The Cohhilition

I own a mountain bike, but I can’t really tell you if MTBFreeride’s downhill riding fun is as accurate as it claims to be. My bike has been sat in John’s back garden for the past two years, so really if the bike in the game moves even one inch then it doesn’t match my experiences. No, this game claims that bikes move down hills at high speed, bumping over jumps and whizzing past trees. Where’s the crawling vines wrapping around the body? Where’s the creeping rust? Where are all the phonecalls from John, his wife, and his dad threatening me? No, this really doesn’t feel like mountain biking as I understand it. Consequently, it’s a lot of fun.
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