RIDE

At its heart, Ride is basically a motorcycle racing simulation but with a touch of arcade fun to assist with the overall enjoyment factor.

Milestone brings another suitable game for any kind of driver, something that could weigh down those looking for a more complex simulator. Other than that, it is an entertaining entry in the franchise, with many customizable elements.

It’s just too bad that the same admiration wasn’t applied to characteristics beyond how the motorcycles look and feel.

Ride has far more good points than bad. As a motorcycle racer, it’s exciting and manages to stand out in a fairly crowded market. As a sim racing game, it’s accessible and plays like a dream right away.

This spiritual successor to Tourist Trophy delivers exciting and challenging racing action that's thoroughly enjoyable. However, graphics that feel more last generation than this, rather weak sound, and very slow loading times take the edge off the overall experience.

Ride is a racing game filled with passion. There is plenty of well-made bikes to try out and they are a joy to take around the track. Unfortunately the opponents behave like mindless robots, and the terrible loading times wrecks the immersion. Though it does not prevent Ride from being one of the best motorcycle games in recent years, even though there are plenty of room for improvements.

We are still waiting for the "Gran Turismo of motorcycles", but that doesn't mean that RIDE cannot offer some realistic and enjoyable hours of simulated riding.

Studio Milestone has specifically aimed for the motor experience and the assortment of motors. Ride offers enough content for motorfans to enjoy, but any other element that can make or break a racing game seems not that thought through.

Ideal for motorcycle fans, but it carries too many flaws that may be the product of the rush to get to the market on time. With a little more cooking time this game will be just awesome, but as it is, it's just correct.

Milestone has done it again: a game with a great control, but weak in a lot of aspects, such as the number of tracks or the huge loading times. It is far away from the heading positions of the racing genre. However, bike lovers will find in Ride a good game for feeding their passion.

Ride was off on the good foot to be the bike's Gran Turismo with its generous roaster of over 100 bikes and a lighter roaster of 15 tracks. But with all the official licensing and the aftermarket parts, the salvation was in sight, until Milestone's incompetent devs ruining of the final product with major bugs blossoming all over it, including corrupted save files and game instability.

RIDE gets you the closest to the feeling of riding a motorbike possible with a controller in your hands, but is neither an exciting racer nor a particularly impressive looking PS4 title.

Ride's exhilarating character eventually fades into a tedious milieu of assertive persistence. The loop of wanting to complete races to get better bikes and parts eventually breaks into a dead end, and the speed and power of exciting motorcycles slows into a chore. Motorcycle enthusiasts are an exemption, but for others it's hard to look at Ride as anything more than Another Racing Game.

It's lacking the depth of content offered by its four-wheeled inspiration. [June 2015, p.79]

Ride has its issues, but taking into account the fact that there aren't many bike games on next generation consoles, it still is an option.

Ride has too many problems and driving issues that strip away its experience.

Pleasant to play and easy to pick up. However, the last-gen feeling and lack of atmosphere mean Ride is only a mid-pack racer.

Ride has some genuinely good moments going into the corner, but it fails to remember that it needs to hit the throttle in order to power on through ahead of the pack. Competent, but hardly excellent.

RIDE is not unique enough to really be in stores. The variation in motorcycles is impressive and visually speaking RIDE is perfectly fine. But, the game is so full of cliches, dated graphics and other annoying elements, it is simply not fun to play.

RIDE is quite a good motorcycle racing game in terms of gameplay and sensations, but it suffers too many flaws: technically old, the game features unbelievably long loading times, unbelievably save file corruption bug.