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Ride to Hell: Retribution

Release Date: June 24, 2013 Genres: Action

Ride to Hell: Retribution Review

This is a user submitted review by ThatRatGuy on Feb. 24, 2014, 8:40 a.m.

Ride To Hell: Retribution is a game development gone completely wrong. From a simple idea of a biker gang action adventure game, to a complete disaster build out of many small mistakes made by its creators.

—Graphics

    • 6.03D

      3.0Gameplay

      • Did I mention the game is buggy? Thumbnail
      • Powersliding the hell out of physics Thumbnail
      • Combat Thumbnail

      Gameplay consists out of two sections: bike driving sections or fighting levels.

      Driving sections are leftovers from the open world aspect of the game that was meant to be. They serve absolutely no purpose, besides showing off horrible, broken physics, be it driving a bike backwards or powersliding at 90 degrees for miles.

      Fighting levels are just waves of same enemies over and over that you dispatch either with one of the horrible handling guns, or with melee. Combat is pretty simple, they've tried to make a Batman-like free flowing combat, which turned out pretty poor.

      • 1.0Boss Fights

          A complete joke, purely anticlimactic. Most bosses are there to shoot, just to have a connection to a cutscene that's after them.

        • 2.0Difficulty

            Super-hard to die once you get the hang of the game, but also easy to have cheap death, especially in the driving levels. There is no lifebar, only the typical bloody screen effect, which stands for regenerating health.

          • 2.0Shooter

              The gunplay is tragic. Enemies are bullet sponges everywhere, besides the head. One shot from any gun to the head - kill. Multiple shots in the chest and enemies still charge at you. To add to the mix is an god-awful mouse acceleration, which makes aiming a lot more difficult than it should be, but you get the feel for it after a while. Sometimes it's just easier to use the melee system.

            3.0Cinematics

              One of the ugliest and boring cutscenes, that sometimes are filled with "sex" cutscenes... Awful, awkard, tasteless.

              2.0Story/Setting

                Tries to grab the heart of the player by introducing a dark storyline; completely fails at doing so. The plot of the game is the most convinient of them all - revenge for your brother.

                1.0Bang For Your Buck

                  If you want to get into game development and see how a product can go wrong - buy it on a Steam Sale. Otherwise, it's completely not worth 20$ they're asking for it.

                  5.0Soundtrack

                    Might be the strongest part of the game, the music is actually pretty cool - rock! Though the magic wears out fast once you realise the tracks are used sometimes more than once, wearing them out. Music is catchy and fits into the world and the gameplay.

                    • 6.0Sound Effects

                        You'll bee hearing the same smashing sounds again and again... All fighting sound FX sound pretty similar, though it's not something that is very bothering. Some audio levels are messed up, turning up simple engine sounds to be the deafening sounds of satan himself at one or two points. Overall, very OK.

                      • 1.0Voice Acting

                          Horrible, emotionless. And the writer of every line in the game should be fired. A lot of characters try to sound "edgy" and "badass" but it all flops with all of the bland voice acting that puts no power in the words.

                        7.0Building, Crafting & Item Customization

                        • Bike customizing Thumbnail

                        Besides having the option to upgrade guns (mostly +damage) and ulnock new ones, you can customize your bike! And this is the strongest part of the game. Bike customization is pretty good, you can customize basically every part of the bike, each part having it's dedicated colour and decals. Of course, this is only eye candy, the bike has no mechanical customization.

                        Conclusion

                        Overall, this game could have been better, but it seems like many decisions were made that made it go deeper and deeper into the abyss of bad development. It is a bad game. Not the worst in the world, I'm sure of that. It's a good concept that turned out completely bland.

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                        • This game does look really bad... Thanks for the video!

                          reply on July 4, 2014, 1:03 a.m.
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