FreekStyle

Freekstyle, the newest brainchild of the EA Sports Big team, arrives for the GameCube.

Freekstyle is bringing its teeth-grinding stylings to the GameCube, providing gamers with a visually slick and compulsively playable racer?although its steep difficulty may confound some. The name of the game here is to string together as many tricks as possible to gain speed boosts and thrust you ahead of the pack. Similar to SSX Tricky?s Tricky Meter is the Freekout Meter that, when filled by performing four-button sick tricks, grants you a demon-powered speed boost accompanied by wicked motion blur effects and a searing sense of speed.

Maximum Velocity
Freekstyle showcases ?ber-tight visuals, while the courses are long, harrowing, and full of hairpin twists, lethal obstacles, and hidden routes. You?ll also be treated to some killer sound design, rife with roaring engines and crunchy effects?once you get past the generic nu-metal soundtrack. You can?t ask for smoother controls than these, which are complemented by solid physics.

Restart
Freekstyle is kept from achieving the classic status of Tricky, however, by some heinous rubber-band A.I. Even if you have a huge lead over your competitors, they?ll catch up to you if you make one minor mistake. Since you have to place first in each main race to advance to the next course, this can be an absolute nightmare at times, and you may want to tape some padding on your controller to keep from mutilating it. However, you definitely won?t finish Freekstyle in a day, which lends it ample replay value?a good thing because you won't find a more addictive motorbike racer on the GameCube.

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