On September 15, 2014, Milestone announced the development of Ride, a motorcycle racing video game.[3] The studio had previously developed racing games within the licensed series World Rally Championship, MotoGP, SBK, and MXGP.[4]
Reviewers described the game as "Forza Motorsport with bikes."[6][7][8] It was also noted as being more accessible to newcomers than other bike games.[8] Richard Seagrave of GameSpew complained about the long loading times.[6]
The game reached number 10 in the UK PS3 sales charts, and number 13 in the PS4 charts.[9]
Sequels
Ride 2 was released for PC on October 7, 2016, and for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on February 14, 2017.[10] It features around 200 bikes from 15 different categories (as opposed to the four categories in the original game) with additional bike customization options. Tracks include Macau and Ulster.
Ride 3 was released on November 30, 2018, for Xbox One, PS4 and Microsoft Windows.[11] The game features 230 bikes, from 1966 to current-day. The track list was expanded to 30, including Garda Lake, Imatra, and Tenerife.
Ride 4 was announced on December 4, 2019, on the official Ride page on Facebook and was released on October 8, 2020, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One,[12] for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on January 21, 2021, and for Amazon Luna on April 8, 2021, with features dynamic weather, time of day, endurance racing and pitstops.[13][14] In September 2021, a gameplay video went viral, with the wet-weather graphics looking so good that people confused it with real life.[15] The video amassed more than 3 million views in just over a week.[16]
It was nominated for "Best Italian Game" at the Italian Video Game Awards.[17]
