R: Racing Evolution (2003) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

R: Racing Evolution

You play the part of Rena Hayami who begins the story as an ambulance driver. After successfully racing the vehicle to the hospital, you're offered a chance to drive a racecar.

60 27 November 2003

What R: Racing Evolution is

R: Racing Evolution is a racing game developed by Namco and released in 2003. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You play the part of Rena Hayami who begins the story as an ambulance driver. After successfully racing the vehicle to the hospital, you're offered a chance to drive a racecar.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Ridge Racer series

R: Racing Evolution is the 11th of 28 entries we hold in the Ridge Racer series. It arrived 3 years after Ridge Racer V: Arcade Battle. The next entry was Ridge Racer in 2004. Its critic score of 60 is 13 points below the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Arcade Archives 2: Ridge Racer at 90.

See all 28 Ridge Racer games in release order →

How it was received

R: Racing Evolution holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average.

What it launched against

R: Racing Evolution launched on 27 November 2003, within three weeks of Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Need for Speed: Underground and Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Need for Speed: Underground, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!.

Official trailer