MTV Music Generator 3: This Is The Remix

by Codemasters

Product Features

• Create a remix of 10 thumping tunes and a library of 4,000 samples - licensed music from megastars like OutKast, Snoop Dogg, Sean Paul, Fabolous, and Carl Cox
• Remixers let you adjust the volume of any track, clean up its sound and make the track you want to hear
• Build and alter your tracks by placing samples of drumbeats, riffs, and vocal samples anywhere in your song
• Improve the flow of your song with effects - work with fades, reverses, stutters, reverbs, delays, a flanger, distortion and fillers

Product Details

• ASIN: B0000V48IO
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches ; 2.4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,288 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

MTV Music Generator 3: This Is The Remix helps you create the next hot songs. From hip-hop to trance, you'll have thousands of samples available to you, for incredible self-produced music.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Wheres the Rock?, June 27, 2004

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Xan I. "xan_i" (Somewhere in the Middle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MTV Music Generator 3: This Is The Remix (CD-ROM)

The first MTV Music Generator for the PS1 was a good tool for putting together original music in just about any musical style. You could choose from rock, techno, I think industrial, as well as quite a few others. Its only limitation was the wee little memory cards that were used with the PS1. So after the XBox came out with its 6 gig hard drive, I traded both my PS1 and PS2 for a bag of magic beans and haven't really looked back since. (Because of the memory limitations of the first, I never tried the MTV MG2 for the PS2.)

Where the MG1 had many styles to choose from, the MG3 has 10 bands to choose from.
Snoop Dogg. OutKast. Sean Paul. Carl Cox. Fabolous. The Ones. DJ Marky. Mike Koglin. Krafty Kuts. R4. (Who ARE these people???)
This program kind of comes across as a big advertisement for these bands. You can remix their songs and create your own songs based on their style of music. All I really wanted was to just have some rock/metal drum tracks to accompany my guitar. But since MTV has tried its best over the past decade to kill rock and metal in favor of the flavor of the month product, it should come as no surprise that the hard stuff was omitted from this program. So if you like any of the "artists" I listed, then this might be the program for you.

The MG3 is only $30 and does have some decent tools like an editor and "beat box", which is nice as I will probably just end up using it as a cheap drum machine anyway. This product might be right for the exposed boxer-shorts crowd, but it wasn't right for me. I would have rather picked up a cheap used PS1 with a bunch of memory cards and fired up the old MTV Music Generator 1.

I actually find it funny that MTV would make a music generator, so it doesn't surprise me that they would put their name on a flawed one. I did half expect to pop the disk in and have it actually be a MTV Reality TV Generator.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First game was GREAT, second BLAH, third looks FANTASTIC!, June 17, 2004

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D. Galindo (Odessa, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MTV Music Generator 3: This Is The Remix (CD-ROM)

In this awesome game, you can mix tracks and music (from a 4,000+ sound library) to create your very own thumpin tunes. Its incredibly easy to do, and although the learning level is a bit steep, it was a fantastic experience. You do not need any music no-how, just a good sense of rhythm. Its a lot like putting notes on a music page, and hearing them in real-time. Pretty amazing for a console game, even moreso with the nice low price!!

A new feature in this game is a way to rip 8-seconds of CD track (the legal amount of time) and make them riffs for your song. You could thump some drums while Tom Jones sings with EMINEM- the possibilities are endless.

The second game of this series was a huge step backwards from the first, but now they have got it right, and the nice price makes this a DEFINITE buy from me. Research a bit more in this game to see if its for you- but trust me, its the best of its kind. A very impressive "game"!

NOTE: make SURE you get the XBox version. The PS2 version will have a LOT more limitations due to a lack of a hard drive (such as erasing the CD rips of songs every reboot, while the XBox saves them on the hard drive). Its doable with a PS2, and pure gravy on the XBox.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT, June 24, 2004

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R. PAYNE "taikutsuna" (caldwell,id) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MTV Music Generator 3: This Is The Remix (CD-ROM)

the first thing to note about music generator 3 is that jester interactive did not make this so do not expect the title to be on the same engine as mg-1 or mg-2.
with that being said this game can hardly compare to either of the first two. if codemasters had made mg-2 and added a couple hundred more riffs and samples this would have been a phenomenal title.
the biggest flaw with this title is that even though there are more riffs and samples than the previous installments they have been segregated by styles of music....so rather than having a huge library of riffs and samples to create from you get a couple of hundred for each style with no crossover...example,...if you choose to make a song in trance style you can't go over to rap and check out drum loops for your song. your stuck with what in "trance style" or what ever style you have chosen.
this severly stiffles any creative process you might have dreamt of and makes this more of puzzle game, as in "WE HAVE BROKEN APART 4 SONGS SEE IF YOU CAN PUT THEM BACK TOGETHER"
don't let the price fool you its not worth it