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Boringly Shallow

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: May 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game proves to me that professional game reviewers are complete imbeciles. This as to be the shallowest, most short-lived game of the PSP system! People actually priase Namco for reusing various tracks! LOL As if its some sort of solemn nod to prior greatness. Keep your OLD tracks and SHALLOW gameplay. Of course the graphics are good, that's all there is to it. I'd rather spend $40 on a pretty painting than sit and look at this broken down game all day. One of the worst video game investments I've ever made!

Fun But Overrated

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 28 / 32
Date: May 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty fun. The game modes include time trial, arcade race, world circuit, and multiplayer mode. You can choose from three cars (in beginner circuit) and up to seven cars to race from in the more advanced circuits. This may be a fun game, but the fun doesn't last long.

You race other drivers to unlock new things. But that is about the only objective. Also, beating the races are very easy. The only hard part about this game might be learning how to drift, turn, and powerslide, but that only takes about five minutes to learn.

Also, the races are barely any fun. You start out in last place and the car in front of you is always like 30 seconds ahead. There's no qualifying or practice, you always start last.

Also, gaining nitrous is hard and doesn't help much. You gain the nitrous by powersliding (which slows you down), and you only gain about 1/5 - 1/4 of a tank (depending on the turn and speed) After you get it, it lasts for about 5 seconds and you gain a little bit of speed, but then after that, you go back to the speed you were at before you ignited the nitrous.

And the last thing I have to say about this game that it is overrated. All the reviews I've seen say this is an awesome PSP launch game, but to me it an okay game. I would recommend buying Need For Speed Underground Rivals instead of this. But some people seem to love this game so I would recommend renting this game first at gamefly.com (that's what I did and I'm glad I did it because I didn't like it very much). (Please refer to me at gamefly.com).

A little warning

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I rate how much I like video games by how much I enjoy it and by how long it takes to win. Ridge Racer is addicting, and I spent plenty of time on it, but found that I'd unlocked all the tours in less than five days. It's hard to win all the tours, though, so that might keep me occupied for a while. Still, many would find it discouraging to go around the same track over and over and over. If you can rent it or borrow it from a friend, do so. If you can only buy it, go for it, but be ready to want to trade it in after a few weeks.

It started off good....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This games started off with great promise.... until I got through about 10 races and realize that most of the courses were simply made longer for the harder races. It got repetitive really quick to run the same races over and over. The cars you unlock don't look all that much different from each other either, which just makes me not care about playing it anymore. The music was good though, great to race to. If you are looking for a really good racing game, go for need for speed. If you are a Ridge Racer fan, go for this.

Average racing game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm not going to insult this game, because it's not TERRIBLE. However, it's not the kind of game that you get addicted to-it's a pretty basic racing game. I wouldn't suggest buying it until you try it out first, to see if it's the kind of thing you would like.

Got PSP? Get Ridge Racer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you have a PSP then this is one of the few games from the current crop that are worth buying. The graphics are decent (better than DS graphics) and the gameplay is smooth unlike the DS version.

The game is pretty easy to slide into and as your comfort zone increases, the difficulty also increases...after about 5 hours you will be winning races still BUT some of them will be down to the last 100 meters...Nitrous usage will make or break your race...

The hardest part of this game is avoiding opponents while making turns...they get in the way, slow you down and the bump gives them a boost...AVOID them!

What will win a race for you is effective management of nitrous and the ability to fill up those bottles quickly without losing straight line speed...

GREAT game!

Power sliding to a winner

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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.

a great start for the psp

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Living in Japan, I was able to get my hands on the psp months ago, as well as the first wave of games that came along with it. My first purchase was Ridge Racers, and I must say that I had pretty high hopes for this first game, and I must admit that Ridge Racers lives up to these high expectations.

First of all, the graphics on the psp are great, of the same quailty that we have become accustomed to on the ps2. The gameplay itself is smooth running, and the levels are great. There are cool cars, cool tracks, and the game is quite challenging. The game makers did not ease up because this is the first release, so there is some serious time required to get thrugh the beginner, pro and expert levels of this game. Ridge Racers is not unlike most car racing games that we have seen before, but it gives good entertainment value for the relatively low cost of the game. as I am playing the japanese version of the game, it took some time to figure out the menus and some of the instructions, but this will not be a problem with the North american release.

also, the wi-fi system on the psp is easy to use, effective, and it runs pretty smoothly. It is a great way to pass time on the Tokyo trains, playing against another friend. The distance available with the wi-fi is impressive, so you are not stuck sitting right beside whoever you are playing against. This is a nice feature, because it eliminates the hassle of a connecting chord.

So, overall, the launch of the psp has been tremendously successful here in Japan, and Im sure the same will go for the North american release of the system. and Ridge Racers is a good place to start with this new system. This is a fun game, one that gets quite addictive to be sure, so I highly reccomend making this game one of your first psp purchases.

when in doubt, just keep drifting

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

the problem of this game is this.. simply by deliberately drifting the car, you can avoid hitting the boundary, hence the reduction of speed.. although drifting too recklessly could slow you down.. but a well managed but a bit aimless drifting can help avoiding penalty.. and put your car back onto the right direction and track... which i think is a flaw... this makes the game a bit easlier to finish.. and a bit routine

It's racing without the ridges

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the first game I bought for the PSP and it's a great one. It really shows off the power of the system, the sound is incredible, the graphics jaw dropping, and it's immensely playable.

One minor gripe though is that the basic tour is waaaaaay too easy. Your car easily outpaces anything else on the track and finishing in first place, a mile up the road from the competition in all 30-odd races is no problem at all. Knowing you're going to win every race and spending every lap out in front on your own gets a bit tedious. The Pro section is a bit better however - although could still be a bit harder to get that podium finish! The controls are nicely customisable and intuitive and the cars have suitably different handling characteristics to make the game challenging.

But overall a great PSP game - really playable and a huge 'wow' factor from all my mates - well impressed ;-)

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