Ridge Racer™ Unbounded

Полу-мясо полу-рыба. Игра стала больше flatout-ом на минималках, нежели чем игрой серии Ridge racer. Весь футуристичный дух который был в серии с самого ее основания заменили на унылую одноцветную непонятную однотипную массу. Трассы однообразные, физика дерьмовая. Единственное что радует это саундтрек, но и он был взят из предыдущих частей. Жаль что отличная серия игр посетила пк только в таком унылом проявлении.

this game is like the DmC: Devil May Cry/Bomberman Act Zero of the Ridge Racer series (still bears the series' name but took a dark and edgy turn type and failed miserably). while being a good dumb fun and explosive arcade racing experience, it also is a frustratingly unfinished piece of sh*t. The fictional car designs are actually pretty good (but too few customization options) compared to the likes of Split/Second or Burnout, and their stats do have significant differences in performance (the DLC cars are really great throwbacks to older games but they're GARBAGE); but they all handle like wet noodles (the drifting is trash but also is pretty rewarding if you're used to it, I guess the chase cam didn't do it any justice), one mistake and you're toast with absolutely 0 room to recover, especially on time attack events. The maps are cool and fitting for that kind of edgy/early 2010s MySpace scene vibe but sometimes they get really dark to the point that you might crash into something without being aware (and that also leads to retries after retries since you can't really afford a mistake that significantly slows you down, no matter how many sick moves you pulled earlier). The AI is actually challenging not like most racing games in the same era, but their overall mechanics are dumb AF; if both you and the AI uses the Power gauge, you can't really do much damage on it (the AI would most likely spin you 180 or shunt you off-track) or when you trigger a Frag cutscene, the other AI drivers nearby will have some sort of i-frame so that you can't chain-frag them for the next 0.5 second or so. Moreover, they do not respawn behind or far behind you, they often respawn right in front of your face with their invinciblity still intact and their position still remain (like wtf?) and in some cases one AI driver got wrecked by an another driver and that wreckage launches straight into you (which conveniently slows you down for the time being) yet it respawns right in front of you afterwards. Another thing is the AI in the Frag events goes REALLY SLOW, so if you accidentally Power yourself past them then they'll likely slow down behind you which make this event type the most frustrating of the bunch. Speaking of event types, this game does have diverse events in each district to dominate. We got Domination Race, Shindo Race (which is just DR but with "teams" and without the fragging or commiting collateral damage part, kinda lame), Time Trial, Time Attack (with cops?), Frag (both with the car of your choice and a semi-truck, also with cops??? what do the cops even do to make a living in this hellhole of a city?), and Drift Attack (most of the "drift cars" just won't work anyway). Though some of them might get repetitive at some point, the map structure kind of stays the same on each district with identical targets. Progress is actually fine, albeit pretty short but sweet due to its repetition. Some achievements are hilariously difficult to get and there are online achievements in which you can't get anymore due to the servers being down for over a decade now (hell even RR7 or RR6 lobbies are still lively to this day). City/event creation is pointless. Graphically this game really looks damn amazing for a 7th gen game, decent damage model and perfect 60fps which is also around 2gb in storage (what kinda black magic f*ckery is this?), but the gameplay seriously didn't do this game any justice; and the soundtrack is like the most generic early 2010s MLG/Machinima stuff I've ever heard, to the point that I felt like they didn't even try. It's like when it came to the soundtrack, the dudes at Bugbear decided to just slap in some generic DnB, old RR tracks that's not relatively relevant to this game's setting and 80% of early Skrillex stuff (Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, really?) and call it a day. Best bet that you ditch this OST and play your own music in the background for a more pleasant racing experience; but if you do like it, that’s fine too. Is it a good arcade racing game? Hell yeah it is (for its price, size and the scarcity of good arcades nowadays), I had serious fun with this. But is it a good Ridge Racer game? F*ck no. It plays nothing like a traditional RR game but more akin to Burnout or Split/Second (shame on you Bugbear for putting all your effort on this and left your Flatout series to some inexperienced mfs so that we could get the atrocious monstrosity called Flatout 3 and a nothing burger which was Flatout 4; glad that you guys pulled yourselves together with Wreckfest). Overall, this is the worst sendoff of a great racing series EVER.

I got this game when it was on discount (i do not want to pay this full price + DLCs) and it was mid. SO mid that i hate it. You cant change the controls (WHO THE ♥♥♥♥ WAS IN CHARGE FOR THE LAYOUT) and the drifting is just bad. Get this game if your curious enough to play it. I dont recommend this game.

The drifting kinda sucks, at least with most cars. Besides that, this game doesn't really deserve negative reviews, based on the game itself because its a pretty solid game. It's the name and it doesn't honor it. It's a Burnout game and that's exactly what I like. Except Burnout games have a better (faster) sense of speed. What I also really like about this game is that it's not another open world chore checklist/drive around aimlessly and do some races in between type of racing game. Fun game with a sick OST. Worth every cent so far of the 2.99 euros on sale including its DLCs.

Muy bueno pero no tiene que ver mucho con la saga Ridge Racer se parece mucho mas a los juegos de Criterion como Burnout.

Probably the worst drifting I have experienced in any video game, Avoid!

Ridge Racer Unbounded é um jogo muito divertido e diferente dos outros da franquia. Muita gente fala mal, mas eu gostei bastante! A pegada arcade deixa as corridas rápidas e cheias de ação, com destruição no cenário e gráficos muito bonitos. Por R$3,99 na promoção, vale muito a pena para quem gosta de corrida arcade e diversão sem complicação.

Crashes constantly on modern OS's.

Muito divertido e com estilo arcade de PS2/PS3, como já não se faz hoje em dia. Apesar de não ter o estilo nem a sensação de velocidade dos Ridge Racer feitos pelos estudios internos na Namco, tem aqueles que são sem dúvida os pontos fortes da Bugbear. Corridas frenéticas e de muito contacto e com um estilo de condução fácil de aprender e difícil de dominar. No geral dou um 8/10. Para apreciadores de jogos de condução mais arcade, têm aqui algo que vos vai divertir.

Very Cool The Game with the Cars.