Cheat Index - Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX Dreamcast Review

The Bottom Line
What set out to be Tony Hawk's Pro Skater with bikes has turned into a pretty dull aping of the Pro Skater experience with numerous graphic and gameplay issues. If you're looking for Dreamcast biking action, Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX is still the way to go.

A Closer Look
It seemed like such a no-brainer for Activision. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was a huge hit and a fantastic game, so why not pimp the engine out for a slew of similar extreme sports games that all play pretty much the same? Snowboarding, surfing, bike stunt riding, why not?

Here's why. Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX should have been the easiest adaptation of the Pro Skater engine Activision planned on making, but it still turned out poor.

The most noticeable things gone wrong with Pro BMX for the Dreamcast are the graphics and the gameplay. Perhaps most disappointing is the fact that Pro BMX still looks like a PSone game. The character models are visually skewed and very unnatural when examined, and the game's frame rate (something I normally don't notice or care about) is choppy like a new PC game on a five year old system. Even though the levels here aren't much to look at anyway, it's still annoying when they seem to flicker more than they move.

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