This year’s biggest addition is a historic mode called Nine Season 2009, which chronicles the eventful season that saw the legendary Italian speedster Valentino Rossi win his ninth and final MotoGP championship. Instead, the game has a pretty standard implementation of rumble that occurs when you’re off the track or have crashed, which is fine but doesn’t quite communicate the sense of danger that should be there. Granted, it’s asking a lot to ask a video game to try to recreate this high-speed thrill where a mistake is typically only noticeable once you’re flying off a motorcycle onto the pavement, but MotoGP 22 could use the controller’s force feedback to communicate to players the minutiae that occurs when a bike is about to straddle that dangerous line and thus allow players to course correct in real-time as an experienced rider does. When watching a race, there’s a thrilling aspect of seeing a rider go near-horizontal around a curve, a display of physics where you can’t believe the motorcycle is staying on both wheels.
After all, Grand Prix motorcycle racing is an intense test of man attempting to push a powerful machine to its limit, straddling the line between speed and safety.
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Milestone has spent over a decade fine-tuning its simulation of MotoGP events and the racing comes together quite nicely in MotoGP 22 as the sense of speed and sheer horsepower in these bikes mixed in with the purposeful handling creates a unique feeling racer when compared to other games inside the genre.Ĭonsidering this is the series’ second outing on PlayStation 5, I was hoping that it would take full advantage of the DualSense controller. Weighing over 346 pounds, Grand Prix motorcycles require time to turn unlike a dirt bike and this creates a very methodical type of racing, one that can’t rely on last-second turns and requires plenty of lead-up going into a bend in the road. Unlike some of Milestone’s other motorcycle racing games, such as the recently released Monster Energy Supercross 5, the bikes aren’t easy to handle. However, MotoGP 22 features a stellar new mode that celebrates the sport’s past and also continues to polish the overall gameplay, making it one of the studio’s most impressive efforts yet.
Considering the studio is juggling a number of yearly franchises in addition to original efforts like Hot Wheels Unleashed, it’s not uncommon for the changes to be quite nominal.
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Ever since Italian developer Milestone regained the MotoGP license in 2013, fans have been treated to yearly entries.