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You create your custom rider, fiddle with the extensive sticker creation system to customise your rider and bike, and then sign up to either an existing Moto3, Moto2 or MotoGP team, or found your own to try and lead to glory. While there’s some tweaks, much of the career mode is the same as before.
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It can be tiring for your digits at full strength across long races, so it’s a shame that dropping the effect down to ‘Medium’ reduces them to simply being triggers with more tension than usual.
It’s the triggers that are the real hit, though, the way that they “slip” under your fingers conveying the bike’s wobbles and squirms, the loss of grip under braking, acceleration and cornering. The DualSense controller really adds to the experience, with a little more precision to the haptic feedback compared to traditional rumble. Playing on PlayStation 5, the game looks and runs great, with dynamic 4K and solid 60fps giving a crisp and clear image to go alongside impeccable performance.
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They’re often quite finicky to tackle, with Milestone promising the ability to let the AI take over in an update after release. Similarly, if you cut too many corners or other infractions, the game can penalise you by forcing you to take a ‘long lap’ adding an extra corner or extending one depending on the track. It’s a bit clunky and takes too long, but fits with reality.
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Instead of simply respawning as a ghost on track (which is still an option if you like), you now see your driver get up, dust themselves off and you then sprint over to the bike. There are some realistic nods that I do enjoy seeing, even if it’s rubbing the salt in the wound that I’ve just fallen off my bike. It doesn’t match either game through the tutorial or the R&D objectives in the career mode, which feel more like general goals rather than an effort to teach you the tracks and how best to get around them. To bring motorbike racing to more people, to make it accessible, it needs to far outclass what can be found in F1 2020’s practice session track learning objectives or Gran Turismo’s licenses. One of the first things you encounter in MotoGP 21 is the tutorial, which tries to get you up to speed with riding a bike, but it’s an area where I feel MotoGP lags behind car racing games. You really do require a deft touch on the triggers and analogue stick in order to string a good lap together, and not fall off your bike entirely. The full-blooded MotoGP bikes take that even further, feeling like you’re trying to tame a wild beast. Moto3 bikes are a relatively easy ride, if lively when pushing with reckless abandon, but Moto2 bikes step things up with a lot more throttle control needed to lay down the power and more care needed on the brakes to avoid pulling a stoppie. The bike handling retains many of the characteristics of those found in MotoGP 20, further enhanced with improved bike suspension and now factoring in brake temperatures and size choices to match the track characteristics and weather.
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In truth, while the MotoGP license gives the game its flavour, it’s much more about how it plays. In this one aspect alone, MotoGP 21 is a much truer representation of the 2021 season. That was felt most keenly in the world of motorsports, and while MotoGP 20 featured 22 tracks, only 9 were used in reality. With matches cancelled or postponed, races reorganised at the last minute and hastily concluded championships in the real world, sports games carried on like nothing was different. Last year was a strange one for certain sports games.
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