Road Rash 3

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232K plays 1995 #Racing

Road Rash 3 is a 1995 racing and vehicular combat video game originally published by Electronic Arts (EA) for the Sega Genesis. It is the fourth installment in the Road Rash series and the last to be released for the Genesis. The game is centered around a worldwide series of motorcycle races that the player must win to advance to higher-difficulty races, while engaging in unarmed and armed combat to hinder the other racers.

Development of Road Rash 3 began after series programmer Dan Geisler experienced frustration working on Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City and offered to make a new Road Rash title instead. The game's worldwide settings were influenced by the need for a significant new feature despite the Genesis's technology having been pushed to its limit. The game was positively received by critics and commercially successful; critics appreciated the refined gameplay and visuals, but pointed out a lack of innovation, and had mixed reactions to the audio.

From Wikipedia's article Road Rash 3, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Keyboard controls

GenesisPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
AZN
BXM
CC,
XAY
YSU
ZDO
ModeShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

X, Y and Z are for six-button games such as Street Fighter II.

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

From the manual, pages 6–7

Open the manual at page 6

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Keyboard controls

GenesisPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
AZN
BXM
CC,
XAY
YSU
ZDO
ModeShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

X, Y and Z are for six-button games such as Street Fighter II.

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

From the manual, pages 6–7

Open the manual at page 6

Emulator help & troubleshooting

Videos

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Pixel Verdict

Road Rash 3Genesis

4.0 Great job!

Critics 80 · 14 reviews

What the reviews talk about

Key wordsdatedtightviolentfluidresponsiverealistic

What the critics said

  • He noted the enhanced realism of the visual details and scenery and the slickness of the sprites, but criticized the music as "annoyingly peppy" and described the sound effects as "often silly".

    — GamePro, 1995

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Road Rash 3 article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Scores

  • Consoles + 1995 89%
  • Computer and Video Games 83%
  • Game Players 1995 77%
  • GamePro 18.5/20
  • Hyper 1995 85%
  • Mean Machines Sega 1995 82%
  • Mega Fun 1995 79%
  • Next Generation 3/5
  • Super Game Power 1995 4.3/5
  • Video Games (DE) 1995 70%
  • VideoGames & Computer Entertainment 1995 7/10
  • Play Time (magazine) 1995 79%
  • Sega Magazine 1995 87/100
  • Sega Power 78%

From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' archived average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.

Players' rating: 76/100 · 806 votes

Full reviews

Face key

  1. 1.00+
  2. 1.540+
  3. 2.050+
  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

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