MotoGP08 for the PS2 - anyone own it?

[wbks]

What are your guys lap times? I got a 1min16 flat at sachsenring on the zx-rr (too much of a kawasaki fan I know), and couldn't beat just under 117 on the desmo... Just a few things for anyone looking at picking it up - The reviewers are all giving it bad reviews because it doesn't have much more than a simple racing season plot with no cut scenes or anything but if you're a fan of MotoGP it will be enough (it was for me) of an excuse to play it all the time that you can ride the desmosedici, RSV-R etc and the 125's and 250s are really fun to ride. The graphics look good in play (apart from sometimes the knee dissapearing into the ground if you go into orbit mode) and it's generally fun to play. Only things I dislike about it are the lack of unlockables and how simple the bike set up is. You should be able to adjust front and rear rebound, compression, springrates, wheel size. Earlyer motogp games were better like this (fuell amount in bike, wheel size etc). One thing I HATE about it though - You can go any race in intermediate (even hard some times) without going over 4th gear and win by 10 secs yet the moment it is a rain race, you will be riding on the limit of grip but all of the sudden you're struggling to make second to last...

[ducatilover]

sbk08 on pc has awesome graphics. sbk onps2 has always had crappy graphics

oh gay. i should get it for pc then.


not too sure what my lap times are probably shit though

[gav]

OK so back to MotoGP 08, has this game got a glitch? If you play it in Career mode, I was missing out practice and qualifying and just starting the race, where ever you finish is where you will start in the next race, ie finish fourth and you'll be fourth on the grid. The thing I noticed was if you win when you start the next race, every other rider is riding in the same colour leathers and helmet as you!? If you finish 2nd it seems fine, its only after you win. The bikes are the right colours, just the riders colours end up the same.
I actually prefer the GP 04 game with the 990's, they were more fun to ride with you able to pull big long slides and laying darkies on the track, the 800's dont seem to do that. Maybe its too realistic?

[Zealnz]

Hmm sounds like you've got something crazy going on there, I don't have those probs at all (playing on PC).

I'm crazy about motorbike games and have tried a bunch, and I gotta say that the best one I've ever played is the old GP500 from way back.

Sure it was 2 stroke and the bikes all sounded like lawnmowers but there hasn't been a racing game since that comes close to the fun factor of being able to put in some good lap times in GP500! (although motogp08 does come pretty close)

[wbks]

Not any glitches like that for me, gav! Only prob is some times if you flick a bit of a highside motion and put it back in line, sometimes (and this is only once every few crashes of riding hard out) it just throws the rider over the bars randomly even though the whole thing happened about a second ago and you're now riding fine...