Product Description

Get all the bone-crunching excitement and edge-of-your-seat suspense of professional bull riding without leaving your home. PBR: Out of the Chute captures all the adrenaline and challenge of the Toughest Sport on Dirt. The game lets you play as a pro bull rider or as a bull in multiple events leading up to the World Finals. Create your own character and compete as a professional rider or a tenacious bull throughout 10 three-round events in multiple locations, including New York, Anaheim, and Atlanta. Challenge or play as top riders, including Guilherme Marchi, Justin McBride, and Chris Shivers, or play as one of the tour's ferocious bulls. Unlimited play modes test your skills in either staying on for at least eight seconds or bucking off the rider before his time is up and Season Mode features unlockable riders and bulls. Become the best rider or bull in multiplayer by having the most "wins," or become part of the Millionaire's Club by beating some of the meanest, toughest bulls in the history of the PBR. Intuitive controls and multiple difficulty levels allow anyone to pick up and play and realistic sounds from screaming crowds to bone-crunching falls max out the realism.

Season and Unlimited ride modes from 8 seconds to as long as you stay on as a rider or until you buck off the rider as a bull Unlock riders and bulls in Season mode to compete against Official scoring and rules from the PBR

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1377 in Video Games
• Brand: Crave Entertainment
• Model: WII50035
• Published on: 2008-10
• Released on: 2008-10-28
• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .36 pounds

Features

• Play as one of 12 real pro bull riders or 12 real butt kicking bulls
• Win the 10-event PBR Championship and make it to the World Finals in Vegas
• Compete in Rider vs. Bull mode against a friend where one of you is a rider and the other is the bull
• Start a career as your own customized character in career mode
• Become the overall best rider or bull in multiplayer games by having the most wins or become part of the Millionaires Club

Customer Reviews

Good for fans, but gets old...
I was excited to see this game because my two year old son is crazy about cowboys and bull riding. I never thought about him playing it, but I thought he might like watching me play it. I bought it on a whim, ans since have not seen any relevant reviews of it. While fun for a while, it lacks lasting appeal.

The premise is simple: as a cowboy you need to ride the bull, and as the bull you need to buck off the cowboy. Controls are a combination of wii remote motion, using the joystick on the nunchuk, and pressing a few buttons. To ride a bull, you counteract the bull's motions using the nunchuk. This could easily have been done on a d-pad, or even better it could have been using motions. To really get the full effect of the game, you really need to have it on the hard level using the advanced controls. As for playing as the bull, your bucking is done mainly through moving the wii remote and pushing a few buttons. There is a tutorial mode that will walk you through the controls, but there were a couple of moves that I had a very hard time performing

In easy mode you are just about guaranteed to ride without even pushing a button. Basically, as long as I didn't hit the "spur" button, I stayed on the bull. Being the bull was tougher to me, and I was not really able to get the hang of the controls.

The Season mode consists of 10 events plus the Finals. There is also a mode were you ride for as long as you can. You can also do a quick ride. There is a two player mode where on person plays the cowboy and the other plays the bull, but I don't see that as a major selling point.

Also, you don't really "create" your own cowboy or bull, you just tag one of the existing ones as yours for the sake of saving games.

One very odd feature is the rewards. You have to unlock Adriano Moraes and Ty Murray, plus a couple of bulls. There are also some videos of a rodeo clown that you unlock, but they are pointless and nto really funny. You can also unlock some music tracks, which is also pointless.

Graphics in game leave a lot to be desired. I mean, there not a lot going on here so you would thing more attention would have been placed on the graphic details. Stadiums look very simalar, except for a few decorations. The bulls' movements are not very fluid. There is a long, useless video preceding the finals. The camera angles are odd at times, especially after the ride.

Bottom line, if you are a fan of the PBR you finally have a console game of your favorite sport. You will see riders and bulls that you recognize. If you are not a big fan of the PBR or bull riding in general, do no even waste your money. There is very little to keep you playing for long. The simple novelty of the game wears out after a while.

Have they even seen bullriding before?
Oh come on! This could have been a great game. The problem with this is that it's obviously been created by someone who has only heard of bullriding through rough description. I've actually riden a few bulls myself, and will have to say that this is the laziest result that they could have produced! First, all the riders are right-handed riders. In reality, most riders are left-handed riders because you balance with your non-riding hand. Anyway, letting you select which hand to ride with, like in reality, would have been a simple step, and quite do-able, but the pure laziness of the game developers played a part here. Next, it's virtually impossible to get thrown off! Maybe if you're five and don't like loosing, this game may be for you. But if you've already started to develop fine motor skills, you'll find this game to be quite boring. I actually didn't touch the controller for one of my rides, to see what would happen, and my character stayed on!!! Next, since bull-riding is about balance, this would have been a perfect game for the Wii. Hand movements should be used to constantly reposition yourself on the bull, like in real life. However, again, lazy programmers just have you moving a joystick around. This game is probably the greatest game that could have been, but never was. Thanks Crave Entertainment, for screwing up a game that should have been a no-brainer.

Let's just hope that PBR gives their license to a different company in the future, and they can actually put a bit of effort into this. This could be a great game. This should be a great game. But, for all intents and purposes, it just isn't.

PBR: Out of the Chute
The game wasn't what my son thought it would be. I thought there would be more action/moving around to the game. But it is fun to play as the bull and try to knock off your opponent. It is fun to play as some of the famous riders and bulls. It just wasn't what we had expected that it would be. So that was the disappointment.