Real Racing 3 – Mobile Game Review

Real Racing 3 is the most popular car racing game available for mobile devices. The game has an ever growing list of official licensed circuits as well as a twenty-two car starting grid and hundreds of intricate car models.
The game can be downloaded for free, and it has in-game purchases of gold coins with which one can rush upgrades and repair time.

Features

Real Racing 3 is a multi award-winning game, and it raises the bar for every other mobile racing game out there. It is possible to enjoy much of the content of the game for free as well as experience fully fledged next generation games. The game boasts of realistic cars, a grid of twenty-two cars, and a diverse range of official race tracks. Its compatibility with different devices and operating systems is also an added advantage.

The game is based on the EA’s innovative Mint ™ 3 engine and features graphics that rival the best console titles. There are a number of vehicles available for purchase and upgrading, along with a range of camera angles offering many perspectives during dynamic and exciting action.

Apart from racing, the game also features integration with social networks and mass multiplayer online. It also allows for other events like Cup races, Endurance challenges, Speed Snaps and Drag Races. Some of the events have PR level qualifications which make it necessary for the players to upgrade, level up their driver and/or the car, or purchase new ones to participate in the events.

There is a wide range of cars provided by dealerships such as Porsche, Chevrolet, BMW, Bugatti and participate in Aston Martin. The game consists of an enormous reserve of upgrades for each car in order for their services and performance to be enhanced. Additional option also includes spending real money on purchasing in game gold coins which can help reduce the time needed for the repairs and upgrades.

Graphics

While the majority of mobile racing games borrow heavily from arcade style, Real Racing 3 tries its best to bring a high level of simulation, whilst being played on a touch screen. From the graphics to the physics, which are realistic and accurate, and even an onscreen steering wheel, it also includes the ability to fully control the game with realistic car models.

It is indeed astonishing that such an expansive experience could be accessed on the smallest of devices. Books certainly don’t excel in graphic quality, certainly when compared to the Gran Turismo, though they are acceptable and they extend to include such details as headlight and spatialousness gauges right down to clear-coat paint jobs. Also corners and racing against and other competitors settings appear to be quite a fascinating achievement for mobile gaming.

Menus and control setup are also great. You may opt for tilt control or onscreen control as well as various assists if your driving skills are not very good. RR3 also has an upgrade and repair system that is quite complex considering how confusing this game is, considering how e-spectacular the graphics of this game is in regards to with just using cash and gold coins to repair and gamble upgrades for this game.

What is clear is that there is no denying that if you are able to withstand long waiting times and microtransactions, you would truly be able to experience the best mobile racing game. However, if you do not, there are many other mobile racing games available for players. It is unfortunate that the developers decided to put one of the best racing games of all time under such a freemium controller.

Gameplay and Controls Review

When it comes to racing games in terms of graphics, vehicles and gameplay, EA’s Real Racing series is a reference. The newest edition is the best and most advanced in the series offering perhaps, the most beautiful graphics in a mobile game and one of the most realistically satisfying races you will ever partake in.

Nevertheless, you bushido and hardcore fans of old, definitely have a concern of this current model. Going Free to Play model has resulted in some frustrating and even almost gameplay interactions that can stop or at least really annoy the progress.

In the game, you can find some of the most of car modification and tuning systems and there is a great number of various car brands and models. Players also have the opportunity to modify their cars by tuning the engine, drivetrain and tires in order to prepare the car for crucial races or tracks. The controls are great too. The game features quite a number of configuration options from tilt controls and visual keyboard shortcuts to every combination of the two. It also has total gamepad support so using a PC is dramatically easier than using a finger to swipe on a mobile screen.

Sadly, the physics are not as appealing as one may expect, with grids populated with mindless Maldonados oblivious to sideways collisions and awkwardly parking on the apexes, but if you are able to ignore those, then this is definitely a game that one should try out. Regarding microtransactions, EA has a terrible track record with such features and Real Racing 3 seems to be no different. Rather, the types of microtransactions allowed in the game become one of the core gameplay mechanics for these games, which can be frustrating especially if one just wants to play the video game. Real Racing has some of the high quality mobile graphics I have ever seen in a mobile game along with impressive number of car and track options, but this is spoilt a bit by it being free to play as it seems very nickle and dimey. It’s not quite the rabid levels of what Square Enix’s last target was, but the constant asks for the money would wear down one’s joy in the game.

In Real Racing 3, it is also possible to spend cash money to reduce wait times for vehicle repairs and upgrades, besides utilizing in-game currency. Depending on the amount paid, the duration to perform such upgrades and repairs is reduced from between two minutes to ten minutes.

Real Racing 3 has excellent graphics and maybe the best racing game with large amounts of content available, as long as one is ready to disregard the obscene tentacles of the freemium business model as practiced by EA games. Alternatively, if you dislike the timers or don’t like it as a timer clicked driving game, there are also many non freemium games which are available in the App Store. It still has also been one of the best mobile games that I have ever played, no opinion on that.