Ridge racer is bounded with all crap
Good:
Graphics
Car models
Environment (shatter city)
Track Editor
Bad:
Controls of the car.
No customization of controls
AI which doesn't allow you to win at all.
Worse:
Drifting of car in the game
No choice of difficulty (only hardcore mode)
Destruction of environment (in the tracks)
Too fast & blurry, always end up with crash or frag
Drifting:
Drifting in this game=lose control of the car at the corners. I didn't understand how the hell it gets blurry when I drift at the turnings. Via keyboard the car almost takes a 360degree turn at the corners.
Destruction of environment:
If you're a traditional racer you will always stick to the road. In this game you can destroy environment while racing. The problem in this is you do not know what things can be destroyed while racing. Some have tags such as oil truck & walls but when you try to destroy them you crash! So the moment you think that you can destroy that object you crash! So there is no sign given to the racer which objects are destructible & non destructible. I am not the game designer for the tracks or game already to know where the shortcuts & destructible objects present in the game are.
Difficulty:
Too hard & no choice to change the difficulty (career mode). There are time attack races further with crap controls, how is it possible to win the race when the given car has no power, speed to win the racer at 1st position. After playing this you will realize that other games such as Blur, nfs and Dirt & Grid are much better because they at least allow gamers to complete the game (career mode).
Blur(screen):
The game has too much of blur the boost colors, the speed of the car. Sometimes you fail to recognize whether it's a right or left turn ahead.
I doubt this game is tested on PC with keyboard controls because no customization. I think racing genre for PC (Keyboard) died ten years back. I also doubt that today games are tested for consoles & are released for PC (GAME-PADS) & not for keyboard controls.
So to conclude assume that your married to a Beautiful Girl but as time goes by you get to know about her, slowly slowly you start to realize that she's a hardcore slut & when you realize that there is no need for her to stay anymore & you want to throw her out of your life! The same situation arises when you deal with ridge racer unbounded.