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A time trial that wants you dead

Moto X3M is a side-on motorbike game where every track is a short obstacle course built out of loops, ramps, swinging wrecking balls and explosives. You are timed, and crashing costs seconds rather than ending the run.

That trade is the whole design. Dying is cheap, so the game encourages you to take the fast line and find out.

Controls and what they really do

• Up accelerates, down brakes. Left and right rotate the bike in the air — this is what you spend most of your attention on.
• Landing on the back wheel keeps your speed; landing flat or nose-first costs it. Rotate to match the slope you are landing on.
• Braking mid-air pitches the bike forward. It is the fastest way to correct an over-rotated backflip.
• Front flips off a ramp are usually faster than going over it level, because you land further down the slope.

Where the time actually goes

Not in the crashes — in the landings. A bad landing bleeds speed for the next three obstacles, and that costs far more than the couple of seconds a crash adds.

Learn the two or three landings on a track that matter and the rest of it takes care of itself.

Chasing three stars

The star thresholds assume a clean run with no crashes and no hesitation, so the route matters more than reflexes. Watch where you instinctively brake and ask whether you actually need to.

Most tracks have one section people slow down for out of habit that can be taken at full speed.