Ride to Hell: Retribution - The RETROspective

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Published on April 1, 2022 4:00:34 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIFCvCbA_Pk

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Ride to Hell: Retribution (2013)

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Few games go down in history as iconic. Then again, not every game is Ride to Hell: Retribution. While 2013 was a banner year for video games, for every action, there is an equal yet opposite reaction. The year featured the release of some of the greatest games of all-time as well as what some consider to be the worst game of all-time.

Salvaged from development hell, undergoing numerous scope changes, being turned into the starting point of a franchise and even changing developers, Ride to Hell: Retribution initially came out to very little fanfare. Then people played it and it instantly became famous (or is it infamous) for all the wrong reasons.

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So let's take a deep dive into Ride to Hell: Retribution. What happened to lead to from Grand Theft Auto clone to horror show and why is it so infamously awful that it was pulled from digital stores after 15 months?

I do regular videos about the classics and not-so-classics of video games in my Monthly Specials series, of which The RETROspective is a part:
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Video Sources:
DX (https://www.youtube.com/DXFromYT) - The Worst Games of the Decade (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLOtUnOl6Qg)
IGN (ign.com)
Ride to Hell (Deep Silver)
Ride to Hell: Retribution (Deep Silver)
Ride to Hell: Route 666 (Deep Silver)

Article Sources:
Game Developer / Gamasutra: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/pc/deep-silver-closes-vienna-studio
IGN - https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/08/22/gc-2008-ride-to-hell-unveiled
IGN - https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/10/02/ride-to-hell-first-look
Unseen64 - https://www.unseen64.net/2017/07/04/ride-hell-retribution-beta-xbox-360-ps3-pc/

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