RIDGE RACER 7 PLAYSTATION 3 PS3

Ridge Racer 7 features a variety of cars, tracks, and upgrades. Individual players can work to be the best in career mode, while up to 14 players can compete online for the highest rank in the global system. There are a total of 160 races across 22 courses in the single-player campaign that weave their way through environments such as Lost Ruin, Industrial Drive, and the Shadow Caves. Players can choose from 40 cars and then customize their car with 375,000 decorative possibilities and 7,150 tuning changes (a new feature in the series). Custom whips can be transferred into online multiplayer races, giving players a chance to show off their mechanical and aesthetic skills as well as their driving dexterity.

New to Ridge Racer gameplay is the addition of slipstreaming. By staying close behind an opponent, players can increase their top speed and quickly overtake the car in front of them. While drifting at high speed, a nitro bar fills up, at three levels: quick boost, double boost, and triple boost.