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G1 Jockey 3

Fancy hats, oval turf tracks and people waving tiny bits of paper on the stands. Welcome to the world of horse racing. While most other racing games have the player controlling a motorized vehicle (such as a…

62 28 June 2003

G1 Jockey 3 is a simulator, released 28 June 2003 on PlayStation 2.

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What G1 Jockey 3 is

G1 Jockey 3 was released in 2003. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Fancy hats, oval turf tracks and people waving tiny bits of paper on the stands. Welcome to the world of horse racing. While most other racing games have the player controlling a motorized vehicle (such as a car or a powerboat), or using physics to move closer to the goal (skiing, sailing and so on), in G1 Jockey the player is controlling an animal, which makes it slightly different from other racing games in the market. The player has to balance four things - the overall speed of the horse, the stamina, horse motivation, and the potential, which affects for how long the horse can keep the speed high after all stamina was lost - crucial for the last stretch sprint. It's impossible to raise…
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How it was received

G1 Jockey 3 holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 7 points below the year average.

What it launched against

G1 Jockey 3 launched on 28 June 2003, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising and Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3.

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When did G1 Jockey 3 come out?
G1 Jockey 3 was released on 28 June 2003 for PlayStation 2.

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