Just bear in mind that when under contract you can only don specific colours. Placing highly in races when under these sponsorships will see you earn more credits, letting you unlock further customisation options for both your bike and character.
Speaking of which, progressing your custom driver’s career is a relatively straightforward affair, tasking you to work your way up the championships while taking on different sponsorships. It’s a fun if basic distraction from the career mode. These act as player-created routes that have been uploaded online and take place on the large-ish map, challenging you to race from point to point without knowing where the next waypoint might be. It’s also here in Playground where you can undertake Waypoint races. In this year’s iteration the setting happens to be a Norwegian fishing village, which is just as tranquil as it sounds and features a wide variety of terrain to tear up and skid upon. Leaning on the more playful side is MXGP 2020’s Playground mode, which, as its name suggests, is an area where you can just roam around a plain of land and get to grips with your motorcycle.
#MXGP 2020 PS5 SIMULATOR#
MXGP 2020 can be as deep a racing simulator as you’d like. I’m admittedly a casual player for racers of this type, so I appreciated the ability to tweak such incremental settings in there. The difficulty level of AI racers, for instance, can be set either at Very Easy all the way up to hard, and you can set the gear shifting to semi-automatic or entirely manual. Luckily, MXGP 2020 presents players with a whole suite of options to let you tailor the experience exactly to your tastes. The ultimate goal, though, is to get through a championship without having to use it as a crutch. Plus, because there’s no racing line first-timers can stick to, at times it can be all too tempting to just rewind on a section of a track until you get it right. The career mode is surprisingly sparse in terms of content and depth anyway, but all the game does to tutorialise you into how racing works is pop the controls onscreen during your first race. I say this because if there’s one thing MXGP 2020 does poorly it’s onboarding. This can be activated at any time to attempt a turn or jump correctly, and is still the best learning tool for those new to simulation racers. Luckily, as is the case in most Milestone racing games, the rewind feature is baked into MXGP 2020’s career portion and quick race modes.
Because while there’s always the temptation to just hold the trigger down and do your best to reach top speed on a straight, not knowing when to appropriately brake or shift your weight on the motorcycle will almost certainly lead to a crash. The first thing to say about MXGP 2020 is that it’s very much a faithful simulation of the motocross championship experience. This remains the case for the most recent effort, MXGP 2020, which may have already released last December on last-gen systems but is now ready to let players tear up the track on PS5. There’s simply a lot more fun you can have with a game based on the MXGP and MX2 bike categories compared to conventional MotoGP, not least because of the extra dynamism of tracks and the slightly different terrain types.
#MXGP 2020 PS5 SERIES#
By now the developers over at Milestone have proved themselves to be masters of the motorcycle racer, but I’ve always had a slight sense that the MXGP series has been where its creative heart lies most.
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