There have been some pretty awesome racing games over the years. But it’s easy to forget some of the good ones among the bunch, mostly because many exist under the refuse; the copy-and-paste corporate slop, and the uninspired or unintuitive outings from studios that make it feels like you have to travail through their outings given their perfunctory and oftentimes vapid designs.
Players: 1 (online is no longer available)
Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PC
Developer: Bugbear Entertainment
Publisher: Bandai Namco
Release Date: March 27th, 2012
Stay away. That’s the best advice when it comes to this game. Stay away.
You might be asking “Why? I loved Ridge Racer, especially Ridge Racer 4! What could be so bad about Ride Racer Unbounded?” well…. everything. Okay, not necessarily everything, but a lot of what would make a Ridge Racer game fun – such as cool urban designs with inviting modern aesthetics and relaxing atmospheres are nowhere to be seen here. While the game takes place mostly within urban epicenters with some industrial influences, the levels mostly have a samey feel due to the fact that the race tracks are created using a modular track creator, so there is a certain pastiche that all proc-gen games suffer from that emanates throughout the art-direction and level design of Ridge Racer: Unbounded.
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Wanted: Weapons of Fate is a post-movie, licensed-based, tie-in game. It’s a mouthful, no doubt. But that’s exactly what the game is. It released a year after the movie, working as a pseudo-sequel of sorts. Oberon Media and Grin were tasked with the development under the super vision of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Universal Pictures. They even managed to land a somewhat all-star cast for the game, minus the likes of Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy. Interestingly enough Thomas Kretschmann, Peter Stomare, Paz Vega, Common and Terence Stamp all lend their voices to the game, helping bring the story to life.
Why? That’s all I really have to ask. Why? This game is like one of those titles that was hodge-podged together on a blackboard with almost no oversight, a budget both too big and too small for what they wanted to do, and no discernible direction that would have actually resulted in this project becoming anything more than a forgettable Saturday-afternoon romp before being carted off to a GamStop where it would spend the rest of its carbon existence collecting dust in the $9.99 or less bargain bin. That really sums up the entirety of Blacksite: Area 51, which – unfortunately – I can’t even say had potential to be a good game.