| Disney Sports Motocross | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Developer | Jupiter Corporation |
| Publisher | Konami |
| Platform | Game Boy Advance |
| Release | 29 March 2003 |
| Genre | Racing |
| Modes | Single-player,Multiplayer |
Disney Sports Motocross is a 2003motocrossracing video game for theGame Boy Advance developed byJupiter Corporation and published byKonami. The game is the final of a series ofDisney-licensed sports titles under theDisney Sports brand.[1][2] The game is amotocross game in which players can race as Disney licensed characters, includingMickey Mouse, across seven stages. Upon release,Disney Sports Motocross received a mixed reception, with reviewers praising the game's graphics, and critiquing the game's lack of variety in courses, confusing controls and visual design, and difficulty.
Single player modes include a tournament mode named the Championship Cup, in which players complete six courses with different laps and heats, as well as Time Attack, Score Attack, Exhibition, minigames and tutorials.[3] The game also supports local multiplayer for up to four players using theGame Link Cable.[3] Races take place across seven courses,[3] and players can select one of six Disney characters (Mickey,Minnie,Donald,Daisy,Goofy, andPete) to race, each with different attributes.[4][3] Players control their racer with the D-Pad and the buttons to accelerating and use a limited turbo boost.[5] Players improve their performance in the race by collecting gems and performing tricks of increasing difficulty levels once enough gems are collected. Successfully performing tricks will fill a meter that boosts the player's speed, and high-level tricks can slow down other racers.[6][3] Performing well in races grants item that enhances attributes to improve performance in later races.[3] Minigames include "Tire Panic", a steering challenge avoiding incoming tires, "Rock Crush", requiring the player to bounce off boulders, and "Brake or Splash!", making the player stop as close as possible to the end of a pier.[5]
| Aggregator | Score |
|---|---|
| Metacritic | 56%[7] |
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| GameSpy | 48%[5] |
| GameZone | 6.9/10[3] |
| IGN | 5/10[6] |
| Nintendo Power | 2.8/5[4] |
| Nintendo World Report | 7.0[8] |
| MAN!AC | 59%[9] |
Disney Sports Motocross received "mixed to average" reviews, according toreview aggregatorMetacritic.[7] Several critics noted the game's similarities toExcitebike, aNintendomotocross racing game.[6][9] Ben Kosmina ofPlanet GameCube assessed the game to be "decent", praising its visuals as "well-animated" and "colorful and clear", but found the game's difficulty to vary between modes from "mind-numbingly simple" to "insanely difficult".[8] Anise Hollingshead ofGameZone praised the game's user friendliness, but found it to lack depth, stating "the gameplay soon becomes blasé, due to the sameness every time with only six tracks".[3] Steve Steinberg of 'GameSpy considered the game to be one of the weakest Disney titles for its "lack of any real Disney-ness" with "no sense of the characters' personalities, voices of quirks" and one of the weakest motocross titles due to its "dreadful camera", "frustrating" gameplay and "weak" minigames.[5] Craig Harris ofIGN dismissed the game as an "extremely disappointing" interpretation ofExcitebike, stating its elements "just don't work" due to tracks being "extremely hard to follow" due to the visuals and controls, having few tracks for a racing game, and remarking that the minigames were "extremely basic" with "no challenge at all".[6]
