Quick Look: Ridge Racer Unbounded

This actually looks alright. I'm surprised this isn't just another bad RIIIIIIIIDGE RAAAAACEEER game.

WHOA. The audio levels are sky high in this video compared to the Resident Evil QL that went up today. Might want to look into that, guys.

Looks kinda like Split/Second.  That is not a bad thing

So this is just Burnout then?

@CptBedlam said:

@AngelN7 said:

Burnout Revenge > Burnout Paradise... Controversial! but it truly is better soundtrack, better modes (actual crash mode) , better way to access races and no usless overworld that made you miss the turns until you learned the whole layout of the city.

Burnout 3 > Burnout Revenge > Burnout Paradise.

Open-world racing games just suck (well, they got it almost right in Hot Pursuit).

I'm in the process of 100 percenting Paradise for the THIRD time. Like Jeff said, something about that game just makes you want to play it over and over again.

I feel like Split/second's explosions and overall environments looked better than this game. Also the crashes don't look as satisfying as burnout's. From an onlooker's perspective the game seems like a weird mishmash of the two games which is OK but not a day one purchase for me. I'll have to wait for the game to drop under $20 before I consider a purchase or maybe I'll rent the game.

@depecheload: Yeah, Burnout Paradise was awesome. I still play it from time to time and the multiplayer community is still as strong.

Seems to me the biggest bugbear with this game is that it's called `Ridge Racer` but doesnt play like `Ridge Racer`. Apart from that fact ( i daresay they used the name to grab attention ) it looks pretty good. With Burnout taking alterantive routes, i hated the top down game of burnout. This is ok by me

You can create shortcuts and make things blow up in a track by drifting and building up a gauge. No clue what this could be.

@CptBedlam: Agreed, loved the look of Paradise but kept getting lost on enough of the races to just have to give up on the game. Still wondering why they didn't put up obstacles on the outer edges of the races to keep people from going too far off course (ie. leave it open for a couple blocks outside the straight path on the race if you miss a turn but leaving it completely open was just silly to me).

Namco Bandai doing a poor job on publishing their own games in America?

what a shocker

everytime i think of ridge racer i cant help thinking speed racer ... and i dont like speed racer :)

unleasheded.
 
so speaking of drifting, i've been playing a lot of Forza 4 recently and I wanna know, how the fuck does one go about getting a perfect drift score?  I think the best I've achieved so far is a 2/4 rating.  Part of that is that I play Forza like the sim that it is, so drifting usually means I've messed up a turn, but yeah.  Seems pretty strict.

"Decent looking city" - Ryan Davis

"I am ok with the way this game looks" - Jeff Gerstmann

"Completely competent" - Ryan Davis

"At least a decent racing game" - Ryan Davis

Put these on the back of the box !

Krafty Kuts? Where can I get this game?!

The in-world UI elements are cool, but it'd be even cooler if they weren't redundantly on the standard UI.

They'll show you your score and time twice, but no health meter or track map?

This is very like Flatout, right down to the slightly second rate look of everything, terrible music, lack of polish, and really fun gameplay.

Oh how I loved Flatout's weird minigames.

Anyway, loading screen: Rich people are noted for eating croissants? Croissants are really cheap!

I literally said "He's left the Game Grid" at the same time Jeff did.*

*TOTAL LIE: This is a pre-recorded video.

This looks alright. I'm adding this to my Gamefly Q and hoping for the best.

@alibson said:

I can tell it's the Frostbite engine just by looking at the menu.

Frostbite Engine is EA's. This has absolutely nothing to do with it. You don't even know what a Game Engine/GDK is, do you?

AAAAANYWAY...

This game looks pretty great. Very similar to Split/Second it seems, but that's fine. Since Disney shut down Black Rock, this is the closest we'll get to a proper S/S2, I guess. I just wish it didn't control like a "typical" arcade racer, with the heavy emphasis on physics. Even though they're "arcadey", games like Need for Speed and Split/Second still drift relatively realistically. Just compare it to Burnout, whose excellent, responsive drifting is more like Mario Kart or something. This here, it REALLY should've controlled like a proper Ridge Racer, and just build all the original elements around it. But even the CORE of this game is wrong. Not necessarily worse, but definitely different. I like a lot of the ideas here though, so I'll get over it. Wish it looked "cleaner" though. Again, it looks a TON more like Split/Second than it does any Ridge Racer. I'd like to see a few clean, futuristic cities and beachside resorts...

@Zero_ said:

Ain't no Ridge Racer without Reiko

Word.

SKYVANDERS.

@vinsanityv22 said:

@alibson said:

I can tell it's the Frostbite engine just by looking at the menu.

Frostbite Engine is EA's. This has absolutely nothing to do with it. You don't even know what a Game Engine/GDK is, do you?

AAAAANYWAY...

This game looks pretty great. Very similar to Split/Second it seems, but that's fine. Since Disney shut down Black Rock, this is the closest we'll get to a proper S/S2, I guess. I just wish it didn't control like a "typical" arcade racer, with the heavy emphasis on physics. Even though they're "arcadey", games like Need for Speed and Split/Second still drift relatively realistically. Just compare it to Burnout, whose excellent, responsive drifting is more like Mario Kart or something. This here, it REALLY should've controlled like a proper Ridge Racer, and just build all the original elements around it. But even the CORE of this game is wrong. Not necessarily worse, but definitely different. I like a lot of the ideas here though, so I'll get over it. Wish it looked "cleaner" though. Again, it looks a TON more like Split/Second than it does any Ridge Racer. I'd like to see a few clean, futuristic cities and beachside resorts...

Woah, woah, woah, hold the fuck on. I surely hope that "but" isn't the conjunction you were going for - Split/Second was awesome, no "buts" about it.

No one car should have all that power.

If the only thing the dedicated Power button did was play Kanye West's Power, this game would be 1000x better.

i'm getting way too much of a Battlefield 3 vibe from those menus

So this is what spurred Ryan to look for cop cars on Craigslist.

I know I'm not alone in thinking this is the closest we'll get to having a Flatout 4 game. As Ryan and Jeff said, the Ridge Racer name really does throw people off in all the wrong ways.

What is up with all the bloom in games these days? Racing games and FPS especially seem to have WAY too much bloom these days. It's ugly and hurts my eyes. It makes every blurry. Dead Island, Call of Juarez The Cartel and Syndicate seem to be the worst offenders. After playing an hour of any of those games, my eyes are in tears and pain from all the bloom. We have HDR for a reason developers! No need to throw so much bloom into games. Damn bloom....

Oh wait, I thought this was the PSP one. Wut.

Also, this is Burnout or what?

This looks cool. I'll probably have to pick this up at some point.

Tip: hold the drift button, don't tap it.

Nice! I'm very interested to see this game. Thanx GiantBomb!

This doesn't look too bad. Although the drifting makes want to play some PGR

So why can your car drive through ten ton trucks? Then make the cars around you explode? This game looks dumb, in a bad way.

tekken music

@sofacitysweetheart:

Yeah i don't think enough people played Blur to see the similarities, but the UI immediately reminded me of that.

YOU KNOW WHO CARES, RYAN AND JEFF!? I FUCKING CARE, THIS IS NOT RIDGE RACER.

@redbliss said:

Couldnt get this out of my mind:

Jeff is really good at this game

Man this reminded me that we really need a proper burnout game....

I think this racing game look good but I want another one with a back ground story like NFS most wanted!!!

Yuck! Westernized to look like every other Need for Speed game...

@cthomer5000 said:

@sofacitysweetheart:

Yeah i don't think enough people played Blur to see the similarities, but the UI immediately reminded me of that.

Yeah, I got a real Blur vibe off of this.

And you know what? I'm totally okay with that. Blur is really underappreciated.

As a guy who likes a good menu, I loved this. Really pretty!

UI is also great, kind of reminds me of Splinter Cell Conviction actually, with things written on the walls.

It lacks originality, but at least it's not Flatout 3. God, that game is abysmal...

I picked this up last night on Steam. I think it's pretty cool.

@DarkbeatDK said:

Yuck! Westernized to look like every other Need for Speed game...

That's okay. Ridge Racer stopped being relevant a long time ago. So it's the Green Hornet of racing games.

I love the look of the UI and menus.