#MOTOGP 21 REVIEW SERIES#

If you are starting in Moto3 or MotoGP it is a great ride to the championship. Going forward IвЂ™ll stick to arcade racers.From there it has a familiar feel to MotoGP 20, with the signing of personnel and the chance to start a new team and pick your colours. Not even a rewind feature could save MotoGP 21 for me, honestly. I honestly felt like this game wasnвЂ™t made for video gamers, rather those who take motorbike racing far to seriously вЂ“ the kind of вЂњplayersвЂќ who canвЂ™t get on a real bike and want as close an experience to the real thing they can in a video game. And when I did get on with it I had no fun whatsoever. The tutorial was laborious to get through IMHO and left me just wanting to get on with the game. Now IвЂ™ve read other reviews of MotoGP 21 that state this game is вЂњprobably the most beginner-friendly MotoGP game in yearsвЂ¦ the effort to make it slightly less impenetrable for newbies is a very good move (IGN)вЂќ but I have to disagree. Which IвЂ™d say defeats the purpose of a racing game. Which meant I had to constantly brake into corners, reducing the adrenaline-pumping speeds at which the game plays. I must be truly TERRIBLE at this game as no matter what assists i used I couldnвЂ™t help but keep crashing вЂ“ I couldnвЂ™t lean into a corner without sliding across the tarmac each and every time.

#MOTOGP 21 REVIEW SERIES#

Right off the bat, itвЂ™s safe to say MotoGP 21 looks stunning, especially on a current-gen console such as the Xbox Series S (and IвЂ™m sure it will look better on the Series X and PS5) but I couldnвЂ™t really appreciate the visuals as much as IвЂ™d like to, mainly because I spent 90% of my time in this game crashing and burning on each and every corner! To be fair to the game, there are settings you can change to add AI assists вЂ“ making accelerating, cornering and especially braking easier. It reminded me of the regular Forza Motorsport titles, the DiRT Rally games вЂ“ the types of games where you have to drive a car, not throw in round the tracks as I like to do! And MotoGP 21 is most definitely a racing simulator.

Arcade racers? Love them? Simulators? Less so. Because the game requires you to do EVERYTHING that I hate in racing games: control, balance, using the brakes, taking your time, making sure your bike is equipped correctly for each raceвЂ¦ Basically, lets be honest, I tend to HATE racing simulators. Which is also why I had such a terrible time with MotoGP 21. But an actual racer? It has to be at least 10 years (probably longer) since IвЂ™ve played one of those! Why? Well IвЂ™ll be honest, I was never really any good at motorbike racersвЂ¦ racing cars? Yes, that I can deal with вЂ“ usually because I tend to ignore real-world physics when racing cars around a track but motorbike racing typically requires actual precision and not just caning the throttle and never hitting the brake! ItвЂ™s probably why I love the Trials games and stuff like Road Rash back in the day вЂ“ you can make a million mistakes and get back up and вЂњracingвЂќ without issues or limitations on gameplay. IвЂ™ve played my fair share of Trials games and the various knock offs that spun off that franchise.

Now, to be fair, I havenвЂ™t really played a motorbike RACING game since the 16-bit era.

Which is why I jumped at the chance to try my hand at a bike racing game with MotoGP 21! IвЂ™ve been on something of a driving game kick recently вЂ“ IвЂ™ve been back and played Burnout Paradise Remastered on both Switch and Xbox Series S cruised the streets in Forza Horizon 4 on the Xbox Series S had a blast replaying Horizon Chase Turbo вЂ“ even on my iPad(!) and had a surprising amount of fun racing monster trucks round courses in Monster Truck Championship.

Motogp 21 review