tremendously fun!
The physics seem quite good and the bike feels very nice. The bike does
wheelies in low gears even when the rider is leaning forwards while
under braking the backwheel might lift off if you brake too hard. What
really made it for me though was the wobbles on corner exit if you were
pushing a bit too hard, way cool!
The track in the demo is Mugello which is a very enjoyable track,
although I would have preferred to have Brno :-) In particular there are
a series of fast corners at the far end of the track which are very much
fun! From how much I know the real Mugello it seems fairly accurate
although it's perfectly smooth in GP500 (no bumps, the real track is
known to have quite a few) and doesn't appear to have any camber. Also
there doesn't seem to be much details around the track, makes it hard to
pick out brakingpoints.
The graphics looks nice although a bit dark in my opinion, looks like
there's a storm brewing up, and not much like a sunny Italian summer...
Like in SBK the riders falls off the bikes in accidents, which is cool
although (at least in the demo) they don't run back to the bike, but is
just placed back on track.
The engine sound is much better than the one in SBK IMO, it's really a
screaming 2 stroker :-) All bikes appeared to use the same noise though,
or at least very similar ones. The bikes probably handle quite
differently, but I haven't driven enough to notice it yet except for the
different topspeeds :-)
Haven't had much time to check out the ai riders yet, as I'm too slow
yet :-) But I'm still having very much fun as the bikes are very much
fun to ride on their own as well :-)
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Arne Martin