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Castrol Honda Superbike is a motorcycle simulation game developed by Interactive Entertainement and published by Electronic Arts.

You can race on 14 difference tracks. You can also race in different countries such as Indonesia, England, United States and Japan. You then try to be the champion in the world tournament of Superbike with your Honda RC45. What is interesting in this game the range of options that you can choose from.

There is six degrees of expertise that you can choose from and if you are really good you can customize your bike for each track and that can give you many of hours of serious gameplay in addition to all the level of difficulties you have to go through, the rookie, the novice, the amateur, semi-professional, professional and ace.

Your bike can get to 60 km/h in three second, all in real time, as is the whole game. The control of the bike can be as difficult as in real life. You also have the choice of four different views simply by pushing on the R1 button and you can look behind with L1.

At the end of each race you can see a replay of it. In addition to the different levels of difficulty you can put the damage option on for even more realism. That is if you like losing your rear wheel and your engine overheating.

" the view Behind the wheel ."

"Race at night."

But you can also make it easier for you by using an option to see arrows that indicate where you should turn exactly, guide you around the curves of the tracks, put the auto-braking mode on and put the bike transmission in automatic. The wheelies and the burns of your tire on a start put a lot of thrill into driving a powerful Honda from the Superbike.

The background of the tracks are unfortunately not as good as the other elements of the game and the bikers could of been designed a bit better Also, for the music fans, there is absolutely no music while you are racing and you can not put any in the Options menu. The only music is in the introduction and the menus.

The racers and bikes are very nicely designed. The racers are also moving their bodies like the real ones while you drive. The crashes are pretty realistic and fun too, with the sound-effects all there.

Castrol Honda Superbike is a good motorcycle simulation racing game that will give you many hours of fun, with even just one track, like for example the Austrian race that give you 24 laps in addition to all the difficulty levels that you can play in.

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Developer:
Interactive Entertainment

Publisher:
Electronic Arts
www.ea.com

Category
Motorcycle Racing

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Interest : 85 %
Control: 83 %
Graphics : 82 %
Sounds/Music : 80 %
Originality : 82 %

TOTAL : 82 %

Requirements:

Console:
Playstation

Number of Players:
1 or 2 players

Analog Control: Compatible

Vibration Function: Compatible

ESRB Rating:
General

Jean - François Dignard

Master J