4/25/2023 0 Comments Mad riders gameCharacter models look good and are animated reasonably well, although like Pure, they do tend to look a bit weak when they're not covered in clothing. The environments are relatively varied and have a lot of background details, including some impressive sky colors. Visually, Mad Riders looks really good - especially for an XBLA release. Online play is outstanding, with every offline mode available for online play, and for the most part, the game is lag-free. I love the neat Arena racing mode that turns the game into a point-to-point racer, with an open track which reminds me a bit of Midnight Club, only on a smaller scale since your environments aren't nearly as big and your path is usually much easier to figure out, but not quite linear either. Outside of regular ones against opponents, you've also got time trials, and an exciting stunt race mode where the flashiest racer wins. Outside of that though, I love the racing. It's incredibly annoying, and I hope an option is added later to turn them off. You'll go for a turn or aim for a ramp and then BOOM, the action just stops cold, you read, and try to regain some of the momentum lost by the sudden stop. This is the first racing game I can ever recall with the term “brake” spelled as “break”, which brought some minor LULZ, and the help bubbles that pop-up during some early races are just jarring. The racing aspect of things has a lot of polish to it, although there are some rough edges to things. There's also a bit of Split/Second in here in the form of last-second shortcuts, unlocked here by going through blue gates, and usually netting you enough turbo to completely fill up your boost meter. They're also much easier to pull off than in Pure, and you also don't earn boost by only doing tricks, but by going through red gates and building it up. There's more of an emphasis on racing than tricks, which are there but not in great quantity. The core gameplay is very similar, but with some differences. While there have been many off-road racers this gen, many have been underwhelming outside of Pure, and Mad Riders is about on par with that outstanding game. I went into Mad Riders expecting it to be a third-person ATV version of Trials based on some previews, but wound up being pleasantly surprised that it was far more like Pure than anything else.
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