Ridge Racers 2

3DS Tribe looks at the new commercials, trailers and movies as well as the recent official Ridge Racer 3D website to see what's new in the latest Ridge Racer title - from cherry blossoms to muscle cars. 3DS Tribe writes: Ridge Racer 3DSs Japanese launch website has recently gone live, firing new material at you in bite-sized chunks. Lots of the links are yet to be filled, hence the slightly bare-bones look at the moment, but there are already a handful of race montages, the Japanese teaser and a bundle of screenshots for you to scrutinise/glance casually at. Its difficult to get much clarity or establish structural context from the videos, what with current excerpts being what appear to be carefully edited race replays, but well give you our thoughts on what we can actually see.

Ridge Racers 2 features courses from Ridge Racer, Ridge Racer Revolution, Rave Racer, Rage Racer, Ridge Racer Type 4, and Ridge Racer V, in addition to original and arranged BGM tracks from all of these games. Nitrous boosts have been added. There's also a large number of cars to earn, plus a Rally-X minigame. The problem here is that all of these features were already available in the first Ridge Racers. Ridge Racers 2 doesn't feel like a sequel, but rather, an upgrade to the original title, only offering a small number of new features and some more courses.

The game was just announced this week, but Ridge Racers 2 has already let loose stream of screens for drifting drivers to eat up. While we're excited to see a follow-up to one the PSP's best launch titles, we're still hoping to hear that Racers 2 will feature some all-new tracks and not just another collection of the series' best courses. That said, you'll have access to more tracks, cars and songs than any other game in the franchise. To check out the first-ever images, just hit up the Images

Wednesday 5 July 2006 As we revealed earlier this week, a sequel to Namco's sideways-shifting Ridge Racer is on its way to PSP. And now, not only has Sony confirmed that Ridge Racer 2 will be out in the UK by the end of the year, but it has also sped over a tasty selection of shots from the game. Under the bonnet of the latest version of the beautiful looking mover will be new cars, new racing modes and almost twice as many tracks as its predecessor. Up to eight players will be able to compete

Sony Europe has officially announced that Ridge Racer 2 will be coming to PlayStation Portable before the end of the year. Announced in Japan last week (where it goes by the name Ridge Racers 2 instead), the PSP's second Ridge outing introduces three new game modes and boasts a series-record number of tracks. That's 18, and although they're all based on courses in the home console Ridge Racer titles, none of the tracks have been seen before on the PSP.

Ridge Racer will be returning to PSP in September - for Japanese gamers, at least - with the unsurprisingly titled Ridge Racers 2. The racer has proved to be a big hit on the handheld, so much so that developer Namco has selected the best tracks from previous Ridge Racer titles to feature in the

Monday 3 July 2006 Ridge Racer will be returning to PSP in September - for Japanese gamers, at least - with the obviously titled Ridge Racer 2. The Namco racer has proved to be a big hit on the handheld, so much so that the Japanese developer has selected the best tracks from previous Ridge Racers to feature in the game. Ridge Racer 2 has 42 tracks selected from such games as Ridge Racer 4, the original PSone game and Ridge Racer Revolution. There is also a total of 62 cars to choose from and

Still one of the finest PSP titles to-date, Bandai-NAMCO has today confirmed the development of Ridge Racers 2 in a recent interview with Famitsu. The game will contain tracks from Ridge Racer Revolution, Rage Racer and R4: Ridge Racer Type 4, Ridge Racers 2 covers the series period from 1995-1998.