Review by pajarines on 28 Oct 2017 (Rating: 5)
Zenital view of the 80cc (or it was 125cc) championship of motorbikes.
The game has three options:
1- Practise
2- Qualification
3- Tournament:
Only with a good time in qualification you will be able to win the tournament.
It reproduces all the courses of the championship.
The graphics and the zenital view is relatively simple, but fine enough. The controls are a bit difficult at the begining but eventually they become very intuitive.
It gives a realistic vision of a championship, it is not just a "motorbike races" game...we can use the strategy to allow being 3rd in a circuit if we have enough points to win the championship.
This is yet another sports game featuring popular names from the Spanish Hall of Fame of the era.
This time it's motor cycle racing viewed from up above, high above indeed, because your bike looks quite small. In fact the graphics in this game could not have been more basic with the risk of just looking like indistinct blobs of pixels, backed by a boring green monochrome setting.
The player is racing in 80cc World Motor Cycle Racing Championship, he first as to qualify against the clock and then race 7 different tracks and qualify in each to move to the next. Sounds simple? Could have been if only it wasn't so hard to control the bike, the control system is weird and I not even gonna explain how it works, just play it and check it for yourself. If you manage to get the hang of the controls, then I'm sure you will have some fun, because there a competitive racing game here expecting to be explored.
1988 Dinamic Software (Spain)
by Pedro Sudon Aguilar, Jose Juan Garcia Quesada, Orlando Araujo, Paco Martin, Javier Cubedo, Roberto Uriel Herrera and Deborah
Review by YOR on 26 Feb 2019 (Rating: 3)
The game plays at a fairly decent speed but indeed the control system is frickin weird. You know the way you're on a car or a bike and you move left and right to move? Here you move in all directions, so if your bike's going right it expects you to press right, for down left you're to press down and left together and so forth. It reminded me of how Wheelspin Frenzy on the Xbox One plays, I know this because I played it with my son recently and we both agreed that it was a bit shit. So luckily with this “experience” I was able to get to grips with the controls quicker than I normally would, but even then I was still nowhere near the qualifying time. Because when you change direction it slows you down quite considerably despite giving you a clutch and brake to slow you down, which makes this function quite useless. It looks like a nice game and I can see why it's popular but I feel its letdown by a confusing control setup and an unfair qualification setup. It's not terrible, just unfair and a big letdown.
