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Riders Republic is like a full rewrite of Steep, its creative team taking all of the lessons learned from a rough draft and starting over from the beginning. But its creators have realized that while empty slopes appeal to me, most people playing video games in 2021 want to be around other people: friends, competitors - anybody. Riders Republic still allows for this, thanks to a comprehensive menu option that can remove other players and mute the overbearing soundtrack. Ubisoft has been less vocal about how long those 10 million players stuck around.įor me, the pleasure of Steep was in the hours I spent quietly gliding down pristine slopes, alone with myself and my Spotify playlist of chillout songs.
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Ubisoft’s open-world winter extreme-sports bonanza struggled at launch, but when Sony added the title to PlayStation Plus in 2018, nearly 10 million people hit the slopes. I often say Steep is the best game nobody played, but that isn’t really true. This style will be familiar to fans of Steep, Ubisoft Annecy’s predecessor to Riders Republic. I presumably broke the land speed record in cycling before jettisoning my rider hundreds of feet off a cliff. A nice person on Twitter recommended that I fiddle with transformation outside of competition, so I strapped on a jetpack and flew at full speed above a highway, then switched to a road bike. In one race, my rider transformed in mid-air from a mountain biker to a skier with rockets for skis.
Fun? You’re darn right it is!ĭuring my six hours in its mountains and valleys, I’ve most enjoyed experimenting with how open-ended the game is. Skill will get you to the front of the pack, but winning these races can often become a matter of chance, as you slam against your fellow racers, all of you trying to squeeze through a dense thicket of trees or an itty-bitty passageway at the bottom of a canyon.įair? Not so much. If you do choose to compete, the culmination of this “fun above all other things” philosophy is mass races, in which dozen of players perilously sprint through roads not built for that many fragile human flesh bags, filling the screen with a blur of colorful sportswear. Otherwise, you’re left in the middle of its world to find your adrenaline rushes wherever you so choose. Want to ignore the game altogether and explore with friends? The game’s campaign is opt-in from one race to the next. Want to switch sports? Hold a bumper button and swap on the fly. Want to warp to a mountain peak? Open the map, select a spot, and woosh, you’re there. Image: Ubisoft Annecy/Ubisoft via Polygon From there, the overarching path branches in myriad directions, all of which have one crucial thing in common: putting fun above all else.
You select from a variety of extreme sports (mountain biking, snowboarding, and jetpacking, to name a few) and then hurl yourself off the side of a mountain before racing your peers towards the finish line.
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But I would be remiss not to share, right now, the one thing you need to know: Riders Republic is something special - even during the Trial Week period I played ahead of the game’s launch. So, yes, it will take a moment for us to see all the vistas and cobble together our feelings into a full review. Players (and reviewers) are just now getting their first look at the entirety of its open-world, a humongous mishmash of seven US National Parks, populated with countless online players. It will be weeks, if not months, before we see the full potential of Riders Republic, an extreme sports smorgasbord that debuts today following online private tests limited to specific chunks of the map.
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