A fun, slightly more arcadey version of MXM. Though I wish it were 60fps, it is a consistent 30 and boasts some pretty nifty blending craziness with all of the atmospheric effects and dust/smoke (hold both brake and throttle and steer to one side and do some donuts for a while in sand or dirt)...maybe the most impressive on X360 outside of Alan Wake. Great fun in two-player splitscreen, too. Only the texture pop really to complain too much about other than some finicky collisions and stuck-points on steeper inclines buttressing a vertical face, such as fence or other standing geometry. Nothing a little nitro-boosting or respawn function can't fix. The world maps, and there are three that are available at the start, and maybe that's all there is at the moment, but I haven't finished any of them yet. The Exploration mode is where you're hunting coins and skull collectibles across the maps and there's the standard racing mode composed of your standard climb to the top with racing against an AI field of racers. Haven't touched online yet. Tricks are fun, like a standard set of controls and some stick control over them. More trick abilities and moves are unlocked as you level up doing anything in the game along with a store for spending points earned for your GT/avatar. Maps could stand to be larger, but they're plenty dense with interesting terrain and jump possibilities.
