Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Aug 24, 2023

  I bought RIDE 3 on Xbox quite some time ago, enjoyed and completed it. The game hasn't aged terribly well, but still holds-up pretty well and i prefer the handling model over RIDE 4, so figured i'd double-dip on the Steam version.
• Renelli M2

  Aug 23, 2023

  This game makes me wanted to actually ride a motorcycle in real life than in the game.
• Kaktus

  Aug 23, 2023

  If "Gran Turismo/Forza but bikes" is what you want then this is the game to get.
• xeXELOs2s2

  Aug 21, 2023

  O jogo que mais me divertiu em 26 anos de vida.
• §LîÇk

  Aug 21, 2023

  I tried Ride 4, and I now I've tried Ride 3. The controls are terrible. I assume after a lot of getting use to it you could manage to control the bikes, but its simply just not worth the time investment. I ride dirt bikes IRL, and it's easier to ride IRL than it is in this game.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 2, 2020

  As a biker in real life i feel i have a good enough idea to review this game. I have played this game elsewhere so ignore the 15hrs game time on the steam platform but thats another story for another time. As a whole the game is very good, i really do like it. theres a ton of bikes to buy and unlock along with the performance upgrades. theres also enough tracks in the game to keep anyone happy. there are also a few stinkers too.... take Macau in China as a good example. its incredibly narrow and full of nasty sharp corners, there really is a place reserved in Hell for the person that put that track into Ride III. Graphically Ride III is beautiful, the bike models are really stunning and the game is very nicely optimised. i only have a GTX1060 6Gb and i have no issues with FPS on max settings. There regular races to compete in along with time attacks and drag racing, so a nice variety. There are however a few issues. as is synonymous with the RIDE franchise the bike sounds leave a lot to be desired. the 2 stroke bikes sound like you might expect......(here comes the over-used phrase) they sound like an angry wasp in a jam jar. some bikes dont sound "too bad" but they could be much much better. some bikes sound truly awful, take the Triumph Triple for example. there are no words that i possess in my vocabulary to explain or compare to what this sounds like. its absolutely awful to the point i wouldnt even say that it sounds like any bike ive ever heard, it doesnt even sound like it could be a bike. After 3 series of RIDE i would like to think they would have got on top of the sound issues, but they havent, so thats that. The second issue i want to mention is the A.I or lack of it. yes, there are computer controlled rivals but they have no intelligence to speak of. They seem to just follow the same lines over and over. They never make mistakes, they never fall off or have accidents with each other. but the biggest problem of all is that they seem to have no concept of you being there. they wont defend the corners at all and they are all too easy to pass. having said that, should you hit one by mistake they seem to be an unmovable object. you are the only one thats gonna fall off, and its the same vice versa.... if they hit you because youve made a mistake then yet again, youll be the one who suffers. i would just say the other riders are more obstacles rather than any kind of A.I which is a shame. onto the bikes themselves. each bike definately feels different to another. take a CBR600RR and a GSXR600 from the same era. the GSXR feels smooth, civilised and planted. the CBR on the other hand feels sharper in the corners with better brakes, but it isnt as quick. the brakes on the CBR are better but the back end really squirms around under heavy braking where as the GSXR seems planted. The CBR has had me off due to the rear end squirm. each bike in the game is a totally different kettle of fish which is a massive good point for the game. it makes you want to test every bike!! final verdict? is it worth a buy? sure it is. overall its an enjoyable game and its a good game, theres plenty to do in the career mode to keep anyone happy for many many hours! could the game be better? Yes, and thats a big yes, the only 2 things that let it down and let it down badly are the god awful bike sounds and the horrendous A.I or lack of.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 19, 2018

  [h1]WARNING DON'T BUY[/h1] [h1]A full year and a half now without any fixes for the major issues[/h1] UPDATE 24-07-2020: Still no fixes for the game crashes! A full year and a half, yes a year and a half.... since it's release and there has still been nothing done to fix the major issues this game has. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! I will keep updating the review as Milestone updates their game. Obviously they're not trying. (played it recently to see if anything had been fixed, but all i got was disappointment) Where to begin on this hot mess. I'm just going to jump right in and get to the points Good points: - Great graphics - More tracks including awesome street tracks like The Snake (Mulholland highway). - More types of bikes like: adventure, sport touring, classic racing. - Livery editor, which in my opinion is a HUGE plus! Already made some great liveries myself. You can share and download these liveries online with eachother. People are making the best stuff on there. - Bike models look a lot better and more realistic. - They added wind noise when you go fast and it gives you a bit more sense of speed. Not so great points: - Only 1 new motorcycle helmet brand in the mix of riding gear. - No other new stuff for motorcycle gear. - No motorcycle gear editor. They made a livery editor in the game, why not do the same so you can make your very own custom gear? - Not being able to change your riding outfit before the race. You have to go all the way back to the main menu and then change your outfit. In Ride 2 you used to be able to change racing gear before the race, so why leave it out in this one. If you match your leathers to a certain bike, it means you have to go all the way back into the main menu to change your riding gear. - Some bikes don't have an aftermarket exhaust option. This is a motorcycle game. Motorcyclists obviously like to put a nice exhaust on their bike. - Putting an aftermarket exhaust on your bike doesn't actually change the sound. - Some bikes have a horrible sound, unrealistic sound or a sound that doesn't match the bike at all. - They added a camera wobble when you're going really fast, probably to enhance the sense of speed, but it's just annoying as hell. Horrible points: - Game crashes on certain maps. Lots of players have this problem. So you can't even play through the entire career mode. [h1](1 YEAR and still no fix)[/h1] - You have to win every event in a ''block'' of races in order to unlock certain bikes. You understand how frustrating it can be to not be able to race a certain race, because it's one of the maps that will crash no matter what. Again leaving you unable to play through the career. - Some players have reported that they get stuck on the loading screen, so they can't even play the game at all. [h1](1 YEAR and still no fix)[/h1] - Stupidly horrible AI. They cannot be crashed, but when they smash into you, you are the one that crashes. Note that they tend to smash into you A LOT, because they will always try to outbrake you. - Physics that apply to you don't seem to apply to the AI. For example, when you have the RSV 1000 R, you won't be able to outbrake an AI on a GSXR 750, but when you switch them around the same thing happens. AI WILL outbrake you. - AI doing their absolute best to stay on their racing line. Even when you're there, they will just keep turning into you untill you move. - You either suffer with AI on high difficulty or you will outrun them easily when you set them a little lower. This is obviously no fun. - Quite a lot of awesome tracks from Ride 2 aren't in this game, too many to name them all. Most of the career gameplay is Isle Of Man tracks now. - Ride 2 had more realistic physics, this game has been dumbed down so that anyone could play this easily. - Some users have now reported that the game can crash after almost every race. This includes me. Thankfully, the games saves you winning the race, but it's still horrible. [h1](1 YEAR and still no fix)[/h1] - As you can tell there are a lot of problems, mainly with the game crashes and the AI. All of this combined really takes the fun out of the game. At this moment i highly recommend against buying this game. [h1](And still do)[/h1] If you are absolutely set on wanting to buy this, then listen up. Here's what you need to do: At the start go for the supermoto and do the first supermoto event you can see. If you can ride all of those tracks it probably means you don't have the problem that your game will crash on certain tracks (2 supermoto tracks are part of that list). If your game does crash, i strongly recommend refunding it. Why did you not refund it? Well because i already played it for too long trying to figure out why it kept crashing thinking it was a problem with my pc. There wasen't a known list of tracks that were known to crash your game when i bought it. I put in a report of all this on their official website and they responded, so lets hope they will fix these things soon. [h1](They didn't)[/h1] They had an update where they fixed some issues, but the track crashes are still there and so is the terrible AI. Just so you know. [h1](Still terrible AI)[/h1] All in all if you're looking for a proper motorcycle game with more realistic physics, buy Ride 2 on sale.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 5, 2020

  If you are a rider in real life and (like me) searching for a substitute for your passion during those troubeling Corona-times or in general for the winter-months, then please don't buy this game for this reason. The handling of the bikes has no correlation to real bikes at all, there is only leaning but no steering impluses. Everything feels heavy and every steering interaction is just too late (since there is no steering). Whatever skill-level of riding you are in real life, i can guarentee this is not transferable to this game. It just feels alienated and strange. The tuning also stays behind my personal expectation as the majority of options referes to mechanical and therefore performance-tuning and lacks optical costumization apart from generic parts you get at every general motorbike store. On the plus side, the Wiki is very broad and accurate and there are at least some bikes apart from the typical supersport ones (altough most of them are locked behind a DLC-paywall). I'll see you on the streets, ride safe (Y)
• gamedeal user

  Jun 29, 2020

  I really want to love this game, as a fellow motorcyclist I love all things motorcycles and this game honestly is awesome for people who want to have a nice arcade motorcycle experience, yes it's an arcade racer not a sim one, which isn't a bad thing. The thing I absolutely hate about this game is the cheap fucking cashgrab the devs call DLC for it. 50% off its 30 euros so 60 euros full price JUST FOR VIRTUAL FUCKING BIKES. What makes it even worse is that the fucking game is full fucking price at 50 euros. I hate hate hate it. So if you decide that paying 60 more bucks just to get some virtual bikes in a full priced game is way too much, dont expect to win every race, there are some shitstains of motorcycles that are locked behind the DLC paywall that will absolutely smoke your scrublord, base game only bikes, What makes it even worse is that they dont even attempt to hide the DLC bikes away somewhere where you cant see them, they are just right there in the dealership screen, staring at you, endlessly taunting to fork out some extra dough. As I said I really want to recommend this game, I absolutely love everything it has to offer gameplay wise and have succumbed to the temptation and bought the DLC's but if you dont have an extra 110 euros burning a hole in your pocket don't get it, if you are like me and love all thing motorcycle related, DONT DONT AND FUCKING DONT get it at full price, pirate that shit and wait untill it goes on sale. ITS NOT WORTH 110 EUROS
• gamedeal user

  Sep 9, 2019

  Game has been fun..i have almost 1500 hours into it. Many issues took unreasonable amounts of time to be resolved, and many still have not been fixed. Now that all the paid DLC are done, devs seen to have "forgotten" about the game.. no updates for a while now. Lots of bikes (i have 414..{lots of double and some triples of the same bike},and still have 2 or 3 that i haven't "earned" in career mode), nice tracks, decent weather affects. Online is still terribly laggy, and is the worst part of the game. Some time-attacks in career mode are very hard to beat. AI is very aggressive and stupid. AI is inconsistent.. beatable at 120% on some tracks, and almost unbeatable at any difficulty level (20% is the easiest difficulty setting) on others. I run on PC... Ryzen 7 1700X, GTX 1060 6GB, 32GB RAM.. runs fine spec-wise, but still get Unreal Engine 4 crashes, a couple times a week at least. If all the negatives don't concern you, you can have fun and burn away copious amounts of time on it.