One minute you're sitting behind a turret mowing down guys for no apparent reason the next, you're back on the back. The main character isn't established enough whatsoever, and the tempo of the game goes all over the place. The problem with a game like Retribution is that you don't really feel anything. So, in the traditional biker way, you try to answer back the best way you know how – through violence. In Retribution, which takes place in 1969, you play a Vietnam vet returning to his biker roots, only to run afoul of rival biker gangs and other thugs. If you ever heard real bikers talking like this, you'd probably think they rode around on tricycles.
In fact, the only thing that survives unscathed is the music – and even that is drowned out by some of the worst voice acting you'll hear this year. This is a game that offers nothing of redeeming value, even if you're a hardcore fan of Sons of Anarchy or anything else that celebrates bikers. I should've known what kind of trouble I was in for with Retribution…but I jumped in anyway, curious to see if it was as much of a train wreck as indicated.Īnd boy, is it. And the game's price point? Half of what a retail game normally sells for, $29.99. It somehow resurfaced with a rating and a release date a few weeks back, but, upon contacting the publisher for a review copy, it stated they weren't being distributed. Ride To Hell: Retribution was in the works for what seems like ages over at Eutechnyx, then mysteriously got cancelled and taken off the Deep Silver website in 2009.
The writing probably could've been seen on the wall from a mile away.
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