And sure, you could argue that with “well, just don’t use it”, but, until you’ve played this game, you don’t understand how difficult it to resist that temptation.īeing the realistic racing game that it is, the majority of MXGP3 centers around the game’s career mode in which you, an up-and-coming motocross racer, participate in a 36-race gamut to see who the best of the best is in the world of motocross. By letting players correct their mistakes at-will, MXGP3 doesn’t hold its players accountable for improving their skills. Make a bad turn? Rewind, and perfect it! Get beaten in the last few seconds of a race? Memorize where they came from, rewind, and get directly in front of them so they can’t pass you! The ability to rewind time is something that I’ll admit that I used a lot. That’s right folks, in addition to becoming the best racer around, your character can also reverse the flow of time. It’s almost as if MXGP3 knew that these problems were bound to happen, though, because they also give you the ability to correct mistakes. If you’re going for realism, MXGP3, those things shouldn’t happen. I, on several occasions, have attempted turns, only to have my character either make a sharp 90-degree turn or, in a few cases, spin all the way around. Avoiding broad turns is much trickier than it should be and, when you do manage to make a sharp turn, it’s often times too sharp. Or, if you’re accurate, while maintaining a high speed. Because of how turning often requires you to break or decelerate, it’s incredibly difficult to drive around a curve with any semblance of accuracy. Turning, without a doubt, will be your biggest adversary in this game - more so than any rival racer will ever be. Even after becoming a good… er, adequate… racer, I still found myself running into issues with certain areas. You’re going to learn to loathe sharp turns. It just took way longer than it should have. Eventually, after a handful of humiliating defeats, I learned the ropes and turned the tables on my adversaries. But, I’ll give it credit, far from impossible. It was intense and, to be frank, frustrating. And it was only made worse by the fact that the game barely helped you out at all. But I’ve played enough (non- MK) racing games lately that I at least know to expect a bit of incoming complexity whenever I dive into one. I’ll be honest with you, I’m no motorhead. Or, to be fair, it’s too complex from where I’m standing. And this is both a good and bad thing.Īs weird as it might sound, MXGP3 might be a little too mechanically complex for its own good. Much like the sport that it emulates, MXGP3 is surprisingly technical when it comes to putting your pedal to the metal. This is certainly a racing game that requires you to do more than just slam your foot (er, finger?) down on the accelerator for 90% of each race.

I’m happy to say that there isn’t a huge issue there.

As I stated in the beginning of this review (which wasn’t that long ago, so hopefully you still remember), MXGP3 tries to be as realistic as possible. Before we get into anything else, I should talk about the most important thing in the game - the racing.

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