It could come as no shock that the one Ridge Racer installment that by no means seemed, sounded or performed something like the remaining, and got here courtesy of FlatOut and Wreckfest developer Bugbear Leisure, was by no means imagined to be a Ridge Racer title to start with. Slightly, writer Bandai Namco slapped the label on it halfway by way of growth, which prompted Bugbear’s Joonas Laakso to make some final minute adjustments to strive — in futility, one may say — to sofa the sport within the RR universe. From his interview with Eurogamer:
“After we knew we have been going to make a Ridge Racer title clearly we made adjustments to make it match into what we felt a top quality Ridge Racer title ought to be like,” Laakso continued. “Despite the fact that it was going to be very totally different.”
“We took an extended laborious take a look at Ridge Racer’s ‘synthetic’ really feel to make it mesh with what we have been doing.” Laakso particularly notes Unbounded’s lighting and music as examples of this. “We tried to make it really feel extra fashionable and mature.”
The rationale? Much less-serious racing video games have been struggling on the time (as illustrated by the prior instance of Blur) and Namco believed a tie-in with an present property would give Unbounded the most effective shot at success. Solely, the sudden heel flip didn’t actually persuade anybody, significantly not longtime Ridge Racer followers. No matter few of us have been left, anyway.
There you’ve it: 10 driving video games that modified profoundly from pitch to launch. Which of those video games did you play, and do you imagine the adjustments made impacted these racers for higher or worse? Tell us within the feedback as all the time.