Road Rash 30th Anniversary Edition

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This is a hell of a surprise. A bunch of classic EA-published games have been updated, including Road Rash.

GOG

Steam

For the next couple of weeks, you can get these for $5.

Also from here:

In addition, 18 other EA titles have also been released in their original forms on Steam for the first time, including the Ultima series, Theme Hospital and more. Here’s the full list:
  • Road Rash: 30th Anniversary Edition
  • Wing Commander: 35th Anniversary Edition
  • Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi: 35th Anniversary Edition
  • Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger: 30th Anniversary Edition
  • Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom: 30th Anniversary Edition
  • Wing Commander Prophecy: 30th Anniversary Edition
  • Privateer 2: The Darkening: 30th Anniversary Edition™
  • Wing Commander: Privateer
  • Wing Commander: Academy
  • Wing Commander: Armada
  • Strike Commander™
  • Theme Hospital
  • Crusader: No Remorse
  • Crusader: No Regret
  • Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness
  • Ultima II : The Revenge of the Enchantress
  • Ultima III: Exodus
  • Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
  • Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny
  • Ultima VI: The False Prophet
  • Ultima VII: The Complete Edition
  • Ultima VIII: Gold Edition
  • Ultima IX: Ascension
  • Ultima Underworld I
  • Ultima Underworld II
 
Almost $40 for all the WC games seems a bit steep, but I do want to pick them up at some point. Sucks you still have to use Origin.

EDIT: Actually it appears I have several of them on GOG already, so that's cool.
 
I just got Road Rash. A friend of mine had this years ago, and I have a pirated version of it somewhere. But to get it for $5 via GOG is a great deal.
 
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ok lol. I mean I guess it had "photo-realistic" graphics because they took photos of people and motorcyles, the animations were like 5 fps though.

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I remember playing this on my friend's laptop when it was brand new, it was not a super fast frame rate. It would chug along at 15 fps and hitch sporadically. Sometimes it would freeze for 3 seconds then unfreeze and you would be 100 feet ahead and in the dirt.
It was barely playable but it was still fun.
One of my other friends had a desktop a year or two later and it ran pretty well on that though.
 
The Playstation version was pretty badass, load times suckkked, though, if it loaded at all. Sometimes had to tilt the console. D:
 
Apparently the Steam versions of these do not actually need Origin, it's a false positive from the SteamDB plug-in.

Also, it sounds like if you own the original WC games on GOG they are gradually rolling out the updates for free. I only have the first WC update at the moment but supposedly you'll get the rest eventually.
 
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MavericK said:
Apparently the Steam versions of these do not actually need Origin, it's a false positive from the SteamDB plug-in.

Also, it sounds like if you own the original WC games on GOG they are gradually rolling out the updates for free. I only have the first WC update at the moment but supposedly you'll get the rest eventually.
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sharknice said:
I remember playing this on my friend's laptop when it was brand new, it was not a super fast frame rate.
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I feel like this game came out on 3DO first and was ported everywhere else. (Yes yes the genesis carts, but those were different). 3DO games were never fast, afaik.
 
nope, gen in 91, 3do in 94. but youre correct about 3do games not being fast, even NFS looks slow on it...
 
pendragon1 said:
nope, gen in 91, 3do in 94. but youre correct about 3do games not being fast, even NFS looks slow on it...
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There were two games titled "Road Rash", the original on genesis and the later one with FMVs on 3DO, PS1, and PC.

None of the games in the series ran particularly well. I remember road rash 3 not running well at all on genesis, especially in split screen. That was pretty normal for back then though. People complaining about performance in current games like it's a new phenomenon have no idea how bad it was back in the day.
 
sharknice said:
There were two games titled "Road Rash", the original on genesis and the later one with FMVs on 3DO, PS1, and PC.

None of the games in the series ran particularly well. I remember road rash 3 not running well at all on genesis, especially in split screen. That was pretty normal for back then though. People complaining about performance in current games like it's a new phenomenon have no idea how bad it was back in the day.
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It was nearly flawless on PS, genesis wasn't bad either although it was a bit more limited due to...genesis.
 
sharknice said:
There were two games titled "Road Rash", the original on genesis and the later one with FMVs on 3DO, PS1, and PC.
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same thing but updated for 32bit system.
but yeah, slow was normal back then.
 
hititnquitit said:
I played the hell out of it on PS when it first came out. I have flashbacks to this day when I hear Outshined by Soundgarden.
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the fmvs have all been restored from the original video tapes, so now you can see it without the compression...
that was one of the big things with the ea classic release, they went through a ton of old games and redid the fmvs.
 
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Wow, Road Rash collection is an insta-buy. I had it on Genesis growing up and loved it at the time despite it prolly being the worst version for graphics and music, but I had zero awareness or point of reference for the other versions too, hah.

This should be a perfect Steam Deck game while I'm away.
 
Road Rash is my favorite game

is this available on xbox app or nvidia geforce now ??
 
pendragon1 said:
nope, gen in 91, 3do in 94. but youre correct about 3do games not being fast, even NFS looks slow on it...
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Yup, had a 3DO back in the day and both Road Rash and NFS. Played way more NFS though. Definitely wasn't high FPS but still had a blast with it back then.

Still remember the guy in the videos after a race in NFS with insults or excuses. That guy was the host on the Trucks! show on the Velocity or whatever the gearhead channel was called back in the 2000s, took me way too long to figure out why he seemed familiar.
 
I'll die on the hill that Road Rash 64 was the superior game
 
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Oh man, this game takes me back. Was an instant impulse buy. I jumped into the game, Xbox controller in hand, and it just worked. Hell yeah. I have the GOG version. I want to play the LAN games with the kids.

EA - give us battlefield 2 please! Or even battlefield 3! Imagine a GOG version of BF3. Installing it on all your home machines and doing a LAN party with that game. Ohhhhh yeah.
 
pendragon1 said:
nope, gen in 91, 3do in 94. but youre correct about 3do games not being fast, even NFS looks slow on it...
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Yes. Genesis was the first platform for the game. 32-bit Road Rash is what the earlier games were trying to be. I had this game on PC first and then found out later it was on consoles. We had a Pentium 2 when I had the game so it ran super smooth and I never experienced the jank of the console versions. The race music is MIDI, which actually means it can be improved, depending on what kind of device you have.

AKSHUALLY.... I still have my Roland SC-8850. Was gonna hook it up to my machine and see if the game's music is in fact, still MIDI. If it is, I can switch it over to the Sound Canvas to make it sound better. That would be pretty interesting.

EDIT - I think my favorite in the series (nostalgia totally biases my opinion, I'm aware) - RR2. It was the first one I ever played and I think the combat is better. Knocking a racer off with two chain swipes is just so satisfying.
 
I had the 3DO version first, and later bought the PS1 version (of both Road Rash and the O.G. NFS). Also eventually got Road Rash 3D and Road Rash 64, but this one had so much personality with the soundtrack, the menus, the FMVs, etc.

Unlike NFS: SE though, I never did buy the game a third time and get the PC version for some reason, so it's definitely appealing to pick up the re-release for only $5 while it's on sale. I love that they actually spruced it up.
 
jbltecnicspro said:
Yes. Genesis was the first platform for the game. 32-bit Road Rash is what the earlier games were trying to be. I had this game on PC first and then found out later it was on consoles. We had a Pentium 2 when I had the game so it ran super smooth and I never experienced the jank of the console versions. The race music is MIDI, which actually means it can be improved, depending on what kind of device you have.

AKSHUALLY.... I still have my Roland SC-8850. Was gonna hook it up to my machine and see if the game's music is in fact, still MIDI. If it is, I can switch it over to the Sound Canvas to make it sound better. That would be pretty interesting.

EDIT - I think my favorite in the series (nostalgia totally biases my opinion, I'm aware) - RR2. It was the first one I ever played and I think the combat is better. Knocking a racer off with two chain swipes is just so satisfying.
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They have weapons in the first game too, even on genesis. Getting them from other racers isn't always easy though. Chain was my favorite too, but backhanding people with the club has it's own flavor of satisfaction. My goto is just booting them off into a car or building, though. lol
 
Nobu said:
They have weapons in the first game too, even on genesis. Getting them from other racers isn't always easy though. Chain was my favorite too, but backhanding people with the club has it's own flavor of satisfaction. My goto is just booting them off into a car or building, though. lol
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The chain was the best/easiest to knock people off with, but I think I remember always trying to steal clubs from the police?

I saw a video of road rash 3 genesis (which I never played) and they had police helicopters!
 
Surprised no one has been posting any screenshots with DLSS5 :D

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Couldn't resist snagging this for $5 so I ended up triple dipping just like I did with NFS1, lol.

They really need to do this for the early NFS games also.
At least NFS 1 - 3, although I'd love to see all of the 90s NFS games (1 / II / III Hot Pursuit / High Stakes / Porsche Unleashed) get a modern update too.
Would be cool for them to do the 2000s games (Hot Pursuit 2, Underground 1 & 2, Most Wanted, Carbon, etc.) after that. Just about all of these could benefit from a re-release, because I think I've only seen them on abandonware sites. Most haven't been available to buy for a long time.
 
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