/// SO, on finding out there was nothing i wanted to get this week, i even hunted the ex-rental/trade-in shelves for something i don't all ready have or just doesn't interest me, i decided to rent a game out for the week. That game was SBK 09, now if MotoGP is the F1 of bike racing formulas, SBK is the touring car series and not quite so mental! That's not to say trying to wrestle a 200bhp lump of metal around a corner on a knife edge is by any means easy. A couple of us sat down and chose to play in arcade mode (because we are scaredy girls!) because the 'real' mode seems to involve over 2hrs of practicing, tuning and qualifying sessions before you get to an actual race, i'll have to check that later. The rules were simple, Donnington track, we couldn't pick the same bike twice and winner takes all (loser has to get the drinks in). After the first couple of see how far we can wheelie down the straight, spectacular endo crashes and swearing as we overshot corners laps we got into the groove and race by race our laptimes dropped and we kept winning. Gimp blamed my obsession with the wonderful Tourist Trophy bike game, by which i judge every other bike game ever. Seriously it's the tits!! Gran Turismo with truckloads of great and classic rides, and i blamed his love of shiney plastic covered things. Towards the end of the evening laps times were being decided on mere 10ths of seconds. a great blast. Nice to have 26 bikes on track at once but this does make getting stuck behind a pack of them a bit of a worry, the circuits are well modeled if a bit empty feeling, the bikes and riders now have 'damage' and if you sustain too much during a race, or one big fuck up, you're gonna be out of it. A game for hardened bike nuts. probably write more once i get into the meat and veg reality modes later in the week.
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