Anyone else playing the free trial/Beta this week? What do you think?
I'm just over 3 hours into the free 4 hour trial on PS5 and seem to have finished all the biking challenges. (I'm not massively interested in the skiing/snow boarding part and not really at all in the wing suit/rocket suit parts).
The look of the game is like Fortnite mashed with STEEP (their previous mountain/snowsports games). Tracks are all brightly coloured and smooth with no real textures, ruts, rocks etc. and not all that varied. - possibly a lot more variety in the full game though if the map is bigger. Who knows?
The biking felt pretty horrible to begin with as the arcade controls don't represent an actual bike at all.
Sprint/Brake L1/L2 accelerate R2 and the four buttons are used for spin/flip rotations instead of any sort of preload or fore and aft balance (rather than implement the left stick FFS!). once in the air L2/R2 are used along with the left stick to pull of set-piece tricks.
After about an hour of having to listen to the super cringy "dude" and "dudette" characters cut scenes and introduction dialogue babying you throught the various disjointed, longwinded and over complicated processes to go from one sport to another and navigate the various challenges. The controls started to make more sense and from then on the game (head to head mtb/roadbike racing at least) became a little too easy. it's a shame. I was hoping for somethnig more aloing the lines of the old MXvsATV/Reflex controlls mixed with an improved Descenders. instead it's more of a dumbed down for younger players more cartoony sequel to STEEP.
I'll probably finish the last 50mins of the free trial later. It's a fun enough game but I can't see me rushing out to spend £60 on it when it's released next week.
Try it for yourself here:
www.ubisoft.com
I'm just over 3 hours into the free 4 hour trial on PS5 and seem to have finished all the biking challenges. (I'm not massively interested in the skiing/snow boarding part and not really at all in the wing suit/rocket suit parts).
The look of the game is like Fortnite mashed with STEEP (their previous mountain/snowsports games). Tracks are all brightly coloured and smooth with no real textures, ruts, rocks etc. and not all that varied. - possibly a lot more variety in the full game though if the map is bigger. Who knows?
The biking felt pretty horrible to begin with as the arcade controls don't represent an actual bike at all.
Sprint/Brake L1/L2 accelerate R2 and the four buttons are used for spin/flip rotations instead of any sort of preload or fore and aft balance (rather than implement the left stick FFS!). once in the air L2/R2 are used along with the left stick to pull of set-piece tricks.
After about an hour of having to listen to the super cringy "dude" and "dudette" characters cut scenes and introduction dialogue babying you throught the various disjointed, longwinded and over complicated processes to go from one sport to another and navigate the various challenges. The controls started to make more sense and from then on the game (head to head mtb/roadbike racing at least) became a little too easy. it's a shame. I was hoping for somethnig more aloing the lines of the old MXvsATV/Reflex controlls mixed with an improved Descenders. instead it's more of a dumbed down for younger players more cartoony sequel to STEEP.
I'll probably finish the last 50mins of the free trial later. It's a fun enough game but I can't see me rushing out to spend £60 on it when it's released next week.
Try it for yourself here:
Riders Republic for PS5, Xbox Series X|S & More | Ubisoft (EU / UK)
Official Site. Jump into the Riders Republic™ massive multiplayer playground! Bike, ski, snowboard, or wingsuit across an open world sports paradise.
www.ubisoft.com
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