PlayStation

Motocross Mania

Motocross Mania is a spill happy free-for-all on dirt tracks. Yes, the invisible walls are distracting, but you will forget about them as your skill improves. It is rated for Everyone.

Motocross Mania gives me what I've come to expect from a PS-X motorcycle game. In other words, it kinda sucks. At least, in this case, you get what you pay for since it's only ten bucks. Whiny sound, choppy animations, and iffy physics simply touch on the negatives of this title. In closing, I'd like to say that I love Kato.

When all is said and done, I find it extremely difficult to recommend this game to even the most fanatical of motocross gamers. If you are one of those people who absolutely has to have every PSX motocross game in your library (are there really people like that out there?), I suppose the price-point won’t break your bank. However, for everyone else, hear this: “Do not bite on this puppy.” Hey, for ten bucks, go buy yourself some lunch. It’ll certainly be a lot easier to swallow!

Freestyle courses are as bland as an evening with Barry Manilow, and supercross tracks only demand that you endure a few extra laps. I did enjoy the different speeds of the bike classes, but that's similar to liking a turd sandwich because of the bread.

Spelkontrollen är nämligen helt bedrövlig och grafiken ser ut att vara hämtad från någon av de allra tidigaste PlayStation-titlarna. Och misslyckas man med två så viktiga ingredienser blir så klar inte mycket till underhållning kvar. Så även om uppdelningen i motocross, supercross och freestyle lockar, tycker jag definitivt att ni ska se upp för det här spelet.

With so many better supercross games on the market, many of them older and available at similar bargain-basement price points, Motocross Mania has no place in the market. Stick to EA's Supercross series or THQ's Championship Motocross series and try to forget that Motocross Mania even exists.

The fact that Motocross Mania is only a $10 game would normally be a selling point, but I have to say this game just isn’t worth ten bucks. Perhaps things could have been helped by beefing up the multiplayer mode some, as it is really the only bright spot in the game. So please for your own safety and the safety of your families, stay far, far away from Motocross Mania.

The tricks are kinda lame and require too much effort to pull off. Holding down a shoulder button while pressing Up, Left, Up, seems excessive when the only thing you've accomplished is kicking out your left leg. But wait! Holding down two shoulder buttons and doing the same directional presses makes you kick out both legs!!! Different shoulder buttons give you side views of your rider and both buttons together gives you a really senseless point of view from a stationary camera, as you watch your bike recede into the distance.