UGO: Ride to Hell Preview
UGO: Former Rockstar Vienna developers–now known as Deep Silver–have quite the project in their mitts. The studio that served its time on the GTA franchise has finally pieced together an open-world game of its own, and it’s surprisingly unlike much of anything we’ve seen in the genre before. Well, at least the setting is.
Set in Vietnam era US, Ride to Hell is the Easy Rider of videogames. Or maybe it’s something more akin to Born Losers or any of the other "Billy Jack" biker films that ranked of the B-movie caliber. Either way, the Sex, Drugs, & Rock n’ Roll culture practically drips from the early demo I saw at the press event out in Joshua Tree, California (one of the birthplaces of biker culture). And it’s easy to see that there’s one huge difference between Ride to Hell and the bucketful of other sandbox games available: you’re not stuck in the big city. And surprisingly, that small difference begets a fairly large tonal shift for the game.
