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Ridge Racer Unbounded
Ridge Racer Unbounded is, as its name suggests, Ridge Racer without limits. Your cars are no longer simple drifting machines, but tools of destruction, and the fictitious, urban tracks of Shatter Bay are your calamitous playground. Cars leap, streets explode, and buildings crumble, all while your competitors are turned into fiery, slow-motion heaps of wreckage. This is no mere update to the series. It is a declaration of change, one that confidently throws out the tried-and-true but rapidly aging formula of Ridge Racer to create a blend of all-out destruction and high-speed racing that's tremendously exciting, if not entirely original. It's easy to see where Unbounded's influences lie: the crumbling cityscapes are lifted from MotorStorm: Apocalypse and Split/Second; the slow-motion takedowns are those of Burnout; and the fast-paced multiplayer action is akin to Blur's. But it's thrown together with a great deal of care. Your cars are varied, plentiful, and oh so shiny. You can pick from all manner of machines, some faster and lighter, others stronger and better in the drift. All have a unique look that mimics real-world classics, yet they retain the pseudo-futuristic style that Ridge Racer is famed for. Their handling is a blend of old and new too.
Ridge Racer Unbounded Review
It's kind of funny how much can change in a month's time. We had just finished off (or rather, sworn off) Ridge Racer for the PlayStation Vita, a half-finished effort that had its moments, but still couldn't escape the \"same old” doldrums that had been haunting the drift-crazy racing series for years. And just like that, it's as if Namco swooped in to answer our prayers, laying on us the unpredictably wild Ridge Racer Unbounded, a game that's a far departure from the usual low-speed territory. Sure, some of its inspirations are borrowed – or downright stolen – from other destructive racing games, but Bugbear Interactive, the team behind the Flatout games, crafts them heartily into the Ridge Racer formula. And what a game it is. Rather than going through the usual uninspired Ridge Racer series, you're careening through Shatter Bay, a city that's been built merely for the thrill of driving at top speed. Throughout the game's campaign mode, you'll take on events that have a \"drive through mostly anything” flair, where crashing through lamp posts, bridges, gas stations and cement blocks scores you points. Never mind the fact your car miraculously survives all of this – speed is the name of the game.
Ridge Racer Unbounded Review
Despite some early concerns, Namco's decision to bestow one of its most prized titles - Riiiiidge Racer - upon FlatOut creator Bugbear was a good idea. If nothing else, the Finnish studio has attempted to whip the ailing racing franchise back into relevancy with a new-found focus on vehicular action and manic destruction.The realisation of that ideal, however, is decidedly wonky, though at least it's more ambitious than the execrable mess of Ridge Racer on the Vita. Bugbear's attempt to incorporate a kitchen sink set of features, including a fully-fledged track editor, has clashed against other constraints - such as time, talent and budget - to result in a racing game rich in quantity and ideas but sorely lacking in virtues.Some conceptual marketing puff establishes you as a member of The Unbounded, a group of upmarket chavs with a penchant for some extremely fast cars and reducing the city of Shatter Bay to rubble and ashes. What's got them so irked is beyond me (Osborne's nefarious pasty tax, perhaps?) but Bugbear's clearly been inspired by the ghosts of other, better racers.
Ridge Racer Unbounded
Ridge Racer Unbounded is, as its name suggests, Ridge Racer without limits. Your cars are no longer simple drifting machines, but tools of destruction, and the fictitious, urban tracks of Shatter Bay are your calamitous playground. Cars leap, streets explode, and buildings crumble, all while your competitors are turned into fiery, slow-motion heaps of wreckage. This is no mere update to the series. It is a declaration of change, one that confidently throws out the tried-and-true but rapidly aging formula of Ridge Racer to create a blend of all-out destruction and high-speed racing that's tremendously exciting, if not entirely original. It's easy to see where Unbounded's influences lie: the crumbling cityscapes are lifted from MotorStorm: Apocalypse and Split/Second; the slow-motion takedowns are those of Burnout; and the fast-paced multiplayer action is akin to Blur's. But it's thrown together with a great deal of care. Your cars are varied, plentiful, and oh so shiny. You can pick from all manner of machines, some faster and lighter, others stronger and better in the drift. All have a unique look that mimics real-world classics, yet they retain the pseudo-futuristic style that Ridge Racer is famed for. Their handling is a blend of old and new too.
Ridge Racer Unbounded (Preview)
Ridge Racer Unbounded: multiplayer aims to get the series back on track.Where other racing games have lately looked to reinvent the multiplayer wheel with a variety of new modes, Ridge Racer: Unbounded is keeping it simple - this is a classic set of racing modes with a boost mechanic and a pleasant aesthetic sheen of jazzy colours.On your bread-and-butter Domination mode, you do a few laps of the course against other players in a bid for 1st place. Unbounded's Power gauge - charged via drifting - gives you the ability to smash through select bits of scenery to create shortcuts, as well as frag other players if you collide when powered up.Corners are taken with tandem application of drift and brake, and the delicate handling and aggressive engines ensure counter-steer is a necessity more often than it is not. Beginner players will often find themselves taking corners with either excessive under or oversteer, too, and the fussy steering will only start to make sense after a few hours behind the wheel.Though, at the same time, I'm not convinced that the handling model feels right - both the jack-of-all-trades Wolfram GS and the fast-but-wobbly Hurricana CX seemed to lack a necessary weight.
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Ridge Racer Unbounded | $17.48 | See it |
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Namco Ridge Racer Unbounded Racing Video Game | $25.71 | See it |
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Ridge Racer Unbounded for Xbox 360 | $29.99 | See it |
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Namco-Bandai 21056 Ridge Racer Unbounded | $56 | See it |
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Ridge Racer Unbounded : (7/10)
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