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05 June 2017
Ride 2.....will you?? Yes
1 of 5 found this helpful Ride 2 Day One Edition PS4 US Version
First of all I am a bike rider and I love racing games. I am also a fan of the first game too. For Ride 2, it is a good game. The graphics are good and detailed and it sounds good. It is a lot better than the first game. The loading times have improved significantly over the first one and the graphics are a lot better too. Like the people look more normal like a real person does. If you saw the first game, the people looked a little funny, unproportioned a bit.
Game modes:
They did a good job mixing it up here with some modes, I don’t remember all that went on from the first game from the top of my head but this game does have a lot of the same and that’s ok. Races, races, races…there are a lot of these and a lot of bikes too. It has the standard quick race, race online, series matches that when have to meet certain requirements to race (sport bike, under 250 points). The point system is based on the type of bike and power it has and stuff like that. Every so many races lead to other series races where you can win cash and bikes as a reward. It has the head to head mode where you try to chase someone down that passed you on the track while others are on the track too, pair race where you and your teammate points are added together at the end of the race, your regular timed track and track day mode where you just trying to pass as many people on a track as possible before time ends. There’s the drag race where top speed against opponent wins. And perfect trajectory mode where there are cones lined up on the track and you have to ride the track (partial track) trying not to hit the cones while being timed and if you knock em down then it will add extra time on the clock. There is the online races too but I haven’t messed with that too much. They even have races that take place in the rain.
Bikes
There are even new bikes to download and to purchase too. It has the different races for specific bikes like moto (new bikes), naked, sports, racers, endurance (new) and super sports. The way you can upgrade them is still good with a couple more features than before (maybe 1 or 2 options). The list of manufacturers are about 19 or 20 but I kid you not, it’s way more than a hundred bikes available not to mention the ones available for free download and the ones as paid DLC. There are classic bikes, electric ones too so it is a good mixture of them available.
Reward system
It has a reward system that you can earn stars to unlock rewards to get you either more money after a race for multiple type of races, buying bikes at a discount from the dealer, a certain start position in a race or even extra money for racing a certain manufacturer in a race and a couple other things as rewards that someone may find interesting. The stars can be purchased for ridiculous prices or can be earned from daily challenge races that changes every day or a weekly challenge that can earn more stars. Personally I think these are hard but I can get a couple of stars in a week.
Graphics:
As mentioned before they are better now than before, and the scenery is too cool. Racing in the desert, an airport strip (always wanted to do that) around in the mountain cliffs and of course on real race tracks and in city made tracks. They stepped up their game in this area a little bit.
As far as the AI, I don’t know what is going on here but I kid you not, I think that this game is a little hard here, when the game is on easy (has medium and hard too), it is a challenge for me at times but I just keep motoring along. The first game crashed a lot, and when I say crashed I don’t mean bike wreck, I mean the game would shut down and error out. This game is a lot better but I will say it did shut down on me 1 time and froze up another. I just keep watch and hope it doesn’t act like the first game did completely.
Overall, this is a good game and fun to play. You could add some things in the game to make it more interesting too but I won’t complain, for what it has, it is good. Anyone who likes to race will enjoy this game or any bike lover. Yes I recommend it. [7/10]