Ridge Racer Unbounded (v1.13 & ALL DLC)

Shatter Bay turns arcade racing into a demolition derby, where every shortcut, billboard, and traffic-choked avenue can become part of the wreckage. Ridge Racer Unbounded trades the series’ traditionally clean drifting focus for an aggressive street-racing campaign built around domination, territorial rivalries, and spectacular crashes. You race under the banner of Kara Shindo’s crew, earning respect by beating local challengers and pushing deeper into a city designed to come apart at high speed. The mood is loud, abrasive, and gleefully destructive rather than polished or simulation-minded.

Races reward more than simply holding the ideal line. Drifting, drafting, near misses, and smashing through obstacles build Power, which lets you trigger devastating attacks against rivals or tear through parts of the environment to open a new route. Events range from straightforward races and time attacks to Domination challenges, where maintaining speed and causing chaos helps secure the win. Cars feel weighty enough to make impacts matter, but the handling remains accessible and arcade-forward, with nitrous boosts and broad corners encouraging reckless momentum over technical realism. The campaign steadily introduces tougher opponents, more demanding routes, and vehicles with different strengths in acceleration, toughness, and control.

What separates it from most Ridge Racer entries is Bugbear’s love of vehicular violence: concrete barriers collapse, storefronts explode outward, and opponents can be removed from contention with a perfectly timed hit. Shatter Bay has a dense, industrial personality, mixing downtown streets, docks, elevated roads, and narrow alleys into courses that reward repeat runs and route experimentation. A track-building feature also lets players assemble custom events from city pieces and share them online, adding welcome longevity beyond the main career. Fans of Burnout, Split/Second, and FlatOut who value crashes as much as lap times find plenty to enjoy, while longtime Ridge Racer purists may miss the series’ smoother, drift-centric identity.