I am addicted to this game. And that makes me a horrible person.
This is a motorcycle obstacle course game, similar to simple Flash games on the internet and some old console games. You go up and down obstacles. Your only controls are a throttle and the ability to lean forward and back on the bike. The controls are dead simple, yet the game is extremely challenging.
But here’s the part that’s going to make eat a turd in purgatory: This game is almost photorealistic, and the physics are spot on. Things flex like they should. Surfaces have the kind of friction they should have. Boards snap if you land on them too hard… And the rider of the bike has a modeled skeleton, which breaks. And which is fun as hell to break.
The game itself is plenty fun, but somehow watching your little man get thrown off his bike one hundred feet into a brick wall is… satisfying. Endlessly amusing. I am the universes’s worst God, slamming my little subject at varying speeds into walls to see how hard I can fling him without breaking his neck.
The game encourages this. There is a mini-game devoted to seeing how many of your poor rider’s abused bones you can break (it conveniently counts the fractures for you as they happen, so you can learn to aim your guy at the cruelest obstacles). Another game requires you to set him on fire and then drive fast enough so that the flames don’t complete engulf him and detonate his gas tank.
There is an achievement you can get for breaking all your rider’s bones in a single accident. I have it. And that makes me a bad person.
Anyway, try the game. There’s a free trial on Xbox Live. If I’m going to hell, I might as well take a few of you with me.