This game has the worst rubber band ai I've ever seen.
I started a one player game in the X-Cross which I'm assuming is the main part of the one player game as you can't choose a skill level, you basically start at the beginning and work your way through unlocking new races.
The first race is a two week thing at Brown's Farm. Basically racing 5 laps twice. I couldn't shake the computer bikes at all, they are with you on every corner, all seven of them for the whole 5 laps. If you crash, you catch them back up within seconds but you can't keep going and race out in front of them.
The first race took 6 minutes 30 seconds, so for the second race, I stopped on the line and let them do a full lap before I started. Now you can race ahead of them, because it wants you to rubber band back up to them. I farted about and the same bikes did this race in 8 minutes 30 seconds. They couldn't be bothered to race if I wasn't.
If you do race properly and finish a race, there is a 2 second gap between 1st and 8th place. The computer makes sure that all bikes race around together. What a pile of shit. I hate to think what it does online.
At least on Nitrobike, the computer bikes race the same times regardless of what you do.
Very poor 'casual' game.