#Sega road rash 3 plus#
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After all, youвЂ™re going to have to catch up to your opponent before you can kick him into the path of an oncoming car. The other nice benefit about only allowing hand to hand combat is that it forces the focus of the game to be on racing first, and combat second. TheyвЂ™re neck and punch-able neck going into the final turn.

#Sega road rash 3 plus#

On the plus side, itвЂ™s not like there are a lot of great motorcycle racing games out there anyway, so no big loss. YouвЂ™ll never be able to battle it out in a tight race without thinking вЂњwhy canвЂ™t I just punch him on the face and take the lead?вЂќ ever again.

Of course, the вЂњwhy wouldnвЂ™t they?вЂќ aspect of Road RashвЂ™s combat will ruin all normal motorcycle racing games for you going forward. You should probably look out a window to check вЂ“ you wouldnвЂ™t want to miss something that awesome. In fact, for all you know, that sort of thing could be happening right now. But Road Rash is a motorcycle race, where the competitorвЂ™s just happen to punch each other when nobody else is looking becauseвЂ¦ well, why wouldnвЂ™t they? I mean, besides the fact that itвЂ™s incredibly dangerous? ThatвЂ™s believable. That probably explains why most вЂњcar combatвЂќ games take place in some dystopian future. Aside being expensive, thatвЂ™s the sort of thing that would probably attract a lot of attention and probably a military intervention. Think about how weird it would be if you saw a bunch of heavily modified cars racing down the street while firing machine guns and other weapons at each other. Road Rash wasnвЂ™t the first game to combine racing in combat, but it does so in a way thatвЂ™s much more believable and almost perfectly balanced. Oh hey, thereвЂ™s a bike based on one of my ex-girlfriends. Road Rash isnвЂ™t a sport (tragically), but the same principle applies. It doesnвЂ™t make you any less of a gamer if you enjoy, say, a sports game, as long as the game is well designed and satisfying to play. And despite what the pundits of вЂњhardcoreвЂќ gaming will tell you, not every title needs to be an RPG with a complicated story, a 2D fighter with 400 characters that are all slightly different variations of Ryu, or the worldвЂ™s hardest vertical shooter. I mean, video games are supposed to be fun, right? It seems like sometimes we get so caught up arguing about their artistic merits that we kind of forget that. To this I would argue that if you canвЂ™t properly enjoy a well-made game about racing motorcycles while punching people in the face, then perhaps youвЂ™re all taking yourselves just a bit too seriously. The Road Rash games are the kind of thing likely to be looked down upon as mindless, or вЂњjust another racing gameвЂќ, completely lacking the interesting characters or narrative depth of, say, an RPG.

#Sega road rash 3 series#

Certainly, this is not a series of games we would expect to see do well if a similar list had been published by, for example, Gamefan magazine back in the old days.

We donвЂ™t write this blog with a conscious effort to be anti-establishment or populist, but itвЂ™s not hard to imagine вЂњhardcoreвЂќ gamers and other Genesis enthusiasts getting a little bent out of shape upon seeing the Road Rash series finish so high our list. Note: Road Rash 2 was the editorsвЂ™ unanimous favorite game in this series Years: 1992-1995 (see grades for specific year of each game)