Ridge Racer 7 sets an example of what a racing game should look like, but not what one should feel like.

User Rating: 7 | Ridge Racer 7 PS3
I rented this to avoid spending a great deal of money on something i might not like. I have never played any of the other Ridge Racer games before, and i heard great reviews of it and wanted to check it out. Well, i was more dissapointed than impressed. Ridge Racer 7 does look amazing, being a great example of the PS3's graphical technology, and it does feel cool. But other than that, i just can't seem to get into anything else. Even though it can feel like a good racer, it also can be bad on how it races. You can't interact with the enviornment, and when you hit a car, you just mildly bump off. No big crash scene. Also, when you hit the guardrail, you constantly bump off it like a ball. By these things, the overall feel of the game just seems a little bland. Plus, when you perform a drift and can't handle it well, have fun wasting a good amount of time trying to get out of it. Slowing you down, and causing you to lose. Ridge Racer 7 does look nice, but that's just a paintjob to cover up the twisted feels of the game.