A career mode brazenly steals from Codemasters' racers of a few years back, set within a virtual motorhome that neatly houses all the options available. Whether by choice or by circumstance doesn't really matter, because it works. There's more, of course, but in keeping with everything else in MotoGP 2013, it's sparse.
It's great to not only have Marquez sitting in the Repsol Honda he's currently campaigning in, but also hanging completely off of it.
Many of the big stars' styles are replicated here, from Ben Spies' elbows-up approach to the more studied posture of Jorge Lorenzo. Rider customisation's limited to picking a mugshot and typing in your name, nickname and age, but you can also pick your riding style. It's hugely refreshing to see a racing game developer have faith in the unquestionable appeal of a globetrotting calendar of races tied together with a points table.
There's no attempt at an arcade mode, no superfluous challenges and no overbearing, overwritten narrative shoehorned in. This is a broad, thoughtful and inclusive take on the sport, and one that's wise to cut the crap. It helps, too, that Dorna, the commercial rights holder for MotoGP, is much more accommodating than FOM, the F1 overseer that Codemasters tangles with on a yearly basis, could ever be. Milestone's Evolving Track returns - tarmac rubbers in over the course of a weekend, and wet tracks can dry out over the course of a race. It's scrappy, yes, and there's much that will be familiar to anyone who's played the SBK games, but the studio's passion for the subject helps paper over so many of the cracks.
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Milestone gets what's great about MotoGP, and while the two Monumental-developed games half-heartedly released by Capcom in 20 had their moments - as, indeed, did Milestone's own SBK series - this is a partnership that just feels right. In many ways, it's a successful homecoming for both Italians. A more apt comparison, perhaps, would be with Valentino Rossi, the aging legend coming back after a couple of years in relative wilderness at the struggling Ducati to a competitive ride at Yamaha and the prospect of a podium place on a Sunday afternoon, rather than a midfield scrap. To draw parallels between returning developer Milestone and Spanish hotshot Marquez may be a bit disingenuous. Even skating down Mugello's pitstraight at 175mph on his backside a few weeks ago has done little to dent his puppyish enthusiasm.Īnd after a couple of years without a tie-in game, MotoGP is back on consoles. The 20-year-old from Catalonia has found himself at the sharp end of the grid in his inaugural top-flight campaign, and he's wasted no time getting his Repsol Honda RC213V into places no rookie should dare to tread and at angles that his rivals wouldn't care to try, scraping his elbows across track boundaries in his trademark style while banging fairings with teammate and champion-elect Dani Pedrosa. After a couple of pedestrian years, the MotoGP championship has been back in scintillating form this season, thanks in no small part to the prodigal wonder that is Marc Marquez.
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