It seems that there hasn't been a solid, well made video game about mountain biking since Downhill Domination in 2003. This could have beenIt seems that there hasn't been a solid, well made video game about mountain biking since Downhill Domination in 2003. This could have been different for Shred! Downhill Mountain Biking, seeing as beating a game in the similar genre that is over ten years old shouldn't have been hard. With a formula that had been nearly perfected with Downhill Domination for a mountain biking game type, this game was an enormous flop in my mind. For a game from 2015, the graphical impression was as if the developers thought that they were in fact competing with its much more impressive counterpart back in 2003. Included with the mediocre graphical impression that was left on me, the gameplay had taken a page from the same book as the graphics; "As long as there was some sort of game thing, it is a game." This is in fact wrong, seeing as how the controls were far clunkier than anything I could have imagined. It also seemed that in the camera work of Shred! Downhill Mountain Biking, it couldn't decide if it was trying to be a third person side scroller or a first person down hill racer. In short, Shred! Downhill Mountain Biking is barely refined, barely playable, and is a far cry from being a competitor to a game that is a decade older.… Expand
