Jet Moto 3

Jet Moto 3 is a 1999 racing video game developed by Pacific Coast Power & Light and published by 989 Studios for the PlayStation.

Characters are split into teams, and bikes are adorned with logos of products such as Mountain Dew and Doritos, similar to real-life sponsored racing.

According to former 989 Sports president Kelly Flock, Pacific Coast Power & Light was "nearby and cheap" and was headed by Don Traeger, who had formerly worked on the Road Rash series, so the decision was made to use that studio for development.

The Jet Moto 3 graphics engine and developer toolkit were built from the ground up by lead programmer Ming Lee.

[4] Fellow programmer Matt Gaston focused his energies on AI, physics and user interface programming.

[4] With programming optimizations in place, developers were able to use the additional power to add weather effects previously unheard of.

[4] Colored fog was also shown in one level, something that the PlayStation console could not do natively, and had only previously been seen in one game, Spyro the Dragon.

[14] Ben Stahl of GameSpot, on the contrary, felt the graphical details were poor, citing that the game's environments were "nice and pretty unless you get too close.

"[5] Victor Lucas of The Electric Playground spoke highly of the game's soundtrack, stating that the varied types of music fit each track's location and environment.

"[15] Boba Fatt of GamePro said, "Even with more depth and funk than its predecessors, Jet Moto 3 falls short of speederbike nirvana.

"[17][b] The game ranked tenth in the top ten racing titles for June 2000 according to the NPD Group;[18] however, sales did not continue to hold strong.

Weather effects, along with other graphical improvements were included in Jet Moto 3 .