As we said in our prologue, this is a shoddy console port and nothing more. Yeah, this is as broken as it can get and that’s precisely why we believe that the 3D issues won’t get resolved anytime soon. So, we’ve got no SLI profile, 3D issues, and major stuttering effect with all Nvidia cards in full-screen mode. In order to avoid this bug, Nvidia owners will have to run the game in Window mode as there is no stuttering with it. This micro-stutter effect is annoying, and we can’t really understand how it got slipped away from the Q&A phase of the PC version. AMD’s latest drivers fix that issue but Nvidia hasn’t released any hotfix as of yet. Ridge Racer: Unbounded also suffers from micro-stuttering. Somehow we doubt that the green team will work on these 3D issues, but let’s hope that the green team will prove us wrong. Smoke, lights, flares, shadows, player names, and even the HUD need to be adjusted. Unfortunately, there is no SLI profile yet for the game and the game had a lot of issues with 3D Vision. As always, we used an overclocked Q9650 (at 4.2Ghz) with 4GB RAM, an Nvidia GTX295, Windows 7-64 bit and the latest version of the ForceWare drivers. Yes, there is rubber band and yes the controls are a mess, especially if you try to play the game with the keyboard, something that was no issue with the FlatOut games. Not only, that, but Ridge Racer: Unbounded suffers from all the flaws and issues that plagued the entire FlatOut series. Sadly though, what we have in our hands is a shoddy console port of a really promising game. Naturally, we thought that Ridge Racer: Unbounded would live up to the standards that were set by the Finish studio. FlatOut was a great arcade racing series and run flawlessly in a lot of PC system configurations.

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