Downhill Domination

Extreme sports in stretchy shorts sounds like as winning a proposition for a game as virtual stamp collecting. But this game manages to make mountain biking more than just bad knees and bruised prostates by throwing in breakneck speed, gravity-be-damned tricks, and animal cruelty. The object: win races by sailing your bike over chasms, mowing down hikers and wildlife, punching rival bikers, and staying out of those nasty crevices (that’s for after the race, champ). Twenty-four long trails and endless noodly bike upgrades add variety. The only things missing are baseball cards for the spokes and a Sherpa to schlep the bike back uphill.