MX Superfly (Xbox)

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• Reviewed by: Jeff Gerstmann
• Reviewed on: 12/03/2002
• Released on: 11/20/2002

MX Superfly is the follow-up to last year's PlayStation 2 and Xbox motocross game, MX 2002 Featuring Ricky Carmichael. This year's game sticks pretty closely to last year's script, though many of the rough and clunky portions of MX 2002 are smoothed out here, making it an easier game to grasp for first-time players. It also adds an array of minigames that, for the most part, just get in the way of what the game does best.

MX Superfly is a cleaned-up and slightly larger version of MX 2002.

While it's listed abut halfway down the game's main menu, the game's main mode of play is its career mode. In career mode, you'll create a rider and start either a racing career or a freestyle career. The motocross racing career is the more straightforward of the two. In this mode, you'll go through a couple of tutorial levels and then make your way from course to course in typical racing game fashion. As you progress, you'll unlock new levels. The freestyle career is a little more convoluted. You need to earn money to advance from class to class, which you'll earn by competing in various events. The best events are the standard freestyle courses, but these are few and far between. Watering down the mode is a handful of minigames that will also earn you cash. Some, such as the bus jump and step-up competitions, which have returned from last year's game, are well done and effectively break up the monotony. But the wackier minigames--one that puts you on a golf course and asks you to drive from tees to holes, as well as another that asks you to pick up pizzas and deliver them to various points on the map--seem a little thrown together and really take away from the overall experience. The fact that you have to do well at these minigames to proceed only compounds this problem. Aside from the career mode, you can set up single races, freestyle competitions, and minigames. There's also a split-screen multiplayer mode and a pretty decent track editor.

The Xbox version of MX Superfly has support for additional downloadable content via Xbox Live. There are quite a few new riders and bikes available for download right now. These are nice additions, but considering that all the riders in the game perform identically, it's not really terribly useful. The game also has new levels in it that can only be unlocked via an Xbox Live download, but neither of the two freestyle tracks available are as good as the ones that ship with the game right off the bat.

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