Big Air Freestyle

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Big Air Freestyle
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North American cover art
Developer(s) Paradigm Entertainment
Publisher(s) Infogrames
Producer(s) Chris Johnson
Steve Stringer
Designer(s) Mahdad Ansari
Composer(s) Bob Daspit
Platform(s) GameCube
Release
  • NA: September 13, 2002
  • EU: November 8, 2002
  • AU: November 15, 2002
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Big Air Freestyle is a motorcycle racing video game for the GameCube developed by Paradigm Entertainment and published by Infogrames in 2002. It is an enhanced port of the PlayStation 2 game MX Rider , without the FIA license. [1]

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Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [2] It was a runner-up for the "Worst Game on GameCube" award at GameSpot 's Best and Worst of 2002 Awards, which went to Jeremy McGrath Supercross World . [13]

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