Namco's first Arcade Racing series starts of with a Massive game for the PSP!

User Rating: 8 | Ridge Racer PSP
By squaredude44 | Review Date:
Ridge Racer is a game that offers both excitement, and huge amounts of unlockables. The unlockables vary from cars, to minigames, and others. But lets first start of with the gameplay, the most important aspect of a racing game. The gameplay delivers many different types of racing. From using your NOS on a straight road and passing all of your opponents, to drifting for a long time to regain your NOS, the game never gets old. The drifting mechanics were something that was newly added to the franchise, to give the player the ability to go even faster with these European super cars. The racing is very easy to pick up, and the AI gives a challenging, but possible to beat race that can give you the most excitement any arcade style racing game can offer.
Now lets move on to the cars. Ridge Racer offers a vast variety of cars to choose from. There are 6 classes, and even a super class which contains cars like a lego arcade car, a rocketship with Pac-Man driving, and a long boatlike car. In the 6 classes, there are roughly about 12 cars in each class, so it gives you tons of cars to choose from no matter what class you are driving in.
The Extras in the game bring a lot to the experience of driving a car 300 MPH. From the crazy, spiffy tunes and the guy who keeps on encouraging you to go faster in the middle of the race, to the fun, but hard mini game involving a blue car trying to get yellow flags, you'll never get bored of the game, even when you finish playing the World Tour mode with all of the cars. Not saying you will finish World Tour mode with any ease.
At some points in the game, you start to see that the game gets a bit annoying and tedious, because some races are truly impossible to beat, and you feel like chucking the PSP across the room, and start playing another game. Well at least that's how I felt. The World Tour mode gives a lot of races to play from, and will take you minimum 3 months to finish the whole entire World Tour Mode, and that's if you truly dedicate your whole life too the game for a good 3 Months.
All in all, Ridge Racer has lots to offer, and I am sure that if you buy this game, you will not be disappointed for a LONG time.

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