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"Riders Republic" is a multiplayer open-world sports game developed by Ubisoft Annecy. After each character finds a cigarette in your sock drawer, they will speak like your mother's new boyfriend. And, hey, it's like, we get it, you know, we all like to "hang out" on Tik Tok sometimes, but—at this moment, Gareth, a 43-year-old divorcee, grabbed a chair and rotated it 180 degrees. Then sit down and put it on it in a steady way-the paint is just not on the felek, fam.

In addition to the unbearable cutscenes, this is a thrilling downhill racing simulator, in which you are a newcomer, you are the vast expanse of snowy mountains, scorched wasteland, towering forests and mudflats washed by rain Landscape, you must repeatedly and quickly throw yourself down the side of the mountain or be more fashionable than your opponent. The world is a compressed version of California. All San Francisco people have been taken away, leaving only a group of baggy jeans wearing urban dictionary assistants, as well as a large number of interconnected free-roaming tracks and wilderness, scattered with activities that need to be completed and Landmarks to be discovered.

Riders Republic is very interesting. It seamlessly integrates cycling, snowboarding, skiing and wingsuit, allowing you to instantly switch between sports at the touch of a button, so that you can feel cohesion. You can jetpack to the top of the mountain, hop on a pair of snowboards in mid-air, and then slide back-this feat is so technically impressive that it will irretrievably crush the weak mind of an SSX Tricky fan in 2001 .

The arcade control is wise enough to transfer from one mode of transportation to another, without your brain having to reconfigure itself, but it is essential that the physical feeling of sliding down an icy slope is the same as being in a sharp bend Cycling is very different. Your various modes of travel are more than just a choice of style: the tires feel good and sticky on smooth soil, on loose gravel and when crossing forest trails at high speeds, the tires feel good and sticky. The ski passes through the powder with a satisfactory weight and takes off on the accumulated wet snow.

No matter what you tie on your feet or between your thighs, Riders Republic is always exhilarating. When you walk through dense tree trunks and rush down the wide pistes, you will feel extremely fast. In the first-person mode, things feel very dangerous, as if the handlebars of your bicycle may pass through the screen at any time and smash all your front teeth.

When it comes to skill control, things become more cumbersome. There are game aids to help you land perfectly every time, but you can also completely remove the training wheel to unlock the skill mode, which involves grasping with two thumbsticks to perform a full set of grasps and spins. In either mode, this is not a very technical skill system, and performing impressive stunts is not the core of the game. You can happily go forward through Riders Republic while refusing to do a backflip (this proves how constant the rewards of the game are), but for fans of the flexible mid-20th century classic snowboarding game, you may feel that there is no challenge.

Riders Republic’s design does not have too many opportunities to stop the game. By completely eliminating the loading screen and fast travel system, before you have a chance to consider doing something, it seamlessly guides you from one challenge to the next except for quickly crossing the gully again. Outside. Your goal is to collect stars by completing the activities in any order you like, and the game is not shy about distributing these stars like confetti. Cross the finish line to get stars, perform cool jumps or ride an ice cream bike to complete the race without falling to get stars.​​​

You can also make money. This currency can support Riders Republic’s custom skins and giraffe costumes, panda costumes, limited edition sponsored equipment, and the churning economy of premium items that you can only get by paying real money. You can complete different sports careers by choosing events that appear on the map, or you can equip up to three sponsors, who set up a rolling itinerary of dynamic daily challenges for you to complete exclusive equipment. If you don’t make progress in a certain way, you can’t move, especially in the early stages of the game, even if you fail completely, you can get one step closer to unlocking new things. Once the gushing of new things finally slows down to a trickle, every newly unlocked bike or skateboard will make people feel relieved.

During the event, you have a ghost match or compete for skill points with other players. The time and score of these players seems to be selected based on the difficulty setting you selected before participating in the event. Here, the game's desire to provide rewards has become too transparent and forgiving. If it is difficult for you to rank, just lower one or two challenge levels to fight the worse and worse version of the scoreboard until you reach the podium. Or, as you are more likely to do, play one of a hundred or so other events scattered on the map.

No challenge door means you can freely play and jetpack around the world, but you will never feel tested. Riders Republic sincerely does not want you to give it up, and does everything in its power to ensure that you never get frustrated or stuck in a particularly difficult event, even if it means reducing the difficulty.

Regarding Riders Republic’s multiplayer game, there is a sixth sense atmosphere. At any time, anywhere around you, there are hundreds of other players skiing and wearing wings, or skiing past you on a jet ski at the perfect moment of drama. Open the map, it was full of other people, and their countless icons flowed down the hillside like falling marbles. Most of them are based on ghost data. Artificial intelligence characters dress up as human players to activate the environment, but they succeed in making the world feel very busy and interesting, just like you are always in a carnival of fifty square kilometers. You can’t be with anyone else. Talk or engage in meaningful interaction.

(My theory is that Riders Republic is set in an extreme sports purgatory where the soul of every thrill seeker is trapped. This explains why these haunted weirdos would say "put some applesauce in that atmosphere, "hepcat" and "Let's make cheese on the other side, Dad", because they all slide into the fir tree and die at different temperatures at a moment in history, and now they must live together at this point of collapse between reality .)

It is in real-time multiplayer Mass Races that Riders Republic feels the most real. These chaotic 64-man triathlons appear on the open world map from time to time, gathering possibly too many people on one track, and incorporating multiple sports into a painful challenge, which doesn’t feel like an X-Games event. It's more like the weird annual tradition of chasing cheese wheels on steep hillsides. Collision detection is turned on in a certain way, so when you leave the starting line, you will be beaten helplessly by other players, and all 64 contestants move collectively like a large mass of meat, carbon fiber, and energy drinks.

This is a great game, the best multiplayer experience that Ubisoft Studio has ever worked in many open worlds. Whether playing alone or with 63 other warm bodies, Riders Republic can get pure satisfaction in the amazing natural utopia. This is a series of streamlined reward activities, so open and tolerant, sometimes it becomes Directionless blur. As more content is added and the player base adapts to the long-term game-as-a-service development, things will definitely change, but there is enough arcade fun here to please your inner extreme athletes at the time of launch. Look at 53-year-old Tony Hawk Think, yes, I still have time.

Steve started writing games like everyone else. He walked into a cave and touched the cursed egg. He wrote for PC Zone magazine until it closed, and for the next eight years, he wandered through the confused streets, yelling his extended comment on the Sims through the mailbox on a foggy night.

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