Analysis Riders Republic, a living paradise for lovers of risk sports

Riders Republic is a reported sporting activities video clip game established by Ubisoft Annecy and also released by Ubisoft. The game will certainly be released on October 28, 2021 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Luna, Xbox One as well as Xbox Collection.

Ubisoft Annecy tested luck a few years ago with Steep, a snowboarding game that drank about premises similar to those of Riders Republic. But the truth is that I never got hooked, despite enjoying with risk sports games.

Very different thing has happened to me while playing for this Riders Republic analysis for PS5, Xbox Series X | S, PS4, One and PC. Maybe it s because of its tone more arcade and crazy, the facility to jump from one event to another and change discipline, the pleasure of exploring their huge map or their massive races... but the truth is that it has something.

And someone who has enjoyed you from the first Tony Hawk s Pro Skater of the first PlayStation, until the best surf games like Kelly Slater s Pro surfer de PS2. In a way, it is a more fun and crazy tone from the origin of the sports games... but updated.

The riders Republica that gives rise to the title of the game is, neither more nor less than a virtual paradise that offers a mash-up or remix with ideas of some of the best-known American national parks, and all of them Pretty identifiable (Yosemite, the Sequois National Park...).

An idyllic place in which biomes have merged from different nature, from frozen mountains to rocky canyons or small forests, where we can reference our adrenaline anxiety.

In the style of Ubisoft games, we have a small story backdrop and as well as some characters that take us out of hand, especially at first, in the game tutorial.

We do not lie if we say that are not very convincing characters, nor are credible the dialogues they maintain between them (all too impost)... but neither do we lie if we say that here that is something secondary. It is not Far Cry 6, for saying it badly and soon and the story is the least.

The tutorial will allow us to know the Riders Republic, from how to move through the map, the progression systems, the types of event or all the optional we can do, which is not precisely little.

Thus, we will start with a bike and trying the descents, and little by little we will learn to defend ourselves with snow tricks, fly with a winged suit, do tricks with bike, snow races...

Primeral do not have access to all disciplines: We must accumulate stars (participating in events and other actions such as discovering 45 unique places) to reach certain milestones and thus unlock all kinds of things.

Of first unlock useful things, like a snowmobile to move better by the mountain, the winged suit with rockets or sponsorships, as well as the so-called cachivachies, crazy utensils to compete (a huge paper plane, some old skis Short and wooden...).

This system of progression is very simple, and also Riders Republic separates our evolution in each discipline (bike, bike tricks...), telling our character with different experience and level indicators for each sport.

In this way you can focus for example, on the bike, and level up in that field, unlocking new equipment and mounts, competing and repeating only two-wheeled events, in which we also win money of the game, from which we will talk later.

Or on the contrary, we can alternate between events and sports disciplines as we feel like. And if you do not want to compete, you can travel your world in search of the mentioned unique places, balloons that explode (500) Let us be spectacular and sharing them... Riders Republic gives you the freedom to do what you want.

Once the rest of the disciplines are unlocked, from a selection wheel we can change instantly, and toggle between bike, snow or suit with propellers to move around the map as more we want.

There are also fast travel points that leave you close to the competitions, in case you want to go to the quick mess or walk the distance by snowmobile or fly, with the suit with propellers, which is the fastest way.

As we said, Riders Republic seeks to be affordable for all kinds of players, and at the same time leave freedom to progress as you want, within a very friendly system: just by participating in events and completing them (it does not matter the position ) You will get a star and unlock new equipment.

If you complete the three secondary objectives (finish among the first three in difficulty, get x number of points with a trick, do not fall...), you will get additional stars. And when you unlock the sponsors, you can perform more specific tasks to earn even more.

So, it depends on what you resentments, or do, will evolve more or less rapidly. To win, also influences the equipment you have unlocked and use, since everything Riders Republic has its statistics such as maneuverability, spin, top speed... The better, the easier it is to win while still fulfilling secondary objectives.

Because there is only racing events use or pirouettes. There is also time trial events, with different rounds, mixing different disciplines... other than to find many warning signs with unique challenges, such as overcoming a circuit very narrow elevated above the ground with boards or cables grindando heights.

That said, Riders Republic has challenges for all types of players and a lot to discover. Some are organized by a group of Jackass or crackpots invite you deliver pizzas, cross the desert with a rocket bike, and whose challenges can be unlocked with money.

In terms of control, Riders Republic also gives us wings to play as we like, doing pirouettes with two different control systems to choose (one more accessible and simple, the other more technical and demanding) and aid as a autoland not esmorrarnos in the pirouettes.

Logically, all the easier, less is the challenge and the rewards will get smaller. For example, the autoland makes our combos points less than, losing bonuses would win if we play landing without that help.

It is an example of the flexibility it gives the game, although there are enough más.¿Otro? Well, for example, at any time we can rewind the action if you do not go through a checkpoint or we fall in any event. It s an idea seen in other games, but here s a but...

Although we play alone against the AI, just rewind us, not the other players... so sometimes a single fall and relevant rewinding will be a difference often unbridgeable with other runners.

In other words, rewinding does not serve to win races, but to facilitate reach the goal. We can activate by pressing R1 or RB, but also activated only if not we pass the next checkpoint, pausing the action and telling us if we rewind.

Is that not so serious useful ? Not at all. It is a good help to the beginning, when you want complete events, even without meeting the secondary objectives... but it is worth more than what you count.

Control generally works well, especially when it comes to ride bikes or slide down the snow (we skidding, make tight turns, jump...).

Can sometimes despaired a little how easy it is to the beginning I finish stamped by rocks and other elements of the floor, get out of the way, bouncing off a wall or fence and and losing a checkpoint... but it s all a matter of time until it you master.

perhaps the most difficult point to catch the beginning is pirouettes system. There is an academy to see how all the stunts are done and ready to practice... but as we say, in the early hours can be a system something weird.

In simple mode, the pirouettes are performed with L2 and R2 addresses over the left stick, while with the front buttons perform turns, deadly... in the most complex way, we use the right stick.

As we say, can practice all you want in Ridge Riders, the hub or central area of ​​the map, a small town with shop and other points of interest, including the training area,

That s where you take the long hours practicing all you want to, before you know it, feel like a natural thing running acrobatics, play with the kind of control you play.

The truth is that everything in Riders Republic makes you feel you re in a living world and inhabited. On the map we see dozens of little heads moving through the area, explain the game if they are human or AI players. And as we walk the ground, we meet with them, giving the feeling of a world populated.

Riders Republic seeks to be a social experience, and can interact with other players from seeing their profiles to make gestures or simply meet with friends to compete in any discipline (or walk around the world), participating in battles points...

events Riders Republic, meanwhile, convey a sense of intensity achieved, because even playing alone against the AI ​​and the ghosts of other players, the dizzying pace is there. Serve eg mountain bike descents, which are first-person impressive (and more if you re surrounded by other runners).

Logically, not all disciplines are just as fun, and you can depend a lot on your tastes. It is fulfilled a little, as well, that of learning a lot, teacher s teacher. By offering variety of disciplines, some do not offer the same depth, or the same possibilities.

The tricks with the snowboard are fun, while the tests with the winged suit and with propellers, overcome the first, lose bellows quickly (go through hoops, near the ground...), although the variety of environments and Tours help not fall into the monotonia.

It is not the same to cross a cliff full of stone arches in the middle of a cannon with the sun by sliding down a snow-covered mountain to end through a rugged forest... they are different shows, even if they are playing practically the same.

In addition, the game has a competition creator, which you can share with the community of players and even get to appear as highlighted content within the game. It is a process to do it is simple.

That also includes the photos we can get at any time (with options such as filters, saturation and glitter levels, time of day, weather effects...) and that we can also share.

Riders Republic also has a store full of cosmetic content, which as Fortnite, is organized in different degrees of rarity (legendary, epic, unusual...) and that distinguishes between complete outbursts, masks, gestures, accessories such as backpacks... And they are rotating through the store.

And so we got to one of the points that I have liked from Riders Republic: Microphates. The money we earn in the game (for example, 2000 by finishing a race) we can use it to buy many of these garments.

The problem is that they are not cheap prices, although things can be achieved. There are gestures or backpacks that can cost 16000-18000, while a full suit can hang the 38000. They are not popular prices.

What do not you have money from the game? Well, you can always buy, with real world money, calls Republic Coins, which is the premium currency of the game.

By putting things in perspective, 500 coins cost 5 euros. At the other extreme, by 49,99 you can take 5000 coins (right now there is a promotion that gives us 6600 coins).

The problem is that there are cosmetic objects, the legendary, which can only be paid with the premium currency and, although everything is cosmetic and not necessary to play, does not stop being a particularly ugly detail and that It reminds us that, in other times, it would have been unlockable content within the game.

We are talking about costumes that cost 1050 Republic Coins, something more than 10 euros, within a game that costs 70 euros and that it already has a seasonal pass 1 (included in some editions).

I insist, they are not necessary to play and it is something purely cosmetic, but it is no less true that the starting point of Riders Republic is not the same as that of the Battle Royale of Epic (and many others), which are free and do not suppose a Initial disbursement for the player.

It would be as simple as those those costumes could also buy with the currency of the game, although it takes time to meet. That we insist, you have already paid 70 euros...

And since we talk about the critical aspects, Riders Republic comes unveil, with the voices in English (when Ubisoft usually doubles it practically everything), and not just that: Some phrases and expressions directly do not have texts in Spanish in screen. Essential? No, but you can miss some detail of some competitions.

By finishing with the negative, the camera sometimes does rare things (especially with the suit to propulsion, and especially evident when trying to recover the control after a vertical takeoff), you will find some clipping (obvious above all when climbing by steep walls)...

In addition, sometimes, collisions with the objects of the environment or the control of the vehicles in certain situations (such as trying to maneuver a bike on a complicated slope or terrain), they can despair...

But, despite these grams, the truth is that Riders Republic is a game that, in the important, does not fail: As we have said, at a playable level is very fun, and has some ideas that are pure fun.

We are referring to the massive races, events that appear from when on the map and invite us to congregate to a specific point of it. In the case of PS5, which is the version in which we have played for this Riders Republic analysis, allow a total of 64 simultaneous players.

These types of events usually combine different disciplines (start by bike, jump into vacuum to change the suit propelled and end up skiing, for example) throughout different rounds with different combinations and routes.

It is a very crazy, chaos, tension sensation if you occupy the first positions and in general, very, very different and refreshing. See such a mogollion of human players crowding in the curves, through the air and looking hollow in such a big platoon, it is at least intense.

It also helps that technically it is a pretty potable game. NULL Load Times, Online Stable and No Faults, with a general level of detail of fairly good environments (although some areas are less colorful), which manage to transmit a feeling of amplitude and grandiosity, with some areas really very Chulas and with its own personality.

They suffer from some of the evils of open worlds, such as the slightest friction with a difference or pebble of the road, can give the fret with one of our careers...

It is especially more evident in the craziest races, by bike propelled, for example, or even landing on some acrobatics... but as we say, the game does not aspire to be a simulator, but a craziest experience and arcade. Let s see if I did not have to have giraffe costumes, dinosaur...

But, even with all these little faults, for me is worthy of applause that someone dares to throw something like Riders Republic, different, original and fun, especially in a time when the safe bets predominate with Names already consecrated.

In that sense, Riders Republic is more than a pleasant surprise and gives first and firm steps, in the absence of seeing how it will evolve with updates and seasonal passes.

As we have said, it is not perfect, and has the scourge of the micropayments (totally unnecessary) but its proposal, although it has to be played yes or yes connected, except for Zen mode, is a breath of fresh air than any lover of the Risk sports games should try.