Once you actually play it, though, it’s quite obvious what happened. What we get, five years later, is a linear, insultingly underdeveloped mess with almost none of those features in any recognizable form.Īt first, it might seem mystifying that a project with so many interesting ideas eventually transformed into the disaster that is Ride to Hell: Retribution. You would’ve been able to explore a vast swath of the Western United States, interact with the locals, take pictures on your Polaroid, and customize your bike down to the bolt, all the while working your way up through the ranks of a brutal motorcycle gang. See, when it was first announced back in 2008, Ride to Hell was supposed to be an ambitious open-world title that set the rich sandbox gameplay of Grand Theft Auto before the backdrop of 1960s counterculture. If failure were Washington, D.C., Ride to Hell would be the Washington Monument or the Lincoln Memorial or that Vietnam wall thing or whatever. If failure were Paris, Ride to Hell would be the Arc de Triomphe.
Ride to Hell: Retribution is a spectacular monument to failure. And now, we move on to even bigger moments in incompetence. For that, ladies and gentlemen, I am truly, truly sorry. I hadn’t yet played Ride to Hell: Retribution. Back in March, I said that The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct wouldn’t have any serious competition for the worst game of 2013, but it was a premature coronation. Before we begin, I’d like to take this space to issue a very public apology to Terminal Reality and Activision.
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