Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing

A motorcycle racing game that pushes the limits of racing action, combines it with awesome graphics and teaches the difference between acceleration and brake through a harrowing maze of courses.

The graphics are superb, and although they may not have the photo-realistic quality and poly-count of EA's Superbike 2000, they have a style of their own. They remind me more of the SEGA arcade games (electric blue sky, sunlit sandy beaches), or the Need for Speed series' diversity in tracks.

An initially thrilling but ultimately tedious exercise that offers precious few innovations and even fewer reasons to continue playing once you've run through its tracks a first time.

After a few hours around the track we quickly grew tired of the same shallow driving, no matter how great those courses looked.

A mediocre game. While the graphics can definitely be attractive, and some of the tracks are interesting to race, the lack of realism and options ultimately detracts from the total experience.