
In Career, players are tasked with gaining an excellent reputation with teams as well as upping their fan base, in order to land a permanent spot with one of the MotoGP teams. In this room, you can check news paper reports on past races, view the championship standings, change the look of your virtual racing persona, and access race events from the calendar. Within the game’s main mode, Career (splitscreen and online racing also available), players find themselves in a barebones, but easily navigated changing room area that serves as a kind of race command centre.

Gamers are also able to view a weather report, check the prevailing track conditions, and get track info including the number of right- and left-turn corners, while the race is loading.

The latter involves videos of the tracks and surrounding city area being shown before each race. Landing a permanent spot with a top motoGP team means landing plenty of podium finishes.ĭespite the underwhelming graphical and auditory prowess of the game, MotoGP 13 actually sports an engaging presentation. Don’t expect the same almost palpable sense of auditory stimulation via MotoGP 13, as the bikes all sound very similar and totally underwhelming. Many SBK series fans can tell the difference in the auditory soundtrack of a deep burbling engine of a Ducati and high-revving symphonic notes of a Kawasaki Ninja powerplant. Like supercars, superbikes can be identified by their exhaust notes. A lot of the advertisement boards on tracks for instance look horribly pixelated, and in the event that you misjudge a corner and venture off the track, you actually drive through them as though they were futuristic holographic projections. This is down to outdated shadow and lighting effects, and semi-realistic backdrops on race tracks that boasts many low resolution elements. The game does not just lack the graphical punch of most racing games released lately including Grid 2 (review), but is also not a match for older titles such as 2010’s Gran Turismo 5 (review). Unlike big budget racing titles such as Forza Horizon, MotoGP 13 will most definitely not entice players with amazing graphical eye-candy. Is it good enough to land a podium place in your racing collection or does it spectacularly crash out of the running?

Superbike fans however have only a singular option in Milestone’s MotoGP 13. When it comes to games based upon sport franchises, soccer and car racing fans are spoiled for choice.
