Rage Racer
Rage Racer is the third title in the Ridge Racer series of racing games. For the first time in series, Rage Racer introduces a brand new advanced single player career system which uses credits that player can…
Rage Racer is a racing developed by Namco, released 3 December 1996 on PlayStation.
What Rage Racer is
Rage Racer is a racing game developed by Namco and released in 1996. It is available on PlayStation only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Visually the game takes a different approach compared to previous PlayStation titles. The game looks more realistic and has a darker color scheme, it takes a lot of this from the arcade game in the Ridge Racer series, Rave Racer. For the first time in the Ridge Racer series, Rage Racer introduces a brand new advanced singleplayer career system which uses credits. The player can get credits from winning races which can then be used to buy and upgrade cars. The racing is separated into five classes, named 'Class 1' through to 'Class 5'. The game's objective is to earn money (Credits, or 'eg'), which can be spent on new cars or on upgrading existing cars. The player must place in the top three…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Ridge Racer series
Rage Racer is the fifth of 28 entries we hold in the Ridge Racer series. It arrived a year after Ridge Racer Revolution. The next entry was Pocket Racer in 1996. Its critic score of 70 is 3 points below the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Arcade Archives 2: Ridge Racer at 90.
How it was received
Rage Racer holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Rage Racer launched on 3 December 1996, within three weeks of Mario Kart 64, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Wild Arms and PaRappa the Rapper. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Mario Kart 64, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Wild Arms, PaRappa the Rapper.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Rage Racer yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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