| Ridge Racer 7 (PS3) | 
| From: Sony
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 624
Platform: Playstation 3
Genre: car-and-truck-racing-games
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: P3REARSNY68648
UPC: 711719686484
EAN: 0711719686484
ASIN: B000MWU7DQ
Release Date: March 23, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: NO SCRATCHES, Instruction booklet included
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Product Description
The latest instalment of the acclaimed drift racing game returns on PLAYSTATION 3. Key Features: Drift racing at its best: Ridge Racer? 7 includes a total of 40 machines and 22 exhilarating courses filled with nitrous, fast corners and hairpin turns. With reversed courses, the total grows to 44, the most in the series ever! Customise your ultimate machine: The brand new machine customisation mode gives players the power to create their dream machine with 375,000 possible visual customisations and 7,150 tuning modifications. Any racing style can be brought to life for the most hardcore or casual gamer Race your way to the top: In the new career mode, RIDGE STATE GRAND-PRIX, work yourself up to become the best Ridge Racer. The player will be tested to the limit, building a career from the ground up in over 160 races Online play: In addition to the single player modes, Ridge Racer 7 will produce heated races for up to 14 players (TBC). Racers will be able to bring their customised machine online to prove who the ultimate Ridge Racer is. Online features also include a true global ranking system with downloadable content.
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 The point of a game is not to be realistic... May 1, 2008
Mr. C. A. Rose
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
... Its to entertain, if you don't like it because it doesn't behave like real life then you are an idiot, thats not a valid point. The game is fast paced racing that can give a rush of adrenaline, especially in the last few races, you may find yourself neck and neck over the finishing line and realise you haven't breathed for half a minute.
Realism is a nice feature to have in a game, but you shouldn't base a game on how real it is but how much fun you have with it. I find this good on a on/off basis of about a month either way. Not perfect, but I think its great.
 A game to encourage self-harm and manic depression. April 27, 2008
E. T. Johnson (London)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ridge racer 7 is so below par in terms of gameplay that it requires support from friends and a short stint in rehab to recover from the shocking tedium, pointlessness, fake and depressive qualities it doesn't even attempt to retain.
Firstly, it contradicts any given laws of physics expected of a car. The car stays level at all times, apparently lacking any suspension. Ok, it is a given that this game encourages drifting, but when a car is accelerating one way round a corner while inexplicably traveling the other, one feels that this game may go too far.
Secondly, once driving, you're going to drive round that track in the conventional way, whether you like being dominated and given as little choice in the game or not. One has to try very hard to drive the wrong way round the track or go straight on at a corner. Thus, when one turns left round a right-hand bend, the game deduces that you really must be trying to follow the track very badly, and therefore it helps you, and your car's back end leads into the corner and tucks into the kerb satisfatorily.
Summary: I lost 10 valuable minutes of my life after I received this game with the ps3. It took a bit of my soul to the grave.
 Drifting at its best April 2, 2008
Mr. Rk Wickins (Staffordshire, UK)
Visually: This game looks fantastic, although this game was released with the PS3 (meaning its been around for a little while now) Deffinitly catches the eye and visually awesome.
Gameplay: The drifting in the game is hair raising and the online capabilities are also really good
Deffinitly worth the money!
persevere March 21, 2008
Mr. B. T. Hobden
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought Ridge Racere 7 for 20, being in love with the original arcade game, and having loved ridge racer revolution on psone, but sceptical at some of the videos i had seen of number 7, I thought for 20, compared to 40/50 for most games it was a risk worth taking, and i'm glad I did.
Some of the negative reviews are correct, it is very unrealistic, and some of the time when you drift it does seem like you arent 100% in control of your car, but you are NEVER not in some if not all control. I understand the whole unrealistic thing, but as someone else here as said, why has that become such a huge problem? How many computer games are realistic? If you really like gran turismo, sure, this might not be for you. But it's just different.
I agree with the reviews that are unsure at first playing the game, but to say youve played for an hour then given up I think is a mistake. I was feeling a little let down at first, but if you perservere, like most games, it gets better. You get the hang of timing corners better, the feel becomes more natural, the cars get faster. And as for lack of tracks, i'm slightly surprised. Most ridge racer games, as far as i'm aware, have never had this many tracks, and when you race them backwards and at different times of day, I was actually quite surprised how much I didnt find the tracks get samey. I have 3 games for my new ps3. Resistance, Uncharted, and this. And out of them I get the feeling that this is going to have the longest life. I have just completed resistance, and am not overly tempted to replay it, as much as i enjoyed it first time through, but the amount of grand prixs, time trials, single events, and manufacturers trials does make for a long career mode. Although it may only be minor things, you do keep constantly winning rewards from your efforts. The more I play it, the more im impressed and challenged.
Overall, i'd say if you an absolute turismo die hard, this will take a lot of getting used to.If you do get it, and at 20 most places I dont see why you shouldnt, give it time. It feels unfulfilling at first, but give it 3 or 4 hours and pick up the feel of it, and it becomes an excellent racer. Very high tempo.
Fun with a capital smile (for some) March 8, 2008
Peachy (Scotland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I totally understand why some don't like ridge racer, indeed hate it with a passion.
But i am in the opposite camp - i love it.
Ridge Racer involves a totally different driving style than you get in other games: drifting.
Maybe as petrol head you will have watched the Fast and Furious movies: well number 3 involved drifting
The story follows a kid from the states, decent driver/street racer going to japan, getting involved in racing - and being introduced drifting. He can't do it - crashes his car several times.
In ridge racer - thats what you will do as you learn to play...
Or maybe as a petrolhead you will have seen the episode of topgear where the Japanese drifter racers do a demonstration and teach Hammond how to drift. At first he can't do it- he spins around in 360's and goes round corners backwards...
Again in ridge racer thats what you will do as you learn to get to grips with it.
I feel my fellow reviewers who say that RR is unrealistic are being unfair - maybe they are just unused to this style of driving - and we don't seem to get it much on telly over in the UK (mainly because drifting round corners rather ruins your tyres in the same way doing a do'nut does - but worse cause you need downforce and traction to still get round the corner while do'nuts need more of a sliding effect).
As for the game - you start of with some ok cars, some easier than others to control - you win races you get faster cars that are slightly harder to control - you win points with which you can then buy parts, making the harder cars slightly easier to drive, making it easier to win the harder races, which gives you faster cars which are... oh you get the idea.
and that's the problem with this version of RR - the learning curve starts high as you have a new car, then as you progress through the races, getting points for a third place which allows you new things (say new tyres) the difficulty drops off - while your skill goes up (well it should go up after each race): making it easier to win the next time. I think it' best summed up as being not so much a learning curve, as a learning rollercoaster.
And you also have a fair bit of redoing the same early races with different cars to get points with a different manufacture - but you only realise this once your skills and the cars make the outcome a bit ehmm 'obvious'
After a while the game does top out when you have the skills, the cars, the add-ons, and each race is a challenge until you have it mastered.
And then there is the online play - which is great: although at first i seemed to only get into races where the others had suped up cars, and i wasn't at that level. I either mysteriously learned how to avoid it, or can compete at that level now - either way it's great fun
Which is just as well as there is no two player mode for people in the same room - which kind of kills that game as one to have your mates around to play.
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