Ridge Racer DS is a little hard to use, but with all the cars and tracks to unlock, it'll last you a good long time.
My friend let me borrow it for a week or so and I was playing it almost every day (I guess I wanted to laugh at my friend's face when she saw I had unlocked all the tracks!) until I got fed up with it.
It's the gameplay. It's totally useless! You can either use the buttons, or the touch screen. I stuck with the buttons because it was even worse using the stylus to move a silly wheel. But even the buttons didn't impress me. For one thing, every camera view is hopeless and won't come to your liking. Plus, when you turn, you turn way too far and do an insane 360 drift. For some reason, Gamespot said that was a good thing, but I found it to be too hard to control and made me give it up. Graphics are alright I guess, but it just gets so annoying that your hands hurt two hours after playing it.
Maybe I was exagerating on that last bit but Ridge Racer DS is just too plain annoying.
Multiplayer is kinda good though, because this game can be quite fun versing with friends, because you're both crashing and turning not so well that you get a laugh out of it. But the CPU's aren't alive and drive so perfectly you want to hang your head out the window and shoot them with a machine gun. It's that annoying.
Overall, if you feel like this game is good, it's bound to last you a good long time unlike some other racing games, but the gameplay is just so dumb I lost almost every time.
GAMEPLAY-----------5
GRAPHICS-----------8
SOUND---------------7
MULTIPLAYER-----6
OVERALL------------6
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