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Riding Spirits (Playstation 2)

Hit the road on 200 of the fastest two-wheel machines on the planet from companies like Yamaha, Honda and Suzuki in the most accurate motorcycle racing game ever created. Earn your chance to sit astride these racing rockets by speeding to victory, winning cash for taking races. Spend your winnings on new bikes and all the racing gear you'll need to make you look as good as you ride. Drop serious dollars in the shop, adding better wheels, tighter suspension and bigger engines to your bike, taking it from stock ride to tricked-out racing machine. Anyone can wheel a bike out of a dealership -- can you tune yours to be a winner? Test the limits of your abilities on courses where a split-second decision means the difference between victory or defeat. Start your career and begin building your rep, as you crank open the throttle across 16 different tracks in America, Japan and Europe. [BAM Entertainment]

BAM! Entertainment
Racing
Players: 2
E (Everyone)
Developer: Spike
Released September 9, 2002

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

59 / 100

Critic Reviews

72	Game Over Online The gameplay is more than a little unforgiving, there are a handful of speed-decreasing roadblocks in the game’s physics, and Riding Spirits won’t be winning any awards in the graphics department either.
72	TotalGames.net Certainly a decent enough addition to the genre and less demanding race fans should find plenty to smile about.
70	Games Radar UK (Pre-2006) Fairly reasonable motorbike jaunt that purists will love, but may cause frustration that could lead to unplanned DualShock damage. [PSM2]
70	Media and Games Online Network Spike tried way too hard in making this like "Gran Turismo" that they forgot the fact that they had to actually develop the game themselves.
70	Official U.S. Playstation Magazine I'd prefer both the look and feel of "Moto GP 2." [Oct 2002, p.150]
70	All Game Guide The problem with speed perception is probably the most noticeable deficiency that can be easily defined, although the lack of innovation and close design of gameplay aspects to earlier releases can't be dismissed out of hand.
70	Yahoo! Games A hard game to recommend, but just as hard to universally bash.
61	IGN When you break it down to its essence however, Spike's motorcycle racing game is little more than a clone of a fantastic driving game ["GT3"] that we've been playing for almost two years now.
60	PSM Magazine Graphically inferior to glitzy modern day racers, and nowhere near as fast as it should be. [Oct 2002, p.40]
59	GameSpot After only a few minutes with it, you'll quickly notice that it not only has poor control, repetitive sounds, and bland graphics, but also blatantly rips off the overall structure and visual stylings of "Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec."
50	GamePro It’s a driving sim devoid of personality.
50	PSX Nation Just doesn’t have the visual gloss or sounds to compare to "GT3: A-Spec," Namco’s "Moto GP 2" and a dozen other top-notch PS2 racers.
40	Adrenaline Vault The graphics are devoid of polish and personality, and the sound will make you fall in love with your mute button all over again.
30	Gamestyle Although, I wish I couldn’t go “ooh”. I wish I went “Bloody hell! Everything’s a God Damn blur!” instead.

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