The original’s mid-race challenges are still in place, pushing you to get a high speed or nail a line through a corner for extra points. It’s a gentle learning curve for how bikes handle, and allows you to quickly unlock the 12 new rides on offer. There’s a full new Tour mode made up of races, trials and tournaments to make your way through, with each section capped by a tournament in a certain country. Again the difference bikes make is profound, with a high demand for slipstreaming combining with more room to move about of the track subtly altering how DriveClub plays.
Races, meanwhile, are as fun as ever, with gentle rubber-banding keeping them tight but still allowing skill to shine through. They work really well, and pulling off a decent length trick is surprisingly difficult, balancing throttle with gentle pulling of the left stick. And while it might not be possible to drift on a bike, the base game’s skill trials instead have you pulling wheelies and stoppies (think the former on the front wheel). You’re glued to the bike, with wipe outs instead resetting you to the track. DriveClub had you deal with corners as you got to them, but here you need to think about track positioning well in advance, making sure you clip the apex each time.ĭon’t think this is any more realistic than DriveClub, though. You’ll need to think about your rider’s weight on the bike, take tighter lines into corners and brake in the perfect sweet spot to maximise your exit speed, with no chance to turn an overcooked turn into a drift – bikes will send you sailing in the barriers. Once familiar tracks require different approaches. Surprise released during Paris Games Week, DriveClub Bikes now adds motorbikes into the mix, replete with a new handling model to master. Over twelve months on, DriveClub is quite a different beast, one that delivers far more of its original promise, with a functioning online set-up, mid-race challenges from other players and even more content.
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