BMX XXX
| BMX XXX | |
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North American Xbox cover art
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| Developer(s) | Z-Axis |
| Publisher(s) | AKA Acclaim |
| Platform(s) | GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox |
| Release date(s) |
Xbox PlayStation 2 GameCube |
| Genre(s) | Racing, sports |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
| Review scores | |||
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| Publication | Score | ||
| GC | PS2 | Xbox | |
| AllGame | N/A | N/A |   |
| EGM | N/A | N/A | 3/10 |
| Eurogamer | N/A | N/A | 4/10 |
| Game Informer | 7.75/10 | 7.75/10 | 7.75/10 |
| GamePro | N/A | |
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| GameSpot | 5.4/10 | 5.4/10 | 5.4/10 |
| GameSpy |  |
N/A | |
| GameZone | N/A | 6.2/10 | N/A |
| IGN | 6.8/10 | 6/10 | 6.8/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 3.5/5 | N/A | N/A |
| OPM (US) | N/A | |
N/A |
| OXM (US) | N/A | N/A | 7.4/10 |
| Entertainment Weekly | C− | C− | C− |
| Playboy | 77% | 77% | 77% |
| Aggregate score | |||
| Metacritic | 60/100 | 54/100 | 58/100 |
BMX XXX is a 2002 video game published by Acclaim Entertainment under their AKA Acclaim banner for the Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2 and developed by Z-Axis. While primarily a BMX-based action sports title, it earned most of its notoriety for containing nudity, foul language and adult humor. The game allows the player to create female characters that are fully topless and view live-action video clips of real life strippers, also with bare breasts. Consequently, BMX XXX was initially denied classification in Australia. In North America, while the game is available uncensored on the GameCube and Xbox, all naked breasts are covered in the PlayStation 2 version. While the adult content garnered a great deal of publicity for the game, it was almost entirely negative, and it was eventually released to mediocre reviews and poor sales.
BMX XXX builds on the earlier work done by Z-Axis on Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX, their previous BMX title featuring and endorsed by professional BMX rider Dave Mirra. During development of the new game, publisher Acclaim Entertainment decided to style the game after a raunchy sex comedy movie. It is commonly believed that the origins of this decision came when Acclaim saw what was shaping up to be an extremely subpar game, and so, in an effort to salvage the time and money already invested in it, they decided to add the vulgar humor and naked women in an effort to muster up publicity and hopefully turn that into sales. When Mirra found out about the content in the game, he refused to endorse the product and took legal action against publisher Acclaim in order to prevent any further implication of his involvement in the game. Mirra was successful in getting the courts to block Acclaim from using his name in association with the game, and the title was then shortened to its final name, BMX XXX.
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