I absolutely adore this game now. And I loved it from the beginning. I love the balance I’ve found between exploring and racing and it’s full of great gaming moments – picking my way through the shallows at a lake edge at night, hitting a bump and flying into the air and sailing between a gap between two trees barely wider than my bike, driving through the night without knowing where I was going and as sun rises seeing the whole world spread out below me, jumping into first place in a race with a perfectly timed jump off a mountain side and a slide on the dirt path below, buying a new bike that turns out to be much, much faster than anything I’ve driven before – and then having to take it at full speed down a winding road full of wrecked cars and vans… etc.

And that’s just in a fairly brief session this evening.

Also, I got even more Achievements today. It’s throwing them at me.