You have to earn the turf in this game

It’s a rare video game that today’s hungry gamer can’t master quickly, and MX Unleashed fills that bill. You can ride endlessly over grassy hills and meadows in the game’s freestyle mode, practicing tricks that, if you land them often enough, result in increased choice of terrain. But to really open up the content, you’ve got to race and match acrobatics with competitors.

The game has a helpful training video; it also identifies slow learners, gently prodding them with tips. And once you can prove your mettle on two wheels, there’s always the question of whether you can transfer that success to a monster truck, minibike, helicopter or biplane.

--Emmett Berg