A really solid arcade racer made up of fast cars, curved tracks and banging tunes. It felt really refreshing to boot this up for the first time ever in 2022, the game has a very distinct "Xbox 360" feel from the menus' clean green and white color palette to the World Xplorer map filled with little nodes for all of the races - it's like it has "new console generation" written all over it!
I really loved routing out the World Xplorer map and unlocking new cars, there's a good constant sense of progression throughout RR6. Controls feel good, the driving is fun and for a game released in 2005 the graphics are surprisingly sharp and shiny. I'm mostly very positive on Ridge Racer 6 in general but I do think it is ultimately too scarce on content to justify the 230+ race events. You'll be blasting through the same bunch of maps again and again with just ever-increasing difficulty and the occasional special opponent as the sole modifiers. Not only does it get incredibly hard, worse yet, it just becomes quite dull after some time.
A good racing game all in all. Doesn't quite touch R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 but when you're going 300 mph, flying through that one jump in Rave City Riverfront and Highway Fusion hits just right... yeah, it's pretty alright. Fun game from Namco.
I really loved routing out the World Xplorer map and unlocking new cars, there's a good constant sense of progression throughout RR6. Controls feel good, the driving is fun and for a game released in 2005 the graphics are surprisingly sharp and shiny. I'm mostly very positive on Ridge Racer 6 in general but I do think it is ultimately too scarce on content to justify the 230+ race events. You'll be blasting through the same bunch of maps again and again with just ever-increasing difficulty and the occasional special opponent as the sole modifiers. Not only does it get incredibly hard, worse yet, it just becomes quite dull after some time.
A good racing game all in all. Doesn't quite touch R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 but when you're going 300 mph, flying through that one jump in Rave City Riverfront and Highway Fusion hits just right... yeah, it's pretty alright. Fun game from Namco.