PSX Extreme writes: "The glory days of choppers and hogs may be in the past, but these things not only hang on for a very long time, they also have the tendency to come back around. Deep Silver is banking on the combination of nostalgia and originality with their upcoming next-gen project, Ride to Hell, which puts you smack in the center of the post-'50s rebellion that centered on motorcycles, leather, and a significant dose of danger.
According to IGN, Deep Silver Developer Relations Manager Martin Fhilipp described the game as "Easy Rider meets Hell's Angels meets the '60s," and that ought to sum everything up. You will take on the role of Ray, a Vietnam returnee who has come back to a country that is suddenly in the midst of a hippie explosion."
Jake Conway, fresh out of the army and a Vietnam vet, returns to his home town of Dead End to find his kid brother rocking their father’s biker gang vest and trying to be cool. It only takes about ten seconds for a rival gang, The Devil’s Hand, to take interest and cut him up. Cue a pathetic tale of revenge that is to scattered, pointless and thin the only analogy I can come up with is confetti.It’s like confetti.
There isn’t one main problem; the entire plot seems problematic. The characters are either so poorly written it’s impossible to care or they are just plain repulsive. Jake is a dumb brick shithouse with about as much personality as a doorstop. When you aggressively want your lead character to shut up every time he opens his mouth, there’s something wrong. Mack, the obligatory Krist Kristofferson-like older father figure, is equally boorish, grumbling through line after line of exposition.
Ride to Hell: Retribution appears on Xbox site with more info and pictures.
Player Attack: While we're not sure what's different about it, mysterious title Ride to Hell: Retribution has been re-classified in Australia, given a new codename: Cook's Mad Recipe. Whatever you want to call it, this upcoming, open-world story of a returning Vietnam veteran looks set to be Australia's first R-rated game featuring "high impact sexual references".
