I’ll just keep breaking my ribcages in TT Isle of Man instead.
In order to buy them, you have to tackle the career mode. In order to ride the best bikes in the game, you need to buy them. Just like Polyphony’s franchise as well, you don’t have access to all cars on the arcade mode, just a select few. It’s so hard that it demotivates you to even bother trying shortly after starting a new career. The first few events in any given career mode, just like Gran Turismo before it, are annoying time trials and obstacle courses meant to “test your skills” for you to eventually acquire a racer’s license. Even the “simplified” physics setting makes 600cc bikes tough as hell to deal with.
I’ve played my fair share of motorcycle games in the past and I don’t remember a single one of them being as brutal right from the start as Ride 4. If you’re a newcomer to the genre, tough luck. That goes without saying: the weaker the bike, the easier it is to handle it. If you don’t master the art of turning at the right time, angle and speed right from the getgo, you will never win a single race. Ride 4 is way too focused on being the most realistic motorcyle racing game out there, which means that it’s downright punitive as a result. While other motorcycle games like TT Isle of Man and MotoGP were also tough to deal with at first, they featured decent tutorials, an actual difficulty curve that felt like a difficulty curve, and most importantly, customizable physics that actually changed the game for the easier in order to cater to newcomers. However, as a game itself, it’s actually one of the most frustrating racing games I’ve played in recent times. The game is excellent when it comes to presentation and content. Riding a 125cc bike on an urban setting just reminds me of rush hour.Ĭonsidering the huge amount of content, immense career mode, great graphics, and decent sound department, one would imagine that Ride 4 is a must-have not only for motorcycle racing enthusiasts, but racing game fans in general, right? Well, it’s actually the opposite. When it comes to options of what and where to ride, Ride 4 is downright shocking. The amount of racetracks in this game is downright ludicrous, being almost as high as the amount of bikes included in here. It’s meant to be a love letter to these two-wheeled death machines, with a jaw-dropping amount of models to choose from, ranging from simple 125cc bikes that a high school student would own, to big Harleys and 200mph Suzuki behemoths.ĭo you want to ride those bikes through the beautiful roads of the French riviera? Maybe you want to tackle Laguna Seca? What about racing on famous Formula 1 racetracks such as Interlagos or the Nürburgring? Ride 4 has them all. This is the motorcycle equivalent of the “car porn racing simulator”. If I had to compare Ride 4 with any other car-focused racing simulator, I’d have to put it next to Gran Turismo and the first few Forza Motorsport games. Doesn’t mean you should, but hey, I’m not here to judge. You can ram onto other pilots and make them fall over.
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