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Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Super Motocross: A Review http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6329 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Super Motocross: A Review en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:42:12 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 Violet4714 on "Super Motocross: A Review" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6329#post-65654 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:15:03 +0000 Violet4714 65654@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ hi, Robert... WR deleted the link already...apparently the poster also put the link in the comments earlier & WR caught it... it looked familiar, so i checked the comments from yesterday...no mention of WOT or Siteadvisor, just of "direct links to trojan ‘TDSS’ [aka AntiVirus2010]" in comment #17, warnings of illegally hosted videos & virus in comment #21, and my personal favorite warning in comment #24: "Link in #5 is apparently malware or virus. Tripped off all the alarms. People like this should be tied down to anthills." i wasn't going to click it & see for myself!...just glad community members caught it & warned us............i was lol about the anthills... Robert on "Super Motocross: A Review" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6329#post-65650 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:38:37 +0000 Robert 65650@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Thanks for the warnings Violet. I guess we'll have to wait.I suppose WR is the only one,besides BuBBy who can delete comments on the gamegiveaway site. Was it WOT are Siteadvisor that gave these warnings? Inas on "Super Motocross: A Review" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6329#post-65648 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:36:12 +0000 Inas 65648@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I think I'll download some games - never done it before, but it looks like fun. Thanks much for all your hard work and efforts, WR. Best, Happy Violet4714 on "Super Motocross: A Review" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6329#post-65645 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:04:03 +0000 Violet4714 65645@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ my comment is awaiting moderation on the game giveaway page, so i'm posting it here as well: @ everyone: link in #15 by “Bobby1″ is the same link deleted by mods in yesterdays giveaway (by commenter #5, “Bob”), due to it leading to a virus/malware site… WR/mods, please check & delete if necessary… use caution, everyone…several community members posted warnings/complaints yesterday… Pookie on "Super Motocross: A Review" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6329#post-65632 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:16:55 +0000 Pookie 65632@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Hi Whiterabbit, as usual your reviews are very informative and well written. I can tell you really enjoy writing them. Thanks for the hard work. Whiterabbit-uk on "Super Motocross: A Review" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6329#post-65623 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:12:40 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 65623@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Introduction: Today’s game is a 44.3Mb download and when installed expands to 114Mb. In case you’re wondering what makes this game so large (for an arcade game). 106.9Mb of this is due to the graphics (i.e. Meshes and Textures). The game comes with a partial installer; that is it installs to C:/Games/Super Motocross by default (you can change the installation path during the install wizard set up), but no shortcut is installed. You’ll have to create your own shortcuts. To make a desktop shortcut you just need to right click on the games executable and select Send To then scroll down to Desktop (Create Shortcut). If you want a Start menu shortcut, please go to the game discussion forums where you’ll find a sticky thread that tells you how to create one. <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/super%20motocross/forum%20images/arcadegameslist002.jpg"></center> The Game: This is similar to the Monster Truck Trials that was given away earlier this summer (July 09). Though we’re now looking at a trial bike rather than a truck, plus the settings are different. You now have a jungle background instead of a bleak desert setting. It’s a much better looking game than it’s predecessor, though the background graphic is rather repetitive after several levels of similar flora, with the background hills hardly ever changing. <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/super%20motocross/forum%20images/arcadegameslist014.jpg"></center> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/super%20motocross/forum%20images/arcadegameslist015.jpg"></center> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/super%20motocross/forum%20images/arcadegameslist026.jpg"></center> Basically you ride a motocross bike through 15 different obstacle course's. There are four bikes available, one that’s unlocked at the beginning of the game and three more (with names like Masterbike 2000, Magnum Striker and Titanium Pro), which can be unlocked by winning the gold trophies, though the final bike is harder to unlock (I’ve not managed to get it unlocked yet). You have to win a bronze trophy (or silver and gold) at very least to unlock the next level, of which there are 15 to complete. <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/super%20motocross/forum%20images/arcadegameslist021.jpg"></center> The difference between the bikes is the power rating; which should help you to get up steeper hills easier, especially from a standing start, (though I couldn't find much difference between the three I unlocked; so don’t hold your breath, lol). The levels definitely get harder from level three onwards, with steeper hills to climb and deep gullies to jump, which if you don't take at the right speed you won't make them. Falling in requires your nitro booster, otherwise you won't get out of them and will have to restart the level. So... don’t forget to use the Nitro when necessary. It’s definitely useful for the steeper hills and also for building up speed to jump the deep gullies. Controls: • Roll Left – Left arrow • Roll Right – Right arrow • Move Forwards – Up arrow • Move Back/break– Down arrow • Use Nitro – Space • Pause – Esc <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/super%20motocross/forum%20images/arcadegameslist003.jpg"></center> System Requirements: Operating system………MS Windows 2000/XP/Vista CPU……………………Pentium 1GHz or higher System RAM ………….256MB Video RAM…………....64MB or above Images: You can see all the screen captures on one page <a href="http://s853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/super%20motocross/?albumview=grid">HERE</a> and a slide show <a href="http://s853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/super%20motocross/?albumview=slideshow">HERE</a> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/super%20motocross/forum%20images/arcadegameslist024.jpg"></center> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/super%20motocross/forum%20images/arcadegameslist019.jpg"></center> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/super%20motocross/forum%20images/arcadegameslist020.jpg"></center> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/super%20motocross/forum%20images/arcadegameslist023.jpg"></center> Conclusion: The handling of the bike was virtually the same as the Monster Truck nitro game that we got back in July. The only difference was the graphics. I liked the overall look of the game ([i]apart from the odd flickering stripes that appeared quite frequntly, which you can see in many of the screenshots), but I already have a really good trials bike emulator called Trials 2: Second Edition that is vastly superior to this game. I’ll be keeping it though for some light relief as it’s a much easier game than Trials 2, which I find almost impossible to beat. I was able to progress through 3 levels at gold standard with no second retries even though I was relatively slow. You just have to make sure you use the left and right arrows to steady yourself during the jumps (which helps to stop the bike over balancing) Overall, if you don’t have any other games of this type, it’s okay for free and should give you some measure of enjoyment, but I think purists to this genre will find this too easy, the graphics a little to flung together and the game far too short. At the very most there’s an hours worth of game play for the average player and that’s if you need to repeat each level at least once or twice. With many arcade games available for much less than the asking price I think it’s over priced at $9.95 and would be better sold at $4.50 at the most. I do like this sort of game so am rather generous with my scoring giving this a 5.5 out of 10 for the physics aspect of the game. Other useful information: Music: There are four MP3 tracks that you can replace if you don’t like the menu and in game music. All you need to do is go to C:\Games\Super Motocross\\Data\Music; select the four MP3’s you want to use from your collection and rename the four files you use to Level1, level2, level3 (no spaces) and menu. <ul> <blockquote>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </blockquote> </ul> Other Games: You can get a reasonable quad bike racing game called ATV Quadro Racing <a href="http://www.gametop.com/download-free-games/quadro-racing/download.html"> HERE</a> It’s available free from Gametop. <blockquote>Just a note of caution about Gametop. The site now has a yellow rating with Site Advisor. Some of their games do try to install toolbars and hijack your browsers home page, but both can be avoided by making sure the boxes are unchecked during installation. The site also seems to have ramped up their pop ups, so make sure your pop up blocker is active if you want to avoid those annoying pop ups. Once the games are installed you will get the sites home page opening up when you shut the games down, but there is no in game advertising and effectively you’re getting free commercial arcade games :)</blockquote> Another free bike racing game called Moto Racing (which I think is better than the one being given away for free today), can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.gametop.com/download-free-games/motoracing/download.html">HERE</a>, though it doesn’t have the physics emulation that Super Motocross has. Monster Truck Trials the previous giveaway that is similar to today’s game giveaway, is also available for free <a href="http://www.gametop.com/download-free-games/monster-truck-challenge/download.html">HERE]</a>, though it’s had a name change to Monster Truck Challenge. Here’s a couple more online trials bike games that can be played full screen apart from the last one (i.e.Super motocross) called Bike Master, click <a href="http://www.gametop.com/online-free-games/bike-master-online">HERE</a> and Trial bike Pro, click <a href="http://www.gametop.com/online-free-games/trial-bike-pro-online/">HERE</a>. The following is a window only game, but still worth checking out if you like motocross games. It’s called Super Motocross, and can be played <a href="http://www.ugoplayer.com/games/supermotocross.html">HERE</a> If you're willing to pay a little money you can get a couple of excellent 3D Motocross games called Motocross Mania and Motocross Madness 2 that allow you to move around a vast open world, and have several different modes of play. You can pick up either of the games below for less than today’s giveaway if you look for them on the net. I've seen Motocross Madness 2 (the better of the two games) for less than $5 on Play.com, though you may have to buy a second hand one. I couldn't resist posting the images below. Motocross Mania: <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/motocross%20mania/motocrossmania_profilelarge.jpg"></center> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/motocross%20mania/52256ss_sm2.jpg"></center> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/motocross%20mania/motocross-mania-79999_1963610.jpg"></center> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/motocross%20mania/34871_full.jpg"></center> Motocross Madness 2: <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/motocross%20madness%202/motocross-madness-2_322442.jpg"></center> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/motocross%20madness%202/3.jpg"></center> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/motocross%20madness%202/motocross-madness-2_322443.jpg"></center> <center><img src="http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab93/whiterabbit03/motocross%20madness%202/motocrossmad2_profilelarge.jpg"></center>