Publisher: Namco
Developer: Namco
Release Date: 12/3/1995
Date Played: 1/13/2017
Region: USA
Time Played: 25 minutes
What’d you think?: A drastic improvement over Ridge Racer Revolution, I was fortunate enough to draw two Ridge Racer games in the same batch to make comparing them easy. This game looked better, sounded better, and drove better. The music was cool, and it was fun to play. I didn’t last very long though. I wasn’t quite able to figure out how the game managed the other racers; it didn’t seem to have them all existing simulatenously; instead it appeared as though it used some alternate version of rubber banding, where after you would pass the car in 6th place and drive well for a while, the car in 5th place would spawn ahead of you, making the late-race heroics I needed to avoid elimination and make it into the first Grand Prix finals impossible to achieve after an error near the last lap.
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCHJejo1qF4