Unfortunately, the tutorial in MotoGP 08 gives you very little guidance in how to handle your machine. For the uninitiated, driving a two-wheeled vehicle at 100 mph is hard, and racing one competitively is even tougher.
The premier outlet for such activity in the real world is the MotoGP Championship, which consists of 18 Grands Prix in 14 countries and features the top riders and manufacturers in the world. Capturing that attitude and sense of danger has proven difficult in videogames, however, which must be why most games focused on motorcycles tend to be built around professional racing rather than street riding. Motorcycles are fast, sexy and dangerous, which is why the bad boy character in almost every '80s movie rode one.
