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Riders Republic

Developer/publisher Ubisoft (Annecy)

Format Luna, PC, PS4, PS5 (tested), Stadia, Xbox One, Xbox Series

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They say you never get a second chance to make a first impression; in truth, only professional duty compels us to afford Ubisoft Annecy’s extreme-sports sandbox that privilege. ’s first hour or so feels like an extravagant endurance test, filled as it is with cringe-yourself-rigid dialogue, interruptions so frequent as to induce whiplash, and occasionally both (video calls from characters who look and sound far too old to deliver such painful attempts at yoofspeak are an embarrassing nadir). As it shuttles you between events, unceremoniously whisking you

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