![]() We’ve never seen a better-looking MotoGP game. The good news continues as, from these early screenshots and the reveal trailer show, the game has a genuine next gen look to it. To its credit, MotoGP 21 will be the third Milestone game to get the next-gen treatment already, while some other games are yet to hit the new systems. ![]() That’s great news for those lucky enough to snag a new gaming console recently as you will now have another new motorcycle game to play. MotoGP 21 is real and it’s coming later this year to PS4, Xbox One, PC (Steam and Epic Games Store), Nintendo Switch and the next-gen systems of PS5 and Xbox Series. MotoGP 21 does attempt to match those brave enough to venture online, but the vast majority of your opposition will almost certainly have expensive racing rigs and real-life track-day experience.Like clockwork, February seems to be the month each year that Italian developer, Milestone, introduces the world to the latest officially sanctioned MotoGP video game. The standard of the competition you will find is way above that of the game’s artificial intelligence (unless you deliberately turn that up). However, if you then take your new-found skills online, prepare for humiliation, at least initially. Once you develop confidence in your bike’s front-end, and start discovering how to chuck it into corners without understeering wildly, proceedings start to become thrilling. The latest iteration of the game further ramps up the realism of aspects like tyre degradation, and it’s vital to give yourself a chance in the races by balancing your bike’s trade-off between tyre-wear and top-end power. Happily, bike-handling and circuit authenticity are two areas in which MotoGP 21 excels. Putting in the laps soon gives you a feel for your bike’s handling, while choosing not to skip the practice sessions helps you learn each circuit. MotoGP 21’s determination to emulate the real-life season (you can even choose between the 2021 calendar that was supposed to take place and the near-identical one which actually hapepened) means that you can pound round the laps at tracks like Losail in Qatar for pre-season testing, before participating in all the practice sessions at each circuit the calendar takes in. ![]() MotoGP bikes are tricky beasts to ride in the game, as you would imagine they are in real life, although the game does let you rewind when you crash out ignominiously.įor those whose racing skills are somewhat limited, the best plan is to start in Moto 3. Or you can jump straight into the full-blown MotoGP if you feel you possess the skills. Thus, you can create a facsimile of yourself as a budding Moto 3 rider, picking the best sponsorship deals, learning about bike development, and being rewarded with more lucrative contracts as you work your way up the ladder over the course of several seasons, towards MotoGP itself. While you can jump into quick races on bikes from all three MotoGP formulae – the full MotoGP beasts, Moto2 or Moto3 – the main career mode is thoroughly flexible, and even offers elements of team management if that’s your thing. Structurally, this is every bit as impressive as the F1 games, offering all manner of authentic possibilities. There’s a tutorial, but it covers the basics of racing in a pretty cursory manner, while going into great detail on the more hardcore subject of bike setup and reinforcing the impression that MotoGP 21’s target audience is seasoned enthusiasts, rather than novices. You can also turn on a racing line indicator which is so discreet as to be almost unassuming. MotoGP 21 does pay lip service to novices though and will even offer to brake automatically for you at each corner, although that just leaves you feeling as though you aren’t in control. In the game, as in real life, bikes are hard to ride fast you have to brake early for the corners and modulate the throttle very carefully when exiting them. It must be noted that this is very much a game which preaches to the converted: if you’re not an existing MotoGP fan, and are merely bike-curious, you’re likely to find playing MotoGP 21 a tad tricky and frustrating – even if you’re used to playing racing games of the four-wheeled variety. It eschews most of the bells, whistles, and razzmatazz that some sports and racing games try to inject into the process of driving round and round their various tracks, in favour of recreating the MotoGP calendar as faithfully as possible. Unsurprisingly, that can also be said about MotoGP 21.
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