There's also an extensive Challenge mode with 50 different events that test your skills with handling, braking and racing your bike, and you can unlock more difficult challenges as you complete others. Time Attack challenges you to set personal records on each of the tracks, and Quick Race is just that. Championship is a wide-open competitive mode that lets you customize your season however you see fit. The Career mode takes you through all three 18 MotoGP events, allowing you to battle real-life racers and bump up your bikes stats as you go along.
The standard racing modes are all here - there's a Career mode, Championship event, Time Attack mode and Quick Race option. It's an unintuitive and cumbersome process that does little to draw players in and get them excited about the game. As you drive the introductory test track, you'll occasionally get a message notifying you that you have a new "tip." That means pausing the game, bringing up the tutorial screen, looking at the brief and unhelpful note and then returning to the game to continue driving. Unfortunately, the tutorial in MotoGP 08 gives you very little guidance in how to handle your machine.
For the uninitiated, driving a two-wheeled vehicle at 100 mph is hard, and racing one competitively is even tougher.
The result has been a shift in focus away from both the hardcore simulation and arcade zaniness of the previous Moto GP games, and the final product is uninspired and unexciting. And the company has brought developer Milestone Interactive (Superbike World Championship 08), on board to make the latest title in the series, MotoGP 08. But in 2006, Disney bought the Climax racing studio and the MotoGP license later went exclusively to Capcom. And historically, the videogame incarnation of the MotoGP racing franchise has been handled by THQ (with developer Climax Studios) and Namco Bandai. The premier outlet for such activity in the real world is the MotoGP Championship, which consists of 18 Grands Prix in 14 countries and features the top riders and manufacturers in the world. Capturing that attitude and sense of danger has proven difficult in videogames, however, which must be why most games focused on motorcycles tend to be built around professional racing rather than street riding. Motorcycles are fast, sexy and dangerous, which is why the bad boy character in almost every '80s movie rode one.
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