It features a full set of Yamaha, Honda and Ducati bikes (including a full set of 125cc and 250cc support classes), a long and detailed singleplayer campaign, various solo play modes such as Championship and Quick Race, ability to create your own driver or step into the shoes of famous international drivers, and a full online mode.
Featuring all the official tracks, bikes and drivers, and countless other elements of the real MotoGP racing you can see on your television sets during live races, this game very successfully translates the skilled, fast, and adrenaline-filled racing experience of fast motorcycle racing. Sadly, it also highlighted that the opponent AI lacks a little awareness of you, which can be frustrating on a packed circuit (there are 35 bikes in a 125cc race!) Still, night races, dramatic weather effects and some not-often-seen circuits (such as Losail, Jerez, Sachsenring and Estoril) will certainly be appealing to fans of the genre.MotoGP 08 is the official motorcycle racing video game of the MotoGP racing championship. Having to work your way up from 125cc ‘chicken chasers’ to full on nutter-bastard GP bikes in Career mode forces you to walk before you can run, but also allows you to enjoy the sort of closely fought races that only come with having to wring the neck of an under-powered vehicle. Take the plunge with a more realistic riding setting and MotoGP genuinely starts to feel exciting. Often the Arcade mode is patronisingly numb in superbike games but any advantage you get by dumbing down the handling can be corrected by notching up the AI difficulty. MotoGP 08, on the other hand, feels hugely accessible whatever handling level you pick.
SBK 08 fancies itself as a deep and difficult simulator which turned out to be both its selling point and its downfall. And strange as it seems, the two games feel radically different. Those with a taste for two-wheeled racers will know that Milestone also developed SBK 08.
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