For many years Ridge Racer has been one of the most popular racing series on home gaming consoles. The over-the-top drifting action and vivid graphics are a signature of this iconic and quirky series.
Now you can forget everything you've ever known about Ridge Racer because Ridge Racer Unboundedis related to the original series purely by the fact that there are cars and there are tracks to race them on as well as the thumping techno and dubstep.
This is a good thing, because Ridge Racer has been losing its edge and has become irrelevant in a world now dominated by Forza, Need For Speed and the like. So Namco Bandai handed the reigns to Finnish developers to reboot the series from the ground up.
The traditional weightless vehicle dynamics have been replaced with cars that feel like they carry some weight and this fits in with the new combatant gameplay where smashing your opponents to smithereens is as important as crossing the finish line first.
Gone are the hard barriers that slow you down to a crawl if you so much as scrape them. Instead the city-based tracks are littered with destructible elements that can work for or against you.
In fact Ridge Racer Unbounded bears an uncanny resemblance to the combat racing game FlatOut , another Bugbear title. But Unbounded ramps up the destruction tenfold and encourages the player to use the environment as much as possible.
This Racer is very different and more fun than ever.
