There is a free mode which allows you to drive anywhere across the track whenever you like, but in a race situation, if you slightly miss any of the bumps, your rider will either be comically floored and cost you some valuable seconds, or will vanish and immediately reappear back in the correct place on the track, albeit with all of your momentum suddenly evaporated. At least give us some sort of retirements… That continues when you can literally land on other riders’ heads after a jump and they’ll no-sell it like you’re made of paper. Without it, as is the case here, you feel like you’re playing a video game, and you can’t lose yourself in the suspension of disbelief that you really are tearing around the track for too long. But in a high-speed racing game such as this, cramming in as many frames per second as possible is paramount. I usually don’t like to pull up the frame rate on games, instead preferring to focus on the actual content and gameplay first and foremost. Could the Switch really not have handled more? Just twelve riders on the track in this version. The same is true for each of the bikes, despite being able to choose from a range of different manufacturers. Even in the career mode, where you design your own rider to take on the real-life ones, your apparent newbie still feels just the same as the rest of them. Do developers really have this little face in the power of the Switch’s hardware?ĭespite the drop in the number of riders on the track, there’s nothing to really differentiate between the riders, with every one feeling and handling exactly the same. That being said, you can’t possibly finish as low down the rankings as you might have in other versions of the game, simply because it’s physically impossible as the developers have removed ten of the riders in each race.
That could be down to the game’s low resolution, but at least it doesn’t take away from the suspense of not knowing who’s going to come out of a tight corner first. It just doesn’t feel like you have that pinpoint accuracy when taking the bends that is so important in a game like this. The controls are pretty self-explanatory, with buttons to accelerate and separate ones for the front and rear brakes. It looks like something that the Gamecube would have had no trouble pulling off, and for that reason the developers have to be given a “must do better”. There is basically no detail at all in the sky during the night time races and the presentation for the most part is pixelated and unclean.
The tracks feel static – if you focus on the rear tyre of the bike, it almost seems to blend in to the track, and there’s no sign of mud shooting all over the place as you’d expect from a developer who went out of their way to deliver those sorts of necessary finer details. Graphical textures have been greatly reduced, which is an alarm bell right from the off.
#MXGP3 IGN REVIEW FULL#
MXGP3 – The Official Motocross Videogame, to give it its full and needlessly long title, is a very stripped down edition on the Switch. The (low-res) grid girl is there working her stuff, but none of these riders are interested. The reliance on inch-perfect cornering is present and correct, but having seen what the developers delivered with this game on other systems, the overall package feels a lame disappointment. It’s that same thrilling experience which you hope to get when you take to the track in a motocross video game. The thrill of the chase, the tight margins of corners which separate riders by barely hundredths of a second. There’s nothing quite like the thrill of tearing up the dirt on a motocross bike.
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