

The lack of personalizatoin results in you not really looking that unique from any of the other riders on the track, and the same goes for your bike’s visual options as well.Ĭareer mode tries to offer more depth by giving you a manager, a team, and sponsors, but they don’t result in any differences at all, at least that I could tell, aside from roleplaying purposes. I’m sure someone with more motocross knowledge than myself might know the reason, but it’s not explained to the non-fan. For some reason there are even some numbers that you display on the back of your shirt that aren’t selectable. Sure, you can pick some base colors and a handful of helmets, suits, and boots, but that’s about it. There’s also not much in the way of rider customization.

Your rider doesn’t level up and become more skilled with stat increases, and there are only a handful of bike parts that can be purchased, but they are all the same stat-wise regardless of brand. Aside from earning money and reputation for your wins, there is no other form of progression. You’ll get offers to sign with teams and sponsors, and purchase new bike parts, but there’s a severe lack of customization of rider and bike. Your goal is to earn points in races to eventually become the world champion.

So it baffled me that there’s no real end goal aside from winning in MXGP2’s career mode.Īs you begin you’ll create your rider, choose a helmet and your colors, a starting bike, and off you go. If you’re meant to spend hours playing through a campaign you generally want something to strive towards, aside from some possible achievements or completion. Usually this means progressing your character, earning new items, or other forms of rewards as you play. Sports games these days need a career mode as it gives players an objective aside from winning. While they did do some things right, there’s also many faults that are hard to ignore. is known for their racing titles, so I had high hopes that this would be another ‘great game’ under their name.

Though some might see my lack of motocross knowledge a bad fit for this review, I rebut this notion by saying that I was looking at MXGP2 objectively as a game player and not a fan. Now that I’ve put a couple dozen or so hours into MXGP2 I’m by no means an expert, but I could at least carry on a conversation about the topic should it ever come up. Before delving into this review I had no idea what ruts, 2-stroke, scrub, or even holeshot meant. Enjoy changing the performance of your two wheels.So let me get this out of the way first and foremost: I know absolutely nothing about motocross. What about creating your own personal team? With MXGP2 you can choose the name and logo for your team, buy your favorite bikes, custom liveries and accessories for your bike and rider. In MXGP2 you’ll have the chance to ride on 18 official tracks from the 2015 FIM Motocross World Championship, to live the amazing experience of MXoN and to scrub in the made-up indoor circuits. Start the challenge riding with the complete roster of the official Championship of MXGP and MX2. Be ready to live in the HEART of MOTOCROSS! Official license, bikes, rosters and tracks are the core elements of the game, but that’s not enough, something needs to be added: your heart. The game is based on the 2015 FIM Motocross World Championship license. Is the evolution of the previous Milestone’s Motocross game MXGP.
