Namco Bandai Games VP of marketing, Carlson Choi, describes Ridge Racer Unbounded as "very different from the Ridge Racer you've come to know." if you've ever bought a game console at launch, you've probably come to know Ridge Racer very well, and you'll easily recognize the face of Reiko, the franchise's seemingly immortal mascot.
Her behavior in the Unbounded trailer shows a turn for the worse -- she crashes her expensive car through a busy intersection, implying that Ridge Racer is about to adopt a more dangerous and careless approach to racing. Another, more obvious clue: It's being developed by Bugbear Entertainment, creator of chaotic arcade racer FlatOut.
Ridge Racer Unbounded is set to arrive on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC sometime in 2012.
@Milkman4321 if they make one for NGP launch AND there's no NGP WipEout AND no NGP Resistance i'll be on the ball. otherwise they will be hard pressed to convince me RR has enough meat in any form outside of a lean and hungry launch window.
I wreck-on the next Burnout will be a return to the Takedown/Revenge formula. It's time for a real Next-Gen Burnout, and unfortunately for Namco Bandai I believe it will be releasing in 2012.
@Truant Or a freaking Burnout Trilogy in HD (Takedown, Revenge, Dominator). For what i can see on the trailer it's gonna be similar to Burnout Revenge, with the traffic check and Traffic Atack maybe? we'll see.
You know, a current-gen Road Rash XBLA/PSN game sounds like a no brainer. It was an original EA IP, right? Surely they could have one of their in-house studios make it on some existing NFS or Burnout engine. Start it for $15 with DLC to fatten it up a little bit for the people that really get into it. They could even sell billboard adspace to offset the development costs. Launch it on some "Summer of Arcade" typed promotion and I'm sure it'd sell at least 500K copies.
If I remember correctly on the Criterion Games podcast all the staff had a lot of nostalgia for Road Rash, so maybe EA will let them have a go at it. I wonder what Criterion could do with a game built from the ground up for bikes.
I've been known to think about RR using Seacrest from HP. That way, they'd just have to do new physics and game modes, rather than start from scratch on a game world. Jailbreak was quite fun; not as much as the originals, of course, but the free-roam nature was a good new twist.
If I wanted to play Burnout..... I would play Burnout.
What the hell, Namco? Does every racing game have to be either Gran Turismo realistic or Burnout crazy? I counted on your franchise to be where I could get my Asian arcade drifting goodness.
please tell me that every time unbounded was spelled (including in the trailer), it was just a big typo. that souns like a word a 5 year old would say.
@Bootes Yes I love FlatOut and have been waiting for a true FlatOut 3 but this will do. I love Ridge Racer and Bugbear so my excitement for this game is...Unbounded :P
@Oobgarm Flatout was launched near the console launches so they know what they are doing. It's like a dirt track clone of Burnout. I mean that in a very good way.
I don't discredit the developers. FlatOut was indeed good fun. But I find taking a racing series that's been a long-standing example of well-done drift style arcade racing and transforming it into yet another destructive racing title to be disappointing.
@Oobgarm You have a point. I'm surprised so many racing games are being announced lately. If you read developers take on sales it's all gloom and doom from them. I guess they are full of shit and carting away cash laden wheelbarrows.
Another Ridge Racer, who didn't see this coming, it was just a matter of time, oh, and look at this, after recieving lots of slack from fans about being dry the last time around, they changed the format, who didn't see that coming either. :)
The trailer is insane though, is the aim of this new Ridge Racer to smash cars out of your way because thats a pretty powerful car.
Are you sure this is Reiko Nagase? She drives more like Ai Fukami. I'm not sure sociopathic racing is the right way to go with Ridge Racer, especially when Burnout and Criterion kinda own that spot.
