Daveo2010

Got this for xbox yesterday. I haven't played a previous one. I like it so far, find the edges of the track a bit hard to see at times, scenery a bit bland (actually, I'd chosen Salt Lake City at random and that seems about the blandest! Donington is quite nice, green, changes of elevation), and find the rider POV too difficult. Just getting to grips with it, it's decent. The presentation is good - menus etc are designed well to avoid unecessary faffing around*. The English is a bit ropey in places. I was a bit disappointed the the Nurburgring isn't the full thing but I guess what they have in the game matches the SBK race? I too would love a bike GT.. Imagine racing a customized SV around laguna seca, or the ring.. Ooh they could have the IOM circuit too!
* You have to come out of time trial mode and into XBox live mode to see the online leaderboards and download a timetrial ghost - that's a bit rubbish. On the whole the ghost thing needs development - you can only have one ghost per track & class, and you can't race against a ghost that was set at a different difficulty level, so if you want to race a ghost that's just a little faster than you, you're forced to use a lower difficulty setting (at least until people start uploading full sim ghosts with slow times.. the top full sim times just leave me for dead so far!).

Time trial laps:
Circuit......... | Class | Bike.... | Setting.. | Online record | Time...
Donington....... | WSS.. | CBR600RR | full, man | 1'26.89...... | 1'35.46
Donington....... | WSS.. | CBR600RR | med, man. | 1'34.03...... | 1'34.03 (currently top of the med/wss tt leaderboard, fwiw!)
Salt Lake City.. | WSS.. | CBR600RR | med, man. | 1'43.63...... | 1'53.63