MX 2002 featuring Ricky Carmichael

MX 2002 featuring Ricky Carmichael is a video game developed by Pacific Coast Power & Light and published by THQ for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Game Boy Advance in 2001. It is the third motocross racing game published by THQ to be endorsed by professional motorcross racer Ricky Carmichael, after Championship Motocross featuring Ricky Carmichael and its sequel, Championship Motocross 2001 Featuring Ricky Carmichael, as well as the first game in THQ's MX trilogy, a follow-up series to the Championship Motorcross duology that would eventually become part of its MX vs. ATV crossover racing franchise. A sequel, MX Superfly, was released in 2002 and also endorsed by Carmichael.

MX 2002 featuring Ricky Carmichael
Developer(s)Pacific Coast Power & Light
Tiertex Design Studios (GBA)
Publisher(s)THQ
Programmer(s)Matthew Gaston
Composer(s)Steve Kirk
SeriesMX
EngineRenderWare (consoles)[1]
Platform(s)PlayStation 2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance
ReleasePlayStation 2
  • NA: June 28, 2001[2]
  • EU: September 14, 2001
Game Boy Advance
  • NA: September 25, 2001[3]
  • EU: October 26, 2001
Xbox
  • NA: December 3, 2001[4]
  • EU: April 26, 2002
Genre(s)Sports, racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Development

MX 2002 originally began development as a sequel to Championship Motocross 2001 Featuring Ricky Carmichael, before undergoing significant changes that led it to be rebranded as the start of a new successor to the Championship Motocross duology. Tiertex Studios, which developed the Game Boy Color version of Championship Motocross 2001, developed a Game Boy Advance version of MX 2002 that similarly featured 3-D graphics.

Reception

The PlayStation 2 version received "generally favorable reviews", while the Xbox version received above-average reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[8][9] Jim Preston of NextGen's September 2001 issue said of the former console version, "Ordinary graphics and an awkward stunt system are the only drawbacks in an otherwise fast and fun day in the dirt."[23] The magazine later said of the latter console version in its final issue, "The ease of control and built-in tutorials keep everything surprisingly accessible – a very nice balance. [...] It's not bad at all, but there are more exciting racing and stunt titles out there."[24]

References
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