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Quick Look: MX vs. ATV: Reflex

That's a totally sick move, bro! What do you call it?

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Dec. 4 2009

Cast: Jeff, Ryan

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

MX vs. ATV: Reflex

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Edited By Erik

Woho, ATV's 'n shit.

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Edited By clientkiller

w000000000t gotta love the ATV action 
 
Also please post a picture of the broken chair :D

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Edited By Bigandtasty

I call it "Girly Slap Fight"

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Edited By cap123

so many quick looookkss. thanks guys

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Edited By CaptainApollo13

When Jeff said "Dude, all I did was hit the gas!" at 4:35, I coulda sworn I heard a Brad laugh from somewhere........hahaha

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Edited By zappolynk88

i'l buy it just so i can crash

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Edited By yagami

Hm, looks intimidating. Great quick look fellas! I might get it.

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Edited By jim_dandy

Oh Dave. Breakin' chairs all the time.
 
Ryan commenting in Jeff's constant wipeouts and "RYDERRRRRRR" made me laugh out loud. 
 
Good QL, yo. *gang sign*

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Edited By Kohe321

Woah another QL! Awesome!

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Edited By blair

I've eaten hot dog shaped hamburgers, and yes, they are all that.
 
The opposite is a little daunting, though.

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Way to go, Dave...

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Edited By ToxicFruit

nice ending " I broke a chair"

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Edited By RobotHamster

Dave breaking the chair was a pretty random ending

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Edited By rohanspear345

dave FTL chair breaker

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Edited By Gorikka

I don't care at all about this game, but this was a great Quick Look! It was so good-natured!

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I knew you ate it, Jeff, but damn :P

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Edited By spaceturtle

Breaking chairs is always fun!

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Just got this in the post today and played a little bit of it. Narrator/Announcer guy reads his script really fucking weird.

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The ragdolls again look really goofy...i cant tell if more or less than the last game...
 
I remember playing one these types of games on the original xbox...i never remember the name, but the ragdolls in my memory were so damn good.
 
Oh man the ending was good

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Edited By erinfizz

What's wrong with the announcer? That's completely the guy/in the style of the guy that does the ads for monster truck events and supercross and stuff. I can hear him saying "Pontiac Silverdome" in my head very clearly!

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Edited By MassiveDuck

i want to hear the conversation that was going on when this started really badly. 

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Edited By cstrang

Textures look kinda.... not great.  Way to pump out these quick looks, though, guys.

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I think i'm the same as jeff. Play every other year and enjoy it then don't look at it again.

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Edited By Shadow

I think I'll be sticking with Pure.

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Funniest QL in a while.  Gut-bustingly hilarious all the way through.

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ehh...downloaded the demo but haven't played it yet.  Don't think I have any desire to now.  The terrain deformation looks really awesome but that's about it. 

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love the quick looks
 
i want this

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Edited By kamikaze_tutor

Show the broken chair! Photos!

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Dave broke the chair. I'm callin' it

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"it's not a real man"

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Edited By Landmine

A chair breaking mini game sounds waaaaaaay more interesting to me for some reason.

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Dave the chair killer.lol

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Pics of the chair please.

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Edited By squidracerx

Ryderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr has been known to eat it. 
 
I had an ATV game I bought once, don't remember which series it was, maybe it was "offraod"? but I am not a big fan of this type of game, (mostly because im bad at it), kinda feel like a tony hawk but on a bike/atv. but the one i bought had a fun multiplayer soccer game where you hit a big ball into opponents nets, me and my friends played that for hours.... I wonder if these games still do mini-games??? I would pick it up for the minigames maybe :)

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Dave broke a Chaiiir.

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Edited By squidracerx

awww mini games revealed at the end are not what I'd buy it for, but maybe that was a different "brand" of ATV game I had? I think mine had hockey, and soccer, and some other stuff..... Playing during loading was cool though, and the dirt trails left behind, and Dave breaking a chair was pretty boss as well.

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Raise your hand if you understood Jeff's reference to the Cow Palace at 2:04!
 
*raises hand*

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Edited By dethfish

I played the demo of this game and I hated it. The freestyle events were terrible to play. I hate they way you do tricks. The actual races were alright but it just feels like you're out of control the whole time. I liked past MX vs ATV games though.
 
The announcer really should be saying "Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!" after everything he says.
 
And I can't believe that chair actually broke while you were recording a QL. Wasn't that the same chair that was about to break in a previous QL?

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nice quicklook

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@erinfizz said:
" What's wrong with the announcer? That's completely the guy/in the style of the guy that does the ads for monster truck events and supercross and stuff. I can hear him saying "Pontiac Silverdome" in my head very clearly! "
And kid's seats are just 10 bucks! Do you live in Michigan like me?
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@SleepyDoughnut: Currently Ohio, but I went to high school in Michigan.
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This Quick Look made me realize that I love watching Jeff play motorcross games with Ryan riding shotgun.  
"Your ability to eat it knows no bounds."

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Giddy Ryan makes me happy.
Great QL of a game I couldn't care less about.

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Thanks for the QL guys. I was on the fence about buying this game before. Now I know that I'll definitely rent it, and that'll probably be all.
 

The trick to orientating yourself while in the air is that accelerating pulls you back and braking pushes you forward. Use the clutch in the air to keep your engine rev but halt the pitch alteration. Left stick turns in air, right stick rolls.

 
Yeah the voice is horribly laughable. Especially the random word emphasis and sentences trailing offffff.....
 
The terrain deformation looks a little too strong, which I'm sure the devs did on purpose to emphasize the effect. Perhaps they can tone it down on the next one now that they've introduced it. But the ground textures are just short of amazing compared to the last one from this gen (which was essentially just a PS2 game that came out late) looked just fuckin awful.
 
All joking aside, they need to add PWC (personal watercraft) to the franchise. The terrain deformation would be a great base for wake, and weight shifting would be great for maneuvering a JetSki. Just sayin we need a current gen, non-Wii WaveRace. (edit: turns out they developed the short lived Splashdown series. I remember renting it on the first Xbox some years ago and immediately decided I wanted to emulate Wave Race64 instead. It was just a lame game.)
 
Those comparing this to Pure: it's hardly the same genre. One's total arcade action, the one's more of a sim than anything else. I just wish they'd have done more of a Skate style trick system. I dunno how though.
 
I read that the Snake minigame is like TRON. You guys should have shown that.
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Looks like it still has pretty prominent rubberbanding going on, which is why these ATV games have always been shitty racers. 

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Before the first free ride level opens up, theres that creepy announcer voice, he does a bunch of commercial for my favorite radio station, Z-98.

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These games are great. Everyone knows that there's a lot of fun to be had just trying to hang on at breakneck speed or not trying at all but then there's a real challenge if you want (and will probably have to) play the game properly and really concentrate to get all of those jumps and turns perfected; then these games become the hardest to play.

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@cityofdis0 said:

" Before the first free ride level opens up, theres that creepy announcer voice, he does a bunch of commercial for my favorite radio station, Z-98. "

Dude that's Shadoe Stevens, THE guy that created the whole SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! radio spot.
 
And I find it ironic that in a place run by two fat guys, that it's the tall skinny dude that breaks the chair.
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Edited By George_Hukas

Man, I could play games like this for hours not even doing races or challenges. Hearing they are making the physics more realistic is music to my ears.

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@Death_Burnout said:

" The ragdolls again look really goofy...i cant tell if more or less than the last game...  I remember playing one these types of games on the original xbox...i never remember the name, but the ragdolls in my memory were so damn good.  Oh man the ending was good "

Yeah the first MX vs ATV (and I think some Rainbow Studious ATV games before the series merger) had the best looking ragdolls I had seen up to that point. These look lame as hell. Then again, nothing can compare to Euphoria influenced ragdolls like those in GTA4.