Along with the cosmetic options are mechanical options to fine tune your bike to your liking. Once you have crafted your perfect bike, you can then post them online for others to see and download for their own use. You can change logos, colors, letters, numbers, and plenty more to create a bike all your own. Everything from rearplates to the brake lines are customizable. Now, if you’re anything like me, you are going to spend about as much time racing as designing bikes.
Just as good looking as the bikes are the 30 tracks that will take you all around the world. It’s clear that a lot of love and care was put into making sure the bikes look perfect. With over 230 completely customizable bike models in seven bike categories, players have a lot of options and they all look gorgeous. I mean, the game is a better showcase than it is an actual racing game. What Ride 3 gets absolutely right is the bikes. Racing in Ride 3 is a little clunky, but still enjoyable. They provide a nice distraction for those who love time trials but are pretty generic in execution. The weekly challenges encourages you to race on a variety of tracks with select weather conditions and bikes. There is also quick race, time attack, drag race, championship and weekly challenges. It is fun enough and progresses well, but it is hardly pushing the envelope of creativity. The career mode is basically completing tasks to gain stars to unlock new tracks.
However, that approach doesn’t really work to well for a racing game where control is paramount.Īfter you practice and get used to the controls, Ride 3 is a basic racing game that lacks the same polish as others in the genre. You better know exactly what you are doing because it explains absolutely nothing. The first thing you do after starting the game is enter some basic info, such as race, nationality, and age, and then you are literally off to the races. The game never really bothers to explain anything.
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Ride 3 is not a game for those new to the series and certainly not for the casual racing fan.