MX Superfly
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MX Superfly, released as MX Super Fly in PAL regions, is a motorcross racing game
Racing game
A racing video game is a genre of video games, either in the first-person or third-person perspective, in which the player partakes in a racing competition with any type of land, air, or sea vehicles. They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to entirely fantastical settings...

 developed by Pacific Coast Power & Light
Pacific Coast Power & Light
Pacific Coast Power & Light was an old game developer of DT Productions and Locomotive Games and develops games for a variety of game machines and consoles...

 and published by THQ
THQ
THQ Inc. is an American developer and publisher of video games. Founded in 1989 in the United States, the company develops products for video game consoles, handheld game systems, as well as for personal computers and wireless devices...

 for the Xbox
Xbox
The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe and is the predecessor to the Xbox 360. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console...

, PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...

, and Nintendo GameCube
Nintendo GameCube
The , officially abbreviated to NGC in Japan and GCN in other regions, is a sixth generation video game console released by Nintendo on September 15, 2001 in Japan, November 18, 2001 in North America, May 3, 2002 in Europe, and May 17, 2002 in Australia...

.

Career Mode

The main mode pits a user-created rider against the CPU riders. From the creation screen, there are two different career paths to take -- a racing career, or a freestyle career. The racing career consists of straightforward races against computer opponents, while the freestyle career consists of doing different tasks to get through to the next level.

Multiplayer

The Xbox version of the game has Xbox Live
Xbox Live
Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Corporation. It is currently the only online gaming service on consoles that charges users a fee to play multiplayer gaming. It was first made available to the Xbox system in 2002...

 download support, allowing users to download different soundtracks, riders, and bikes off of the service. There is no Xbox Live
Xbox Live
Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Corporation. It is currently the only online gaming service on consoles that charges users a fee to play multiplayer gaming. It was first made available to the Xbox system in 2002...

 multiplayer support. There is split screen
Split screen (computer graphics)
Split screen is a display technique in computer graphics that consists of dividing graphics and/or text into non-movable adjacent parts, typically two or four rectangular areas. This is done in order to allow the simultaneous presentation of related graphical and textual information on a computer...

 multiplayer.

Reception

Critical reaction was mostly positive. GameSpot
GameSpot
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 gave a 7.9 out of 10 to all of the versions of the game, reporting, "If you missed out on MX 2002, Superfly is a perfect place to start." IGN
IGN
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 wrote, "It's not a perfect racer, but it's...the best we've played on any next-generation console to date." GameSpy
GameSpy
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gave the game a three and a half of five stars, and praised the fun physics system and great variety in the game, but criticized the complicated trick system.
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