Completing these events will earn you experience points, which is then used to unlock cars and assets for use within a surprisingly good map editor.
Each event has a three-tiered reward, depending on whether you come in 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in a regular race or finish a time trial under par time. Suffice it to say, you’re going to be racing through each of the city’s nine districts, competing in a variety of events in a bid to unlock faster and tougher cars.īreaking it down, each district is divided up into seven individual events, such as straightforward races or more specialized events like time trials, drifting challenges, and elimination events. The story is nothing you should be paying attention to. You play as a recent inductee into the “Unbounded,” a group of street racing miscreants who aim to shake up the population of Shatter Bay with their illegal street races - and by driving through coffee shops and malls while listening to dubstep. While Ridge Racer Unbound can be exciting, the combination of racing and wrecking never really combines into something truly compelling.
Bugbear Entertainment’s title is much more focused on combining a variety of racing modes along with encouraging players to destroy as much as possible around them, be it the environment, buildings, or even rival racers. If it wasn’t immediately obvious at the start, let me make this clear: Ridge Racer Unbounded is not a typical Ridge Racer game. Ridge Racer Unbounded (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC) Can the Finnish studio help Ridge Racer move into a new direction, or is Ridge Racer Unbounded heading up a dead alley at dangerously fast speeds?
Ridge Racer is a series best known for slick arcade racing rather than over-the-top crashes, making Bugbear seem like an odd developer choice. As the studio behind the FlatOut franchise, they’ve shown they can create a driving game that melds crazy excitement with solid handling. I see why there was a price drop on this game before it came out (Note: It's was $59, then it was $49 in retail stores.) If the game was released in June (which gives the devs more time to work on it an polish it up some more, then it would be a better game) Overall score I give it 4/5.Bugbear Entertainment knows a thing or two about cars crashing into one another. This game is all about momentum, and if you lose that momen tum, you lose the race. The, you'l have to play catch up for the whole race. You'll find yourself doing 360's in the middle of a drift, which can cause you to be wrecked by another racer. There's a few cars that need to be a bit more balanced in particular to drifting. Some of the events are good, but the cars they give you really put you at a disadvantage in certain events. Also, the controls are kinda loose for a racing game.
There's a weird orange aura in the game with every track/race you play. After you played a few stages, they all start to look the same. If you noticed, it "kinda" looks and feels like Burnout Revenge (without the massive explosion). Ridge Racer Unbounded is the newest installment in the series.