
It's all engaging enough - and easy to get caught in a trance when chasing your own best times - though I'd have loved the option to truly unleash the fury of these machines, as too often they can feel like they're wrapped in cotton wool. Milestone opts to tame that with an approachable model to its bikes, although they're still able to buck under acceleration and squirrel under braking. There's an elegance asked of bikes that you don't really get on four wheels, with braking distances lengthened and racing lines a touch more malleable - and yet all the while there's a violence that's a key part of a bike's appeal. Ride 3 acquits itself well here, and I've lost a good half dozen hours just hotlapping on my own, pushing a superbike to its limits around the impossible climbs of Cadwell Park - Lincolnshire's own mini-Nürburgring. The measure of any racing game, though, isn't to be found in the sum of tracks, bikes and features, but rather how much you can extract from any single bike and any single track. Ride 3's multiplayer is fairly basic, though it's all lifted by the presence of weekly challenges and leaderboards. There's a lot of game here, and it's often stirring stuff. And what bikes they are - from cafe racers to vintage rides, and from waspish 2-stroke 250cc with a sting in their tail to the more bullish modern racers - and what tracks, from the North West 200 to the Nordschleife via Oulton Park and Sugo. This is a generously featured racing game, boasting some 230 bikes and 30 tracks. In those intervening years - and after a quickfire sequel released in 2016 - Milestone has put a lot of work in, and Ride 3 is evidence of that.



In 2015, Yamaha returned to the top of the world by winning the FIM Motocross World Championship with Romain Febvre, who beat everyone with the YZF 450, on which this superbike is based. With its bold livery, this model is born of a collaboration between Yamaha and the champion Tommy Hill.Įnjoyment assured with the KLSM 450F and its 56.6 hp at 8500 rpm. "A collection of the best sports bikes in a single DLC!
