Mad Riders

Welcome to the walkthrough for Mad Riders from Techland and Ubisoft. The game’s achievements are very straightforward. If you complete and take first in all the races in tournament mode, you should have met the requirements for all the cumulative achievements as well. You’re then left with two multiplayer achievements. There is a few things to know about these online achievements. For starters, you don’t need to worry about winning a lot to level up: you get a good deal of XP by doing stunts, regardless of where you place.

Another thing to help ease your mind, is as mentioned in the TA Review, the online is very accessible, with notifications in single player that a multiplayer match is available to join. If the online community ever becomes scarce in the future, you can be rest assured that the game does everything possible to hook people up for multiplayer. It would be a shame if the multiplayer died out though, because it’s a good deal of fun. After my achievement completion the multiplayer had me coming back for more!

Single Player

The key to winning is your boost meter, and to fill your boost meter you will have to pull off stunts. At every jump, I’d do a front flip (once I unlocked it), which offers a decent chunk of boost. For bigger jumps, you can do a front flip and a whip. You get an added bonus for doing 2+ unique tricks, and it practically fills up the boost bar when you do. The boost tokens are a nice bonus if you can steer into them. If they are out of the way don’t sweat it, as it is the stunts you should be focused on. Don’t be shy and use that boost often. Once you get the tricks down it will be consistently full so you’ll want to burn it up.

Shortcuts are a great asset too. You’ll actually gain ground on your opponents by using them, and they usually offer easy to access boost tokens. Another thing to remember is to turn the difficulty to EASY. I actually played on Medium the whole time without realizing their were other difficulty settings, and I still was winning by 10+ seconds in the later races.

Multiplayer

You’ll need to win at least once, but after that, don’t fret if you can’t win races. You get 500 XP for winning a race, but you can get anywhere from 750 to 3000 XP from stunts. The best races for XP are Perfectionist races due to the long time limit, so it would be wise to set up races with that game type. Just go out and have fun and you’ll get to Level 10 in no time.

The very first race is actually a tutorial; therefore, you won’t get an achievement for beating it. After the next race, you’ll earn an achievement for your first victory. Congrats, it will be one of many:

In my opinion, the game actually gets easier as you progress. Not only do you start to learn the race mechanics, but you will unlock new stunts and abilities. Once I unlocked the front flip that was my go-to stunt, and if I can I’d chain that with a whip maneuver. As mentioned, chaining two unique tricks is how you get a big boost bonus. There are two achievements for performing stunts. These will come a lot quicker than you think. Besides aerial stunts, you can do a ‘sidewinder’ drift which happens almost automatically on a lot of turns. You’ll have done 1000s of stunts by the time you complete SP and MP.

After a few races you unlock shortcuts and recharges. Both of these require you collect a blue token, then press ‘Y’ to activate them when prompted. You’ll obtain these achievements on your way to completing Tournament Mode, so if you just race naturally you’ll get the associated achievements with ease. Same goes with the red boost tokens. You’ll collect far more than the number required for the achievement

Target zones are large yellow bullseyes located on the ground. These are introduced after the first few races. You can attempt to steer into them or in the air you can lean back or forward to land on them for a boost meter bonus. Sometimes though they’ll be out of reach based on how you took the jump initially. Don’t worry because there will be enough to get the achievement before your last single player race.

The final three achievements in single player task you at completing the Tournament Mode, and to take first and win all the races in both Tournament and Off Road Elite. This sounds harder than it looks, but is actually quite easy. I was winning by double digits in the final tournament cards, and Off Road Elite doesn't provide any additional challenge despite the name. Another factor to this as well is that you don’t have to earn all 3 stars in Checkpoint races, you simply need to pass them. Therefore, take first in Race, Stunt Race, and Arena, then simply finish the Checkpoint ones and take first in the one on one Ghost races. With the difficulty set to Easy you shouldn't have to worry if you fall of the side or make a wrong turn.

Now we’re left with the multiplayer achievements. Winning isn’t everything here, 1^st place finishes don’t earn substantially more than 2^nd place and so on. As mentioned, stunts are your bread and butter, so don’t ever give up on a race; there is still XP to be earned regardless of position. You’ll need a total of 69,850 XP to reach Level 10. Doing an 8 minute Perfectionist race can get you 2000-3000 XP alone, so for the most XP you’ll want to choose that race type if you’re hosting a custom match. The multiplayer wasn't a grind for me because I was having a lot of fun and I’m guessing you will too.

This concludes the walkthough for Mad Riders, barring any new DLC achievements. There is DLC planned for this title so it’s certainly a possibility. Be sure to check out the title’s game page here on TA for individual solutions, reviews, leaderboards, future DLC news and more. To get together with others to boost achievements or perhaps for some friendly competition, you can create a game session here, or search existing ones here.