![]() ![]() What Incog has fashioned here is a truly unique riding experience. The quantity of shortcuts, variants secret lines and the like is indeed impressive. ![]() The level of horizontal and vertical paths is excellent and satisfying. Furthermore, players can easily ride these courses a half dozen times and do them differently with each new ride. As a result, what one feels is the constant need to find more open ground, or at least more level ground, creating a tension that adds to the already incredible tension that exists. Oftentimes the courses are secretly shaped like giant half-pipes, or at least giant chutes, peppered with stuff. In addition, the courses are never flat for too long, an interesting effect. From running water, be it a stream, waterfall or river, to the flurry of animated objects on screen - from elk, polar bears, deer, vehicles and hikers, all of which you can hit or be hit by - to lighting and other weather conditions, the game is wildly kinetic. The vastness of the courses is complemented by the huge amount of detail that essentially attacks the screen. You'll be at the top of a mountain in snow or high grass and dirt, and the course will switch to forests, huts, stony sections, mine shafts, and then you'll enter into another completely different section again. ![]() They offer an amazing level of detail and the environment changes often. Just one half of any course is equal to the length of a similar course in any other game. The larger courses represent a case study in impressive design. and Mountain Cross, a motocross-style set of races, is designed with wide, short courses and more jumping possibilities. Free Ride is an open course, free of competitors and time restraints Technical Downhill presents various kinds of specialist challenges, narrow courses, multiple obstacles, etc. The cartoon characters are funnier than they are cool, a nice variation from the standard attempts at making the riders hip and "with it." The game offers 27 courses spread throughout the world, from Hawaii to the Grand Canyon to Russia, France, Japan and others, and there are numerous styles of riding from which to choose including Mountain Cross, Technical Downhill and Freeride. Players can select from 14 riders, including five pro riders (Brian Lopes, Eric Carter, Tara Llanes, Missy Giove and Richie Schley). Downhill Domination is undoubtedly fat with stuff to do. So, it's a fair comparison to make, and I initially made it, but it doesn't give the game a complete and fair shake. Been there, done that." In the most simplistic sense, yes, Downhill Domination is indeed a downhill racing game with extreme sports characteristics including attacks, special moves and impressive multi-path courses. Gameplay At first glance, most gamers with any experience will see Downhill Domination and think, "Oh, that's SSX on bikes. So.how is this game? And why should you be interested? While I sigh just a little thinking about what could be, what I really hope for, I must, after all, return to Downhill Domination, since I am writing this review. I guess I'm a little tired of more extreme sports games. It doesn't shock or surprise us the way a brand new game with the same dark viciousness, with the same searing arcade furiousness would. But while the familiar staples of Incog's craft stand out noticeably, a mountain biking just doesn't satisfy the soul the way a cool new variation of Twisted Metal would. Which is not to say that Twisted Metal fans are going to slobber feverishly over this new game. Underneath, however, the telling characteristics of Incog's love for games shines through like a gleaming red missile icon. I mean, what are the links between Twisted Metal: Black, War of the Monsters and Downhill Domination? On the surface, there is little to compare. The timing is strange, and the subject matter, a downhill mountain biking game, especially from a developer well known for its sense of depravity, destruction and, even violence, is well, a little off-putting. Inc., known for resurrecting with a vengeance the Twisted Metal: Black series, has thrown its hat into the extreme sports ring with the first mountain biking game on PlayStation 2, Downhill Domination. As the clamor for extreme sports games has waned over the last two years, well-liked developer Incog. ![]()
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