Tourist Trophy on PS2 and this one

[Senopati]

Is this game a continuation from the series or a different take ( inspired by that game )?
Felt almost the same, but i dont know honestly.
Did they got the license, or Sony (Polyphony) decided not to continuing their TT IP

[crunchyfrog]

No, it's entirely different.

The name "Tourist Trophy" is not a trademarked IP name. In the same way that the word "sport" isn't.

The Isle of Man TT is a yearly event that is essentially a race festival of sorts. Several competitions over several categories of bike, and featuring different types of event from straight up races around the street circuits, to the big one - the Time Trial round the island. This epitomises that.

Tourist Trophy on the PS2 was nothing to do with this though. It was essentially Gran Turismo for bikes, as it was obviously down to Polyphony. Again, the name Tourist Trophy is not a licenced name, so absolutely nothing to do with it, except for the fact it's bikes.

However, there is a Isle of Man TT on the PS2 by Jester Interactive. "TT Superbikes". This is directly analogous to this game as it's the same event and so on. It does even hold up pretty well today too.

As for this game on here, it's a mixed bag. It's great that it has bikes on the wonderful Isle of Man massive circuit - you really get that nowhere else. Sadly the handling of the bikes is all over the place. It's at it's worst when you perhaps over-throttle into a corner and it just slides in no way a bike really does in real life. I've no idea what went wrong here, but as I understand it, they tried to address it in the second game, but it still isn't good.

[Senopati]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

No, it's entirely different.

The name "Tourist Trophy" is not a trademarked IP name. In the same way that the word "sport" isn't.

The Isle of Man TT is a yearly event that is essentially a race festival of sorts. Several competitions over several categories of bike, and featuring different types of event from straight up races around the street circuits, to the big one - the Time Trial round the island. This epitomises that.

Tourist Trophy on the PS2 was nothing to do with this though. It was essentially Gran Turismo for bikes, as it was obviously down to Polyphony. Again, the name Tourist Trophy is not a licenced name, so absolutely nothing to do with it, except for the fact it's bikes.

However, there is a Isle of Man TT on the PS2 by Jester Interactive. "TT Superbikes". This is directly analogous to this game as it's the same event and so on. It does even hold up pretty well today too.

As for this game on here, it's a mixed bag. It's great that it has bikes on the wonderful Isle of Man massive circuit - you really get that nowhere else. Sadly the handling of the bikes is all over the place. It's at it's worst when you perhaps over-throttle into a corner and it just slides in no way a bike really does in real life. I've no idea what went wrong here, but as I understand it, they tried to address it in the second game, but it still isn't good.

thank you for your complete review! this clears all :)

[crunchyfrog]

No problem - glad to help.