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Road Rash 64 Road Rash is a game series that’s been around since the Sega Genesis, but this is its first incarnation on the Nintendo 64. For its part, THQ has done a smashing job of bringing the brawling motorcycle game into the world of 3-D.

The game lacks much visual detail, but that lack allows a frame rate that never slows down, even when 10 or more bikers are on the road, hacking at each other and vying for the pole position. Like its ancestors, Road Rash 64 presents two goals–winning road races, and abusing other riders, including cops in pursuit. The crashes are spectacular. Sparks fly as bikes scrape along the pavement, and riders perform aerial acrobatics as they fly off their hogs. Text messages also appear onscreen to notify players of who caused whom to crash–a nice touch that is reminiscent of online multiplayer PC games.

The game has two major classes of motorcycles: cruisers that are durable and fast on straightaways, and sport bikes that are aerodynamic and nimble around turns. As players progress through a one-player game, they will be invited to join one of two bike-centric gangs, supplying relative immunity from their brethren during gameplay–unless you hit one of them first!

The multiplayer mode offers a number of different options, including lap races, death match, tag, and pedestrian hunting. While the single-player game is pure adrenaline fun, Road Rash 64 with four players is an experience not to be missed.

In addition to thrilling sound effects, Road Rash 64 has some very noisy, and very appropriate, musical accompaniment from real recording artists such as Sugar Ray and the Mermen. –Jeff Young

Pros:

• Excellent in-game music
• Great control and fluid action
• A cathartic, high-energy experience, especially in multiplayer mode

Cons:

• Graphics don’t feature very detailed textures, even with expansion pack support

Customer Review: KINDA LACKLUSTER 7.75 OUT OF 10
I remember spending hours playing this game when I was younger, however some of that fun has worn off because of better options that have come out over the years. Still, it’s always fun to bash an opponent or a friend off their motorcycle with a bat, a chain whip, taser, or whatever you have at your disposal. It’s still fun to jump over cars by popping a wheelie or to watch someone hit a car or another object causing themselves to crash, or to hit innocent bystanders. The motorcycles are still cool looking along with the characters, but the character models are recycled along with your environments. The graphics look bland and too blocky by today’s standards as well. But it never really gets old to hop on your motorcycle and bash an opponent off their motorcycle.
Customer Review: Mario Kart for Adults (A.K.A. Cop Party)
(…) I originally bought this on the bargain rack to sell but I couldn’t stop playing it!!! This game ROCKS!!! It is SO MUCH FUN it’s just unreal!!!

Everything about this game is well done. Somehow, there are lots of music and lots of tracks and lots of scenary and lots of action. So, why aren’t ALL THE OTHER N64 games like THIS ONE??? The biker humor is right on. Consolation prize for almost winning: bar of hotel soap! The wrecks are U-N-R-E-A-L. Head-on with fast moving cars and trucks hauling timber,etc. I think it’s one of those physics-deals again. The wrecks are so natural I think they programmed the laws of physics into the game, they must have. At slower speeds, you might not flip, but you might “almost” flip. Your rear tire starts to pop up but you didn’t go over. I love the road - so pleasing to watch it flying by, DOESN’T give me a headache, very smooth! Looks just like real macadam - different textures, etc. Anyway, totally smooth motions, very satisfying racing feel, SO FUN!, never the same action twice I guarantee it. The bikes are so totally different, too. The pocket rocket and the chrome street bikes ride totally different. The motors sound completely diferent. Great AI. Awesome songs! A must-try N64 game!!!

Road Rash Customer Review: still loads of fun 12 years later
I was 8 when this came out. i remember playing it on the sega saturn and play station version. prefered the ps version because it was way faster at loading and had better sound. now i am 20 and i managed to find a copy of this game on this site and oh boy it’s way better now! it is a bit faster on my ps2 and now i play it on my stereo and it sounds pretty damn good for 12 years old.
now heer is a twist. i am blind and can not see the screen and it is still fun for me :). i love hitting people and crap. it is cool. well i have also played it on the sega genesis and prefer the ps version everytime simply of the better sound. and the 64 version was good for what it was as well :). i defanatly recommend this game for fans of good games!
Customer Review: exciting and sick
I never owned a Sega Genesis so I never got to experience Road Rash on that system (where the series was popular). I did get to watch other Sega owners play the game though (even though watching someone play a game is never as fun as playing it yourself). Once I received a Playstation and noticed that I could play Road Rash on that system, I KNEW I had to grab a copy. I had a good feeling about a PS-X version. Better graphics and sound.