Extreme G3 Racing

by Acclaim Entertainment Inc.

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00005QDPT
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: December 12, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,709 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: GameCube

Amazon.com Product Description

Extreme G3 is a gravity-defying racing game. After climbing onto one of 12 supercharged, fully armed bikes and engaging your protective shield, you're off on an extreme racing challenge. Race underwater, beneath the earth's surface, through cratered canyons, and out into space as you play through Extreme G3's nine racing circuits. The game's two-player split-screen modes include Team Grand Prix, Head-to-Head, and Co-op. This game also sports a landscape animator that renders course environments in a graphically detailed, futuristic style that's visually compelling.

Customer Reviews

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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Game is The Bomb...Especially on the Game Cube, December 1, 2001

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Xam "mixed media man" (nyc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Extreme G3 (Video Game)

Extreme G3 is an absolutely awesome game, you ride on turbo-charged motorcycles that look like they're straight out of Akira. It is the fastest racing game ever, and it moves incredibly smooth at 60 fps on the Game Cube. The graphics are superb and the level design is great, it has a beautifully rendered realistic look. Some levels look like the futuristic city in Blade Runner, while others are out in the desert or in the middle of the ocean. The techno soundtrack is also very good and adds to the futuristic feel of the game perfectly. The gameplay is top notch and the controls are right on (the game cube controller is truly excellent, especially for a racing game like this). The high-powered motorcycles zoom through the courses very realistically. There are also a variety of weapons to equip on your motorcycle, which is really cool and adds an extra dimension to the gameplay. Also- The Game Cube version of XG3 features four player mode (which the PS2 version doesn't), and also offers much improved frame rate / graphics over the PS2 version. It moves at a constant 60 frames per second, which looks absolutely silky smooth, even in multiplayer!

I recommend XG3 to anyone with a Game Cube. It is one of the finest games to be released thus far.

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Futuristic Techno Racer Ever, December 28, 2001

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MGP - See all my reviews

This review is from: Extreme G3 (Video Game)

I had thought that Wipeout was by far the best racing series I had ever played up until now. I'm a serious fan of the futuristic techno psygnosis design, and I had honestly believed that there was nothing that could top it. In fact I purchased a PS2 almost solely based on the belief that Sony was going to release Wipeout Fusion shortly after the launch (as they claimed). Unfortunately that never occured. Fortunately, however, Extreme G3 was available for the Cube when I went shopping to get games.

Let me just say this. Crucial art direction, track layout, and musical direction personnel from Psygnosis went to Acclaim and played crucial parts in the development of Extreme G3. It definitely shows. Extreme G3 conveys the most intense sense of speed and nausea in any racing game ever. You don't know what speed is until you upgrade your engine to the 1000G model and power up the turbo boost in a loop on Oceania or Megalopis.

Or when you siphon off enough energy near the finish line from one of your opponents in the lead so that you can boost yourself into the lead and win at the last possible second.

This game is about speed, super speed, sonic boom sound barrier busting speed, and even more speed. The control is ridiculously tight, and the gamecube controller is absolutely *perfect*. It's so good that I basically use the default controller setup scheme.

This game is easily one of the best racing games of all time. The weapons system requires intelligence in deployment, i.e., do you use the defensive leech mechanism, or do you drop bombs behind you to slow your opponents down. Do you fire heat seeking rockets at them, or use your shield energy to boost past them. It is a highly intelligent racing game that I appreciate. I find myself these days doing things that in the past I would not have thought of.

One of these involves a tactic of actually slowing down so that an opponent can pass, just so that I can activate the leech weapon and siphon off energy if I know that a loop is coming up soon and I'll need all the turbo boost I can store. Simple things such as that that change the dynamic of your standard fare racing game are greatly appreciated.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars X G3 Marks the Spot!, April 2, 2002

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SharpX13 "Jeremy" (Warwick, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Extreme G3 (Video Game)

This game is sweet! Its graphics and desighs will blow you away! Its got plenty of racers to choose from and a ton of long race tracks to go flying through. My favorite thing about this racing game is these motoctcles are armed for the next world war! if a racer is giving you a hard time...just use a E.M.P explsion on him! This game gets very hard about halfway through. Its almost impossible to beat some of the races but thats when (cough)codes come in. If you saw the anime movie Akira you would really like this because the motocycles in both are nearly identical! The only probelem I have found with this is its sound. on my tv, it sounds very static. I had to adjust the sound menu for 20 minutes just to make it sound right! I'm not sure if othet people are having that same problem. anyway, if your in the mood for really really really fast motorcycle shooting exploision action game, XG3 marks the spot!

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