MXGP Pro

I'm not actually certain if my time with MXGP Pro is déjà vu or déjà vécu right now. The former is a feeling of familiarity, where there's just something there and you feel you know it. Déjà vécu, on the other hand, is a feeling of recollection. A feeling that you have already lived through that moment. The more you know.

If you don’t mind that its career mode doesn’t really have much pizzazz, MXGP Pro will provide you with many hours of dirty racing activity. As usual, its supporting range of modes don’t do a great deal to excite, but its new training options are a great way to get up to speed. Maybe next year Milestone will revitalise its career mode just as much has it done the visuals and core game mechanics this year. But until then, simply having the best playing MXGP game will have to do.

This is by far and away the best MXGP game to date, and the result of developer Milestone finally getting to grips with the Unreal Engine — despite the recently disappointing MotoGP 18. MXGP Pro still lacks technical polish and misses the magical ‘wow’ moments that the best racing games feature, but this is now a great platform that they can build upon for the future. The difficulty curve will not be for everyone, but MXGP Pro is all the better for it.

MXGP Pro’s greatest highlight is probably its environmental visuals. Every course, whether based in a stadium or a muddy forest, looks impressively realistic. Mud flies all over the place as your bike creates wet imprints in the track, while your racer’s uniform gets stained and muddied with each splash. It’s quite impressive, though I’ll be the first to admit that the human faces don’t look fantastic.

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