Tourist Trophy - anyone get it?

[Knowlesy]

I did.

The biking version of Gran Turismo sneaked onto the shelves on Friday without so much as a hint of fanfare. I spotted it yesterday in Tesco and picked it up.

It's not bad, I have to say. Good fun going round the Nordschleife on a Ducati 999 for example.

However, I am a bit miffed that you don't have many opponents to race against, you can't tune the bikes, there is only one new track (Valencia, sadly) and the bikes sometimes look extremely odd when they slide. And I haven't yet pulled a wheelie or a stoppie, I don't think it is possible on this game.

Also you can't buy bikes: you have to win them in extraordinarily simple tasks which involve catching a similar bike up the road within a few laps and leading for ten unbroken seconds. How stupid is that?

So I think this is a game that has potential for the future and this first version is quite good, but it isn't quite right. A rush job then, but not a bad rush job.