Outside of killing folks, there isn't much to do. Pro tip: that symbol means 'press shift.' They just ride up next to you and then die for no reason, and that's about it. With road combat, however, enemies rush in from nowhere and lock you into a battle before randomly flying off and exploding, often without you having to really do anything. Fighting rival biker gangs on motorcycles works pretty much the same way: a random key will flash on the screen and you're given a few fractions of a second to respond appropriately. There's no system for combos, no real learning curve, nothing allowing you to learn and improve your play over the course of the game-just button-mashing. Melee combat is based on the shallowest quick-time events imaginable. Thankfully, your foes have just as much trouble hitting you, provided they choose to do anything at all. Even so, the reticle has an agonizing amount of lag that will cause even seasoned shooter veterans to miss easy shots. Shootouts, fistfights and chopper duels constitute the lion's share of Ride to Hell, and each of them is worse than the last.įor the most part, gunplay is actually functional, in the sense that the targeting reticle moves when you attempt to move the joystick or mouse, and people generally die when you click on them. Within the first few minutes, you're introduced to all of the major elements of play. When you strip away all of the profoundly rotten layers of this particular onion, you discover action that is merely shallow during the rare moments that it isn't fundamentally broken. Furthermore, some keys are bound to functions that aren't ever labeled, so you're left to flounder until you figure out what the game expects of you. It's disorienting, and you cannot remap the keys, so the controls are never practical. Instead of keeping with WASD for movement, and using the keys closest to them to keep things easy for the player, the two most important keys for large chunks of the game bounce between E, R and the mouse buttons. Most of the controls are woefully positioned with almost no regard for what would actually make sense. Going beyond pure technical problems, Ride to Hell actively hates you and your sanity. When playing Ride to Hell, you exist at the whim of some of the buggiest software ever released. Timed missions sometimes randomly end 30 seconds or more early, and your survival seems randomly determined. In some instances, enemies will appear and then die for no apparent reason. Crashes, graphical bugs, disappearing audio, and many more issues are shockingly frequent. The actors cannot cobble together anything like tangible human emotion.Īt least some of these crimes against conscious thought might find forgiveness if Ride to Hell weren't such a technical disaster. Most of the characters sound like they were recorded in their bedrooms, moments after being woken up from a good week or two of binge drinking. Video games are not often exceptionally voiced, but it's probably been the better part of a decade since something this ear-bleedingly bad has been released. Worse yet, every mind-numbingly awful innuendo and facsimile of human emotion is further injured by some of the most horrific voice acting imaginable. In the few instances Ride to Hell begins to approach something of even tangential relevance, poorly written, self-referential humor kills the mood. Tragedy is greeted with no more subtly than a prolonged, agonizing "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and sexuality is given the same level of reverence as a pornographic film. Even if Ride to Hell could pass as a broken and buggy parody of the patently offensive, none of the characters seem to be in on the joke. By the tale's end, provided that you haven't attempted an auto-lobotomy, you'll have been drenched in the game's pathetic, out-of-touch approach to sex, violence, and masculinity. Every attempt at maturity devolves into shoddy melodrama. Shortly afterwards, Jake's younger brother is killed by a biker gang, at which point Ride to Hell becomes an excruciatingly cliched tale of revenge. The protagonist of this hellish torture software is Jake Conway, an emotionally scarred Vietnam veteran looking to make a nice, calm life for himself following his return stateside. Now Playing: Ride to Hell: Retribution - Video Review By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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