That said, anyone who does spend their weekends following the Moto GP season will appreciate the fact that I-play's ode to biking comes with both circuits and riders fans will recognise. This is a game designed to celebrate the sport and embrace new fans, rather than a secular title created to service a closed-off fanatical community. It's the kind of system that enrages purists, but I-play's take on Moto GP 08 is an unashamedly arcade one. It also means that a disastrous first lap can be saved if you manage to keep it together on the second circuit. Even if you pull off a faultless race at the front of the grid, it's fairly likely that your competitors won't be too far behind. Moto GP 08 seems to employ a certain amount of elasticity in these contests, in that the pack stays quite tightly together throughout each track's two laps. Likewise, if you manage to put together a chain of smooth, tight corners, then you'll find yourself slicing and dicing your way back up to the front of the field. With 18 bikes on the track – made up of names that litter Moto GP circuits every season – it's very hard to have an uneventful race rivals will whizz past you if you make the smallest mistake. The races themselves manage to convey a real sense of speed. This is an instant racer, which is just as instantly gratifying. No slowdown, no awkward camera angles, no delayed reactions.
Sacrificing a place atop the graphical league has resulted in a game that runs like a dream. Many amongst you might have a hankering for 3D visuals and top-notch graphics, but five minutes playing Moto GP 08 proves that, compromise or not, this is a game that feels all the smoother for turning its graphical equaliser down a notch or two. Here's a game that finds itself entering a market currently obsessed with hurtling towards high-definition 3D racing – with all the choppiness that such a tactic currently involves – yet, I-play has decided to strip Moto GP 08 back to basics and come up with what many will see as an 'old school' racer. Moto GP 08 is the result of a number of difficult decisions and compromises, too.
If you eat things that want to eat, you're going to get fat. Well I'm here to give you a painful nugget of truth: no you can't. Despite that, there are whole industries built on the idea that these compromises somehow don't exist - yes, you can lose weight and eat tasty food say the adverts. The cynic in me is resigned to one inescapable fact: everyone has to make difficult decisions almost every day of their lives.
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