Moto Road Rash 3D 2

Summary

Some highway traffic games simply require you to drive as far as possible without crashing. Moto Road Rash 3D 2 throws in several unique modes like high-intensity police chases (where the cops will literally ram into you), elimination races against cars, and tailing missions where getting too close blows your cover. It’s a typical first-person motorcycle traffic racer, but with way more going on than you’d expect.

If you played the hugely popular original Moto Road Rash 3D, it’ll come as no surprise that it uses the same first-person bike-through-traffic formula. However, the sequel provides a much bigger Career mode spread across multiple chapters. The original’s standalone Time Trial and Free Ride modes are now gone, replaced by a wider variety of mission types.

The vehicle selection ranges from dirt bikes and choppers to scooters and superbikes, and each one rides differently (and some quite a bit slower than others!). Wider bikes are much trickier to squeeze through tight traffic gaps, so picking the fastest ride isn’t always the smartest call.

Heads up that the UI has its share of rough edges (more on that later), but if you can look past the odd typo and a camera button that’ll leave you wondering where the hell your bike’s gone, it’s a super fun game with loads to keep you entertained.

Features

• Release date – August 19, 2024
• Difficulty – Beginner/Intermediate
• Levels – 100+ Career missions + Endless mode
• Number of bikes – 19
• Vehicle customization/upgrades – Yes
• Multiplayer – No
• Mobile – No
• Developer – Royale Gamers

Physics

The handling is predictable and responsive, and the bikes confidently turn where you point them (some better than others), and the physics feel consistent enough that you’ll soon learn the gaps and be able to judge the spacing (until you don’t…).

Clip a barrier, a car, or even the side of a police cruiser, and you’re down. There’s no bouncing off guardrails like you can in other traffic racers.

The traffic is super unpredictable. Cars suddenly change lanes without warning (nobody uses their blinkers), and the police will intentionally swerve into your path. Keep your eyes peeled for brake lights, especially at high speeds, as your only real clue that they’re about to slow down.

If you want to feel the same unpredictability on four wheels instead of two, the same team that created the Moto Road Rash series recently released Traffic Racing, introducing curved roads and drift bonuses into the mix.

For another four-wheel alternative, Crazy Traffic Racer takes the back-end twitchiness further with visible body roll that makes the car sway and shake when you pick up speed, adding yet another thing to think about.

Graphics

In-game visuals are clean, but they’re not worth getting too excited about. The bikes look good (from what you see of them), road environments vary between city streets, highways, deserts, and rural roads, and the night sections illuminated by street lights and headlights add a nice switch-up.

It’s a step up from the original, but still doesn’t compete with the best-looking traffic racers out there. The various meters, mini maps, and HUD elements are easy to glance over at speed, which matters more than jaw-dropping graphics when you’re dodging a lane-changing truck at full gas!

Controls

PC/laptop/Chromebook

• W/Up arrow – Accelerate
• S/Down arrow – Brake
• A/Left arrow – Steer left
• D/Right arrow – Steer right
• C – Change camera (often glitchy)

Give the camera toggle a go, but only when it’s safe to do so. It has a habit of misbehaving, and if it freezes on a bad angle mid-mission, you’ll lose valuable seconds (or worse) switching back.

Mobile/tablet (iOS/Android)

• On-screen touch controls (present but didn’t work properly during testing, so we’ve classed this as a non-mobile game)

If you want a similar alternative that offers an optimized mobile experience, check out Moto Traffic Rider. You get the same two-way near-miss combos, along with a selection of challenging game modes and levels. We’ve also got plenty of other mobile games worth checking out.

How to Play Moto Road Rash 3D 2

Initial Setup

The main menu is also the garage/showroom. You’ll see your current bike in the center, with left and right arrows to scroll through the full roster (the arrows are confusingly the wrong way around in the UI, so don’t worry if it feels backwards).

Top left has ‘Task’ and ‘Shop’. The top right shows your coin and gem balance, with the settings cog and daily bonus on either side.

Along the bottom left, you’ll find ‘Modshop’ (paint color), ‘Upgrade’ (stats), and ‘Maintain’ (repairs), all covered in detail below. The two game mode buttons, Career and Endless, are in the bottom right.

Getting Started

In our opinion, Career is the best mode. It’s split into 10 chapters with multiple missions in each.

Your first few missions ease you in with simple timed challenges. Near misses, where you squeeze past cars without making contact, build a combo meter on screen. Chain another near miss before the bar depletes, or you lose the combo. Each near miss also adds roughly 0.1 seconds to your time, so aggressive, risky riding buys you more breathing room, and you’ll likely soon find the limits there.

At the end of every mission, you’re rewarded across six categories: Score, Distance, Near miss, Wrong way, High-speed time, and Mission accomplished. Wrong way bonuses are only available on oncoming-traffic levels.

Medal objectives also pop up on the right side of the screen, stating additional objectives like “no collisions” for a clean run, with extra rewards for completing them.

Crashing in a timed event puts you back on your bike (minus the lost seconds). In race events, your opponents will use the gap to catch up or overtake.

Game Modes

Career

If you’re after variety, start here. You get 10 chapters, 100+ missions, and a mix of mission types and additional medals/rewards that go well beyond standard traffic dodging.

Timetrail (yep, that’s how it’s spelt in-game, obviously meant to be Time Trial) is the straightforward one. Reach the finish before the timer runs out.

Chase Racing (sic) pits you against a rival, or several. The tracker in the top-right shows their position relative to yours, and you can spot them in your rear-view mirrors. As you probably guessed, the goal is to get to the finish first.

Escape is a police chase. Cops appear ahead and behind, and they will actively ram your bike off the road. Get caught by the police, and it’s game over (you’re arrested), though regular traffic crashes just slow you down. You can sometimes fake one direction and swerve the other way, and they’ll often fall for it.

Elimination puts you against other rivals with a countdown timer. The slowest rider gets cut as the timer ticks down, and you can track everyone on the radar in the top right. Some rounds pit you against cars, and while they’re faster in a straight line, they can’t thread the same gaps you can on a bike.

Track Racing doesn’t mean you’re heading to the racetrack. You’ll need to act as a spy and draft (or track) the four-wheeled suspect through traffic while maintaining a safe distance without getting too close and being spotted. Let them go out of sight for too long, and you’ll fail your objective.

The game will tell you when your bike isn’t competitive enough for the next chapter. If you don’t have the coins, drop into Endless for a few runs.

There’s no online multiplayer, but Racing Limits is ideal if that’s what you’re after, providing real-time online multiplayer alongside an 80-level career, plus 34 cars with tuning that goes way beyond basic stat upgrades.

For another unique game mode, Highway Racer is a similar offering worth a try for the ‘Speed Bomb’ mode alone. You’ll be driving a bomb-loaded truck where any crash triggers the explosion. Like Racing Limits, this one also offers multiplayer.

Endless

Endless is the classic survival-style mode. Ride as far as you can, checkpoint to checkpoint, without running out of fuel or crashing.

Fuel is the limiting factor here (with a gauge in the top left), even if you ride cleanly. Checkpoints and risky driving refill your tank, but the gaps between them grow, so braking too much will soon cost you.

Before each run, you can activate power-ups by watching ads: Max Speed, Turbo Up (nitrous), Fuel Up, and Shield On (it says “car” on the button, but it does mean bike!).

Bike List

You’ve got 19 choices spanning from dirt bikes to choppers, scooters, and superbikes. They’re all based on real-world motorcycles (unlicensed), and the variety in speed and handling is noticeable. Wider bikes struggle more when squeezing through tight traffic gaps, so you’ll need to choose wisely.

Each bike has four stats: Max Speed, Acceleration, Handle (Handling!), and Brake, plus a class rating from C through S. We’ve spotted a few of their real-world counterparts – see if you can figure out the rest!

• NJ350 – Free starter superbike
• KF 450T (KTM 450) – 10,000 coins
• KBX 250 (Kawasaki KX250) – 21,000 coins
• HD FXT (Harley-Davidson) – 31,200 coins
• VX95 NIGHT – 30 gems
• YZ250F (Yamaha YZ250F) – 44,200 coins
• CX 750F (Honda CX750) – 56,300 coins
• APE HANGER – 50 gems, chopper with ape hanger bars
• NX 650 – 62,300 coins
• BMW R1150 – 75,300 coins
• ZZF 1400 (Kawasaki ZZR1400) – 81,000 coins
• RoadKing (Harley Road King) – 90,000 coins
• XDiavel (Ducati XDiavel) – 100 gems
• LX150 (Vespa LX150) – 125,000 coins, the scooter
• SR 1000Z – 163,000 coins
• V REX – 200 gems
• KWS RH2 – 210,000 coins

• K1600GT (BMW K1600GT) – 235,000 coins

• XB 03001 (Akira bike) – 250 gems

If you’re saving up for something specific, Endless mode is likely to be the most efficient grind initially, even if it gets a little boring.

For a bigger roster, Traffic Road has quickly become the most popular bike traffic pick at Drifted. You get 30 similar bikes along with a career spanning two islands (similarly to the OG Moto Road Rash 3D), a Free Ride mode, and a wheelie mechanic that lets you swap visibility for bonus points.

You’ll also find plenty more two-wheeled options in our motorcycle games category.

Tuning & Upgrades

Each bike has four upgradeable stats. Upgrades are bought individually with coins, starting at 700 per stat on the starter bike and scaling up from there. An “upgrade all” button maxes everything at once for gems (six on the starter, more on better bikes).

You’ll feel the difference immediately with each upgrade tier, especially in speed and handling. If the game tells you your bike isn’t competitive enough for the next chapter, it’s probably wise to take the hint, or you might struggle to finish the level.

Maintenance is separate. A health bar tracks your bike’s condition and gradually depletes over time. Repairs cost a small amount and take a matter of (real-world) seconds. Keep on top of it, and the costs and times stay low.

For a traffic racer with tuning, Traffic Rally is often the go-to. You get to tweak the gear ratio, ride height, and camber across 80 career levels with real-world car replicas, which is rare for the genre.

Customization

Modshop gives you a full color palette to respray your bike any shade you want. It costs 1,000 coins per change, or you can watch an ad to get it free.

For a bike game with more visual tweaks, Stunt Bike Extreme lets you customize your rider and bike across 10 upgradeable rides, with the option to swap helmets, outfits, and gear alongside tournament knockouts and 270 levels of intense trials-bike action.

Advanced Tips & Tricks

Keep your eyes out for braking cars

Not a single person on the highway bothers to use their blinkers, so the brake lights are the only warning you’ll get that traffic is about to slow down or change lanes. The moment you see them light up, ease off the throttle and pick your escape lane.

Use your bike’s size advantage in elimination races

When you’re racing against cars in elimination rounds, you can weave through gaps they can’t fit through. You’ll struggle to outrun them on a long straight (especially before decent upgrades), so wait for traffic clusters and slip through while they’re stuck behind a truck.

Don’t get too worried about losing near-miss combos

The combo meter bar goes down fast, and squeezing through a gap that’s too tight will end in failure, so be careful. Sometimes it’s better to accept you’ll lose your multiplier rather than fail the level, especially if you’re near the finish.

Trick the police by faking your direction

In escape missions, the cops intentionally change lanes to try to knock you off. So, make it look like you’re committed to one direction, wait for them to go that way, then suddenly swerve in the opposite direction. They’ll fall for it more often than you’d expect, but try to mix it up to avoid your luck running out.

If police chases are your thing, we’ve got a huge collection of police pursuit and getaway games worth browsing.

When the chaos gets too much, take a breather

Slow Roads is the most popular laid-back driving game pick, where you get to drive (or ride) through infinite scenic roads across rolling hills, snow-covered mountains, and alien terrain. There’s no traffic or time pressure, just an opportunity to drive in peace to relax a little before diving back into the next chapter.

Moto Road Rash 3D 2 FAQ