✓ Fits the open-world action games cluster, with adventure storytelling, shooter and third-person shooting
≠ Its own twist: racing gameplay, sandbox freedom and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping precision platforming
New Bordeaux and its period soundtrack are exceptional, and the story handles race and its era with more seriousness than the genre usually manages. Driving feels heavy and right. The structure undercuts all of it — the same racket-clearing loop repeats across every district, and the mission variety runs out long before the map does.
On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against very positive for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.