As ever, the core of the racing experience relies on being able to drift successfully around corners, build up your boost meter (again, divided into three sections) and unleash it Burnout-style at strategic moments (double or triple boosting by holding down R2 and L2). You can also gain some extra momentum by 'drafting' opponents by edging close to the car in front of you and gain extra momentum in their slip stream, and a little indicator underneath the boost bar gives you a little visual indicator to let you know just how much extra pull you're gaining. With skill and timing, you can slip beyond opponents, boost on the follow-through and not only leave them for dust, but top up your meter again in the process. To emphasise the speed burst, the edges of the screen warp accordingly.
Remakes and remasters have become a staple of this generation, and Ace Combat 7 Game Director Kazutoki Kono opened a couple of interesting polls on his Twitter account about two of Bandai Namco’s most classic series.
Give me every Ace Combat from 1 to 5 and any Ridge Racer will do. Flight Combat is my favorite genre, Ill take everything you can give me.
AC4 was my first experience not only of the series, but also my first PS2 game. Remember hammering it for hours at Xmas when I got it.
Would love to see it brought back :)
Eurogamer:
"December 3rd, 1994 - Sony launches the original PlayStation in Japan, bringing with it seismic shift in the nature of console gaming. The 2D era of sprites and bitmap art was coming to an end, with polygon-driven 3D the new standard in state-of-the-art visuals. The Sega Saturn launched a couple of weeks ahead of Sony's debut console, but it was the PlayStation that set the standard for technological innovation in this new era. Namco's Ridge Racer launched alongside the new hardware - and it was a revelation."
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiddgeeee Raaaaaaaaccceeeeeeeeeer, everyone!
Says Kaz. Never forget.
the space invader loading screen was great in that game, complete it all to unlock all the cars and the special black car. those were the days, no micro transactions to buy a faster car in those days.
please bandai-namco. bring these classics back with online multiplayer for psn and xbox live. the newer games are utter crap.
Damn! I completed this game 100% once. I got all the cars, did all the crazy challenges to unlock every last one of them. The Space invader thing, everything.
I just gotto say it: THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!! :))
As is becoming more and more common, the PlayStation Store in North America will be holding yet another Flash Sale that runs through the weekend, this time with the focus on racing games.
- PSLS
Nothing for me here, though I like how Sony has been pushing a lot of deals like Steam.
Whoo finally a PS4 flash sale... after I sold it. ):
Wtf one game? They really gotta step up PS4 sales man
nothing but crap i expected better then this oh well if gt 6 was in that list it be autobuy no brainer but its not
Motorstorm, recistance, eye of judgement, heavenly sword, afrika, lair...sequels??
from what I have seen Ridge Racer 7 look better and move faster then any car game on the 360 and that this web site only post articles that try to make the PS3 look bad in some kind of a way but its not going to work cause people are going to see for themselves how much better PS3 games look over the xbox360 and the wii games demos will be setup next month and websites that bashed the PS3 are going to look stupid and lose all of they credibility just like this article (so they didn't see how good this game looked huh)if this was a xbox360 game all they would of talked about was how it ran 60fps at 1080p and how good it looked and moved
...a pure 360 fanboy. They always post ridiculous rumours just to make the PS3 look bad. 2.8 ghz Cell anyone?
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Twice the size but half the price, thanks Sony !!!
Wow seriously all of you grow-up...it doesn't matter who posted it or what it says it's a personal opinion of one person, other websites might say the same, other sites might say different...he's helping out the site by posting news from various sources, so grow-up...it's not like the article says it totally sucks, it just says that the drifting is too loose and goes a little too far