If you do get close to perfection with your ride after hours on practice you’ve got the ultimate challenge to attempt to beat 2017-2018’s top spot champion, Trastervere73 for the e-sports title in 2019. The game packs in loads on content, and for any simulation fans out there, it’s a lovely treat to hone your skills.
The Unreal Engine add-ons with Neural AI, the attention to detail from track surfaces, weather implications to your ride and the flag waving folks packed in the stands, all have been greatly optimised. Should you buy it?įrom the last few years of MotoGP by the same developers, MotoGP 19 look like a refreshing change. It actually a great mode to relive the best races from MotoGP history. You also have rivalries that you can play off, like the ones between Rossi and Max Biaggi or re-create the legendary race between Rossi and the MotoGP King of France, Sete Gibernau in the 2003 Grand Prix at Le Mans. Split into four sub-modes it offers players the chance to re-visit their MotoGP heroes. One of the modes that got me excited was the Historical Challenges. This makes MotoGP 19 a heavily simulated experience and for fans out there, a good opportunity to learn the mechanics. You get all modification options on traction control, electronics levelling and controls to shift your weight. For example, when you have a 500-cc MotoGP tuned engine under you and you’re banking hard to the right at speed, you can see your bike swerve a little due to wind interference, and as you exit the apex, smashing down on the throttle gets the tail out a bit, not to mention a little tire burn. It’s commendable to see the developers re-invent the game on the same Unreal Engine to precisely simulate gameplay. What I learnt over the course of reviewing the game was the more you spend time in fine tuning your machine, the better the chances of staying in the race, and the more you spend time on learning the track, the better your chances at closing in the top 3. It was a refreshing change to see that your character gets to interact with the pit crew on concerns with performance and the guided AI does a fabulous job in explaining how each of the changes will take effect on track. But, I must add that the new camera modes like the Go-Pro cam or the helmet-cam mode make the whole racing experience deeply immersive.Įach of the Grand Prix modes have a bunch of practice sessions that allow you to precisely alter your bike to how you feel fit. The slightest over-throttle on an apex or even mis-calculating braking before the turn, can catapult your rider miles down the track. You would think that an electric powered bike would respond differently but this is surreal. The introduction to MotoE was throughly enjoyable.
Regardless of whether you choose the Grand Prix, Championship or Time Trial, you get full access to races likes the MotoGP, MotoGP2 and 3, the Red Bull Rookies Cup, MotoE, MotoGP 4-stroke and 2-stroke race formats. You have choices between Career, Quick Modes, Historical Challenges & the MotoGP eSport Championship (new feature) and a bunch of customisation options on graphics and your custom rider.ĭeep diving into the Quick Modes gives you the full spread on MotoGP race types. The menu too has sprawled compared to the last MotoGP.
Besides choosing your player name and features you also get to tweak the team name and logo. The game starts off with an in-depth character customization screen.