First look at Ride to Hell: A new IP from Rockstar Vienna (now known as Deep Silver)

Daigoji_Gai | January 13, 2009 | Previews | PC Playstation 3

This caught me completely off guard. Locke Webster returns to the UGO.com Games Blog with a look at the very interesting Ride to Hell, by veterns of Rockstar's Vienna studio.

Who is Rockstar Vienna? History lesson time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_Vienna

Rockstar Vienna is responsible some good ports of classic Rockstar and Remedy games including Max Payne (remedy) and GTAIII, Vice City and Manhunt. This looks like their first major release, and it is a new IP to boot.

Set in Vietnam era US, Ride to Hell is the Easy Rider of videogames. Or maybe its something more akin to Born Losers or any of the other Billy Jack biker films that ranked of the B-movie caliber. Either way, the Sex, Drugs, & Rock n Roll culture practically drips from the early demo I saw at the press event out in Joshua Tree, California (one of the birthplaces of biker culture). And its easy to see that theres one huge difference between Ride to Hell and the bucketful of other sandbox games available: youre not stuck in the big city. And surprisingly, that small difference begets a fairly large tonal shift for the game.

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Goldva_X | January 13, 2009

Manhunt, GTA III and Vice City! And MAX *bleep*ING PAYNE. This game has to be good.
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  Daigoji_Gai | January 13, 2009
  
  I hope so, I really hope so. The whole motorcycle customization metagame aspects sound sweet.
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BlackLabel | January 13, 2009

As long as the motorbikes don't handle like crap i will love this game, i love motorbikes so an open world based around them is gold.