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Turn your Engines For The Fastest Racing Game Ever Made!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 22
Date: October 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I already played this game on the ps2 and its incredible. The graphics are fantastic and the tracks and motorcycles are amazing. Just buy the ...game and be more than my hero.

AKIRA meets racing games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game looks sweet! i've played some of the version for PS2 and thats awesome. now since its comming to gamecube it will be better than ever. is youve ever seen AKIRA, you'll definetly love this. its a high tech motocycle racing faster than you could believe! GET THIS GAME!

If this is anything like the old one on Nintendo 64....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: November 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If this game is anything like the old one on Nintendo 64, it is going to rock. The game has very clever tracks and the fun factor is off the charts. Now with the power of the Gamecube, you get the graphics along with the game play. I am going to buy this, and so should you....you will enjoy it!!!

This Game is The Bomb...Especially on the Game Cube

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 38 / 39
Date: December 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Extreme G3 is an absolutely awesome game, you ride on turbo-charged motorcycles that look like they're straight out of Akira. It is the fastest racing game ever, and it moves incredibly smooth at 60 fps on the Game Cube. The graphics are superb and the level design is great, it has a beautifully rendered realistic look. Some levels look like the futuristic city in Blade Runner, while others are out in the desert or in the middle of the ocean. The techno soundtrack is also very good and adds to the futuristic feel of the game perfectly. The gameplay is top notch and the controls are right on (the game cube controller is truly excellent, especially for a racing game like this). The high-powered motorcycles zoom through the courses very realistically. There are also a variety of weapons to equip on your motorcycle, which is really cool and adds an extra dimension to the gameplay. Also- The Game Cube version of XG3 features four player mode (which the PS2 version doesn't), and also offers much improved frame rate / graphics over the PS2 version. It moves at a constant 60 frames per second, which looks absolutely silky smooth, even in multiplayer!

I recommend XG3 to anyone with a Game Cube. It is one of the finest games to be released thus far.

Don't believe the hype

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 16
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Just rented G3 and it's about the most boring game I ever played. The cycles are lame, the weapons are lame, and the enviroment is anything but interesting. Save your money, rent first buy later...

this is a must-have

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

eXtreme-G3 is a must-have game, it is a great multiplayer game and along with super smash bros. melee, is this christmas must-have multiplayer game. i also recommend Pikmin as a great single player game.

I actually HAVE the game....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

XG3 is a wonderful expansion to my collection of gc games... there arent quite as many good multiplayer games for gc as i would want so far, and when i started playing xg3 i was amazed at the edge-of-your-seat feel of going up to 700 mph on a futuristic motorcycle and have the ability to blast other players with railguns, EMP's, heat seeker missiles, mines and more. the single player part of this game is also encridible, you choose a league and the better you do in each race the more money u get, the more money u have the better weapons u can get. there are about 10 extremely detailed and different levels, and 4 difficulties that make this game a real challenge single player. BUT WHAT MAKES THIS GAME VERY DIFFERENT FROM MOST OF THE OTHER GAMES I HAVE PLAYED IS the 2-player team setting. in this setting, u are on a team with another person, and you both race on all the levels, making this game have a 2-player single player setting. even if you bought gamecube to play games just by yourself, i still recommend this game to any1 w/ a gc... its a must. i also highly recommend super smash bros melee, another great game.

The best Futuristic Techno Racer Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 32 / 34
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I had thought that Wipeout was by far the best racing series I had ever played up until now. I'm a serious fan of the futuristic techno psygnosis design, and I had honestly believed that there was nothing that could top it. In fact I purchased a PS2 almost solely based on the belief that Sony was going to release Wipeout Fusion shortly after the launch (as they claimed). Unfortunately that never occured. Fortunately, however, Extreme G3 was available for the Cube when I went shopping to get games.

Let me just say this. Crucial art direction, track layout, and musical direction personnel from Psygnosis went to Acclaim and played crucial parts in the development of Extreme G3. It definitely shows. Extreme G3 conveys the most intense sense of speed and nausea in any racing game ever. You don't know what speed is until you upgrade your engine to the 1000G model and power up the turbo boost in a loop on Oceania or Megalopis.

Or when you siphon off enough energy near the finish line from one of your opponents in the lead so that you can boost yourself into the lead and win at the last possible second.

This game is about speed, super speed, sonic boom sound barrier busting speed, and even more speed. The control is ridiculously tight, and the gamecube controller is absolutely *perfect*. It's so good that I basically use the default controller setup scheme.

This game is easily one of the best racing games of all time. The weapons system requires intelligence in deployment, i.e., do you use the defensive leech mechanism, or do you drop bombs behind you to slow your opponents down. Do you fire heat seeking rockets at them, or use your shield energy to boost past them. It is a highly intelligent racing game that I appreciate. I find myself these days doing things that in the past I would not have thought of.

One of these involves a tactic of actually slowing down so that an opponent can pass, just so that I can activate the leech weapon and siphon off energy if I know that a loop is coming up soon and I'll need all the turbo boost I can store. Simple things such as that that change the dynamic of your standard fare racing game are greatly appreciated.

Very well done.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I find it very immature that people rate games due to thier die hard supporting of other systems or brands. If the man from New York had even played Extreme G-3 he would have seen the depth and quality in it. It is clear to me that his rating says otherwise. To hash a brief summary of XGIII I can say that its graphics and gameplay are unrivaled and it is truly well concieved. The tracks motorbikes and added combat elements stay true to the original. XGIII is a must have buy, as with nearly all of the Gamecube launch titles.

A fast and fun ride...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty good. It's not as good as Mario Kart, but it's reeeaaalllyyy fast. If you enter the unlimited boost code, which is L+R, Z, L+R, Z at the title screen, it goes blindingly fast. If you like racing games and you want a great sense of speed, buy it. There are a few b***** parts of the game, however. The races are over too fast, and the sound is a bit muffled. On the other hand, the tracks are beautiful, and the game runs silky smooth.

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