Customer Reviews

Rippin' Riders

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Being an amateur snowboarder myself, I found Rippin' Riders to be surprisingly fun to play. It's pretty easy to learn, but difficult to master. It took me about 10 hours to finish all the courses. One gaming tip: master the 720 spins and misty flips w/ grabs at trick points, because these will add 4-6 seconds to the clock.

Some minor criticisms:

- If you want to change one aspect of the current game, for example the board you're riding, you have to exit and choose everything from the beginning (player, outfit, board, stance, course).

- Unable to turn off announcer's commentary

- Not sure what causes new boards, outfits, or characters to appear. (Would be better if I knew what I had to do to get better gear.)

- Unable to play the computer in match race mode.

- Would be nice to have control over replay to see slow-mo and different angles, like in NFL2K.

Overall, I am loving this game and still striving to surpass all the high scores. Would recommend it without a doubt.

I love this game and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good time. I did notice right away that there was no way to practice the courses before you took it out for a run with checkpoints. It got highly frusterating at first because you did not know what lie ahead because you can not practice the course. Even when you beat the course you can't just liesurely go down the course because you have to reach the checkpoints.

As much of a dissapointment as that was I did love this game. The graphics are great and once you master the tricks they are so cool and so much fun. I played the half-pipe for over an hour just trying to beat the top score. It is not like other games where the scores are easy to beat. Due to no difficulty selection you have to be at least moderately good at the game to do anything. No one could just sit down and play it.

The tracks are extremely beautiful with many unique backgrounds. At a point in the game you are boarding on roof tops. The boarders are not very inspiring, but you get over that quickly. I wish there were more boards to choose from and some more original board designs. All of them look the same size and the same width.

This game was really fun, but it could have been the best game if it had a free ride mode and a difficulty setting. I hope this review was helpful.

This game is outstanding! Being a snowboarder myself I really appreciate the realizm of all the terrain and the great sound! 2 player is awesome with all out racing or Battle mode! A must for the snowboarder and highly recommended for the funseeker.

If you like boading games like CoolBoarders or 1080 you'll like Rippin Riders. The graphics put any other boardin game to shame. The tracks are sick with awesome backrounds. The characters are off the hook. I love DJ Ken, he's fat, got two turntables and sports a hawaiian shirt. One guy has a MIB suit and a football uniform complete with helmet. The tricks are extreme, one level I can pull a 2540. Triple backflips and helicopter spins are common. Every character also has signature moves. Every character is so different in style that it's almost a new game with each one. You have to master the style of every rider. When the game is first played many options will be locked so you have to beat all the levels to unlock the various tracks, boards, costumes and players.

The game has awesome replays. The graphics on two player mode suffer quite a bit, but game play makes up for it. Play head to head and every trick you hit takes part of your opponents screen until until your opponent can no longer see where he's going. It's pretty fun.

The game is very (near extremely) difficult to master. To achieve first place rankings on the tracks you will have to have the track completely memorized and hit perfect tricks off every hit. To pull tricks is also tough to master, and landing - forget about it. I play this game every night and have unlocked maybe half off the games features. It is the first true gamers boardin game. You can't pick this game up and master it in a night or two, but when you get the hang of it there are no limits to what you can do.

For those of you how don't know, this game is actually a port of the Japanese dreamcast game "Cool Boarders Burnnn." Basically, Sega couldn't call the game Cool Boarders because Sony owns the rights to the name. Anyway, Rippin Riders is a good game that can never get over the hump to be a great game. The graphics on the game are fantastic. When your ride through the church on the second level your jaw will drop. The controls are very good but not perfect. There will be times when you will miss a move because the button combos just don't feel right. So where is the problem, when the game itself is just a little dull. It can't decide if it wants to be a stunt game or a racing game. The main courses have to much riding and not enought rippin. Of course the stunt pipe is included for those who want to see how close they can come to death by pulling off the perfect trick. What saves this game is the two player mode. First of all the graphics lose no detail when going from one to two players, amazing. Plus, having someone else on the course to race really adds to the fun of the game. Never underestimate the trash talk factor. Overall, Rippin riders just falls short of greatness. Fans of the other coodboarders games (at least the first two which were actually progamed by UEP systems who did this game) will find a lot here to like. As for everyone else. Rent it or better yet let your friend who gets every game buy it get board of it and then get it from him cheap.

Well I just went out and baught this game and I was really looking forward to playing well I got home and I started out by doing the Half-Pipe well I started out and I went up the ramp and I did a simple tail grab. Well I got bored of doing this small tricks so I tried some 1080 tactic go up in the air start moving the joystick all around and press some buttons. Well that didnt work either so I finally got the nerve to look in the instruction book and found all the tricks listed so I tried to do some of the advanced ones and harder tricks and well I couldn't land them but at least I could execute them in the air. So I have been playing for a while and I think that the graphics are great(alot better than 1080) bvut the controls are harder than [1080] So if you like snowboarding games BUY THIS ONE I know the title is really corney and the annoucer is reall cheseeeeeee but overall it's one of the best snowboarding games I have seen yet. By the way they also have a great selection of people and boards.

This game was really fun. I myself love the Dreamcast system, too bad it didnt do too well. This game has definately been overshadowed by the "SSX" series for Playstation 2, which I admit is better, but this game was really fun. It has cool tracks, fun characters, and is overall a fun game to play. My favorite character is defiantely Bob the Rastafarian. This is a really fun and awesome game, with pretty good graphics. It's pretty easy to play also. Too bad this game and Dreamcast didn't do as well as they should have, but you can still get this game and Dreamcast at Amazon and other places. Check them out.

I like games that don't require too much to learn (they become like jobs to me) but at the same time not too easy. I find Rippin Riders just the right balance. I sit back when I come home from work and play around on it for hours.. Its kept me up too late on a few occasions. And the race mode is a blast with friend...

The graphics are great, the tricks are fun, the music is pretty decent, but I wish I could shut the announcer up.

I still haven't figured out how to finish the 5th course....any help?

This is a great game that truly has lasting appeal. I found myself playing for weeks on end to get every single costume and board. It is a lot of fun and even more fun when you play against a friend in the head to head battles. It is probably the best snowboarding game for the dreamcast!

Now that the Dreamcast has gone on permanent vacation, one of the things it will be remembered most for is it's awesome sports library. Rippin' Riders is not one of those games however, but it's clearly not a bad game either. UEP Systems, the developers behind the Cool Boarders series, seem to have been on a time budget to put this game together. Graphics are super smooth and look great, while the sound effects have very nice touches here and there, but control is a major issue. Not to mention now and then you'll run into a wall that came out of nowhere and it costs you valuable time to figure out what direction to go in when you get back up. Plus, after you unlock everything between hidden tracks to hidden characters and boards, there is really nothing else exciting to do in the game. All in all, Rippin' Riders isn't really a bad game, but the last time I checked it is the only pure snowboarding game for the Dreamcast, and that alone makes it worth checking out.