It’s straightforward off the track, but on the track during practice sessions is where it gets more interesting. In the career mode (which features tiers of different-caliber bikes), you hire an agent to broker an amenable contract and technical directors to work with your staff to unlock and create bike upgrades. While running out of gas during a race is a nightmare scenario, using less gas in practice sessions is a good way to hit crucial R&D objectives in the career mode. Similarly, changing the amount of fuel you carry, and thus the weight of your bike, can have a big effect on your lap times. The back brakes don’t have as much proportional power as those on the front, but they offer some extra control in the middle of a turn. It may sound like just more to layer on, but I suggest you choose the option to split the control of the front and back brakes to separate buttons.

And when it didn’t go well for me, I was thankful for the rewind feature that lets players correct their mistakes. The satisfaction for a smoothly taken corner – or succession of corners – is truly its own kind of reward. Just winging it or finessing the corner is more costly than in a normal racer. Fine tuning your line through the corners is harder because even slight aberrations in your speed or lean can easily change your arc and cause you to lose speed. The need to make your rider lean into the corner to turn the bike and fight centrifugal force – with two wheels underneath you – is an added dimension that makes cornering feel different than in a car.

This creates an appreciation for the bikes – their power and handling – that is a welcome change from getting behind the wheel of just another race car. The high-speed, demanding bikes require a slightly different approach from the traditional race car techniques I’m accustomed to, breeding an internal competition for understanding and mastery that leads to a heightened tension on the track. I’ve played many racing games, but MotoGP 20 is a new kind of challenge that I wholeheartedly embrace.

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