However, Supercross 5 is reasonably lenient about things too. It’s easy to hit a ramp at the wrong angle and crash out of the track or to get nudged by one of the other 21 riders. This is a game where the danger of crashing is ever-present. Body weight is also used in mid-air maneuvers, namely whips and scrubs, to help you manipulate your bike into a trick and then pull out of it safely in order to stick your landing. You also need to lean your bodyweight into the turn too which is done by pushing the right analog stick. Even if you use the brakes liberally on a turn, you’re still in danger of messing it up. Instead, you need a bit of subtlety and technique. Instead you need to know when to let up on the gas so that you don’t overshoot a jump and land the wrong side of a ramp or hill for example or slide out into a barrier on a turn.

The key to success isn’t holding down the throttle and just gunning it. Supercross 5 (let’s keep the title snappy), is a dirt-biking game which means lots of low-traction tracks, dirt ramps, banked corners and rhythm sections. And although this series is only five years old, it does come on the back of Milestone’s other biking games such as the SBX, Ride, MotoGP and MXGP games, so they know all about the genre. Which is to say that you get the calendar, riders and locations from the official Monster Energy Cross schedule. This is to motocross what FIFA is to football. It seems somewhat redundant even explaining what these games are about but let’s check that box anyway. We say surprisingly because despite their being five of these now, this series only started in 2018 and has had a new installment each year. Monster Energy Supercross: The Official Videogame 5 is the latest installment of Italian motorsports sim specialists, Milestone srl’s surprisingly new motorbiking series. Main PS5 / Reviews tagged monster energy supercross 5 / motocross / motorbikes / racing / sport / supercross by Richie

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