However, much like the first game, these courses rarely offer anything as exciting or interesting in their design as the main event. The Career mode builds you up to the titular Isle of Man race by taking you around various fictitious courses around the UK and Ireland. In the palm of your hands on Switch, that translates into travelling 200mph down a quaint country road where even kissing the curb or brushing nearby foliage will send you tumbling into oblivion (and out of contention). Its centrepiece is a faithful recreation of the deadliest road race in motorsport – the Snaefell Mountain course that winds a 37.73-mile trail around the picturesque streets and country roads of the otherwise sleepy Isle of Man – a course that’s claimed over 150 lives since its inception in 1907.
Like its predecessor on Nintendo Switch, TT Isle Of Man - Ride On The Edge 2 has no such worries. Modern superbikes can reach incredible speeds, but most other two-wheeled racing simulators (including the likes of the recently released MotoGP 20) never manage to capture that intoxicating dread that comes from courting death with a single mistimed squeeze of the break. Racing games have been a staple of the games industry since its inception, but very few of these virtual drivathons have managed to truly capture the heady mix of excitement and outright fear that comes with pushing real-life machines to their absolute limit. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)