Ubisoft has unveiled Riders Republic, a “mass multiplayer outdoor extreme sports game” and something of a spiritual successor to its under-appreciated winter sports affair Steep.
As in that game, Riders Republic is focussed on extreme sporting action across a vast open-world, but while Steep limited itself to snow-covered mountains and other frosty locales, Ubisoft’s latest effort features a wide range of terrain.
Riders Republic’s world draws from seven different US national parks – including Bryce Canyon, Yosemite Valley, and Mammoth Mountain – taking actual GPS data and stitching each iconic area together in a way that supposedly feels natural. The result is a map that combines verdant forest tracks, cliffs, arid desert expanses, and yes, plenty of snowy mountains, into, going by the announcement footage at least, a gorgeously rendered whole.
