Ridge City is the location throughout many of the Ridge Racer games, which has evolved right along with the graphics and the size of the game.
Description
In the first Ridge Racer game, Ridge City consists of two parts: a downtown full of business buildings (including the landmark tunnel building) and a coastal section, featuring a hotel in the beach section. This shapes the Seaside Route 765 course; the longer Ridge City Highway course also features a work-in-progress development on it's extended road, which appears to be completed by the time of Rave Racer.
Ridge Racer V shows more of the Ridge City, featuring a loop of expressways, the building of RCFM (Ridge City FM) radio station, a central business district area, green hills, and an airport, situated in a man-made island, slightly far from the city.
In Ridge Racer 6 and Ridge Racer 7, Ridge City was expanded on, becoming Ridge State, a huge metropolis with skyscrapers sprawling where roads and nature coexisted just a few games ago. There are still areas of Ridge City and its road ways that are the same as they were in the first couple games including the right turn inland from the coast, the tunnel section and the large downtown building you drive through.
With the return of Seaside Route 765 in Ridge Racer 7, Ridge City has been renamed to Sunny Beach as shown on the Ridge State map in Grand Prix mode, taking Seaside Route 765's old course name from Ridge Racer V.
Ridge City returns in Ridge Racer Draw & Drift as the game's location, host to Ridge Racer World Cup.
Trivia
- It can be assumed that Ridge City is is the capital of Ridge State.
- As of Ridge Racer 7, Ridge City's semi-offshore airport may be replaced with the airport complex in South Bay.
- If looking closely at the Ridge City area in Ridge Racer 7, outlines for the other Ridge City tracks can be spotted with minor differences from the iteration found in Ridge Racer V.
| Ridge Racer series | ||
|---|---|---|
| Arcade games | Ridge Racer · 2 · Rave Racer · Pocket Racer · V: Arcade Battle | |
| Console and handheld games | Ridge Racer · Revolution · Rage Racer · Type 4 · 64 (DS) · V · Ridge Racer (PSP) (2) · 6 · 7 · 3D · Unbounded (Driftopia) · Ridge Racer (PlayStation Vita) | |
| Mobile games | Ridge Racer · Mobile · Drift · Accelerated · Slipstream · Draw & Drift | |
| Related games | SimDrive · Ace Driver (Victory Lap · 3: Final Turn) · Dirt Dash · R: Racing Evolution · Critical Velocity · Pachi-Slot | |
| Universe and people | Ridge City · Ridge State · Shatter Bay · Real Racing Roots · UFRA · Reiko Nagase · Enki Gilbert · Shinji Yazaki · Sophie Cavalier · Robert Chrisman · Ai Fukami · Rena Hayami · Gina Cavalli · Stephan Garnier · Kara Shindo | |
| Game mechanics | Drifting · Grand Prix · Slipstream · Nitrous · Car Classes · Customization · Special Machine · Rocket Start | |