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That's why I did it at every opportunity), hairpins, racing lines and what-may-you.Once you're through the very forgiving tutorials, you're onto the Industry Standard Career/Tour/Championship mode. Gibernau meanwhile has closed up on Biaggi and tries to make a late lunge at Turn 12 but fails. Rossi tries all throughout the lap to get close enough to make a move, but Edwards bravely defends and hangs on. The fans shout Hayden's name as he wipes away the tears of joy, the champagne is being handed and the trio start to spray it upon each other, the fans and an unlucky grid girl who stood in close proximity.Hayden's win does not affect Rossi's championship hunt. The gap Edwards has to Rossi is +1.8 seconds. Checa has gone down at the Andretti Hairpin, the rider desperately looking over his bike as his race is now over. He also managed to overtake Hopkins for fifth and was all over the back of Biaggi halfway into the lap. On lap four, Hayden has pulled a gap of +1.794 seconds to second place Rossi. Inspired by "TT-style" street racing, this mode includes 16 new city and suburban tracks based on real race locations from all over the world. The bikes corner silkily, and the thrill of a knees-on-tarmac hairpin at 200 mph feels about as gusset-rippingly terrifying as you would hope for.There are an decent series of tutorials included, which will take you through throttling, leaning, braking (which helpfully mentions to you that braking is 'often neglected' in MotoGP, implying that real men know that only frilly-cuff wearing dandies brake in this game, thanks very much), cornering, sliding (there is something mind-numbingly stupid about power-sliding on a two-wheeled vehicle at 140mph. They go side-by-side, but has to give up the position to the Italian before the start of Turn 6.
And this it achieves magnificently; it is an excellent artifice.Control issues aside, the game handles beautifully.
Yet, with later incarnations, the games started taking on an arcade feel to them, which has left a few of the more sim-like controls a trifle complex for the game at hand. On lap six, the gap to Rossi decreased slightly to +1.781 seconds. As the riders walk up to the podium, Nicky Hayden gets a loud cheer of happiness from the crowd as he joyfully raises his arm to indicate his win. On lap eight, Edwards is still slowly catching Rossi.
For those of us not real men, this may well be the next best thing - sitting alone in our living rooms, whilst a small plastic box make vroom-vroom noises and we pretend that we're actually there. The Rookie of the Year was Rubén Xaus. With a jubilant American crowd cheering on Edwards as he crosses the line on the start of lap nineteen, he now wants to give chase to leader Hayden. Third place Edwards sets the fastest lap and is still slowly hunting down Rossi.Lap seven and the duo of Gibernau and Biaggi start to create a small gap to sixth place Bayliss. Hayden leads Edwards by a dominant +2.6 seconds whilst the other American now has to do everything to keep Rossi at bay as he starts closing in. On lap sixteen - the halfway point -, Edwards has now managed to fully close the gap to Rossi. He raises his arms in complete joy as well. The "big thing" which is the new addition to the current incarnation the series is the Extreme mode, which allows you to participate in a number of (fictional) city and landscape street races, weaving through narrow streets, hairpins nestled high above mountainous cliffs, foreboding forests in tropical rainstorms - the usual suspects are all present and correct. Biaggi, still right behind Gibernau, finally makes a move for fourth after the Spaniard runs a little wide at Turn 3, going through the corner side-by-side with the 'Roman Emperor' coming out on top. Three new online modes have been added -- "Embedded," "Spectator," and "Commentator." Meanwhile, the diminished gap Hayden has to Rossi - +1.666 seconds - has increased to +1.836 seconds.
On lap twenty-eight, the gap Hayden has to Edwards has increased from +2.182 to +2.397 seconds. The gap to Edwards is now +2.202 seconds. 13 octobre 2005 - La 15ème épreuve de MotoGP se déroule ce week-end à Phillip Island, l'un des jardins de Rossi. He lost the front end of his bike exiting the corner, sliding out of contention as a result. The gap comes down even more in sector 1 - from +2.163 to +2.045 seconds as Hayden has to overtake a backmarker in the form of Lap twenty and Rossi also passes backmarker Ellison before Turn 1. Each event lasts between 40 and 45 minutes over a distance, depending on the circuits, ranging between 100 and 130 km. Good handling, beautiful landscapes, varied tracks, variety of modes and well-aimed tutorials make this probably the finest in its class, possibly the finest biking game of its generation. The Americans fans get ever more jubilant as they see Hayden cross the line to start lap twenty-nine. 18. Behind him is the Honda Pons of Bayliss and the Yamaha of Rossi as they pass the fast Turn 1 and enter Turn 2 - the Andretti Hairpin. The gap Rossi has to Edwards has now shrunk to a mere +0.3 seconds.On lap fourteen, Edwards is almost behind Rossi by now. If you're lucky, your bike might just avoid dying of Corrupt Blood it got from an infected realm.All told, it's a rather neat little package.