Moto GP (GBA)

This video was captured using the actual game on an actual Gamecube Game Boy Advance player. All races with the exception of the last race have been cut down to one lap for your consideration and enjoyment.

The primary reason I even possess this game is because this game is included with my GT Advance cartridge. The cool thing about the GBA is that some games that had several installments on the GBA got put onto one cartridge and sold for a low price. That needs to happen again. Along with all three GT Advance games came Moto GP. For the longest time I wasn't even aware that there was a fourth game on this cart. I tried it out and it is pretty decent. It's not the greatest motorcycle racing game, because it has been out done by Moto Racer Advance. I hope to some day get a hold of Moto Racer.

Anyway this is Moto GP. One thing that clearly stands out about this game is the music. The music just plain rocks with one great guitar riff after another. The graphics are pretty decent and the motorcycle sound is........well.......not good but that really doesn't matter because the rockin' music makes up for that. The play control is kinda where this game falls short. It feels kind of stiff and there is no manual transmission offered which doesn't settle well with me. Sometimes the directional pitch of your motorcycle doesn't quite match the direction you're actually heading which is quite distracting and can cause some stupid collisions while trying to pass other motorcycles and just trying to get around a hairpin turn. Moto GP does borrow the speed boosting by pulling the motorcycle back on one wheel, but instead of the boost being infinite, it gives you a limited boost that refills shortly after use. It works much better in Moto Racer. So far in the beginning the A.I. is fairly easy which can kind of make the very very long races kinda boring. Perhaps it does get harder as you progress. That brings me to the reason why I chopped the second and third laps off of all the races in this capture because each lap is about a minute and a half to two minutes each. After I was done with the capture it was over twenty-three minutes long. It was way too long to watch me spank the computer for an extra four minutes per race. I left one lap per race so you can see the track layouts and hear the music for each track.

It's not a bad game. Like I said before it has just been significantly out done. If you're looking for a great motorcycle racing game for the GBA, get Moto Racer Advance.

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[TreeCrabApples]

I have to get this game