I'm not even going to watch the video after reading everyone's comments.
No need to intentionally piss myself off.
Ridge Racer is a brand, a longtime franchise that brings with it certain expectations.
You expect these sorts of uber-clean Tokyo-ish highways, brightly colored cars that vaguely represent Japanese sportscars in a much more fun way, excellent, sort of retro electronic music, and possibly some sort of rendered hottie in the intro.
That's it, really. Give us that amazing patented drifty gameplay, and we're golden.
Something like this is NOT going to stand out among the more polished efforts from EA and Criterion, and even worse, it will alienate longtime fans of the franchise, of which I am definitely one.
If they actually wanted to make money, they would craft a killer Ridge Racer Online, a game that would merge the classic RR vibe in terms of gameplay, cars and track designs, and music, along with good online code and record-keeping. Cheaper to develop, sold purely via XBLA or PSN, and you'd sell the game to a LOT of fans.
As such, because of Namco's lack of vision and their disconnect with what fans love about the series, we get turds like this. You'd have thought they would have learned their lesson with R: Racing Evolution.
Sad panda.
