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Great Riding Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have not ridden many motorcycles, but with my limited experience, I can say that this game will get you a great feel for how street and sports bikes perform. This is a great game, with a simple, well designed interface. The only thing I want to see in it yet is Road America, but that's minor.

A great game with one drawback.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Being right-handed, I wish the option to steer with the right analog stick and throttle/brake with the left analog stick was available. Alas, it's not. Yes, I'm well aware the throttle is on the right in the real world. Even so, I'd gladly trade a more realistic controller layout for greater steering precision.

Practice safe motorcycling

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You may not like this game unless you're a motorcycling enthusiast, especially on the more realistic handling settings. That said, the game still plays a bit arcade-like, but that's probably a good thing in this case.

Tourist Trophy is good start to a mostly un-touched racing genre. It would have been nice for a lot more depth (more race modes, more bikes, more of everything) like it's automotive-cousin (the Gran Turismo series), but I'm willing to bet the next one will be a bit of an upgrade now that they have the engine tweaked for motorcycles.

It's great for me, a fan of the GT series, that most of the tracks are still the same, it makes it easy to jump in and start playing. 2 player battles are a lot of fun, especially if you have motorcycle friends.

The "real riding simiulator" is anything but accurate, but it certainly doesn't mean it's a bad game. Those looking for a pure arcade motorcycle experience will be disapointed.

Could have been better...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

There are a couple things I didn't like about this game. One, there is no money system. You can't buy bikes or parts or anything. You aquire bikes by doing challenges which I think is pretty cool, but they should have included a money system so you could buy and sell bikes as well. The menu and and interface is pretty much just ripped from gran turismo 4, which isnt a bad thing (If it isn't Broken, don't fix it). The other thing I didn't like is that you only race one other bike. I am only a few races into the game so maybe you race more bikes later. I like everything else in the game just fine. The physics are realistic. Not perfect but pretty good. I think it would be nearly impossible to create the same realism with a motorcycle racing game as you can with a car racing game. The graphics are up to par as expected. Overall This is a good game, but if you dont like simulation racing games, then this isn't for you. If you are looking for a realistic motorcycle racing game then this if for you.

Joystick realist riding-Tourist Trophy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. It had me sceptical at first as it was quite chalanging in the beginning, however, as with riding, your skills improve as you go... The bikes are pretty realistic in relative accelration, braking, and handling.The only downfall/complaint I have about it is that durning races you can't touch grass, sand, walls, etc. without a 10 second penelty as where the computer is able to get away with taking short cuts through the land with any penelty.

Tilt A Whirl In a Can

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have at least four different motorcycle games, dirt bike and road race. This has to be the worst physics of any of them bar none. If you slow down and lean too much, its as if the world keeps moving and you can somehow slide sideways even when you should be traveling forward. Very disconcering. I played this game for about an hour and just couldn't believe my eyes. VERY touchy controls with the standard PS2 controller. The bikes were cool, and there seemed to be alot of choices, even some old vintage bikes. If I had it to do over again after seeing this game in action, I would have gotten something else.

Excellent SIMULATOR

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love this game, though, as the makers say, it's more a simulator than a game. Takes a while to get good at, but it is very realistic, amazing graphics, fantastic selection of bikes (all the ones I wanted, anyway), and fun for me to race my son.

The Gift

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game about two weeks ago, at first I wasn't too impress with the game as I couldn't stay on the bike so I decided to turn it into a show piece, well after today I have a COMPLETELY different opinion, the game is AWESOME. However it would have been much more appreciated if I could have Tune-up & Design (Graphics) my bike, also you should have had the option to increase the opponents as in Moto Racer.
Overall the Game got my approval and comes HIGHLY RECCOMMENDED.

Best Motorcycle Sim out there

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

the folks behind Gran Tourismo really got the motorcycle genre right in this one. It's a challenging trip through lots of modern and a few classic bikes from all the major japanese manufacturers and a few european ones. some fairly significant models seem to be missing, but there are some fascinating choices for what they did include. great graphics, great play engine, good 2-player mode, lots of good tracks.

Solid effort, but inconsistent

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I had no doubt Polyphony Digital could create another great race game, even one with half the wheels of the others. But "Gran Turismo with bikes" this game really isn't. While there are many varying bikes to collect, you never get the sense you own your machine and can customize it how you choose. You don't actually buy bikes in TT, you win the right to use them by winning short challenges. Most of the challenges are stupidly easy; others are devilishly hard. The actual races aren't that much more exciting. Much like Gran Turismo, the opponents are robotic in their technique, making many races boring parades that aren't especially difficult to win. A rare crash will cost you hardly any time at all. What Tourist Trophy does right are its bikes, which all feel and sound different from one another. The scooters are surprisingly fun, the big 1000cc monsters can be unwieldy, and the 125cc-250cc bikes are just right. The graphics also hold up well, even as we're a couple of years into the new generation of hardware. I hope Tourist Trophy has life as a series on the PS3; it seems like one of those games that will be great in its sequel(s), if it's lucky enough to get that far. If you're into motorcycle racing games, you know that quantity has taken over quality on store shelves the past few years. Tourist Trophy's variety of rides and familiar tracks make it a worthy choice. Just don't expect quite the refinement of the Gran Turismo series.

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