Once you're through the very forgiving tutorials, you're onto the Industry Standard Career/Tour/Championship mode. That's why I did it at every opportunity), hairpins, racing lines and what-may-you. There are an decent series of tutorials included, which will take you through throttling, leaning, braking (which helpfully mentions to you that braking is 'often neglected' in MotoGP, implying that real men know that only frilly-cuff wearing dandies brake in this game, thanks very much), cornering, sliding (there is something mind-numbingly stupid about power-sliding on a two-wheeled vehicle at 140mph. The bikes corner silkily, and the thrill of a knees-on-tarmac hairpin at 200 mph feels about as gusset-rippingly terrifying as you would hope for. It has possibly the best biking physics engine yet committed to bits. And this it achieves magnificently it is an excellent artifice.Ĭontrol issues aside, the game handles beautifully.

For those of us not real men, this may well be the next best thing - sitting alone in our living rooms, whilst a small plastic box make vroom-vroom noises and we pretend that we're actually there.

The trials of the new sport of giant hamster racing was going well.įor a Real Man, having a massive throbbing engine between your legs is the most important thing in life. Play it on a console, you owe it this much. The game is so much less pleasant and fun to control on a PC than on a console, and the reason for this should be obvious: This is a console game, born and bred.

Why do people do this? Why take something as wonderfully balanced, poised, graceful and so, well, analog as MotoGP URT 3, and then shoehorn it into the twitchy, blecherous nastiness of a PC keyboard interface? It's distressing to see a great console game reduced to a hard-to-control, flailing imitation, just to satisfy the inferiority complex of the PC gamer. Time and again they demand that game studios take polite analog-controlled console-based loveliness and break its will by contorting it into a rude, charnel creation subjected to the horrific whims of the Standard PC Keyboard. You know who the most vocal and unashamed perpetrators of this errant behaviour are? PC Gamers. Do you hate people who like to make things difficult for themselves by using the wrong tool for the job? You know the kind of thing they do picking teeth with a breadknife, changing channels on the TV by throwing something at it, sleeping on beds of nails, washing clothes by hand, that kind of thing.

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