The Road Rash Series
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- Опубликовано: 7 май 2020
- For a decade Road Rash games came and went, giving us a number of memorable experiences. We take a look at them here.
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Episode Notes:
1. Genesis and Sega CD versions captured on the Mega SG and Mega SD. 3DO, N64, Saturn, and Playstation version captured on original hardware via the Framemeister.
2. I wanted to show you a few seconds of the multiplayer in a few of these, but with the social distancing, I was all alone for this one.
3. The Game Boy you see in the video is an original model with a backlight mod.
4. I came down brutally on the Sega CD version in this video. That was based on expectation more than anything else. That game could have been so much more. Past that, there is still a fun game there.
5. Road Rash on the 3DO is commonly referred to as Road Rash 32-bit. I tend to call it that whenever it comes up.
6. I hated the Playstation and N64 exclusive Road Rash games, Road Rash 3D, Road Rash 64, and Road Rash Jailbreak when they were first released. I had felt that Road Rash 32-bit had been so superior and it took me years to find any appreciation in them.
7. The GBA Jailbreak was so much better than I was expecting. While the sound effects are sometimes annoying, I really dug the way it looked and played. A lot of ports really suffered on the GBA, but this one was actually redone to take advantage of the hardware. 
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One of my favourite Genesis games to rent from the video store when I was a kid
Amen brotha
Same here. I still play 1 and 2 to this day. I was happy to see Road Rash 2 on the Genesis Mini - more get to experience it.
Same here, Road Rash, Shinning Force and Rock and Role Racers.
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Damn man! The video store don’t have shit tonight? Eh guess I’ll get Road Rash again and Fatal Fury.
I use to love crashing and crossing the finish line sliding on the ground lol
Hahaha
I did that a lot just to see the rest of the track, normally you stopped fast, but slidding and flying you went further lol
yeah! - yeah! - yeah! - yeah! - yeah! -KRUNK!!!!!
Or running over the flag lady. Ugh Ah guhghghhguh OOOOF
And from RRII onwards if you wrecked your bike you could run over the line - you'd get prize money and avoid having to pay for the wrecked bike. The problem was sometimes it was a long way!
Road Rash 2 will always be my favorite, I love the sound of the nitro and the sensation of out of control speed!
Remember you could put in a password to get the wild thing bike.
@@tmcdonald1114 yeah that bike was ridiculous 😆
Listen to his covers of road rash 2:
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And this man will cover all the soundtrack of road rash 2 (1 and 3 also)
@@pepomega Yeah, Dean Harris is awesome. Also worth checking out is Luke Jansen.
I got to play this in all its 3DO glory at Circuit City in my mid teens. There was nothing that felt smoother, more badass and adrenaline inducing than blasting down the road blaring Rusty Cage, while knocking the other bikers off their rides. It didn't even matter what place I took. I rarely felt so alive.
EA has been masters of, "Let's crank out a piece of crap we can scalp people on until they get smart enough to quit trusting the franchise." They should be in jail for progressively murdering all of the things I loved about them in my childhood.
I'm actually happy the series was basically allowed to quietly died instead of being pumped full of microtransactions or loot boxes who knows what other kind of shenanigans. I love this series but EA is cancer to anything it touches.
I'm glad that it's gone and maybe we can just get more spiritual successors like road redemption.
@Shay - You can play Road Rash in a 3DO emulator, it runs just fine. :)
Wow. 3DO and Circuit City! That's old-school!
@@QuincyPoaches
I had a similar experience except it wasn't at a circuit City it was the now defunct electronics boutique ( EB games) at a local mall in like 93-94 maybe.
Babbage's Software was my mall hangout!
They need to make a new one that's just like RR2, just new graphics, similar music style, 2 lanes, same physics, same tire screech sound... THAT would SELL!
I've been playing Road Rash 2 for over 25 years and I don't see that stopping anytime soon, perhaps Road Rash needs the Sonic Mania/Streets of Rage 4 treatment.
Revisiting the 32 bit generation recently it's clear that 2D sprites and scaling were ditched too early and so many franchises just vanished, imagine what a 32 bit Streets of Rage or Sonic (2d) could have looked like. That and the N64 looks pretty awful in most games compared to the other 2
Road redemption
@@nofleshspared I played it years ago at PAX South and it's not quite the same feel as 2D RR. I'm sure the game has come a long way since then but 2D RR is where it's at
I agree Carl. A proper 2D Sonic game on the Saturn would have been great. Unfortunately Super Mario 64 was such a huge hit that Sega had way too much heat and pressure to make 3D games. I understand it too because even myself as a young boy in the mid 90’s I was completely hooked on 3D games. And developers knew it. 2D at the time was feeling outdated. But now we appreciate the sprites and style more.
I liked 2D better than 3D through out the 90's for games.
3D didn't get good enough to really compete until Dream cast and PS2.
Gonna break my rusty CAAAAAAGE!!!
Oh yeah, soundgarden, rip chris cornell...I enjoyed the whole soundtrack to be honest, even the weird "weed" sounding of some bands lol
AND RUuuun... ))
You nailed it!
Black kid growing up in NYC this game was the main reason I found out about soundgarden which lead to me loving bands like tool, genesis, a perfect circle
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
Soundgarden - Outshined
Soundgarden - Kickstand
Swervedriver - Duel
Swervedriver - Last Train to Satansville
Monster Magnet - Dinosaur Vacume
Hammerbox - Trip
Hammerbox - Simple Passing
Paw - The Bridge
Paw - Jessy
Paw - Pansy
Therapy? - Teethgrinder
Therapy? - Auto Surgery
Road Rash 3DO was my favorite in the series and one of the reasons the 3DO was worth it at its time.
DCM the ps1 was a port of the 3do, and I had to snag it to play on my ps3. I figured because of the music license we would never see a re release.
I still have it for the 3do
@@Longlostpuss not technically perfect but was definitely the best home port of SF at the time and the only port of this version by then
Was there even a " Road Rash" after 3Do? I think not.
@@saysbadman The 3do version was the only version with proper full motion video cut scenes and Adult content like nudity and raunchy innuendos. The 3do version in my opinion is the definitive experience. Obviously RR2 is the next best choice.
So happy to see this here. Road Rash II was probably my favourite Mega Drive game when I was a teenager. My 42 year old ass has been playing it religiously for the last couple of weeks, tweeting about it when I feel like it and my followers are confused LOL. So much fun and this game's mechanics and replayability are insane. Especially for the time.
Road Rash 2 had one of most memorable soundtracks of the era.
Vermont is one of my favorite tracks of any videogame 👍🏻
ADORE THIS SERIES... Great video buddy
It was great for its time
@@nonfiction4126 Road Rash is still great today.
Road Rash 1 was the second Genesis game I ever played, after Sonic 1. Absolutely love this game, played the hell out of RR1 RR2 and RR Game Gear, great video I love that weird unique soundtrack!
Heck yeah, Greg N! I absolutely loved Road Rash 1 when I was a boy. Some of the best Sega Genesis music to me as well.
This was the first game the whole family actually got together and played of all the games we had. even my grandma jumped in with when she visit 🤩
Did she race or kick or everything?
the crazy thing about this game series is my first hearing about it and playing it at my friends house in the mid 90s while me and some other kids were spending the night, my friend had sega channel, and road rash was on there, we were blown away by this really cool game, then my friend's cousin came over, he was a couple years older, and him and this other older kid who was staying over too completely took over and both played it all night, while the rest of us little kids had to sit back and just watch the older cool kids play... fast forward about 8 years later, that cousin of my friend's dies on a freeway by, yes you guessed it, crashing on his motorcycle, I think it was a kawasaki type, somebody sideswiped him and he fell off and got ran over a bunch of times and broke every bone in his body and was left there to die, he was only 20 yrs old, and I always associated road rash with him even before all that happened cuz that was when I first met him when he stayed up all night playing it... life is freakin crazy man
that's crazy, my friends cousin used to play sonic all the time and a fat ginger man killed him
I loved Road Rash for the PlayStation. The soundtrack was amazing and it was cool how you could start rivalries during the races..
The spin off game skitchin' on the sega genesis is also bad ass. Plays just like road rash except on roller blades.
VetsRage I had no idea that skitchin was an offshoot if road rash. I wouldn't have overlooked it if I'd known as a kid
yea i used to play that for hours and hours! i wish they made a modern version. road rash too
Spent man a day playing skitchen. Good game.
@@Zvasra I believe it even uses the same engine.
Had that in 1994 was amazing at the time 😁
I love this game
Thank you for acknowledging Road Redemption. That is an underrated spiritual successor that needs more love.
Road Rash 64 was my favorite, hours of fun and laughing with friends, good times.
Grab opponent's metal chain: "YEAH!"
I remember one time I got into a fist fight with five other bikers for that same chain. It took me about thirty seconds to steal it back and beat the snot out of everyone else in that group to feel as though I earned the right to progress. lol About a minute later I had a head-on collision with a car. Boy... I got used as a mobile speed bump about ten seconds later.
Yet another series EA just let die and indy devs picked up the mantle. I bought Road Redemption when it came out and that game's awesome. Basically Road Rash 2018.
Rob Hubbard's music in the first two games is so catchy and perfect. It's part of why those two are my favorites.
They're definitely the best, hated when it went to real rock music in the later games. The series deteriorated over time.
Almost read that as Ron Hubbard for a sec! Scientology + video games = scary thought :p
@@AmbientMess ROFL how did I never noticed that XD
Agreed, Rub Hubbard did an amazing job, but that's also the only thing to like about those games imo.
Great video! I absolutely loved Road Rash on PS1, spent way too many hours on it as a kid and still have it in my PS1 right now, great memories. Glad you mentioned Road Redemption, it was basically the perfect transition & modern take on it, love it. Highly recommend that game to anyone that misses Road Rash.
I had some great memories with Road Rash 64 as a kid.
I was finally able to track it down at the start of 2020 & me and my friends got together to play it.
Being that it's a 4 player game it's an absolute blast!
We ended up playing it a week before Covid hit (not knowing what was ahead of us) which made it that much more special now.
Agreed; I feel like RR64 is very underrated.
Road Rash 3 is my favorite of the Genesis trilogy. Best music, sound and most varied stage lay outs. The game makes heavy use of dithering so a crt t.v. with composite or an emulator with a crt shader is the ideal set up.
Shout out to the spinoff Skitchin which I think get's overlooked. The game has really good music, sound and the best hand drawn 2d art of the series.
I like Road Rash 3 also. I wish someone would port the graphics from RR2 to it, but otherwise very solid.
absoulutely, Road Rash 3 is the best one on Genesis. It has the best graphics, sound, and gameplay. and Skitchin is really cool, it's as close as you'll get to a sequel to Road Rash 3... except for that one on the Sega Cd which i didn't even know about until now. It looks like another Road Rash 3 which is awesome.
Two of my all time favorite games: Road Rash 3 and Skitchin. Played both until the sun came up with my sons many a night.
skitching was great. i will assume wildly, all road rash lovers found the ps2 "downhill domination"? "downhill domination" is still epic goodness.
Gotta love that backhand with the crowbar
I was looking for a Road Rash Retrospective about half a year ago, but none of those i found had the Quality of this Video.
Now THIS showed up in my Recommended Feed. So thanks for making this Video. Great Job, Dude.
Such a beloved game and came out at the right time/age for me.
Had it on PC and had a blast
Road Rash on PSX was my first RR game. I was obsessed with Soundgarden at the time so needless to say, I was a happy camper. My and my best friend put what seemed like DAYS into that game. I remember the first time you covered that version you referred to the soundtrack as one ".. from the Gods." Indeed!
My friend Eric and I played Road Rash 2 on Sega a lot. When it started getting boring, we would see who could crash and skid the furthest distance. Best part of the game hands down. While your skidding across the map, your mileage keeps going as if your still on the bike. My record is .73 miles if I remember correctly. Ah the fun times in life. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I really liked Road Rash 3 and didn't mind the visuals at all since it was the 90's and digitization was the big thing. What really cracked me up though a couple years after Road Rash 3D came out was going through the soundtrack and seeing artists before they hit it big, like Sugar Ray and Kid Rock. I also liked to just take a leisurely drive around the map, just start up a race and drive the other way, the game will let you go for about 15 minutes before timing you out and ending the race but it lets you see how the entire game was connected.
u could do that in 3??? i though only 64 had that
@@morimoko 3D, yes. And while Road Rash 3 was my favorite of the 16 bit era, no, you could not do a free roam in that game :)
oh 3d makes sense, it's similar to 64@@worsel555
There was a version of Road Rash released on the Game Boy Color as well the original OG Game Boy version you showed. It's actually quite impressive and feels smoother framerate-wise than the Genesis games (or Master System/GG versions).
I own all the games in the series except the crappy Sega CD one, and the Saturn and PS1 versions of the 3DO version. I don't think I'll ever want those, unless I get a bug to "complete the collection" as it were. Anyway, my favorite of all of them is PC version of the 3DO release. Absolutely gorgeous visuals in 480p and higher framerates as well. Played it back in the day with a CH Flightstick which worked amazingly well. Tilting the joystick to tilt the bike just made so much sense. I've played and replayed it over the years with other controllers and gamepads (as recently as last year), but some day I need to track down another original 2-button CH Flightstick to play it that way again. The game and that stick are intrinsically linked in my brain.
Oh dude, the way you describe a modern day online Road Rash experience sounds freaking awesome! I sure hope it happens one day!
Amazing game series! I remember pushing the other riders into signs, kicking them off their bikes...😂I literally haven't thought about this in almost 2 decades. Thanks for the upload.😂👌
Road Rash for Saturn seemed like a system seller to me. I still have my copy my Dad bought all those years ago, and he loved it too! The best part was a guy you ran over who yelled "Hey Motha" it was hilarious every time and we would just crack up. Most of my friends had a Saturn and it as well. I had no idea the Saturn "bombed" until recently because we all had it and played this game.
The 16bit soundtrack is something I'll never forget.
Yup, the 3DO, Saturn and PS1 Road Rash is by far the best in the series in my opinion and for me the Saturn version is what I played the most and in ways it changed my life by introducing me to a certain style of rock music. The series went downhill after that, but for me Road Rash on the Saturn and Road Road 2 on the Megadrive are the GOAT. Great video as always, this series is classic for sure.
Many fantastic memories of that game on the Mega Drive and Sega Saturn o/
I played over 100 hours on my 3DO in 1994 with Road Rash and I loved it. That game was way ahead of its time! Possibly my favorite 3DO game ever! Great video!
Nothing more satisfying than holding on that kick button until just the right time, then launching someone into oncoming traffic
I enjoyed this video 👍 earned. Road rash 2 and 3do road rash my favs. Road redemption is incredible, I highly recommend. Feels just like a road rash game.
Wonderful retrospective on Road Rash! Subbed! The original Road Rash was the first-ever video game I purchased brand new at retail (at a Sears, no less). LOVED the soundtrack on the first one. Some hate it, but I adore it. Still listen to some of the tracks in my car on the reg to this day. And then the 3DO version.... The art style and presentation was second-to-none. Great gameplay too. Those two are by far my favorites in the series.
Road rash 64 owns. I actually like the low poly look
It's really no good looking game - more like a generation 1 N64 game. But it's great fun - especially in 4 player mode with a bunch of bloodthirsty friends. Imho the best multiplayer Road Rash hands down. : )
It does have a higher resolution mode if you have the memory upgrade on the n64. Looks a little better.
Road Rash 3D0 was perfect for its time. As a kid in the 90's, the "Tude" of that era made the trippy art style and Hammerbox/Soundgarden playing in the background a god send for me. I spent hours just getting off my bike and walking the course, just to admire the scenery.
Yesss! I loved the Road Rash games so much.
Subscribed! This game was near and dear to my heart as a kid. I have fond memories playing it with my little bro and our two best friends. Your ideas for a modern day Road Rash sound stellar. Let’s hope that somebody comes along and develops it.
Ah the road rash series, loved em' all, though i never got to play the 3do version. But thanks for showcasing one of the best series for the genesis, great vid as always x
I still have my original 3do, and road rash is still fun to play, and it's funny as hell 😂
Most excellent retrospctive Sir, really enjoyed it?
I do remember when Road Rash 3D came out reviewers absolutely eviscerating the game, especially the fact they removed the animation of running back to your bike when you got knocked off for some reason. They really hated that omission for some reason.
BTW Were you tempted to give Skitchin' an honorable mention at all? Used to rent that a lot from Blockbusters as a kid.
I hated that omission myself too. It was one of those little things that set RR apart from other games. There were times when I trashed my bike but still crossed the finishing line just by running towards it. And some off-bike punching competitions with my buddies.
@Benjamin Jagun Road Redemption is the closest we're likely to get,
Sadly Road Rash is just another franchise EA have let die.
Always thought this would've been fun as hell with the Hang On bike seat at the arcades.
Road rash jailbreak was pretty good, a lot better than Road rash 3D. The flow is better, the combat it's more present.
And you can play as the police!
And the soundtrack!
yeah i had that on playstation 1 great game
@@crasherdgrate yeah that was cool. It has a two player mode with a sidecar or something like that if I can remember. Pretty cool game.
the variety of weapons and addition of power attacks was pretty sweet
THE COMBOS! Combat wise it is the better road rash, I was disappointed that the guy didnt even mention it
Loved these games as a kid
Road Rash on Genesis has a special place in my heart. I remember in my childhood one summer, playing basketball with a friend that his older brother rolled up on the driveway with a new cbr900rr. My attention was locked onto the bike and was in complete awe on how impressive it was. My friend took noticed and asked if I wanted to play a game. He then showed me the first Road Rash game and I was hooked. Fast forward later, another friend had the Sega Channel, it had the 3rd RR, and became my favorite combat racing game. It was also the first game I played a lot of hours in one sitting. Loved everything about it and while it may be an unpopular opinion, it's my favorite out of the series. The games definitely left a big impact on me and was one of the reasons why I am into sportbikes today. Would love to see RR3 or even the previous 2 get the same remake treatment that Super Hang-On got with the M2 devs.
Atgames legends ultimate arcade you can play road rash with Sega, SNES, Sega CD via USB, they even allow streaming from PC steam games so you can play road redemption too.
The 64 version was the most hilarious. Still is 2 this day. 😂😂😂😂😂
Nothing funny about being that ugly visually. I'd take the master system graphics over that.
@@kekeke8988 i was leaning more on sound FX than graphics bud
Even in it's day many N64 games looked terrible.
@@kekeke8988 Gameplay beats graphics. Plus the Ps1 graphics have serious anti-aliasing issues and shaky textures. Both were rough graphically, but in this case the N64 game was just simply better than the original PS1 offering. The second PS1 game, Jailbreak, looks and plays better than them both though.
Don't! Ya dare mess with ma mean machine!!! 😂
I had a friend with a well off family that got him a Genesis in 1989. Having an NES and a C64 I was floored by the graphics and music of the Genesis. When he got this game I stayed up all night trying to get enough money for the next bike, then the next bike, then the next bike...you get the idea. This thing was tons of fun in the years right before my hormones would turn me away from video games. Still fun to play today.
Road Rash on Sega Saturn was one of my favorite games of all time. I miss it.
Another great video man. The road rash series on the genesis is so nostalgic to me. I owned 1 and 2 as a kid and remember playing it on the sega channel too. I play these games at least once a month. Thanks for this video!
Road Rash 3D was my shit back in the day, how large the map was and how free you felt made it SOOOOO much fun
❗Thanks to the PS1 version, I heard and loved 'Auto-Surgery' by Therapy?
Road Rash on the Playstation is a real hidden gem. They nailed the feeling of breakneck speed perfectly. When you’re flying along at top speed with the scenery whizzing by, it’s exhilarating.
I’d recommend it above 2 or 3 on the Genesis.
I'd like to add that Road Redemption is a labor of love from the developer. I purchased that game while it was Early Access for PC and seen its progression from start to finish. It is a super fun game to play and I find myself reinstalling it from time to time to scratch that Road Rash itch when I get it.
Just wanted to say your videos are always awesome, thanks for making them!
Man this lockdown has got me so nostalgic for many games. Road Rash for PC was one of the first games I ever bought when I first got my own computer, is one of my favorite games of all time, and in my opinion the best in the series. It's also incredibly well coded and has worked flawlessly on every PC I've owned from Windows 95 onwards... the only issue being distorted colors in Windows 7 and beyond which are easily fixable. There was even a stripped-down and repackaged version some years ago by classic-gaming.net, which was a free download and that removes the CD audio and full motion video but allows the game to run without a disc. This is the version I usually play as it's quick to jump into. Some 20 years on and I'm still managing to exploit little bugs and see things in-game for the first time. One thing that made the game unique was that it was the racer himself that was registered as the player and not the bike as in just about all other racing games, meaning you could dismount and run the entire race if you wanted. It's always funny to plow into a car, come off your bike, and cross the finish line with just the biker. The game would be perfect with a modern remaster, nothing too drastic just higher-detail graphics. I must have played each track a thousand times... some new tracks would be nice too. I'm surprised the community hasn't managed to crack the assets and make new content. I can barely go a single computer session without having to fire it up for a race or two.
Awesome vid! Always enjoy watching road rash thing's
Though I had the 3 Genesis versions and loved all of them, I have to give RR 64 the gold medal. I think it was the things some purest fans complain about that I actually liked the best, such as the rubber-banding of the NPC's and the focus on combat rather than winning. I also believe no game of any genre or generation ever made me laugh as much. I also love the soundtrack and often listen to the songs on stream with nostalgia.
That Saturn version is running pretty good. Nice. 🤙
Im glad to see your channel growing brother! I think I subscribed when you had 5k or so. Keep up the quality content us sega fans deserve.
Both you and Retrocore have Road Rash on the brain tonight.
I was just finishing watching Mark's take on Road Rash 32 bits video.
"This should have been so very much better." I think that sums up the SegaCD nicely.
Nostalgia overload!! i spent MANY hours on my megadrive with the road rash games back in the day :D
aaah that genesis twangy sound lol
Had so much fun playing this series. Great video as always.
Road Rash 3 was my favorite, It had the best music of any of the 16 bit games and I really liked the graphics. The brazil stage music and Australia stage music were awesome.
I had the 3do port Roadrash for the PC, great memories
Awesome vid. It really brings back the memories and nostalgia. I got into Road Rash around the time of RR2, RR3 and RR for the Psx. I played those games so much, by far one of my favorite series of games back in the day.
I really wish they would do an HD collection. Taking all the games and making all the levels of each game as different circuits. Taking RR classic and RR PSX (3DO) and make that the first circuit since they all were local races, then the second circuit would be you graduating to going national with races from RR2 and then the final circuit would be when you gain national championship and go on for the global one with global races from RR3.
They could also add great colorful characters like from the CD version and the rivalry system. So each race would make other character warm to you or become more adversarial depending on how you treated them the last race.
Then of course make sure to add awesome FMV sequences for getting arrested, crashing out, placing during a race, winning one and beating the circuit.
As far as graphic go make the engine one that mimics the one used for the CD version with updated hd digitized ones.
oooh I would buy that in a heartbeat.
Road Rash 64 is the only one I come back to nowadays.
one of my fav series, played it alot on ps1, wish the series came back
Road Redemption is the modern equivalent it's very good. Adds a lot more to the genre.
@@urbanmidnight1 Never heard of it besides you mentioning and this video, might give it a try, thanks
Wow. Nice recap video!!! Well done. Organized and detailed. Finally a nice unbiased review. Hope to see more nostalgic content
Fantastic video! I was obsessed with Road Rash 3 as a kid. Tried to go back through the series, but ultimately ended up settling on the Saturn version with the licensed music.
I played this game a lot on the Mega Drive 🇧🇷 and the 3DO as well. I love the 3DO version because it introduced me to Soundgarden...
This took me back. Great video!!!
I liked how in the 3do version if you pissed people off they will come after you no matter what, and threaten you after the race. My favorite version
Road Rash 3 on the Genesis was the best! Amazing music and the godly nunchuks! Tried playing it recently and I swear I've had PowerPoint presentations at work with faster framerates! :D
LOVED road rash 64! Me and my cousins played it endlessly and had lots of fun. Man we laughed from start to finish, playing this game😂🤣. Thank you THQ for RR64👍🏽
Road Rash for sega was one of my favs. Nothing was better than being able to upgrade 🏍
Thanks for all the content, on behalf of all of the 80's and 90's babies that watch this channel, we appreciate you bro.
Pacific Coast music on RR1 is just incredible, still love it to this day.Once you learned all combat tricks on RR64, the gameplay becomes highly addictive with excellent level design (cliffs of insanity, anyone?), despite the so so graphics.
I don't know if it's just that I've been consistently watching your videos this last 2 months so I got plenty content, or you are just killing it with your videos lately. Probably both!
My FAVORITE series on the Genesis.
2, 3, 32bit, and 64 will always be the best.
One of my Top 5 series of the 1990s. Incredible!
I played RR2, RR3, RR (PSX/PC) and RR64 to deeeeaaaaath.
I was in day one on the Genius version and played this to death. Kicking people into oncoming traffic was so satisfying! The 3DO version was so great. This and need for speed where my go to’s on the 3DO. Thanks for this video!
I don't think RR64 gets enough love and you barely cover its good things:
1) the combat is one of the most polished of them all and I dare say, the one that required the most techniques and tactics. You could hit forward, backwards, kick, charge those attacks, change weapons (that carried on in Big Game Mode), and you could frikkin stick a weapon into an opponent wheels!!!! (it was an immediate ko).
2) maybe not as impressive as compared to its cd counterparts, but I can't remember many N64 games with actual track songs.
3) gameplay was as smooth as butter even on high difficulties, and had a really good progress pace.
4) multiplayer was by far the best of the series. You could play coop, vs, AND FOUR PLAYERS SPLIT SCREEN. With different modes! And some special closed tracks! We had a blast playing "tag" with my friends!
5) 4 different types of bikes for each level, and a lot of bikers to pick. You could tell apart boys from girls and "hogs" from "slicks".
6) Fun as hell and for me on an easy third place, whereas RRII is first and RR32 bits is second. Fourth is RR3D
I remember many long nights trying to save enough money for the high end bikes in Road Rash 2. Such a great game! Love kicking people into oncoming traffic
Awesome video man, ive always loved the road rash series since it ever got released :) Currently on Road rash 2 on Level 3 with a Banzai 750, its at that point if you fall off your bike, you get busted. Or, fall off your bike and never be able to catch 3rd place unless you're really lucky. I love how intense the action gets and some of the maneuvers you pull off you just think you could never do again. The 1st Ps1 version was amazing fun as well. Thanks for the great videos man, always a buzz when i see one pop up
Watched 3 times already! Haha one of my favorite series ever, thanks SLX! 🍻
The change to polygons on the PSX was such a death for the series. The fact the only thing I loved about Jailbreak was the song 'If the Animals Could Talk' says it all about a series I adored when it was on Mega Drive.
That song is on Spotify now, if you want to enjoy it, BTW.
I grew up on Road Rash 64, and thats my fave.
Excellent video SLX. I still play road rash 2 on my megadrive and I never get tired of it. I used to have a 3do but never owned road rash on that system but I did play it back in the day and I loved it.
Another quality episode, from our pal, SLX.
This game (most early versions plus 3DO) was a part of my childhood. I loved crashing and running back to the back. The farther I flew away from the bike; the more awesome it was.