Riders Republic was reviewed on an Xbox One X, but it should be noted that it is not exactly the best experience on previous-gen hardware. It is an absolute blast, and a great way to progress quickly in multiple career paths. And that would be one of two races out of the Mass Race event. Then finally you could end up on skis to cap off the final leg of that first race. For a third of a race, you could start out doing a downhill mountain bike race, and then suddenly switch to a jet pack on the second leg of the race when you hit a special marker along the track.
In each race on the Mass Race events, you switch between different sports. Going up against dozens of other players in three separate races never stopped being fun.
The most fun, in terms of racing though, is the Mass Race Events. Working on those combos while in the park allows you to absolutely tear up the tracks at the events for some bonus points! It is a great way to tackle the secondary objectives during the race. The game allows you to practice some tricks at the bike park in the mountains before heading down to the red rock canyons to take on some special events. Restarting the race or event is usually the best way to go if you mess up really badly. Everything else is still happening as you are trying to get yourself situated back on track and racing again. Just be sure to have a little bit of patience, the rewind system is not like the one found in Forza Horizon. The mad dash to get back up and head back down that slope, or rewind and try and make that intense corner flying with your jetpack gave me that extreme sport adrenaline rush I haven’t experienced in a long time. The bumping around makes for a very entertaining race where most of the time you can’t help but laugh at the brutal fall or faceplant you may end up taking against a tree, as you see a few other characters do the same thing at the same time during the race. You do not just pass right through them if they end up in your way. ghosts of other players, you are still able to bump into them and jostle for position on the track. Even though you are usually racing against A.I.
The race tracks in Riders Republic are intense, fun, and chaotic, in a good way. Especially when you include different types of weather and temperatures, it really drives home the variety, which is an essential ingredient to any extreme sports game. The vast amounts of different biomes in Riders Republic, and subsequently the mass amount of different types of races in these biomes, makes for an almost never-ending list of fun things to do. Outside of that, there is not a whole lot to find fault in Riders Republic. There are definitely some “How do you do, fellow kids?” meme-worthy moments from character dialogue, but thankfully that fades away the more you play. There is a lot to discover and enjoy while going down snow-covered mountain peaks, dodging through rocky glaciers, flying through canyons, riding a rocket bike off a cliff, and quickly changing into a glider suit to race through the tops of trees of a temperate rainforest.
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With Riders Republic building upon the back of Steep – another Ubisoft title that focused on being an open world, extreme snow sport adventure simulator – it hits just about all the right notes.
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There remains a soft spot in my heart for games such as Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, SSX 3, and 1080 Snowboarding. Riders Republic may be one of the few games that we see in a long time that truly encapsulates some of the older, classic extreme sports games that so many grew up loving.
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