MAVRIX by Matt Jones

mint physics

overall the best mtb game out their but it sucks that you have to ride to every thing but over all perfection

MAVRIX is a really cool bicycle game with a lot of potential At the moment, though, it's just not quite there. The game looks beautiful, and it's really cool to have a game in a genre which isn't often catered for. So I'm really excited about this. I'm going to start with the negatives, though, because I feel like some of these might be deal breakers, and then I'll get on to the things I liked. The first annoyance is that this game requires you to be online at all times. Just for me, that's not acceptable in a game that, by all accounts, should have a standalone single-player mode. It's very close to being a deal breaker for me. The second annoyance, which is also really frustrating, is that every time I load the game, it reloads the shaders. That just adds a frustrating additional waiting time before I can actually get in and play. Then, obviously, it's still early days, but the lack of customisation with the controls is really frustrating. But the biggest issue with the game, I feel, is that the handling is just not there. The trick controls are very on-off. The handling doesn't feel very natural, and this just needs a lot of work. A game like Descenders, even though it's far more arcadey, seems to have more realistic controls in many regards. I really feel like that needs to be sorted out before this game has earned its place as the de facto mountain-bike game. But apart from that, it really is beautiful. The environment has been really well crafted, and I've found that it runs pretty well. It's fairly well optimised for a small indie game, especially considering how good it looks. You can also enjoy the game without having to purchase stuff, although there is a monetisation aspect to it. I guess that's fair enough at the price you pay for the base game. I feel like it's a reasonable monetisation method. You're not locked into buying stuff, but it's there if you want it. Overall, I really hope this game improves, because there's a lot to like here. It's a beautiful game in a genre that doesn't get nearly enough attention, and I think it has the potential to be something really special. It's just not quite there yet.