Cyclemania
- Big 10 Simulation-Action (1998)
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MegaTriPak
(1996)
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A motorcycle racing game. The concept behind this game is that all the tracks in the game are actual videotaped and digitized roads with 2D sprites serving as your biker and opponents as well as oncoming traffic and other obstacles.
Includes a full screen VGA mode and a windowed SVGA mode with an overhead map taking most of the screen. Gameplay modes include single race and a tournament of sorts, where you can customize your bike by changing its tires, engine, etc. Also present are a lot of FMV scenes that play upon specific actions (like crashing).
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Critics
Average score: 61% (based on 14 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.0 out of 5 (based on 11 ratings with 2 reviews)
The Good
Cyclemania's concept is to race in front of real-life motion video backdrop
that made up of 5 live-action roadways. That's nice. At the beginning it's really a nice change to see yourself driving your vehicle on a "real" desert or mountain road. Unfortunately your excitement doesn't last much after you find out that the game is not much fun to play.
The Bad
Although frame-rate decompression is quite good, you mostly race
in front of blocky graphics. Gameplay doesn't offer you anything special. Instead,
it may become frustrating.
Cyclemania has also no replay value after you finish playing all the circuits
available. Its championship mode doesn't help you either since it's far from being
compelling. There could have been more variety of obstacles or challenges on the
races.
The Bottom Line
I'm glad they tried to bring real-life roadways to our computer screens. Maybe not a successful conversion but at least they'd tried.
This game made me miss the countless hours I spent playing Test Drive III: THE PASSION!
DOS · by Accatone (5173) · 2001
Nice graphics and good handling, but not very demanding
The Good
+ 5 completely different tracks, which were filmed, so you have
fotorealistic tracks
+ 6 different bikes, with different design, specs and behaviour
+ real traffic (cars, police bikes, trucks, horses, helicopters,
tyre barriers, straw bales, ...)
+ tuningoptions for your bike
+ different crash sequences + videos
The Bad
- you can buy improved items for the exhaust, the tires, the suspension and the engine, but only the better engine has any effect (from 266kph to 273kph)
- no physik-engine
- the crash-sequences are quite annoying in the long run
- the not very sophisticated championship/"race for $$$" mode
- not very diversified gameplay
- no replay options, no mulitplayer
The Bottom Line
Great fun, if you don't expect too much realism and depth
DOS · by corpser (1) · 2007
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Game added by Zovni.
Windows added by Rik Hideto.
Game added August 3, 2001. Last modified August 10, 2024.