Ridge Racer 2 (PSP)

A new update appeared at the weekend. The biggest change is that it adds options for a virtual analogue stick or d-pad. I’ve tested out the analogue stick and it makes the game play more like a traditional Ridge Racer title. It’s certainly easier, but loses the seat-of-the-pants, pants-wetting, on-the-edge-of-control feel of the tilt controls.

For balls-out, dry-mouthed, seat-of-your-pants excitement I don’t think anything else on the iPhone comes close. The sheer sensation of speed using the Class 5 cars is unmatched and the twitchy, fluid, almost organic handling is like the nightmarish, drooling flipside of the clinical, digital precision of Ridge Racer on the PSP. Brilliant.

Despite the myriad problems I’m really enjoying this and have played it an awful lot since I got it. I’ve been enjoying it so much, in fact, that I bought the extra track pack and I might buy the extra cars at some point, though I’m having enough trouble keeping the existing cars on the

This is either the best terrible game or the worst brilliant game I’ve ever played. The list of things wrong with it is long. 1 – It costs £1.79, but to get more than two tracks you need to pay extra. (Though more are coming free in 2010, so they say.) 2 – You can’t