Championship, single race – the usual suspects. Modes-wise, you’ll be racing and… well there are races. Like the rest of the release, this is a subtle feature, that may not be imminently clear when watching, but you can feel the difference, especially with adaptive triggers on the PS5. The graphic enhancements which make it easier to clearly see the lines, help though, although dynamic rain mixes things up as the track can change during a race, as things get a bit sloppier. I started on Very Easy, and still had a challenge despite some significant experiences of the MX and Monster Energy games. It can be pretty frustrating until it all sinks in, but the Rewind functionality is back, although sometimes it’s just quicker to crash and respawn, then continue rather than rewinding, and re-attempting a blown corner. It’s still requiring driver precision, which is welcomed. The aforementioned control refinement means you can slide the bike more around turns without the dreaded sticky bike wiggle (TM) that has plagued some versions. The few visual blips and frame hitches that existed last year are gone, as clearly more time with the dev kits have helped the PS5 and Series X variants become the new, now primary release (indications are that it struggles on Xbox One and PS4, although I cannot test this). Visually, MXGP 2021 runs very smoothly on next-generation hardware. Thankfully, for someone that has played a lot of these games, I can see some differences, but they’re subtle. If you’re into the sport, updated drivers, teams, liveries and tracks will be a boon, but otherwise, you’d be hard-pressed to see a difference. Annual iterations of these types of sports games can suffer from not much changing, but we’re getting close to the point of taking liberties now. Outside of this, there isn’t really much to differentiate 2021 from MXGP 2020. MXGP 2021 doesn’t really offer much new by way of gameplay over the last in the series but does correct some adjustments made in 2020 which return the handling to a slightly less fiddly proposition as was in 2019. Mainly it’s because of the increased variety of the tracks, being outdoors they get to be bigger, wider, more sprawling as well as be set in different locales than a stadium on similar coloured dirt. I much prefer the MXGP games to the Monster Supercross games.
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