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Viewing the development that Acclaim Entertainment has done on the Game Boy Color as a whole, most of their library consists of mere conversions of superior titles on home consoles. And unfortunately, the conversions aren't even done that well, making them all that more disappointing. With Jeremy McGrath Supercross 2000, however, Acclaim has brought in M4 to bring their latest Jeremy McGrath title to Nintendo's portable, and they have done so in quite the successful manner. You're given two different game modes from the start in Jeremy McGrath Supercross 2000, Arcade and New Season, but both of them are relatively the same. Season gives you a selection from most of the riders offered, except that Jeremy McGrath has to be unlocked by completing certain areas. You are also given the option of saving your progress with the use of a password that is given after completing a batch of tracks and moving onto the next set. Arcade allows you to jump right into the action, though you are not allowed to save your progress as you can in Season.
M4 has taken the route of an overhead perspective for racing in the game, and it works out perfectly. Honestly, there is not really another decent way to do it on the GBC. The visuals are also nice enough, although nothing spectacular. The actual riders themselves lack any soft or distinguishable detail, and are pretty much the same exact sprite design with different sets of colors put together. Fortunately, however, the tracks are varied in their environmental design and are rather non-repetitive for each of them being comprised of pure dirt and turns. Good care was also taken to make sure that racing through the tracks is tight and uncomplicated. For the most part, M4 succeeded in that goal. There were some times that I found that the particularly tight turns on tracks were all together too hard to navigate, and I ended up spilling off into the side. In order to actually make it past those turns I had to have the bike facing completely left or right (depending on the direction of the turn) or else I wouldn't have time to zip through the turn. A small complaint, though; the problem only arose a couple of times. Acclaim has had a couple of duds when it comes to GBC titles, but Jeremy McGrath Supercross 2000 is a winner.
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