Best Console Motorcycle Racing Game?

I thought SBK 08 on PS2 was sound. Might get Moto GP 08 for the Wii, it's released at the end of this month apparantly, but don't know if it's any good.

[Balky001]

the bikes on PGR4 are great, very arcade like handling, big slides etc but really good fun and quicker than the cars!

I also think Riding Spirit 2 was underated on PS2, the sound was so poor it put most people off but the bike categories and handling was good and you got the TT circuit included, it was a massive game really.

NO NO NO NO NO , THE daddy of all the GP games was MOTOGP2 by Climax on the original Xbox ...... that was an absolute sheer joy to play and even had the 2 stroke 500 bikes in it if you liked . I raced in the leagues online with it and all the Xbox Live players still rate it as the best GP game out there ....... the later ones just didn`t cut it . I spent absolutely hours and hours on that game and could only get to 800 in the world out of 92,000 players . I do miss the camaraderie that game had on Live and I still have many of those players on my Friends list 5 years later

SBK 08 is alright, it tries to be more a sim than other bike games. Bike handling is decent, it's tough on simulation settings - you can be spat off quite easily, and it's rewarding when you do a good lap, eventually, but as a game it's pants. The menus, the AI, the replays (or lack thereof), the graphics to a lesser extent, all just feel very previous-gen.

I thought the Namco Moto GP on PS2 games were good fun, total arcadeness, but good fun.
Tourist Trophy is very polished, but blighted by a throttle nanny that you'll look endlessly for an option to turn it off with, and rubbish tyre physics which lead to some odd tyre spinning but not stepping out at all moments. Has a nice "feel" of riding the bike though, as long as you're not trying to ask too much of it.

One thing i dont understand about motogp08 is i can never get a good time round the track and always 5 seconds off the next person but when it comes to the race i can come off at the first corner of a lap and by the end of it ive caught up and passed 10 other riders?? dont add up!

Riding spirits 2 on ps2 loved that game

[Mej]

Originally Posted by Holdup

Riding spirits 2 on ps2 loved that game

I recently finished Moto GP 06 which was pretty hard, but good.

I have been playing PGR4 probabably the most fine bike game i have played but not that realistic.

I have only played demos of Moto GP 08 and SBK 08 but they both seem pretty good, plus you can get SBK 08 £13 New.

Originally Posted by Balky001

I also think Riding Spirit 2 was underated on PS2, the sound was so poor it put most people off but the bike categories and handling was good and you got the TT circuit included, it was a massive game really.

I traded that in against Tourist Trophy. Wish I hadn't

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