this game is very fun! you have to race to unlock cars and get money. this is very fun and i recommend it for all ages!

This my first nintendo ds game and it is awesome! I got my DS and this game around April last year. I still play to this day. The driving, cars, and graphics are awesome. The only bad thing is that the cars are not real hard. Instead of racing with the hummer what I did was win the Saleen race "Begining race" and then sell my hummer and do it over and over tell I got enough money for a Skyline GTR. My best cars and favorite cars on the game are Saleen S7 zero to sixty in 1.69 seconds with upgrades, the Skyline GTR looks exactly like the skyline in 2 fast 2 furious, and the Concept car that looks some like a Enzo. The fastest car I have not the quickest, but the fastest is the Astin Martan Vanquish. The top speed with nitros is 275 yeah thats right 275!
Here are the pros and cons
Pros
Great graphics
Awesome cars
great steering "unlike need for speed underground two for this system"
Nice boosts
Nice sound
Cons
Computer cars don't have boosts
Computer cars aren't that good, but still is really fun!
Not enough levels.
Tracks are Ok, but that's not really a con.
Overall I give this a five! Get this game if you love cars (like I do) and you just got your DS. Or get Mario Cart.

If your reading this, you may be wondering if you should buy this game. If not then go do something else buddy.

well the good things about this game i'm gonna list below.

1. There are a good variety of tracks, and they have different difficulty for each one.(just not a listed difficulty)

2. There is a good variety of cars, and if you like to customize, Nintendo did a good job on this. You can change the color of the cars, but if you change the body... you can't change the color again unless you change the body again.

3. If your into games like burnout and need for speed etc. Then this is a good game for you. I wouldn't say that this game is as good as those, but come on, its on the ds, and the DS is a handheld not a stand alone console. They did do a good job with the boosts.

4. Multiplayer. There is a good multiplayer part to this game, its fastpaced and you can have more than one person to go against.

now i'll write the bad things about this game... there aren't that many as you may have guessed by my game rating.

1. the cars... for some reason, the wheels on every car don't spin. They don't spin at all, how do i know this you may ask... that is because you turn on racing games. You end up seeing the side of the cars. The wheels move to show what direction your going in, but they don't spin.

2. Multiplayer. There happens to only be multicard play for this game. Which if you own a ds and have played with others for sure know that. Another bad part about the multiplayer is, that you can only use the cars that you have earned in the arcade mode. Oh by the way to get the cars beat the first thing... i don't remember its name but there are more than one race in each. and a car class.

3. the speed. One problem if you actually look at how fast your going... is that the most expensive car lamborgini marcielgo something isn't even the fastest car. its some car thats like half the price when its fully upgraded...

well i just hope that you thought that this review was a good one.

Now before you start screaming at me, I like racing games. But this one was terrible. 10 levels and 25 cars, not very good if you ask me. Now I wasn't expecting a excellent game that would knock my socks off, but come on. the controls were clunky and the limited variation in the soundtrack didn't help much. You need about 7 cars to beat the game, and the fact that there's turbo completely messes up the point of racing games that aren't destruction derbies. This was would have been better if once you got a lamborghini you weren't home free with the game. The fact that there are real cars doesn't do a darn thing if you have turbo which can make you go over 200 MPH without hardly trying, even in a hummer. Now I'm not saying "GO BUY RIDGE RACERS!!!" but seriously this game isn't really all it's supposedly worth. Here is a rating on a scale of one to ten

Sound---2/10
The fact that you could use some second hand music program on the computer to make the music is pretty lame, the SFX are basicly what a three year old would do to make a car noise and some cars honking at you that sound like dying water-buffalos.

Graphics---2/10
Seriously, the graphics are what you would expect from a game for the SNES {super nintendo entertainment system} and oncoming traffic looks like a drawing that a toddler could do.

Gameplay---2/10
The camera angles aren't bad but the controls are terrible. you use the B button to accelerate and the A button to brake. not to mention the fact that when you fly off the road into some restaurant or something like that, nothing really happens. you just slow down for something like a tenth of a second. Then you just go on going 200 MPH in a Hummer.

Difficulty---1/10
This game takes five minutes to learn, and 2 hours to beat. Pretty easy.

Multiplayer--1/10
Not very fun for multiplayer. Some games have worse, but this is still "wanting to bash your head in with a marsupial" boring.

Overall---1/10
I think this is the worst arcade racing game I've ever played and I've been playing games for 7 years.

Afterthoughts
For people who like this game think what you want, I can't force you to hate this game, but seriously I think if you want a portable racing game you would be better off forgetting that urge and getting a stationary console racing game- I would suggest Forza Motor Sport for Xbox or Gran Turismo 4 for the PS2.

I have played Ridge Racer DS and I got bored of it in 15 min! In Asphalt Urban GT there are 10 awsome lvls, 60 fps, tons of cars, great graphics and an unlockable motorcycle.
You can do races, and do cop chases where you chase down the bad guys. In multiplayer, you can race or do a 2 player cop chase where one person is the bad guy and one is the cop. GET THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!