Jeremy McGrath Supercross 2000 - PC Games

The game has all the right elements and Jeremy is the 11-time world Supercross champion. The soundtrack is from the punk band The Offspring, but somehow, just fails in the execution, the game lacks that certain style, that certain excitement, and flounders somewhere between a racing and a free-style stunt sim.

The stunt part of the game seems like an add-on, with no real formula, while the racing is fun, but has no real direction. The game controls seem like an afterthought, far too severe, leaving you off the track rather than on it. Although winning a race can earn you points to unlock new sections of the game, winning those points is unfortunately a different matter.

With a track editor the fun can be dragged out a little longer, but this really is a game where its more fun to cause havoc and pile-ups on the first corner than to try to win the championship laid out before you. If you've got nothing else to do and want something a little off the beaten track then this is the game for you, but if Acclaim want the McGrath brand to continue, something had better be pulled out of the hat for the next installment. --Robert Holliday