Drop, charge, and lose the cords
GameSpot editors' review
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CNET editors' rating:
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Very good
Detailed editors' rating
- Reviewed on: 09/10/1999
- Updated on: 05/02/2000
- Released on: 08/31/1999
- Originally published on GameSpot: Jet Moto 3 (PlayStation) Review
If Jet Moto was needlessly difficult, and Jet Moto 2 was even tougher, then the third incarnation of the Jet Moto series reaches the summit of crafty tracks and challenging racing. I just couldn't see Jet Moto existing as a real life sport - the careers of racers in the league would be horribly short, until the up-and-comer blazed around a corner and right off a cliff. Jet Moto 3 indeed brings the pain - but it does it in a nice, cheerful way.
If doing a flip on a pair of roller skates these days is considered extreme, Jet Moto racing needs a brand-new term to describe it. Jet Moto is hard-core, in your face, fall-into-a-bottomless-pit-and-like-it racing. Want more brutal, daring tracks? Jet Moto 3 has got them. In fact, Jet Moto 3 boasts ten of the most difficult tracks I've seen in a racing game. Nothing will frustrate you more than when you accidentally miss a 2-inch-wide ledge and lose a lap because of it. But somehow, Jet Moto 3 makes this all bearable, and the adrenaline-fueled racing combined with sadistic track design make Jet Moto 3 one hard game to put down.
The graphics say one thing to you - speed. The graphics engine was built to show off exactly how fast you can blaze through the tracks. As such, attention to details is sometimes sketchy. Your Moto racer himself looks a little on the stickman side, while the backgrounds are nice and pretty unless you get too close. The grapple effect looks downright lame, and the poles themselves stick out like a sore thumb. All the CGI in the game is frightful - none of the characters look even fractionally human. But most of this really doesn't matter when you're flying through a volcano at 150mph and the frame rate is just humming.
The soundtrack is good - not good enough to record and play while you're in traffic, but good nonetheless. Each track has its own theme song, which usually has to do with the track itself. Catchy Spanish guitar strums away on the South American track, while haunting chords and menacing voices whisper one liners through the forbidden temple track. The sound effects are standard racer fare - a growling engine peppered with boost-like noises.
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