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MX World Tour for PlayStation 2
MX World Tour for PlayStation 2 lets you race motocross on indoor tracks, outdoor courses and routes combining asphalt with dirt. Across more than thirty courses, you seek a rhythm through corners, bumps and jumps. You can compress the suspension to prepare a jump and use the clutch for an extra burst of acceleration. The right approach is at least as important as the distance travelled in the air: a poor landing costs speed for the next section.
In Career, you work through ten racing series. You collect enough race points to unlock the next series and earn improvements to your bike or racing number along the way. Completed tracks also become available outside the career. You can change the appearance of bike and rider, including clothing, helmet and stickers. Exhibition lets you set up a single race with your chosen location, lap count and difficulty. This allows you to practise a tricky track before trying to progress further.
Two players can race simultaneously on a horizontally or vertically split screen. Three or four players each receive a section of a display divided into four panels; this requires a PS2 Multitap and a controller per participant. These races take place locally on the same console. The combination of individual races, unlocked series and your own rider keeps the focus on starts, cornering and linking successive jumps.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
MX World Tour for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of MX World Tour
Impulse Games developed MX World Tour, released for PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2005. Crave Entertainment published it in North America under the longer name MX World Tour Featuring Jamie Little. Play It handled the original European release. The name on the PS2 version offered here is MX World Tour. Jamie Little provided commentary and also appears as a playable rider. Her involvement connected the game to the presentation of real motorsport events, without its races recreating one complete official championship.
The announcement highlighted three racing formats: indoor supercross, outdoor motocross and Super-Moto on a combination of asphalt and dirt. Rider customisation and bike improvements also received a permanent place. This structure fits a game in which you repeat the same actions on different surfaces. The career brings events together in ten series and unlocks tracks for other parts of the game. A won race thus also creates room for a later session outside Career.
The original PS2 manual also describes split-screen races for up to four players. This local feature belongs to this console version and requires a Multitap for three or four participants. Choosing between an individual race and an unlocked series also made that competition useful outside the career. World Tour thus combined a step-by-step solo attempt with races on the same console, where track and lap settings shaped the course of a short shared session.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
MX Superfly combines motocross races with a separate freestyle career and lets you build your own stunt arena. MX World Tour also has jumps and your own rider but links its career to ten racing series and improvements to bike and racing number. Superfly consequently lets you spend longer working on a stunt layout of your own construction. World Tour places more emphasis on repeated races on indoor tracks, outdoor courses and the mixed surface of Super-Moto.
MX vs. ATV Unleashed lets motocross bikes and quads ride the same tracks and adds open areas and bonus vehicles. MX World Tour stays with motocross bikes and progression through racing series. Suspension timing and controlled landings matter in both. Unleashed uses its vehicle selection for variety, while World Tour also lets four local players race simultaneously with a PS2 Multitap and a controller per participant.
MotoGP 4 centres on real Grand Prix bikes and the 2004 world championship. MX World Tour uses indoor and outdoor dirt tracks and adds Super-Moto. Both allow up to four players to ride simultaneously locally, requiring a PS2 Multitap for three or four participants. In MotoGP, you mainly seek braking points and grip on a circuit; World Tour also asks you to prepare jumps and restore the bike's rhythm after landing.
Super-Bikes Riding Challenge uses road bikes and makes rider posture matter when braking and steering. MX World Tour lets you practise that control around dirt corners and jumps instead. Both offer careers in which performance opens further development. In Super-Bikes, this includes experience points for the rider; World Tour links racing series to bike improvements and a lower racing number. The surface changes which action demands the most attention during a race.
Tourist Trophy focuses on earning and riding real road bikes and racing versions, with licence tests and a photo feature. MX World Tour uses your own motocross rider and ten racing series. Both reward carefully learning a route, but in different ways: Tourist Trophy calls for a flowing line on asphalt, while World Tour adds the approach to a jump, suspension and landing to that rhythm. The equipment consequently supports a very different discipline.
