Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX: Maximum Remix

Second chances are few in this life. Acclaim hopes to give Dave Mirra a second chance by adding more features to the original game. So what?s the catch?

Essentially a fully priced add-on pack, Maximum Remix (a.k.a. Dave Mirra Mark II) gives fans of the first Dave Mirra more to be stoked about?eight new areas, more riders, more tricks, a new soundtrack?plus the entire original game.

The new courses?which include a high school, a carnival, and the Jiffy Market?are cool, but they?re marred by jarring texture pop-up and occasional slowdown. The riders and bikes move pretty well, but are blocky and look like rag dolls when they spill. The sounds are dominated by the music, which is mostly hard-core punk?perfect for some, annoying to others.

Tricks are chosen with logical button combinations and are easy to pull off, though the controls seem to waver between too stiff and too sensitive. Even though a better BMX game?Mat Hoffman?s Pro BMX?has been released since the first Dave Mirra, the core gameplay of Mirra hasn?t been much improved, just expanded. So only huge fans of the original and diehard BMX gamers will want this title.

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