Ridge Racer Unbounded (360/PS3/PC)

[nakamura]

basically it has nothing do do with Ridge Racer but by shoehorning a few cars and music tracks in they can get away with it. Looks a solid game overall but when Namco would constantly reinvent Ridge Racer in the past it is a shocker they have put this game out.

When you think back, Ridge was the first, Revolution changed the handling somewhat and gave much more difficult tracks. Rage gave you massive elevation changes, car modding, totally new handling model. R4 gave you smooth car collecting gameplay. RRV gave hugely different car handling and driving styles. Namco could have done it again i'm sure but they have rested too much on the template set by Ridge Racers on PSP. Pity.

[rmoxon]

Is this the first ever Ridge Racer game to have a multiformat release?

Says it all right there really. This probabaly isnt Ridge Racer in any way but name.

Doesnt mean its not a good game though.

[Neon Ignition]

Nah, R: Revolution Racing was before this and had the exact same issue of coming under the Ridge Racer umbrella and people getting pointlessly hung up on the name to the games detriment. It wasn't the greatest racer ever but was good fun in its own right.

[nakamura]

R:Racing was a dire excuse for a racing game. The visuals were rough, the handling was outright ****e.

[yesteryeargames]

Looks a bit like trackmania? is this really out friday

[ashmatuk]

A 9 from Edge:

http://www.edge-online.com/reviews/ridge-racer-unbounded-review

[Family Fry]

Yeah tis out Friday, edge have just published review online.

http://m.edge-online.com/reviews/ridge-racer-unbounded-review

9/10

[arcnas]

wow simply games had this in stock today so i ordered it, was a bit worried but its sounds awesome, cant wait to get it now

[Fader209]

Too slow Fry. You getting OLD.

After my initial shock, that you guys can see earlier in this thread, I have gotten used to the changes and am actually looking forward to this now.

[Family Fry]

This was the track editor video.

[Baseley09]

Very interesting, I may buy a full price retail game.

They probably expect you to use analog control so this is never Ridge Racer....sounds cool though.

[charlesr]

R:Racing was a dire excuse for a racing game. The visuals were rough, the handling was outright ****e.

Visuals were really weird, but the driving was amazing with a wheel. Really tense tight racing with the AI too. One of my fave racing games. Crazy how opinion can vary so wildly. Got to Number 3 in the world in one of the tracks and 5th on another. Also fun was driving the rally cars on the road tracks and trying to beat the road cars by cutting the corners.

All stuff I've seen for Unbounded so far was completely flat and lifeless but now that track editor has gone and blown that all away - anyone know if any of the standard tracks are all crazy loops and stuff? I hate spending time building my own stuff.

[Family Fry]

Think the main campagin is racing the unbounded streets, so wouldn't imagine some crazy loops. Although you can plough through buildings for short cuts, looked quite intense at times.

[davek22]

I made myself a vow not to buy any more PS3 games until I have played though my shrink wrapped ones from Christmas but that track editor video has me ready to break that vow

[nem]

Aye, that track editor video has sold this for me as well. Looks like Split/second crossed with Trackmania.

I still wish this would have been branded as its own IP.

Also, I wonder how likely is the possibility that this actually sells well and we're screwed out of new, proper Ridge Racer games?