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Ride to Hell, from Deep Silver, appeals to my interests. An open-world game set in the late sixties, centered around a motorcycle gang in California has a lot of potential. And when I heard that the designers were using Hunter S. Thompson's classic book, Hell's Angels, to assist in setting the tone and help provide a historical perspective, I grew very interested in seeing more.
Now they release this... thing. It's only supposed to be a "teaser," but it doesn't really tease much of anything at all. The desert environment looks pretty good, which is nice because that's all the video has. The bikes and characters look pretty lackluster, just as they did back in August when the first screens started circulating (which, frankly, appear ripped straight out of this teaser).
I don't want to be too critical of something as minor as this. Since it's probably too late for that, I will say that two minutes of guys aimlessly riding choppers through barren desert while "Born to be Wild" plays is not what I expect will build early hype for the title. I still have hope because I desperately want to see a game with this premise be fantastic. So far, I'm still living in a fantasy world.
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2:00 PM on 10.03.2008
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I have a strange feeling this game is going to suck. I'm not sure though, it could just be a shitty trailer.
Perhaps the best motorcycle gang game of 2009?
I think an Oblivion-style world is the way to go here. One huge map with little things off the beaten path that you can discover. Problem is those games are notoriously hard to get "right" and even harder if they're set in the "real world."
When I pull my gang up to a forlorn gas station 20 miles outside of Barstow and I decide we're going to kill the owner then the next time I drive by there the owner had better still be dead (and the local sheriff had better still be looking to arrest some bikers.) I doubt they'll ever achieve that level of immersiveness...