What doesn’t keep me playing however are the clear signs of this game’s mobile roots. While the game didn’t need to have a story, it is cool that they at least tried to give you extra reason to keep you playing. These illegal underground races get you in trouble with the police, forcing you to restart your journey from the bottom up. Riptide GP is a fast jet-ski racing game where you take place in illegal races. Here is how Riptide GP’s Icon looks, not my favorite but by far not the worst: While it is a great game, not much has been changed from its mobile debut to truly take advantage of the Switch’s hardware, making me feel like some love was lacking from the developers. For this reason I have always been a lover of more arcade racing games like Mario Kart, so when I heard that Riptide GP was a fair racing game that kept true to arcade racing titles, I couldn’t be more excited.Īfter a couple of hours with the game and clearing out a couple of levels with three starts each, I found myself in a love and hate relationship with this game. With school daily and a bunch of books I am currently trying to publish, making time to sit down and enjoy realistic racing games that require at least an entire hour to make any sort of progress is almost impossible.
I am a big lover of racing games, but I am also a busy man. Riptide GP: Renegage – Nintendo Switch – - $9.99 Riptide GP: Short Review While that is a great achievement for the game, it doesn’t necessarily mean it is just as great when ported to a dedicated console, but with the Switch’s current lack of racing games, does Riptide GP stack up to likes of Mario Kart or is it a game that should have been kept on mobile? Let’s find out! Riptide GP is by no means a new game, in fact it has been many times deemed as one of the play store’s best mobile racing games.