Ridge Racer Type 4 Review (PlayStation) | Push Square
Republished on Saturday, 18th March, 2023: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of March 2023's PS Plus line up.
The original text follows. Push Square has pondered the infancy of 3D console graphics during the 32-bit era, and reflected that the ageing process was not always visually kind, especially to PS1 launch games.
Some early titles like Jumping Flash! hide their pixelated wrinkles behind bright colours and plain models, while others like Battle Arena Toshinden seem creaky with well-worn textures today.
Therefore, it feels great to review Ridge Racer Type 4 — known as R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 in Japan and North America — because Namco's arcade drift racer has aged wonderfully within the context of the capabilities of the fifth generation, since its European release at the tail end of PS1’s lifespan in 1999.
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