Moto racer 4 review
Each offers varying degrees of top speed, acceleration, handling and style, but part of you just wants to pick the one you think is coolest. There is an entire cast of characters with names and personalities that you can choose from. Immediately upon loading up players are greeted with music to the tune of exciting electronica typical of a fantastical racing game. When I say Moto Racer 4 harkens back to those classic games, I'm not kidding. That begs a question though - does a game in a style that died out fifteen years ago have a place in today's market? Moto Racer 4 answers that question. But Moto Racer 4 and the team at Artefacts Studios haven't forgotten, and the game certainly would have fit right in twenty years ago.
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The series actually spawned six games previously, including three portable spin-offs, which makes Moto Racer 4 the seventh in a line of classic, if sometimes forgotten, racing games. Many of you likely haven't heard of it, but the Moto Racer series was one of the myriad of arcade racers at the time. Worlds where flashy visuals and defiance of physics were plentiful.
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They'd transport me to exciting worlds full of speed and adrenaline. Sure, those games were arguably quite mediocre or even bad, but at the time they were magical in their presentation. When the weekend came and I was allowed to go to the rental store to pick one game, I'd often pick things like San Francisco Rush, Extreme G, Snowboard Kids, and Beetle Adventure Racing. Moto Racer 4 isn’t an awful game, and I didn’t hate my time with it, but in this crowded Christmas period there’s so much better out there, even for fans of 2-wheeled racers.Comments When I was young, I used to love those arcade racers of the N64 and PlayStation era. There may be no other competition in this exact arcade segment, but there’s many better MX games out there, and Valentino Rossi or Ride 2 offer far more exciting ways to race on tracks. Insipid AI, poor in-game performance and a raft of poor decisions (negative stars, anyone?) more than match up against the positives. But unfortunately the execution turns it into a very average game at best. Moto Racer 4 has some neat ideas – and a vivid, colourful art style. The game even lacks the kind of cheesy announcer that often adds to a really great arcade racer. Music and sound have all been produced on a shoestring budget, with a single looping guitar solo playing in menus, and washing-machine rivalling bike noises that have been lifted out of an original PlayStation game. It’s a shame that the performance can’t match the ideas though, as a combination of dropped frames and stuttering make for a really frustrating gameplay experience, actually impacting on your ability to play at times. There’s a very slightly stylised look to the game, from the riders to the trails of light from the bikes, whilst the tracks themselves, which are all fictional, use the creative freedom the developers had to make some interesting enough vistas. Games today are certainly less bland and beige than a decade ago, but there’s still few games with a really vivid touch of brightness.
Moto Racer 4 has a good art-style with plenty of colour. Either way, it means you’re unlikely to unlock the achievement for playing over 100 races online… Split-screen is likely to be the only way you’re likely to play with others – I spent plenty of time trying to find online matches, but there’s either no-one out there or there’s currently matchmaking issues.