EXTREME BIKE X

Poor graphics. Simple. Fun. No crashing; great for kids. Bike selection screen: there's no visible bikes so just hit A and you get what you get. Music is annoying but it can be turned down. Worked great with an Xbox Core + 8BitDo Pro 2 at the same time. Didn't try adding 3rd or 4th player but would probably work fine.

I mean, it works and it's quite fun when you win. AI isn't the brightest and it seems a bit random, but hey this is low low budget racing! You can see some effort has gone into it - especially with the level editor, which is possibly the game's biggest strength, especially given how little number of tracks there are to start with. The split screen is a nice touch and somewhere that, again, you can see some work went into the game.. but I feel like they needed a bit more work to go in. The physics are janky. For example, sometimes you don't even go in a straight line when you should be, and sometimes I'm not really sure why I'm accelerating more on one straight than I will another??!!! Etc. .. but hey I can live with that as long as the racing is good fun. I think the jankiness is part of its appeal. As for polish, well, there are menus but no options as far as I can tell and it doesn't even seem to say what the controls are, so who knows how to get tricks working?? I don't! I see the rider doing back flips in the trailer (is that the only trick?) but I don't know how you can get it to do that. Is there even a trick button? I feel like the $11 price tag is too high for what we expect from it. I got it on sale for a few dollars and I feel happy to have paid that, but I wouldn't be happy at full price just because there isn't all that much content on offer. It would need a lot more tracks, a proper career mode (not one where you have to choose your own tracks) then I'd recommend it at full price. As it is, it's a fun little racer to get on sale.. with the emphasis on *little*. Overall, it's fun for a few but I think it could use a bunch more work to make it a 'full' game, though. As it stands, there's not enough to keep you coming back. If it comes on sale for a few and you're a fan of low, low budget racers then .. sure, I say, why not??