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
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
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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
MTB Dirt
Very fun game. I have a BMX background and I aprove this game! Go and get it. It will take a while to get familiar with the controls but it’s honestly awesome.
– Real player with 80.2 hrs in game
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For Early Access this game is very smooth. Overall this is a take on MTB the sport. If you’re a fan of extreme sports games this will be right up your alley. With a few more updates for more tricks and polished animations and this will be a banger for sure!! I definitely recommend!
– Real player with 32.2 hrs in game
Tour de France 2021
This game is good but it can get repetitive after awhile its the same game its been for years aside from some new modes and graphics.
– Real player with 447.1 hrs in game
if you like cycling and have a controler this is the game for you. altho it does get kinda repetitive after a while
– Real player with 259.3 hrs in game
The Cyclist: Tactics
It looks like a boardgame and it plays like a boardgame, a boardgame for those with large rooms in their houses, or small rooms but with a corridor or hallway to place all those tiles. The roads are divided in nodes, hundreds of them. The nodes/turn on flat terrain is 10. It takes some turns to get your 4 or less riders from start to finish. Tne time is expressed in turns, partial turns, did loose with a 0,01 difference. Yep it can be close. Your riders have different traits making them better and if you add the same trait again makes them worse too. Flat Mountain and Recovery are some of the traits to go for. It’s core mechanic is energy consumption and fatigue if you use it to the max. Thinking about tomorrow is for me the hardest part of this game. Go for that jersey and burn those reserves or move deeper into the peloton to get more slipsteam.
– Real player with 364.0 hrs in game
Just one more stage…
I had the chance to play the physical board game prototype of TCT with the producer of the game back in ~2013. Already then it was a very intense experience and we forgot to eat the whole day because we have been sucked into the game so much. So I very much was looking forward to the digital version of it and was able to support a bit during the beta test.
The Cyclist: Tactics is for everybody who likes bicycle races, strategic team building, tactical decision making and board games. It really catches the vibe of real-life bicycle racing well and the results of your actions feel natural. If you dive deeper into the game and have some experience, you can create some really tense situations which decide about winning or losing the race. There are many different ways to play: specialize in flat/hilly/mountain/time trials, build teams suitable for single stage races or for longer tours. So in my opinion there is a lot to discover and many hours of exciting gameplay. With the procedurally generated stages no game is like another and often requires different tactics.
– Real player with 150.2 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
Pro Cycling Manager 2019
I love playing this game on my mid-spec laptop. The publishers haven’t marketed this, but on low-mid spec machines the graphics smoothness and simulation speed is MUCH improved.
The new traits in Pro Cyclist mode are a much needed strategy layer to a mode that has become slightly stale (or as the in-game commentators would say, “monotonous”). Perhaps video tutorials/clearer UI can be added to explain the effect and limitations of each technique upgrades (e.g. What does teammate transcendence actually do? Is it a stat buff?)
– Real player with 1095.1 hrs in game
In recent years, the release of the Pro Cycling Manager games were always overshadowed with launch problems. (e.g. bugs, steam issues)
This year is the first year we had full communication between the larger communities and the developers and publishers. We were up to date throughout the whole process which makes the experience already much better than in the past.
When it comes to the game, annoying issues like 80 riders being involved in every crash are fixed. There are atleast 3 or 4 other AI improvements I noticed so far.
– Real player with 488.1 hrs in game
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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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
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
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