The other night I downloaded a new demo game from XBox Live. How cool is that, neh? This was MotoGP 06, the latest version for the XBox 360. This was the first game I ever played on XBox Live (or maybe it was Mechassault). And the memories came rushing back.
This is good old-fashioned fun, if you can call racing online in realtime with 7 other human beings and 8 AIs 'old-fashioned'. But this is what we did in the good old days when we only had the XBox Live demo disk. Mugello, Mugello and more Mugello. One track, lots of gamers and huge hoots of fun.
The track is exactly as it was before only sharper. There are more details in the backgrounds and that little bit of annoying and challenging blur as you hit the gas is gone, but the feel is very much like it always was. One thing that the Moto GP folks have going for them is by far the most interesting set of tracks in all of online racing, and they must have nailed it the first times out because there are no changes. What we online racers know is that Nurburgring is substantially different between Project Gotham Racing 2 and Forza Motorsport with Forza coming out on top for detail and presumeably, accuracy as well. But in PGR3, the track is much more closely aligned with what the Forza guys did, and so, I believe it is more accurate. So here's the deal. If MotoGP 06 has Nurburgring, it will be the absolute bomb.
I'm very much looking forward to the new game, and meeting some old friends online that I haven't seen in years.
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