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Games for Freestyle Bikes

Though motorcycle games have been prevalent in the video game industry since the early Atari, with popular motocross games on nearly every console, it wasn’t until recently that freestyle biking began gaining recognition in the video game world. Freestyle biking includes both BMX and off-road mountain biking and their presence in the video game world in the previous decade has been nearly as popular as skateboarding.

Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
- "Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2" is the sequel to the original BMX hit starring Dave Mirra, star BMX rider. The second game is similar to the Tony Hawk skateboarding series, where each level contains a series of objectives that have to be fulfilled in the specific time limit. The game focuses primarily on freestyle riding, doing tricks and collecting hidden treasures in each level. As players progress, they will find larger and more difficult levels, many of which require learning new tricks and combinations to fulfill the necessary objectives to unlock additional content, levels and characters. Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube consoles.
BMX XXX
- "BMX XXX" is another freestyle BMX game to the likes of Dave Mirra or Tony Hawk skateboarding but with edgier content. "BMX XXX" takes freestyle BMX riding and adds foul language, nudity and crude jokes. Unlike Dave Mirra, "BMX XXX" allows you to customize your own rider and explore each level without a time limit, accepting time challenges as you like within the different environments. This game is not for children, as many of the challenges are not only low brow, but offensive, and the included nudity and profanity give the game a mature rating. The game controls and dynamics were improved slightly from the Dave Mirra engine, but this tends to be just a cruder version of the other. BMX XXX was released on Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube.
Bike: Street Vert Dirt
- "Bike: Street Vert Dirt" was created by Gravity Games to follow up popular BMX freestyle games like Dave Mirra or Mat Hoffman, though the execution was not met well by players or critics. The game&'s design is flawed in a number of ways, one of which allows players to crash through walls and appear in another section of the level that hasn’t been unlocked yet. The levels are large, though there aren’t many objects throughout to work tricks. More frustrating, though, is how the bike can disappear in to the pavement then get stuck in an object and respawn right back in front of that object rather than placing the player in a safe designated area of the map. This game received a 1.7 out of 10 by the reviewers at Gamespot, and was released on the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC. There was also a GameCube version set for release, but was canceled.

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