No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking

No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking (also known as No Fear Downhill Mountain Bike Racing) is a mountain bike video game released in 1999 for PlayStation and 2001 for Game Boy Color. The Dreamcast version was planned but never released.

No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking
Developer(s)Unique Development Studios (PS)
Codemasters (GBC)
Publisher(s)Codemasters (PS)
THQ (GBC)
Platform(s)PlayStation, Game Boy Color
ReleasePlayStation
  • NA: November 30, 1999
  • EU: 1999
Game Boy Color
  • EU: November 2, 2001
Genre(s)extreme sports (mountain bike)
Mode(s)Single-player, Multiplayer

Gameplay

An extreme sports game, the mountain bike consists of mountain tracks from circuits around the world of varying difficulty. The game was inspired by tracks including San Francisco's Telegraph Hill and New Zealand's Matukituki Rapids.

The game has eight different riders and a number of tracks for the bikes to descend.

Reception
Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
GameRankings66%[1]
Review scores
PublicationScore
AllGame[2]
Consoles +75%[3]
Game Informer4.25/10[4]
GameSpot5/10[5]
IGN5.5/10[6]
Next Generation[7]
OPM (US)[8]
PSM[9]

The PlayStation version received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.[1] Tom Russo of Next Generation said, "This downhill mountain-bike racer is quirky fun, but the limitations are enough to keep it at two stars."[7]

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References
  1. "No Fear Downhill Mountain Bike Racing for PlayStation". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on May 27, 2019. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  2. Kanarick, Mark. "No Fear Downhill Mountain Bike Racing - Review". AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  3. "No Fear Downhill [Mountain Biking]". Consoles + (in French). No. 94. November 1999. p. 168. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  4. McNamara, Andy (January 2000). "No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking [sic]". Game Informer. No. 81. FuncoLand. Archived from the original on June 1, 2000. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  5. Stahl, Ben (December 30, 1999). "No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking [sic] Review [date mislabeled as "May 2, 2000"]". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  6. Nix, Marc (January 7, 2000). "No Fear Downhill Mountain Bike Racing". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  7. Russo, Tom (December 1999). "No Fear Downhill Mountain Bike Racing". Next Generation. No. 60. Imagine Media. p. 113. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  8. Rybicki, Joe (December 1999). "Downhill Mtn. Bike Racing [sic]". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. Vol. 3 no. 3. Ziff Davis. p. 164. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  9. "Review: No Fear Downhill Mountain Bike Racing". PSM. Imagine Media. December 1999.
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