Riding Star 3

Summary
Train horses in show jumping, dressage, and cross country, and take part in shows.

Game Design
3D

Riding Mechanics
The horse controls are a mix of mouse and keyboard controls. Mostly mouse, a bit hard to control and not very intuitive.

Cross Country requires you to jump the obstacles at a straight angle, with very narrow margins. If exceeded, the horse will refuse.

Dressage consists of following a shown path, choosing the required gait, and (on more advanced courses) the correct modifier (none for medium gait, arrow-up for extended, arrow-down for collected). However, the animations just get faster or slower when modified, they don't show a more collected or extended movement.

Gameplay
There's a career mode and a quick mode. In career mode, you can work your way up through the 4 stages of tournaments with each of your horses. You own a separate horse for each discipline that you can customize from three options for coat and mane color.

Differences between Releases
An older version of the game has Ludger Beerbaum's voice and face in some of the intro scenes. The Steam version does not include him.



System Requirements & Compatibility
MINIMUM: OS: Windows Vista/7/8/10 Processor: Intel Pentium (or similar AMD) 1.5 GHz Memory: 256 MB RAM Graphics: Direct 3D compatible graphics card with 128 MB RAM DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 500 MB available space