Road Rash 3: Tour De Force

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Road Rash 3: Tour De Force
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Monkey Do Productions
Sound driver: Electronic Arts/Don Veca
Genre: Racing
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code US 1995-03 734701 EU 1995-04 E306SMXI DE 1995 E306SMXI PT 199x UK 1995-04 £44.9944.99 E306SMXI SE (Rental) 199x CZ 199x AU 199x BR 199x 046850
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Road Rash 3: Tour De Force is the sequel to Road Rash II, released exclusively for the Sega Mega Drive in 1995.

Road Rash 3 makes several changes over its predecessor. Instead of being set across California (Road Rash) or the whole of the United States (Road Rash II), Road Rash 3 takes place across the world. It also makes use of digitized graphics similar to Mortal Kombat.

Gameplay

Two-player split screen

The game is a motorcycle racing game taking place in a number of settings around the world, consisting of Australia, Kenya, Japan, Italy, Brazil, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The player can choose from five courses and must finish in fourth place or higher among fourteen other racers. The bike steers with and . It accelerates with and brakes with . Higher-end bikes are equipped with nitrous oxide charges, which can provide a burst of speed if the player quickly taps twice.

The racer can punch neighboring opponents with . The racer can backhand opponents with + or kick them with +. Some opponents wield weapons such as clubs, chains, nunchaku, crowbars, mace, cattle prods, and oil cans, which can be taken and used by the racer if the opponent is attacked as they are holding the weapon out to strike. The racer can carry multiple weapons at once and cycle through them with + START  to select a weapon for use. The mace, cattle prod and oil can are limited to ten charges each.

The racer begins the game with $1,000 and earns cash prizes for each successful race. The player can access a shop from the game's main menu, from which prize winnings can be used to purchase several bikes of differing weights, speeds, and steering capabilities. The player can also upgrade their current bike in four areas: engine performance, chassis endurance, tires and suspension. A bike can only be upgraded once in each area. The player receives a password at the end of a successful race for continuing. The player advances to the next level after winning a race on all five courses. With each subsequent level, the cash prizes become higher, the courses become longer, and the opponents become more aggressive. The player wins the game by winning a race on each course in all five levels.

Race courses are littered with everything from hills to traffic to roadside obstacles that can hurt a competitor or the player, and since the races run in real time, crashing is costly. The racer is ejected from the bike after a crash or if the racer runs out of stamina (shown in the bottom-left corner of the screen) from fights with opponents. In this event, the racer automatically runs back toward the bike, though the player can alter their course and avoid incoming traffic with and or stand still by holding . Stamina recovers over time. Opponents are likewise ejected from their bikes if their own stamina is depleted (shown in the bottom-right corner of the screen).

The bike has its own "damage meter" between the racer's and opponents' stamina meters, which decreases every time the racer suffers a crash. The bike is wrecked if the meter fully depletes, which ends the player's participation in the current race and deducts the cost of a repair bill from the racer's balance. Motor officers make sporadic appearances throughout the game's tracks, which can also end the player's participation if they apprehend the racer following a crash, also deducting the cost of a fine from their balance. The appearance of a police helicopter signifies the nearby presence of a motor officer, and the helicopter attempts to strike the racer with its landing rails to make them vulnerable to the upcoming officer. If the racer lacks the funds to cover either a repair bill or a fine, they are respectively asked to continue as a repo man for the shop or a snitch for the police. In either case, the racer is given the task of apprehending a wanted opponent by making them crash and pulling over next to them. To aid in this mission, the shop owner provides the racer with a crowbar, while the police provide a club. The wanted opponent stands out from the others by wearing differently colored leathers. Successful apprehension of the wanted opponent results in the racer's repair bill or fine being waived, while failure ends the game.

The game features a two-player mode that can either be played intermittently between players or simultaneously with a split screen. Two players can either race against each other along with other computer-controlled racers (Split Screen) or compete as the only two racers on the track (Mano a Mano). In this mode, the players can select a weapon to wield prior to the start of the race, and no money is won or lost, though officers still appear as an obstacle and can end the race if they apprehend one of the players.

Bikes

Bikes are divided into three classes, each progressively faster than the last.

Rat Bikes

Perro 125

Banzai 450

Corsair 400

Ratzo 500

Kamakazi 250

Sport Bikes

Stiletto 600

Diablo 750

Perro 250

DMG 1000

Kamakazi 750

Super Bikes

Corsair 600 N

Stiletto 900 N

Kamakazi 750 N

Diablo 1000 N

Banzai 750 1100

Courses

The game has five levels, each containing longer and more dangerous versions of the same courses.

	Brazil
	Germany
	Kenya
	U.K.
	Italy

History

Development

During development, the game was known as Road Rash 3: World Warriors.

Legacy

The game re-released for the PlayStation Portable as part of the compilation EA Replay in 2006, along with the two other Mega Drive Road Rash games.

Production credits

• Software Engineers: Dan Geisler, Warrick Holfeld
• Additional Programming: Jim Sproul, Walter Stein
• Art: Michael Hulme, Michael Shirley, Laura Bowen, Peggy Brennan, Sung Moon Kwon, Barbara Meyers, Irene Pena, Jeff Stokol
• Sound and Music: Don Veca
• Production: Randy Breen
• Project Management: Nana Chambers
• Production Associate: Steve Murray
• Production Assistant: Mike Lopez
• Course Design: Steve Murray, Mike Lopez, Aaron McClay, David Costa, Mike Hensley
• Testing: Matt Vella, Rich Rogers, Mike Yasko, Ivan Foong, Brian Reed, Anji Mayfield, Randy Eckhardt

Source:

In-game credits

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• Programming: Dan Geisler, Warrick Holfeld
• Additional Programming: Jim Sproul, Walter Stein
• Producer: Randy Breen
• Associate Producer: Steve Murray
• Assistant Producer: Mike Lopez
• Graphics: Michael Shirley, Michael Hulme, Lora Bowen, Peggy Brennan, Sung Moon Kwon, Barbara Meyers, Irene Pena, Jeffery Stokol
• Sound and Music: Don Vecu
• Course Design Tool: Thom Phillabaum
• Course Design: Steve Murray, Mike Lopez, Dave Costa, Aaron McClay, Mike Hensley
• Script: David Luoto
• Project Manager: Nana Chambers
• Product Manager: Lisa Higgins
• Character Text: Jamie Poolos, Bill Scheppler, Marti McKenna, David Lee, Valerie Hansom, Paul Armatta
• Documentation: Bill Scheppler
• Documentation Layout: Tom Peters
• Package Design: Corey Higgins
• Product Testing: Matt Vela, Rich Rogers, Anji Mayfield, Ivan Foong, Randy Eckhardt, Brian Reed
• Quality Assurance: Stewart Putney, Paul Warner

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Road Rash 3: Tour De Force/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in GamePro (US) #66: "January 1995" (199x-xx-xx)

Print advert in Game Players (US) #0802: "Vol. 8 No. 2 February 1995" (1995-0x-xx)

Print advert in GamePro (US) #68: "March 1995" (1995-xx-xx)
also published in:

• Sega Visions (US) #24: "May 1995" (1995-xx-xx)

Print advert in Mean Machines Sega (UK) #31: "May 1995" (1995-03-28)

Print advert in Gamestar (AU) #9: "February 1995" (1995-xx-xx)

Print advert in Sega News (CZ) #1: "Říjen 1996" (1996-xx-xx)
also published in:

• Sega News (CZ) #2: "Listopad 1996" (1996-1x-xx)
• Sega News (CZ) #3: "Prosinec 1996" (1996-1x-xx)
• Sega News (CZ) #4: "Leden 1997" (1997-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source GamesMaster (UK) 80 80 №79

	80
Based on 2 reviews

Sega Retro Average

Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 80 Consoles + (FR) 89 Cool Gamer (RU) 80 Computer & Video Games (UK) 83 Digitiser (UK) 87 Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US) NTSC-U 100 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU) 80 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 10 (RU) 80 FLUX (US) NTSC-U 91 Game Players (US) NTSC-U 77 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 93 Games World: The Magazine (UK) PAL 65 Joypad (FR) 75 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 73 Mega (UK) PAL 86 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 79 Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL 82 Next Generation (US) NTSC-U 50 Player One (FR) 92 Score (CZ) 65 Sega Magazine (UK) PAL 87 Sega Power (UK) PAL 78 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 82 Sega Force (SE) 85 Sega Mega Drive Review (RU) 88 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 88 Video Games (DE) PAL 70 VideoGames (US) 70

	81
Based on 28 reviews

Road Rash 3: Tour De Force

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Technical information

Main article: Road Rash 3: Tour De Force/Technical information.

References

Road Rash games for Sega systems
	Road Rash (1991) | Road Rash II (1992) | Road Rash 3: Tour De Force (1995)
	Road Rash (1994)
	Road Rash (1994)
	Road Rash (1995)
	Road Rash (1996)
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