The most impressive aspect of Moto GP is the visuals. The GBA never ceases to impress, even when it comes to knock-off titles like this. Imagine a version of Outrun with a motorcycle in place of the Ferrari and you have a pretty good idea of what Moto GP looks like. The draw-in distance for Moto GP is decent enough, but THQ has included Sega Rally-style arrows at the top of the screen that warns players what type of turn is coming up just in case.

There are four gameplay types (Grand Prix, Tournament, Time Attack and Quick Race) to choose from. Moto GP has a total of 16 different tracks to race on, with only one being available at the start. The game claims that by beating the lap records in any mode more tracks will open up, but no matter how many times I beat it in Quick Race, nothing happened! Instead, once I started earning medals in Grand Prix, the tracks became available in other modes.

The control is easy enough to pick up, but isn’t perfect. The game can never decide if it wants to let you lean on the turn or not. Sometimes it helps by tapping on the break, but more times than not, my racer wouldn't lean far enough in and so began a spastic crash course concluding with me falling far behind the competition.

Fortunately, the game’s AI doesn’t cheat too much; I never felt frustrated by opponents sneaking up from behind when I had the lead. In fact, often times I felt bad for the other racers when I was more than half a lap ahead of them. When the control wasn’t freaking out, whenever I lost a position, it was because of a mistake I made on a critically important turn.

Moo GP is nothing new to the GBA or the racing genre at large. Considering the far superior racing titles already available on the system (Mario Kart: Super Circuit and F-Zero), Moto GP has little ground to stand on.