Races make speed the name of the game, and they can be some seriously tense competitions that put your reflexes and guts to the test as you shred downhill, fly over gaps, and dodge obstacles. The events you’ll be using them in can be just as varied, throwing you down dozens of mountainsides with plenty of different goals to shake things up. Mastering each machine of gnarliness Riders Republic offers is challenging, diverse, and guaranteed to result in a few hilarious but nasty spills. Meanwhile, the wingsuit requires you to embrace your inner daredevil and glide or rocket dangerously close to hard objects at a terminal velocity. And in contrast to bike riding, skis and snowboards perform pretty terribly on harder terrain like dirt and pavement. Using your skis or a snowboard, on the other hand, is all about controlling your speed and momentum as you slide across more slippery locales. Riding a bike in the snow, for example, is a recipe for disaster that’s best avoided.
Riding bikes is all about precision and managing your peddling stamina meter, which becomes more challenging depending on your terrain. Whether you’re catching air in a snowboard trick competition or flying through said air in a wingsuit race, every one of Riders Republic’s sports is an absolute blast to take on. Riders Republic sticks very closely to the existing open-world racing game formula we’ve seen many times before, but having an extreme sports version of those racers is hardly a bad thing. Riders Republic uses a structure that will be very recognizable if you’ve played any of The Crew or Forza Horizon games: you explore a beautiful open-world, participate in exciting races and trick contests, search for collectibles, and unlock better gear and more difficult activities as you go – only instead of driving vehicles cross-country, you’ll be swapping between a bicycle, wingsuit, snowboard, and pair of skis to scream down mountains. Whether I was blasting into the sky in my rocket-powered wingsuit or sweating bullets as I completed obstacle courses on my bike, Riders Republic awoke the extreme sports fanatic inside me and kept me hooked for over 60 hours and counting. It’s a somewhat familiar formula, but what’s really impressive is that (with the notable and occasional game crash aside) it overwhelmingly succeeds at providing the ultimate downhill sports fantasy.
#Riders republic stunt locations series#
Following in the footsteps of Ubisoft’s The Crew series before it, Rider’s Republic aims to cram the engine of a high-octane arcade racer under the hood of a sprawling online open world – except this time the engine is your legs and the hood is a bunch of extreme sports events so over the top it would make the late ‘90s blush.
0 kommentar(er)
