RIDE 3

 PlayStation 4
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6.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 65 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 65
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 65
  3. Negative: 23 out of 65
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  1. TheScort
    Feb 21, 2019
    4
    My first experience of 'pay to win' - sadly!

    Well, what can I say? Having purchase Ride (then it's season pass), then Ride 2 (and that season pass) - Ride 3 was something that was on my radar since it being announced; and the initial videos made it look gorgeous - and inline 4's actually sounded really good now! Owing to having a bit of a backlog, I let Ride 3 wait for a while, and    My first experience of 'pay to win' - sadly!

    Well, what can I say? Having purchase Ride (then it's season pass), then Ride 2 (and that season pass) - Ride 3 was something that was on my radar since it being announced; and the initial videos made it look gorgeous - and inline 4's actually sounded really good now!

    Owing to having a bit of a backlog, I let Ride 3 wait for a while, and never read any reviews - but it popped up on a PSN offer, so I nabbed it!

    First race - a Panigale V4 (oof!), but it became clear that this was much like past Ride games, and had a bit of a steep learning curve; fair enough, it's just an into - I don't care where I come. I then start working my way through the first tier of racing (ignoring the riding school) - all was going well.

    Unfortunately, I hit a series where the top two bikes were a naked Triumph, and some other bike, which came with one of the chargeable packs. Fair enough I thought, and I duly purchased the Triumph and upgraded it to the max; little did I know, the AI had the premium bike, and it was impossible to catch!

    Race after race after race, the bike from the chargeable pack was always in the top positions, and regardless just how much I perfected my lines, I would never get the gold or silver in races against this bike! What else was I left to think, other than "this is pay to win"!! In the end, all I could do was lower the difficulty.

    I then got hit with exactly the same issue in another race - a section of the Nurburgring, old style naked bikes, and yet again - the AI leaders were furnished with a chargeable bike from the Customs pack!!!! And again, regardless of reaching the maximum PP for my bike, I could never catch these chargeable bikes, without lowering the difficulty.

    I've only just unlocked the second tier of racing, but the above experiences have clearly shown me that Milestone have structured races in such a way, that you either pay to win, or lower the difficulty, which is something you really shouldn't have to do.

    Aside from this, the game is enjoyable enough, though the power of front brakes are laughable - a set of Brembo M50 calipers will bring a bike down from silly speeds, to near enough nothing, in a very very short distance; in Ride 3 it feels like you are braking using sponges rather than sintered pads!

    The bike lineup is also disappointing too - far too many 2017/2018 models are missing, which makes the lineup feel stale. And I'm relativity sure that the model details (when zoomed in on photos) have taken a fair dive from Ride 2.

    I'll persevere with the game, but the pay to win elements have certainly left a bad taste in my mouth over this game.    … Expand
  2. NicolasB
    Sep 9, 2019
    0
    Pros: cool music

    Cons: pay to win at it's best, mediocre graphics even on One X, only 2/3 laps for race, no qualifications

    Terrible game, don't waste your money. Milestone made it only because they needed extra budget for Motogp 19
  3. ZackMondor
    May 27, 2020
    2
    Gave the game a try after reading the reviews saying "if you enjoy bikes you'll like this" i enjoy bikes but this game controls like garbage. Great visuals and actual working mirrors. But controls feel off.
  4. Infearno666
    Jul 30, 2020
    4
    Good graphics and sound let down by rubbish AI, sluggish handing and no ability to adjust FOV. The cockpit views feel zoomed out, like I'm sitting on the pillion seat.
  5. Luddite
    May 31, 2019
    3
    In general the game looks fantastic. Menus and all the additional stuff is really well done and no effort has been saved in that sector. But the most important thing, riding the bike... horrible. If real life bikes would behave anything like this and if driving would be even close this hard I wouldn't even consider actually riding them myself. I suspect no-one in the development team isIn general the game looks fantastic. Menus and all the additional stuff is really well done and no effort has been saved in that sector. But the most important thing, riding the bike... horrible. If real life bikes would behave anything like this and if driving would be even close this hard I wouldn't even consider actually riding them myself. I suspect no-one in the development team is actually a rider themselves. For example, at higher speeds, you don't actually visibly _turn_ handlebars in the direction of the corner, but that's what you do in this game. I suggest the dev team would go and try out the Isle of Man TT game for the PS4 and learn how the bike handling is decently transferred into an enjoyable and believable simulation.… Expand
  6. metal44ika
    Nov 30, 2018
    0
    Pros: 1. good graphics and sound

    Cons: 1. no test drive before races so hopefully you know the track by heart because the map is useless, 2. you cant even see upcoming corners on the map until you're way past the point of breaking going 80mph into a hairpin that you didn't know was there because the map is so stupidly zoomed in, and you cant adjust the map size, 3. the trajectory arrows    Pros: 1. good graphics and sound

    Cons: 1. no test drive before races so hopefully you know the track by heart because the map is useless, 2. you cant even see upcoming corners on the map until you're way past the point of breaking going 80mph into a hairpin that you didn't know was there because the map is so stupidly zoomed in, and you cant adjust the map size, 3. the trajectory arrows that were extremely efficient in ride 2 are now barely visible and hard to read, 4. the way the rider leans and scoots his butt around on the bike is much less realistic than ride 2, he rides like the characters in gta v ride 5. there is less customization than ride 2 when it comes to choosing how your rider leans and rides 6. when you're reversing he leans the bike like hes taking a corner and one foot pushes back off of the air instead of the ground, in real life you dont lean a motorcycle when reversing, you just turn the front wheel and back up    … Expand
  7. isomarcus
    Jun 14, 2020
    1
    Pros:
    lots of bikes to buy, upgrade, paint and customize.
    lots of rider gear to buy in order to personalize your rider Cons: Everything else. Atrocious physics, Feels absolutely nothing like riding a bike. There's no difference between dry and wet track, even in heavy rain you can just throw your bike into a turn with a knee to the ground and smashing into the brakes. Horrific    Pros:
    lots of bikes to buy, upgrade, paint and customize.
    lots of rider gear to buy in order to personalize your rider

    Cons:

    Everything else. Atrocious physics, Feels absolutely nothing like riding a bike. There's no difference between dry and wet track, even in heavy rain you can just throw your bike into a turn with a knee to the ground and smashing into the brakes.

    Horrific performance on ps4 pro, given that the graphics look from a game of 3 years ago, you'd expect at least a smooth experience, but try moving around the camera in a race and enjoy your 20 fps

    Non-existant AI, they just shoot off the grid and ride on tracks all race on fixed pace, while completely ignoring (and crashing into) you. Since you start every race from 8th position (there's no qualifying), it just becomes ridicolous after a while. Lowering the AI difficulty slider seems to make no difference at all on the AI riders.

    Lack of options to make the game at least playable (for example minimap zoom in order to make the track minimap useful as it basically shows 15 metres of track in front and behind you, or an option to remove the camera bobbing as correcting your trajectory in a turn makes you sea-sick)

    You literally have to buy the DLCs to win races in career mode, as in the starting races the A.I rides DLC bikes that goes faster than the bikes you can buy (even when upgraded to the max). So you have for example this race starting in the nordschleife final straight where you just watch the AI DLC bikes doing 30 kmh more than your maxed up triumph street twin.

    The tracks feel quite lack-luster as many are missing a lot of surrounding scenery, and many tracks have sections that do not resemble their real counterpart (even if you just compare them to tracks in game that have tracks laser scanned like forza)

    I give the game a 1 only because it's fun to buy and customize the bikes and rider, everything else is really horrendous.    … Expand
  8. iAtomxxx19
    Oct 11, 2019
    0
    Ride 3 can suck my nuts ride 2 has split screen why has the newest game not have it retarded this is
  9. Smc88
    Nov 2, 2019
    0
    I am absolutely beyond disappointed with ride. I plane ride, ride 2 and now ride 3. This is the first time they have bikes in career mode that the A.I. can use that are the best bikes PP wise in the garage and the only way to get these bikes is to buy them with real money. For example the triumph has a bike that is by far the best and the AI uses it and is way better than any bike you canI am absolutely beyond disappointed with ride. I plane ride, ride 2 and now ride 3. This is the first time they have bikes in career mode that the A.I. can use that are the best bikes PP wise in the garage and the only way to get these bikes is to buy them with real money. For example the triumph has a bike that is by far the best and the AI uses it and is way better than any bike you can get. So the only way to be able to reasonably compete in that circuit is to spend money on add on bike. It’s **** I pay full price for a game but guess what if you want to win certain races and have the bikes that the computer uses to win. Well you better get your wallet out. I will never buy a game that this company makes ever again. RIP OFF!!!!… Expand
  10. miczat
    Aug 5, 2021
    0
    Coming right off playing and loving GT Sport, I was looking forward to RIDE 3. The work by RIDE 3's 3D modelers and the graphic designers is fantastic. It truly looks amazing. But the game is completely let down by whoever decided to approve the physics and controls. It is awful. Frustrating. Unlike GT Sport where the game gave you range to be OK or awesome and explained how toComing right off playing and loving GT Sport, I was looking forward to RIDE 3. The work by RIDE 3's 3D modelers and the graphic designers is fantastic. It truly looks amazing. But the game is completely let down by whoever decided to approve the physics and controls. It is awful. Frustrating. Unlike GT Sport where the game gave you range to be OK or awesome and explained how to drive, RIDE 4 is non-communicative and unforgiving. After 4 hours of unintuitive, unexplained introduction I gave up. I made it through the license test and left it at that. There will be no DLC purchases, no RIDE 4 purchases, a proper financial consequence for whoever decided to make a game that should be fun, into a totally not-fun experience. Or maybe this is a niche game for people who like Dark Souls-hard or Cuphead-hard games? Yeah, that's not me.… Expand
  11. Blightedimp
    Feb 9, 2020
    4
    Let's get the good things out there first, the game looks beautiful, the campaign is the best in the series and the track list is really solid.

    Now with that said overall I am very unimpressed with the game. My biggest issue is the AI, AI players feel like they've come from a ps2 era game, hell even gran turismo on the ps1 had better feeling AI than this game. Some tracks they are just    Let's get the good things out there first, the game looks beautiful, the campaign is the best in the series and the track list is really solid.

    Now with that said overall I am very unimpressed with the game. My biggest issue is the AI, AI players feel like they've come from a ps2 era game, hell even gran turismo on the ps1 had better feeling AI than this game. Some tracks they are just completely incompetent and I'm able to get a 10 second lead after just a few corners, anything with a long sweeping corner they loose several seconds as they awkwardly try and manage their speed yet in the straights and off the line you will almost always be at a disadvantage so the actual difficulty is down to their behavior and the track this makes some race's a complete cake walk even if the highest difficulty settings and others do difficult you have to drop the difficulty or just be left in the dust. There isn't strong rubberbanding which is nice, instead the lead AI will just gap the pack immediately and go off into his own race, I've had 3 lap races where the gap between myself and 1st is 10 seconds and then the next AI is over 40 seconds behind me and all of this makes the game feel unbalanced and robotic. Next is the sound design, the music menus and road noises are all great but some of the bike noises are just so awful that I actually had to turn the sound off when using certain bikes. The best example I can give is the KTM 390 RC it sounds like an uninspired biplane with a cold. Overall I'm very underwhelmed with the game with bikes being locked behind the campaign (which would be fine if the AI was up to par) the game just feels like a rushed out mess and is just overall worse than its predecessor (Ride 2). When I'm playing a time attack with one of the bikes that has good sound design its great but the rest of the time I feel like I'm just tolerating the game rather than enjoying it.    … Expand
  12. Felokofarias
    Jun 13, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It is impossible to win a simple race even in very easy difficult. You upgrade to the max your moto but it is not enough to reach the 1st place. Only anger with this game.… Expand

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 14 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. GamingTrend
    May 29, 2019
    60
    From a presentation standpoint, Ride 3 is outstanding. The bikes look fantastic and I love all the customization options. Unfortunately, it is lacking in terms of gameplay. With this being a video game and all, that’s a bit of a problem. If you really need a bike racer then this may be the best of your very limited options, but with the harsh learning curve, lack of teaching, and uninspired game modes, there are far superior racing games on the market.
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  2. GameCritics
    Mar 19, 2019
    60
    As much as I liked my time on the throttle of Ride 3, there are moments when it feels like a game that’s more concerned with the history of motorcycles as products than the actual experience of riding them. There’s a staggering amount of content and stuff to collect, which will be more than enough reason for some players to seek out what Milestone has delivered here, but the pacing and difficulty often made that content feel more like an obstacle. The speed, danger and finesse of a motorcycle is nice, but maybe a bit more freedom wouldn’t hurt.
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  3. Gamers' Temple
    Jan 28, 2019
    80
    Ride 3 is an easy entry into the motorcycle simulation genre. The level of detail on and off the track is visually satisfying. Over time playing the AI can get a little boring, but multiplayer provides some variety, at least if you win and don't get dead last like I do more than half the time. For someone wanting to get into a motorcycle racing game this is a strong contender. Veterans of the genre may have their niche, but Ride seems to have a good community following. To those veterans I say it is for you to decide if there is enough new content to warrant the purchase. Either way, I hope to see many of you at the finish line!
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