OMG, If you like Need For Speed Hot Pursuit or Burnout Paradise City you will love this game.

User Rating: 10 | Ridge Racer Unbounded PC
By mojoba | Review Date:
The graphics are of very high quality with lots of city night scenes with neon or dusk races with nice sun sets. The game is based around an imaginary city called Shatter Bay. It combines the smooth racing of Ridge Racer with the destruction of Burnout and Split Second. By drifting, taking air or by destroying the environment you increase your power bar until you can activate it. This then gives you a nitro boost and allows you to "Frag" other racers, smash through buildings or just catch up or get ahead of the other racers. You get points in each race from the number of racers you "Frag", the building targets you destroy and the general level of destruction you cause as well coming in the top three. As you gain more points more cars and areas of the city unlock and in each area you again unlock races as you gain points. Some races you just purley concentrate on drifting to gain the required points or "Fragging" (destroying other cars).

I guess this is pretty general stuff on an Arcade Racer. But what has really impressed me is that throughout all the havok destruction and impressive graphics the game does not skip a single frame. And the sense of speed is immense. This game is super adictive and I'm sometimes forced to take a break and put my Xbox 360 controller down when my hands start to hurt. Some of the destruction is similar to Split Second but that game struggled to maintain 30 FPS but Unbounded gives me a constant 60FPS on a 5850 Crossfire system with a 3.8ghz overclocked i5 processor.

It is a good buzz smashing through the enviroment and drifting round bends which boosts your powerbar but the trade off is that the more risks you take the more chance you'll run into a wall you can't smash and crash which off course loses you time. This game is trully fast and furious. I've played many racing games over the years and I trully think this is the best. If you like Arcade Racers I think it's unmissable.

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