![]() Your job here is simply to take part and have fun. The entire park is a playground, filled with events to compete in and pre-made runs to (sorry) shred. See, Riders Ridge is like a nature preservation but for extreme sports fanatics. They know we’ll bitch, they know we’ll bite, and they won’t care how much we do of either as long as we do it.Īs a result, Riders Republic is almost devoid of surprises, and yet what’s here is exactly what I wanted it to be in terms of content and variety. ![]() And Riders Republic presents a patented Ubisoft Open World (TM) with the self-assured swagger of Michael Bay releasing an action vehicle for whichever actor/comedian is hot right now. The Ubisoft formula is by now so well-known and familiar that it’s gone past boring and into the realms of comfort. Once you’re past the eye-twitching anger, the game you’re presented with is pretty fantastic. A former champion, this “bona-fide ledge” has retired from extreme sports to dispense burgers and wisdom at Rider’s Ridge, the non-stop party zone that also acts as the game’s hub. Brett is the (for want of a better term) heart of Riders Republic. Because the more you play, the more time passes between Brett’s little monologues. Because that distant, undisclosed meeting time fills me with dread. Or worse, that there are people who really do talk like this and I’ve yet to meet them. I can’t allow myself to believe that Ubisoft Annecy think that people actually talk like this. The few characters they are must have been designed as characateurs. ![]() It’s not just that it’s cheesy, though it’s actually obnoxious. After just half an hour of listening to people say “shred”, “steeze”, and “rad” in horribly forced dude-bro accents I was ready to quit. It’s so bad, in fact, that it threatened to derail the entire review. However, it has some of the most tooth-shatteringly cringeworthy dialogue I’ve ever heard. As an extreme sports sandbox it marries the best parts of Steep and The Crew 2 to produce a truly stellar experience (with a few niggles, which we’ll come to). It’s at the same time one of the best and one of the worst games I’ve played this year.
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