
I can think of a handful of games off the top of my head. Don't worry about that problem here. You will feel like you are doing MPH when you hit the speed burst button. The graphics were great and yet not so great. Let's start with the positives. Your bike and racer were awesome. Every corner you would take, the driver would lean into it or drop his leg to help keep balance. Often times the driver would take a quick look over his shoulder to see the action behind him. This is one of the best animated and realist looking characters I have seen.
Also, the tracks are all littered with signs and different attractions. I really don't understand the giant dog waiving the checkered flag but it still looks cool. On the negative side, the crashes were lame. They all looked pretty much the same. Your guy would either fly up in the air or just fall off the bike. I want some Road Rash type crashes where the guy goes sliding or tumbling across the road. Also, the game had some tweaks.
Quite often, the track would have a couple blue lines of break up off in the distance. Also, if you got too close to a wall, it would disappear. This seems to be a common problem in lots of PSX games. On the whole, I liked this game. I think it got a higher score because it is diverse, original and good.
I would have liked more tracks because once you finish all the tracks in every mode, there is not much motivation to go back unless you are playing a friend in the split screen mode. I think that racing fans will enjoy this game and I think it is about time we had a good motorcycle racing game to play. By the way, I was going to play a game of Tetris on my PC when I finished this review, but I don't have 3 hours to spend changing all of my settings and drivers.
I guess I will just have to go for a couple more laps of Moto Racer. Motorcycle racing games have been a favorite in arcades for several years. You know which games I mean -- the ones where there's an actual motorcycle body you can sit on and you really have to lean into the turns. The illusion of racing a bullet bike at breakneck speeds is sometimes irresistible.
Even better are the arcades that have several machines linked for multiplayer racing. This style of game has been mostly an arcade-only experience until now. Moto Racer brings the adrenaline rush to the PC, and even though it still has a long way to go to match the full arcade machines it is still lots of fun to play, especially with friends.
When you first start Moto Racer you can select one of two modes -- a single-race practice mode where you can run a time trial, or a practice against the computer opponents and a Championship mode where you go through all the tracks in a preset order. At first only four tracks are available; four more are made available as you win races in the championship mode.
There are both on- and off-road tracks -- to win the game you must take first place on all eight. All rights reserved. Developed by Artefacts Studio. Approximate size Age rating For ages 10 and up. This app can Access all your files, peripheral devices, apps, programs and registry. Permissions info. Seizure warnings Photosensitive seizure warning. Report this product Report this game to Microsoft Thanks for reporting your concern.
Our team will review it and, if necessary, take action. Sign in to report this game to Microsoft. Report this game to Microsoft. Version: v 1. Moto Racer 4 continues a series of arcade motorcycle races. The game allows you to go through a solo career or compete with a friend in split-screen mode.
As the career progresses, the player gains access to new drivers and improvements. At the end of each chapter, a championship opens, and you can move to the next level only after a complete victory in the final competition. Rides in Moto Racer 4 are divided into two types - asphalt and dirt. For each type, you should choose the appropriate bike - road or mountain.
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