The suspension and brakes can be altered, maximising durability and enabling you to negotiate corners at previously unattainable speeds. The cycles can be adapted to suit the terrain, with upgrades awarded as you achieve winning times. No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking will feature tracks in ten international locations, ranging from the dusty deserts of Morocco to the volcanoes of Japan. Why should you want to do this? Because it might be all right. When they've finished building it, Codemasters will let them out and you will be able to buy the game in a shop using your money. Swapping four wheels for rwo, UDS are currently locked in a shed poring over the instructions to No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking. That someone is Swedish developer UDS, whose previous outing was a top-down racing game of little repute - the graphically unremarkable but supremely networkable Ignition.
Whatever, someone's making a game about it. It's an exhilarating test of nerve, skill and balance, pushing man and machine to their respective limits, with danger and pain never more than a skid mark away. Mountain biking is a serious sport in fact, it's an Extreme Sport, an adrenaline-fuelled challenge practised by ultra-fit athletes in Day-Glo lycra pants.
The preserve of amateur drug dealers, rank buffoons and grown men who are too embarrassed to ride a BMX.
