Pro Cycling Manager 2016
Since 2012 I have about 1000+ hours of gaming experience each year with Pro Cycling Manager. I play career mode, pro cyclist mode and multiplayer.
This is the most exciting cycling game on the market. Despite the fact some of the features are not working yet or need some improvements.
Pro’s:
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Multiplayer allows people to rejoin the game after a crash. This wasn’t possible in earlier editions.
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Multiplayer: No more teams with Pantani/Armstrong, Contador, Froome, Nibali and Quintana in one team versus 5 copies of that same team, but they use the actual teams.
– Real player with 958.9 hrs in game
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First time playing this game other than a quick trial a few years ago. A little glitchy, occaisonal crashes, but good fun. Mixes my two favorite activities: bike racing and video games. Like Zwift but without having to pedal:)
Rider stat’s are suspect in a few areas - I know what they can and can’t do.
Races seem to play out the same way every time so far, pretty predictable, early break gets chased down in last kilometers before sprint or mountain finish. It doesn’t always go that way in real life. Where are the mid and late race attacks? I imagine it’s different online playing other people, though. If I could just find a way to connect for more than a few minutes.
– Real player with 347.3 hrs in game
Pro Cycling Manager 2017
The game overall is good, a solid contiuation on previous editions, but new features are limited other than the fundamental changes to planning a riders training program. I do however, have a few areas of criticism.
1. Sprint finishes are much worse than they have been in previous editions. The sprinters energy levels go down way too slowly. For example, in Milan-San Remo my sprinter can sprint for the entire 3km the game allows you to sprint. This is obviously ridiculous, as in reality a sprinter can only max out their sprint for around 200m. This means having a solid lead out train is pretty pointless. You just make sure your rider is at the front at 3km to go and then its near impossible to be beaten irrespective of your riders stats (provided they are a sprinter). I don’t even bother with flat stages in stage races anymore, but it does ruin the classics that often end in a sprint such as Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix etc a bit.
– Real player with 793.4 hrs in game
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Well, too much things go wrong. I’ve now spent enough hours on it to say with confidence: it’s not my fault…
Not working well:
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“press the space bar to stop simulation”. 7 days later, it finally stops. By now, contract offers are gone.
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Be a pro: DO NOT BE A SPRINTER. It will make you go mad. The worst breakaways (5 guys wit 64 Ryding and no stamina on a flat stage of 160k) are impossible to catch with my entire team (Ryders of 65-74-) going after them. Meanwhile, other teams with better sprinters than me don’t even seem interested in catching the breakaway. So the breakaway that got 4 mins max is not caught. If however, on occasion you do succeed to catch the breakaway, and get a good train on the road, in 1 out of 3 times, the leadoutguy just doesn’t even begin his sprint when pressing “S”. Het just let’s go mid screen and you lose 20 positions straight away. In other times when it does work, your sprinter of 75 in the shape of his life gets beaten by a nitwit with 68 sprinting, when you let him explode at the 1k mark.. it’s rediculous!
– Real player with 381.4 hrs in game
Descenders
A great game that feels very rewarding without being a huge time sync. You can hop on for an hour or so and have a alot fun and actually make progress. The trick system play similar to the Skate series, where you use stick position and bumper combos to pull off a variety of tricks. As far as progression its rogue-like, you can only crash so many times in a run before you go back to start, although you will get cosmetic items based on points at the end of the run. There are multiple levels that you unlock, plenty of bike-parks to cut your teeth on and have fun with. Plus a very solid soundtrack to accompany you throughout the game. Worth the full price in my opinion!
– Real player with 111.9 hrs in game
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If you enjoyed roguelike or extreme sports games, you will like this game. The game is just straight up fun. This is not a racing game, it’s a freeride downhill biking game. You can choose whether you played it safe or take the risk to do the crazy stunts you want to do. The developer is also constantly updating this game with new stuff like cosmetics or new bike parks or even a whole new challenges. This is really the best biking games to have ever existed.
– Real player with 70.5 hrs in game
Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Videogame
I’m going to attempt to give this game a fair unbiased review of my expereience in it so far. I’ve given it about 60 hours so far so that I could get familiar with it’s quirks, its yays and its nays…while i’m still having lots of fun, there are many issues that need to be resolved if the game is to be successful. I’ll try to update this review as patches, hopefully, come out.
Update 4/15/18
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_Spinning green please wait circle seems to have been fixed.
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Many of the bugs involving client crashes and stuck lobbies seems to have been fixed._
– Real player with 155.2 hrs in game
Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Videos is the newest installment of motocross games made by Milestone Games. Race all the supercross replica tracks from the 2017 season againts all your favorite professional riders from the 250 class and the 450 class (Besides a few riders whose contracts won’t allow them in the game). In this review, I will list everything off with a “Good, Bad, and Ugly” format. (wuv u grant 3) I’d also like to point out that I have been playing motocross games since Motocross Madness 2. I’ve played all the MX vs ATV games (besides Supercross/Encore), all the MXGP games, MX Bikes, and I race MX Simulator professionally. Nonetheless I know my moto games. Let’s get into the review.
– Real player with 146.3 hrs in game
Tour de France 2020
Few things to say:
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No energy management by AI - They either go full out until blow up, or basically stop riding so they can regain energy. Simply stupid to see on some mountain stages where peloton goes hard for like 15 km only to basically stop for final 3 km before summit.
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Predictible - after riding like 3 TdF you can easily tell where breakaway is going to be caught, where breakaway can actually go away, what time will breakaway have at specific moment of stage(!)… (amazing “blockade” on some stages on 5 minutes mark, like 50 km of racing when time difference neither goes higher or lower than 5 minutes). Heck, on almost every single stage there is a certain “scenario” going on. And it repeats every single TdF. Fun, for sure…
– Real player with 199.8 hrs in game
I have owned several different versions of these games over the years. I was super excited when they announced that they were finally bringing it to PC. It is a cycling game through and through, if you are the type of person who will watch stages of the Tour live on TV and you like gaming then you will probably enjoy this game. However if watching hours of the peloton sounds boring to you maybe look elsewhere :P
With that being said, yes the game has some glitchy animations and moments and the graphics are definitely on the sparse side. These things seem to be there every year but for the only real game of its type its not a deal breaker by any means.
– Real player with 39.8 hrs in game
Tennis Manager 2021
To begin with, i was actually quite happy with my purchase as i got to grips with the mechanics of the game. rode the highs and lows of a season and achieved the required objectives to go into season 2.
First minor gripe is that you are not aware of what attributes would be beneficial in your new role as coach on your first play through, so i hedged my bets and unfortunately didnt get my attributes right. now i’m stuck as a 3.5 star coach with no way of improving. not ideal. basic highlighting would have done the job.
– Real player with 171.8 hrs in game
Alright, let’s write this feedback in English (and not in Russian or French) in order to be visible to a higher number of people who consider to buy Tennis Manager 2021.
I have bought this game “thanks to” an important ankle injury, which threw me out of tennis for at least 9 months. I am a tennishead. I play it myself, I watch it and now I also play it on virtual courts. Before, i was more a football fan. I mean THE football which is played with… feet, not this American Rugby thing which i quite like by the way. 10 years ago I used to play Football Manager a lot and i must say that Tennis Manager is quite similar to it, although there is a lot of things to improve.
– Real player with 84.0 hrs in game
Pro Cycling Manager 2021
The first version I’ve bought since 2016. It is a great game, career mode very addictive if you’re into that sort of thing. I like the new interface (although I don’t know how new it is!), the way the races run is different but just as enjoyable and I think more realistic, and if there were no bugs then I’d be over the moon with the game in general. However…
I always play career mode and start with a custom team, and there are always bugs that come in after a few seasons that make the game incredibly frustrating (riders you’ve signed get double-signed by another team so you end up a few riders short in your squad, team sponsorship just stops working after a few seasons, change in nationality of team sponsors not accounted for in objectives, training schedules of lesser riders no longer editable etc etc). I am interested to see whether any of these have been fixed for this new edition, as they don’t become apparent straight away and I’m only 2 seasons into my game.
– Real player with 1230.3 hrs in game
I buy and play this game year by year, with positive or less positive changes from an edition to another. But PCM21 mess up things in ITT and TTT, making time trials competitions PCM’s “cinderella”.
First, the producers introduce the red bar, I guess for sprinting in TT competitions, which is crazy. I don’t know when to use this energy from red bar. In TTT with 99 speed all riders of my team look like a bunch of amators (they accelerate and stop all the time).
Second thing is that in prologues and short ITT’s (until 15-20 km, depending on type of profile) with 85 speed the rider will finish the stage with energy left. If you go with speed over 85 you lose red bar. Crazy changes!
– Real player with 354.3 hrs in game
Watch Your Ride - Bicycle Game
pros - Nice, took few hours to complete main campaign, but it also has procedural infinity mode where you can play as much as you want, also replay some levels to get achievements. Has multiplayer and splitscreen mode, but havent tried yet.
cons - not too much levels (around 50 tracks), will wait for update, hope dev will add more
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
Watch Your Ride is an intensely fun, nonstop action, deviously challenging game. If you’ve got a grudge to settle with a friend, this is the perfect way to do it. You’ll be bouncing between the amazing thrill of victory and the crushing shame of defeat at a ridiculous speed.
Technically speaking, the game runs smooth and we never encountered any problems with bugs, bad UI design, etc… The art looks great, the levels are well designed and tough, but fair. The local multiplayer is where this game really shines, though. There’s no way we could possibly describe how fun this is to play with friends, so just check it out for yourself!
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
Baby Racer
This Game offer multiplayer mode where you can play whit your friends and enjoy the real racing thrill.
Multiplayer mode comes with,
Custom room - where you can play with your friends to specific room.
Matchmaking - play race with random people.
Baby racer provide you a exciting experience of racing.
In this game you can play as baby who is ready for race and ready to win.
This game provide you in total of 13 races.
This game offer three different types of racing track such as
Lonely Mountains: Downhill
So, this is that kind of game where it looks really cool, but you’re kinda on the fence about it… will it turn out to be really fun, or is it one of those that looks cool but ends up being a dud? Then you check the reviews and find out all kinds of stuff about the camera angle, etc. If you’re like me, you’ll sit on the fence about it for a while, wondering… will it be worth it? Or am I going to be disappointed?
Verdict: Totally worth it. I was actually shocked and ended up REALLY loving it. It’s one of those kind of games where you think, “Ok… got a few minutes to kill… I’ll run a couple trails, then get back to sweeping the floors.” Five or ten minutes later, you check the time and it has been an hour and a half.
– Real player with 36.3 hrs in game
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Review by Gaming Masterpieces - The greatest games of all time on Steam.
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Is this game a masterpiece? Nope, but this doesn’t prevent me having a ton of fun with it.
It is a bicycle downhill racing game. Learning it is as easy as the real thing, just sit on the bike, pedal, steer left/right, brake. Everyone can ride in seconds. Riding is easy, but the problem starts when you race. Downhill. One mistake and you crash over a rock, against a tree, down a canyon… or just along the path, your bike on your head and blood squirting everywhere. Hehe.
– Real player with 19.1 hrs in game