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BMX XXX is a 2002 sports video game developed by Z-Axis and published by Acclaim Entertainment under their AKA Acclaim label for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube. While primarily a BMX-based action sports title, the game places a distinct emphasis on off-color and sexual humor, and allows the player to create female characters that are fully topless. The game also features unlockable live-action footage of real-life strippers courtesy of Scores, a New York-based stripclub.
Gameplay
BMX XXX is a freestyle BMX sports game with an emphasis on off-color and sexual humor. The player character can be customized by name, gender, and physical attributes, or selected from a number of pre-made characters; the ability to create topless female riders is enabled when the single-player campaign is fully completed. The player's rider can perform a variety of tricks in midair with the combined input of a direction on the D-pad or left thumbstick and a button. The player can also grind on rails, ledges, or other likely surfaces, and can exit a grind by jumping into the air or falling out of balance. The player is awarded points by performing complete tricks and landing while the bike is properly oriented. The player character will be ejected from their bike if they are not oriented for a successful landing or if they crash into something with a part of the body or bike other than their feet, wheels, or grind pegs during a trick. The player character will also be ejected if they are riding off-balance and hit an obstacle too fast or at a harsh angle. In the event of a crash, the player's score is reset.
The single-player campaign is divided into eight levels, six of which are based on a series of challenges that the player must complete to advance to the next level. Challenges are often initiated by interacting with a character within the level, who will give the player an objective to fulfill. Completing ten challenges within a level will grant access to the next level. Scattered within each level are four collectible bike parts; accumulating complete sets of six parts within the campaign unlocks upgraded bikes that enhance the player's performance. Each level also features a series of 45 collectibles such as coins, as well as 20 gaps in the terrain to discover. Completing certain challenges unlocks full-motion video sequences of strippers, with videos unlocked in later levels displaying an increasing amount of nudity. Two of the levels are competitions that require the player to perform a variety of tricks and earn a medal.
The game includes three multiplayer modes in which two human players compete against each other. In "Strip Challenge", players aim to achieve the highest-scoring trick combination. When a player breaks the record, the opponent's character loses a piece of clothing, and the game ends when one player renders their opponent naked. In "Skillz", players compete to achieve the highest score over a two-minute run, and in "Paintball", one player must collect all the boomboxes within a level while their opponent attempts to snipe them.
Why It SuXXX
- Excessive Meddling - When Dave Mirra was told that Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 3 would be made into the adult-rated Dave Mirra BMX XXX, he wanted the game to be a tongue-in-cheek parody title with light-hearted and humorous adult content (Similar to the 1980 movie Airplane). However, with Acclaim having severe money problems this time due to many poorly selling titles, the company was desperate for a title that would create sales and profits, and so they changed the adult content from its original tongue-in-cheek nature into a pornographic title with strippers and nudity. Going completely against his wishes and with the publisher doing this change without him knowing, Dave Mirra was furious with Acclaim and ordered the company to remove his name and likeness from the title (renaming it to it's final name: BMX XXX). However, according to Mirra, they still used his likeness and pictures in advertising and other marketing, leading to a $21 million lawsuit with Acclaim in February 2003, alleging a breach of contract, unfair competition, injury to reputation, false advertising and an invasion of privacy. Eventually, Acclaim and Mirra soon settled the lawsuit with no monetary or other damages that were paid for, and Mirra allowed Acclaim to continue making games in his likeness.
- BMX XXX's change in content would end up backfiring on Acclaim as a result, as the game sold poorly (especially with most retailers like Wal-Mart and Toys 'R' Us refusing to put the game on their shelves) and is one of the reasons for Acclaim filing for bankruptcy in 2004.
- Even Sony's US operations were shocked at the adult content and ordered the PlayStation 2 version in the country to be censored, leaving only the Xbox and Nintendo GameCube versions of the game to be released fully uncut in the region. Australia for example had the game censored.
- Speaking of Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 3, it eventually became a GBA-exclusive port, but without the nudity, language and adult humor, which was better than this.
- As noted above, this game is nothing more than a rehash of Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 with edgy and unfunny content.
- The game goes way beyond jumping the shark in an attempt to be edgy. Acclaim themselves have said the humor that the game offers is based on shows like South Park. Examples include:
- An unnecessary amount of profanity.
- Gross-out humor, whether visible (some female characters have visible boobs) or in the dialogue.
- Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (a game which got released 2 years later) managed to handle the Jackass style of humor better than this game.
- The graphics are quite off, with low-polygon models, poor textures and slow animations.
- There are only six tracks to play on, in comparison to the eight (ten on the GameCube and Xbox versions) on Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2.
- The controls are just atrocious; grinds can be canceled quite easily and they can cause mishaps throughout the game, mainly with the jumping, which is extremely heavy and doesn't work properly.
- The camera is way too zoomed onto to the character you're playing as, meaning that you could crash into cars easily and lose focus on what you are doing.
- Several glitches, especially in the Super Crash Mode–where, if the characters bounce indoors–they will glitch through the walls and can cause the game to crash.
Redeeming Qualities
- Cheesy FMVs featuring strippers if you're into that kind of thing.
- The licensed soundtrack is great, featuring artists such as Green Day, Alien Breed, 311 and N.E.R.D.
Reception
Despite the game getting mixed reviews, the game was a huge commercial failure, as many countries had to censor the sexual FMV content in the game.
Due to the inclusion of the FMV strippers, BMX XXX became one of the three games available on consoles (excluding Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) to be prohibited on Twitch, followed by The Guy Game due to the FMV nudity and the 17-year-old lawsuit and Criminal Girls due to the bondage fetishes.
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