You climb up the sides of half-pipes, flying off ramps to collect floating icons to pause your timer as you race to the finish. You drive a large truck and try to take out as many racers as possible before the timer runs out. Unbounded sets itself apart from other Ridge Racers with additional modes outside of the standard racing.
Earning shortcuts on a new track is exciting, but driving past a shortcut you cannot access because you used your boost earlier to take out the guy in front of you is disappointing. It’s a different way to race around a track, and it works best on your first time through a race. Ridge Racer is not about track memorization or seeking out shortcuts – it’s about earning boost to gain access to shortcuts. If you try to drive through a shortcut that you remember from a previous race without boost, you will slam into the wall and lose your position. Your boost has to be full, however, to take advantage of these shortcuts.
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You build boost by drifting and taking out other cars, and when your boost is full you receive on-track alerts pointing out areas where you can drive through building to shave a few seconds. The focus in Unbounded is on rewarding offensive driving, like destroying your environment and the other racers.
Small mistakes like overshooting my drift sent me from first place to last place more times than I am willing to admit. Cars feel heavy and unwieldy, and the other racers are unforgiving. You still spend a lot of time sliding sideways around turns, but it doesn’t feel as loose or fun as it has in the past.
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The core gameplay of the Ridge Racer series – unrealistic but fun drift racing – feels off in Ridge Racer Unbounded. Destructive racing is not a bad sub-genre of racing to pursue, but when it comes to Ridge Racer, I am more interested in sliding around 90-degree turns at high speeds than trying to cause destruction and frag other racers. Ridge Racer Unbounded seems more interested in being Burnout than being Ridge Racer.
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