Customer Reviews
Ridge Racer is Back!
Hands down, Ridge Racer is the best racing game on the PSP right now. Here are a few reasons why:
1.Excellent gameplay. Easy to pick up and play. Cars have a great sense of speed.
2. Kick A** soundtrack
3. Jaw dropping graphics. Namco spared no detail too small for Ridge Racer. When you boost up your car, a cool blur effect trails your car. Racetrack backgrounds are absolutely gorgeous.
4. Great replay value. The more you play, the more cars, tune up kits and courses you unlock(Check out the PacMan car!).
Ridge Racer is arcade racing through and through. There are no real cars endorsed in this game, no fine tining your gear ratios,etc. like you would find in Gran Tursimo. Just choose your car and use your best skills to win the race. Your main goal is the completion of the World Tour. In every race, you start from last place and try to end up in first. Drifting on turns fills a boost meter, which gives you extra speed to overtake the car in front of you. Winning more races opens up different portions of the tour. Your garage amasses better equipped exotic cars to leave your competition in the dust. That being said, Ridge Racer is a must have for PSP owners.
Power sliding to a winner
Namco has put together the ultimate Ridge Racer compilation for PSP owners.
GAMEPLAY:
Ridge Racer games have always been about driving fast and power sliding around turns. Ridge Racer for the PSP is no different. Essentially a compilation of Ridge Racers past, it's an excellent choice for long-time fans of the series and newcomers. The meat of the gameplay comes in the World Tour mode. This mode is divided up into several tours in different classes. As you progress you unlock faster cars, more tracks, etc. There's also the requisite single race and time challenge modes, as well as a create your own tour mode in which you can select tracks into your own compilation. The controls respond well, and the cars feel fine, though you'll generally feel more comfortable with one drift type (out of 3 standard) over another. The sense of speed in the game is pretty good, especially when you hit the nitrous, which you build by power sliding.
GRAPHICS:
Ridge Racer flat out looks sexy. The cars are modeled well, the landscapes on the tracks are populated with birds, airplanes and on my favorite track visually, a lit up ferris wheel. Considering that this is a first generation PSP game, it truly looks fantastic. There is a bit of jagginess on the cars themselves, but it's not distracting once you get going. After a couple generations of games, it will probably look merely average, but for now there isn't much that looks better on the PSP.
SOUND:
With lots of new tunes and a good selection of classic RR tunes, there's something for everyone to listen to while tearing down the streets of Ridge Racer. The cars themselves all have nice engine sounds, and the sound of your tires squeeling around a turn will quickly become music to your ears.
OVERALL:
Namco obviously put a lot of effort into making this a great game for fans of Ridge Racer as well as newcomers. Everything in the game shows quality. The only real complaint I have is that the races tend to get tedious as you progress through the world tour. Once you get to the EX and Special classes, you start to wish you could get through them a bit faster. The game probably could have benefited from a couple more modes or race types to mix things up a bit. Still, it's an easily recommendable game for PSP owners.
absolute and utter eye candy for the psp
im going to put this reveiw plane and simple ridge racer is graphicaly the best game psp has to offer. i mean whats better than tearing up through very detailed courses on your psps crystal clear screen.if you have a psp this is one of the best launch titles
p.shaving the ability to race with pac man puts this in my top ten games i mean its pac man gubble gubble
