I often say Steep is the best game nobody played, but that isn’t really true. This style will be familiar to fans of Steep, Ubisoft Annecy’s predecessor to Riders Republic. I presumably broke the land speed record in cycling before jettisoning my rider hundreds of feet off a cliff. A nice person on Twitter recommended that I fiddle with transformation outside of competition, so I strapped on a jetpack and flew at full speed above a highway, then switched to a road bike. In one race, my rider transformed in mid-air from a mountain biker to a skier with rockets for skis. Fun? You’re darn right it is!ĭuring my six hours in its mountains and valleys, I’ve most enjoyed experimenting with how open-ended the game is. Skill will get you to the front of the pack, but winning these races can often become a matter of chance, as you slam against your fellow racers, all of you trying to squeeze through a dense thicket of trees or an itty-bitty passageway at the bottom of a canyon.įair? Not so much. If you do choose to compete, the culmination of this “fun above all other things” philosophy is mass races, in which dozen of players perilously sprint through roads not built for that many fragile human flesh bags, filling the screen with a blur of colorful sportswear. Otherwise, you’re left in the middle of its world to find your adrenaline rushes wherever you so choose. Want to ignore the game altogether and explore with friends? The game’s campaign is opt-in from one race to the next. Want to switch sports? Hold a bumper button and swap on the fly. Want to warp to a mountain peak? Open the map, select a spot, and woosh, you’re there. Image: Ubisoft Annecy/Ubisoft via Polygon From there, the overarching path branches in myriad directions, all of which have one crucial thing in common: putting fun above all else. You select from a variety of extreme sports (mountain biking, snowboarding, and jetpacking, to name a few) and then hurl yourself off the side of a mountain before racing your peers towards the finish line. But I would be remiss not to share, right now, the one thing you need to know: Riders Republic is something special - even during the Trial Week period I played ahead of the game’s launch. So, yes, it will take a moment for us to see all the vistas and cobble together our feelings into a full review. Players (and reviewers) are just now getting their first look at the entirety of its open-world, a humongous mishmash of seven US National Parks, populated with countless online players. I’m still finding new locations so I’ll have Steep for chilling out with those sports and RR for biking.It will be weeks, if not months, before we see the full potential of Riders Republic, an extreme sports smorgasbord that debuts today following online private tests limited to specific chunks of the map. I still play Steep and it has so much more nuance to the controls and content. They were fun but the wing and rocket suits and all the snow stuff was a huge step back from Steep. Especially compared to how riding is so smooth in Steep with so much control over your board. Even the snowmobile didn’t have any analog input, either full throttle or none. You can even slow a little, it’s either full brake or no brake. The snowboard controls were pretty dumbed down too. Never seen anything like it.Īnd some weird physics stuff like your body going a hundred feet in the air or the model stretching out all messed up. Like even just walking forward and then stopping made the camera not just stop moving forward but also jerk back at the end each time. You move the stick around and the character would move really fast and skipping kinda erratic and since the camera is on your head in first person it was really jumpy. The first person view on foot for example was so bad. Mostly in the tutorial.Īnd then there was just a lot of jank. I’ve read on here a few different types of game breaking bugs people had. I had to make another account to play more of the beta because you can’t just delete your save with these online games and start over. Couldn’t back out, couldn’t ride around, every time I tried loading in it put me there. My sports wheel selector was just all blank besides the bikes. I even had a game breaking bug where it would tell me to switch to the snow gear but didn’t give me the gear.
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