Using both analog sticks helps you control your racer better, especially for the turns on a MX bike. The left analog stick is used for steering, while the right one is used for leaning. No tutorial is given, so it can take a while to get familiar with the control scheme. The stilted animations don’t help the situation either, making the racers look stiff, even in crashes. It wouldn’t be so bad if the graphics were better and had more variety to them. Obviously most of the time is spent on the dirt tracks, but the tracks start to blend in together after a while. Graphically Supercross reminds me of the original Quake, brown with a little color mixed in.
However, it’s difficult to find that many others to race against, and it’d be nice if a timer showed up to indicate how long you will be waiting. The online option allows you to choose a bike and race against eleven other people. Racers have had four-player splitscreen for quite some time, so having the ability to race against one other person is disappointing. Locally you can run a single race, but you can only race against one other person. Multiplayer includes both online and local options. Thankfully casual players won’t have a difficult time to see most of what the game has to offer. If you are the type of player that wants a gold medal in all the races, you need them. Eight-race seasons will challenge you, but you don’t have to race all of the races in one sitting, which should be a relief to those who have to get up and resume their life. While the standard bike that you get when you start can handle most of tracks, there may be those times when you want something more powerful to finish in first place. New tracks and equipment open up as you finish, and before long most of the tracks and bikes will be unlocked. By winning races you progress through the ranks. The career mode includes the meat of the game. You have the single race, where you race against eleven other vehicles on one track. Supercross includes the modes you’d expect to find in a racing game. One of those was the MX vs ATV series, and with that Supercross was born. However, Nordic games purchased the rights to several smaller franchises that either went unnoticed or had cult followings. The big publishers snapped up their biggest franchises like WWE. THQ had a fire sale of their licenses when they went out of business.