This game was a hidden gem, I played this so much when I was s kid, and yes breaking the sound barrier was brilliant. Watching the gameplay abd hearing all the noises in this review brought a huge smile to my face

XG2 is the superior game. Once you learned the controls and tracks things get easier yet still has challenge. Breaking the sound barrier is one of the most satisfying things I've ever experienced in a racing game.

@cheapspace

2 жыл бұрын

@The Best Part About Making Meatballs totally agree the music just doesn't fit.

I use to blow hours on this game trying to finish it in one go because it wouldn't save on my n64.

Always makes me happy when I'm checking out games to buy and I find an old CGR review of it.

I remember going so fast i'll be hugging the track wall hitting turbos an all....man late 1990's to 2000's🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽

@lazy9432

3 жыл бұрын

Bro I was just saying on another channel I remember playing this aged 6 back in 99/2000 90s an below legendary era 💪

@kkingofkingzq9032

3 жыл бұрын

@@lazy9432 frfr good ole times

Merry Christmas CGR.

Mark, your the man! Merry Christmas from another CGR fanboy!

I just got Extreme-G III for Christmas and absolutely love it! I hope you review it too Mark!

I came here to remember when i was 10 years old Playing this game without any memory card on the nintendo 64 making me play all the entire day no rest oh lord this game sure was part of my childhood

@InecomCompany - Awesome review as always! I can tell Mark is JUST barely (like half an era) ahead of me in the gaming world because of what his childhood systems were. The 90s references in this were hilarious - Bugle Boy jeans, acid wash, and Netscape and 14.4 dial up modems. Ahh....the 90s. Only thing he missed was Indiglo watches and this review would have been epic! XD I have this cart for my N64 too by the way. Bought it new in a bargain bin at Wallymart I think.

Lol, Turok Dinosaur Hunter sound effects at the end.

Seeing these N64 game reviews brings back some fond memories. Now let's see that third installment of Extreme G.

All hail the dedication of Lord Karnage! Posting reviews on Christmas Eve!

if you play extreme g 2, you have to mention the extreme speed that makes you break the sonic wall in an extreme sonic boom! :-)

@fargeeks

6 жыл бұрын

nyood mono that part is hard to achieve unless you're a master at speeding safely around obstacles

@HaxHaunter

6 жыл бұрын

actually, it's easy on certain tracks, the second track when you first start the game for the first time actually has a perfect section where you can easily break the sound barrier with one or two nitros. of course, not all the bikes could easily do that. depends on their stats.

This game is so awesome, been playing it forever

Ive been looking for the name of this game for 10 years... The nostalgia.. ❤

Marks reviews are entertaining as well as informative. That is all. :)

This game was far better than the first one, the main problem with this one was that it required more skill than the 1st one and that it did not explain in the game or even the manual how you were supposed to play it. The tracks were all built around the new pivot system, basically if you pull back on the analogue stick while turning the trajectory changes, this gave the bikes a crazy amount of control while still maintaining high speeds. It a real shame they dropped a lot of the ideas in this for the next game instead of simply improving them.

@kinganarkzie

8 жыл бұрын

Also I would add that this game had the best combat in this sort game for its time, you literally say fuck it chose a combat bike and kill all the competition before even bothering with the race.

I remember playing this game so much.

I really really hope you do XG3 and 4. Fantastic, fantastic games. Moreso for XG3.

Love it used to play it before school bell rang at my friends

isn't there a game in this series on gamecube? i think i have it still somewhere...

Merry Christmas! (UK) :-)

I loved this game and played it sooo much as a kid on the N64....Loved the industrial/electronica soundtrack like the menu theme,etc..... It also had a creepy/dark theme to the game as well. Wish they would bring the series back on xbox,etc. Man,this and Glover are two really underrated games I think. CGR, please do a review of Glover :D

I still remember that song he played at the end. I played the FUCK out of this game, I don't even think I unlocked everything. The framerate would dip at times cause it was so damn hectic.

yeah man, did you ever play the third one i picked it up recently its surprisingly awesome

Nice, I personnaly agree with the 2 analysis of the #1 and #2 games. I am an EXTREME fan of the whole serie, I have finished in all possible way the 4 games, but the #2 has for me the less good for both sensation and musics. You should have mentionned still that the #2 was the first to take in consideration the wall of the sound, which actually becomes the main interest of the game : find the key areas where we can combine nitro + turbo on the ground on a straight line to break 700 mph, heard the BANG and stop the music.. ;)

@HaxHaunter

8 жыл бұрын

+AmnesiaGm1 exactly. HOW DARE MAKE A REVIEW OF THIS GAME AND NOT MENTION THE SOUND BARRIER BREAK MECHANIC!? lol

@fargeeks

8 жыл бұрын

+AmnesiaGm1 i was just thinking the same thing yeah go supersonic and you here nothing but faint wind forces until you slow down and the music come fading back into play

I agree. Excellent game if you can past the optimization issues. I wish that someone would make an updated version for XBL or Steam.

I laughed at how you could play as the Humans that drove the bikes, and ran on foot. Quite hilarious.

You didn't even break the sound barrier once in the clips. That's one of the shining aspects of this game for me. The rush of going ~768+ miles per hour and hearing almost nothing past the sound of the squeal of the cycle displacing air is irreplaceable and is not matched in any other XG game (or any other game I know of for that matter). Other than that, I agree with your review wholeheartedly: XG2 is a decently good breakneck future cycle racer with a tad too much emphasis on "BEING X-TREME".

i play so much xg3 i love it

I agree. I loved this game, the only problems I had were the framerate, Some of the later tracks, and how easy the game was.

I loved this game, took me a long while to master it. kicked my ass when I revisited it yrs later.

This games is incredible. One of the first games i ever rented. I own them both now, and man are they fun!

I miss this game!

I had both extreme g games. But I always found myself going back to the first one... Mainly because it doesn't totally suck.

the best thing about this game was the fact you could break the sound barrier, something they kept for XG3 and XGRA, thankfully.

I love this game this much played the game soooooooooooo hard

This reminds me a lot of forsaken on the n64!

Hey Mark. I have a copy of jet force gemini if you need it. Havent seen you review that one.

I totally had a 56k modem in 1998. 14.4k was SOOO 1995!

There is a third for Gamecube and a fourth called XG racing Association for the original Xbox and Gamecube.

He didn't mention about the multiplayer mode where you can battle each other with tanks and do tournaments.

Nice hame man . So much beter than wipeout . When u get good at the extreme g's u can do some sweet driving

Greatest underrated title ever!

I think it was XGR on the gamecube but i actually loved playing that back in the ye old day... someone should send Jet Force Gemini into CGR that game was the coolest 3rd person shooter back in the day... still like my 3rd favourite 3rd person shooter.

I once had the PC Version. Loved it and it's PC soundtrack (Yes it's different. Better in my opinion. And u can even play the tracks on a CD-Player.). Good old times.. I wish the X-G series would be still alive. :/

This game is in my Nintendo 64 right now! :D

Quantum redshift next! Amazing game

Ugh. I HATED this game back in the day. I had it for PS1, and anytime anybody even thought about using a power-up (which was all the time), the game slowed to a crawl. I had no reliable way to tell how fast I was going, and the controller might as well have been covered with butter for how accurate the controls were. Anyway, nice review, Mark! :) I'm proud to be a CGR...ist? Ite? Ian? Yes, there we go, I'm proud to be a CGRian!

There were two. XG3 and XGRA. Respectly the third and the fourth/last game of this series.

My younger brother has the original Extreme-G 1 on his N64.

aaaaaaaaaah! i love this game!

Can you review XG3 please, would be awesome :)

You should review the adult sequel, Extreme G-Spot

o i been looking for the name of this game for years. i use to play this all the time when i was a kid.

this game used to rock my werld

I agree, extreme g 2 & xgra are the best ones in the series.

Yeah this game feels like a misstep. Great vid bro

In 1998 I had a 56k modem, baby! I was what you'd call "cutting edge".

Review Conker's Bad Fur Day please :D

I haven't played this since 2001.

If you do get this game, try getting the PC version. It's not laggy if you can get it to run right on newer hardware (that's the trick) and the music is remixed and MUCH better.

I own the PC version of XG1. Always a fun Game to play. :P

I had dsl back in 1998

Xtreme!

good review, also bought extreme g2, and was also disappointed.

Do F-Zero X next!

God i loved extreme g

How about the PC release?

Actually it's CGRundertow who should review more n64 games since there a Nintendo lovers

please review daze before xmas before its too late

Yes. God yes.

And to complete the series, XGRA.

extreme g2 is a fun amazing game

Best Racing Game To Date.

XGIII next?

I like the forst Extreme G way more, but I guess its because the 2 was way too dark.

Now, to break up all the fuck and ass in the comments below, allow me to comment on the game some, as I've beaten it before; Yeah, the game is tricker. It becomes a memory game after awhile, but once you memorize the tracks, the gameplay is surprisingly satisfying. I often found myself in the starter tracks constantly above the sound barrier, once I got them down. And really, that's all you need to do is race good, and the weapons soon lose their relevance. (Except for laser mines, leader missiles and rear-fire rockets, those are reasonably handy no matter what, if for nothing else to drop and play keep-away with.) As a spoiler, once you beat everything in the game, you can also do the ridiculous act of selecting the riders themselves as bikes. Yes, you can run at super-sonic speeds _on foot_.

@HaxHaunter

8 жыл бұрын

+bluephreakr lol, i remember looking at my racer going in a cartwheel at super-sonic speeds. imagine that in real life lmao. also, didnt they also made a reference to Wipeout with that cheatcode that transform your bikes into planes? (idk if i can call it planes but whatever lol)

@bluephreakr

8 жыл бұрын

HackerHaunter03 Yep, they did. Forgot the cheat off-hand but it might be 2094 as player name. It just makes all the bikes into paper plane-like ships.

@kokaomf

6 жыл бұрын

"I'm Barry Allen and I am the fastest man alive!"

I actually like XG2 way better than XG1 because I can actually control the bike in the second installment. It's like they forgot the steering controls in the first game. Anyway if you think it's easy to get spun around in this game, you haven't played Rollcage or Rollcage Stage II on the PS1. I should send those to you because I intend on getting rid of them anyway.

@washaa

9 жыл бұрын

OldsXCool Really? XG2 is jank city for me. The first game has tighter controls imo

Infect i still have the game ;)

Snowboards don't have lasers, but they should...

They made a PC version?

I approve of the recent flood of N64 reviews!

The framerate of the first one was choppy but playable. But on this sequel, it was a slideshow at times, impossible to play for me.

Everytime I rented this game as a kid in the early 2000's, I could never pass the third stage.

cluster fudge is right

It's too bad Acclaim didn't polish up this series. It might have gotten them some extra sales. The only good thing to come from Acclaim in it's final days (aside from the PS2 port of Sega's Crazy Taxi) was Burnout and Burnout 2: Point of Impact. Forsaken came out around the same time as Extreme-G, and it was pretty decent.

the N64 is now considered a classic console? holy nutsack, i really must have become old :(

God, this looks all over the place

jajajajaja en 1998 tardabas como 15 minutos en entrar a Trucoteca o Guimamania para ver el truco de cualquier juego y con lo caro que era internet en ese entonces era mas barato comprar la Club Nintendo y ver el truco XD

XG - BLAAAAST

I will say though, the superior version of XG2 is the PC version, not N64. On the PC there's no multiplayer at all, which is disappointing, but what you get is higher resolution support, a completely stable 60+ fps framerate, and a spectacularly great CD audio soundtrack. Very, VERY highly recommended, it's one of my favorite PC racing games of the '90s!

Now i see where firebugs (playstation 1) got its inspiration...

'98? 56K Flex via external Zoom modem. Then DSL in '99.

I can certainly tell you love saying the word eXtreme!

At least he didn't hate it.

I loved it when I broke the sound barrier on this game!

Now I know what X-mas means. It's Spanish for MORE EXTREME

my fave series on the n64. but i think i liked xg2 better than xg1.