You can fire up the game, play for just some minutes and the next thing you know you have unlocked a new sponsor or a new track. Complete activities, participate in multiplayer sessions, find new landmarks… you are always being rewarded, no matter how you decide to approach the game. You also earn stars for pretty much everything you do in the game. You can switch to a turbine-powered wingsuit at any time Don’t stop progressingĪs you complete events in each of the main careers you earn experience points, and as you level up you are rewarded with better gear, sign with real-world sponsors and are invited to the so-called Big Events, which consist of licensed competitions like the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, the Red Bull Rampage and the X Games. Events involving those funkie gears are usually very original and a nice break from the main careers. They vary from a simple Pizza Delivery Bike which is surprisingly good for tricks to a Plane Wing - which is literally a rocket wingsuit powered by a airplane turbine that will make you fly extremely fast while making it extremely hard to maneuver. Those are absurd rides that can be unlocked by finding relics in the map, competing on certain events or completing individual challenges. There are multisport races that puts you on a racing ski and after a big jump you are suddenly flying through the mountains with your wingsuit.Īnd not to mention the funkie gears. Many events take advantage of those seamlessly transitions aswell. You will not land those tricks, but you will certainly have fun trying to. You can, for example, use your rocket wingsuit to fly up high, suddenly switch to a bike and start doing the most insane tricks while you fall. You can switch rides seamlessly outside of events by pressing the “up” button to bring up the sports wheel. There are many licensed rides to choose from And once you have that in mind and embrace the absurdity of it all, you are in for a great time. It is an arcade game that brings the best of the early 2000s extreme sports games and put them all into a huge natural playground. Riders Republic is in no way a simulator. That is certainly a lot - and the crazy thing is they are all fun to ride. If you own the Year 1 Pass, you will also get access to eight new different exotic gears, including the available-at-launch rocket bike and rocket ski, as well as a new ride: the BMX, which is slated for a 2022 release. Those three main sports are distributed between five careers: Bike Race, Bike Tricks, Snow Race, Snow Tricks and Air Sports.Īdditionally, you can also paraglide at any given moment, as well as drive two exploration-focused vehicles: the snowmobile and the paramotor.
Riders Republic features five different rides at launch: Mountain Bike, Ski, Snowboard, Wingsuit and Rocket Wingsuit, which are categorized under bike, snow and air sports. So, ultimately, has the decision paid off? Master of all trades Instead of perfecting the mechanics of what was already a great game, the studio took the risk of making what could become a jack of all trades and master of none. But Ubisoft Annecy went the extra mile and released Riders Republic - a game that maintained Steep’s open world aspects and winter sports while also adding bikes to the mix. Nonetheless, Steep was a great foundation for what could become a breath of fresh air for fans of winter sports games. Four years had passed since the release of 2012’s SSX, the last iteration on the now legendary series, and even though said game was met with positive reviews and commercial success, there was no indication that publisher Electronic Arts would treat us with a sequel whatsoever. My opinion might be a bit biased, though. Treated as a support studio for nearly two decades, Ubisoft Annecy’s first game as a lead developer was Steep, an open world winter sports game released in late-2016 which quickly became one of my favorite games of the last generation.
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