You have the same ability, but it’s more likely you’ll be on the utterly maddening receiving end, often finding yourself ejected from first to last place a few corners from the end. The ‘elastic band’ mechanic, whereby the other computer-controlled racers always seem to be able to catch up and hurtle past, seemingly immune to the same physics applying to your vehicle, adds to the tension, as does their ability to ‘frag’ you and destroy your car entirely.
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This is an odd design decision, introducing a degree of uncertainty that, given that the ‘success’ parameters of the series are usually to cross the finish line first, puts the player on edge throughout each race. The game hints that ‘anything lower than your car’ can be destroyed, but that’s not always very helpful. Ridge Racer Unbounded, contrarily, positively encourages you to do the opposite, enabling the player to crash through these barriers, wreaking havoc but creating new racing lines in the process!Īn additional challenge that these destructible elements present is that you’re never quite sure which you can destroy and which you can’t. P.S.: As I long time Destruction Derby and FlatOut fan I can assure that it's absolutely NOTHING like these games (pretending that FlatOut Ultimate Carnage doesn't exist because it was almost as awful as this game).The most meaningful of those changes is undoubtedly the destructible elements, which challenge the player’s preconceptions about street-racing games – ordinarily, when you see a concrete barrier dividing one side of the road from another, or a bridge support, or a factory side-wall, the usual instinct, based on years of playing racing videogames, is to steer clear. If you want to see a game that does pretty much every single thing much better go and get Burnout Paradise. The icing on this bitter cake is a soundtrack that consists mostly of repetitive techno. The relative shortness doesn't help either, and the track editor is so unimaginative that you start assuming that the actual game race tracks were built in it. The cars all control like bricks, when you try to go around corners without drifting you go straight into a wall, when you try to go around corners drifting you go sidewalls into a wall, the "smash through things, big explosions" features do almost nothing about the actual race progression, and the races are either super frustrating (when you get stuck on a wall you thought you could smash though because there's no visual distinction between destructible objects and indestructible ones) or easy as cake (when you manage to take the corners in some way and you run kilometres in front of the competition) to the point where the last races in the game feel exactly like the first ones (including the difficulty level), only in a different district. At least I assume it wouldn't get any better with a game pad.
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On the plus side it seems to be well optimized, and keyboard controls seem to work just "fine".
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This is what Ridge Racer Unbounded feels like. Abrams movies slapped on top of a really bad Burnout ripoff.
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Abrams movies slapped Imagine the silly explosions of Michael Bay movies mixed with the terrible lens flare and bloom visual effects of J.J.
![ridge racer unbounded drifting ridge racer unbounded drifting](https://cdn.gamer-network.net/2013/usgamer/Driftopia-header.jpg)
Imagine the silly explosions of Michael Bay movies mixed with the terrible lens flare and bloom visual effects of J.J.