History VideoGame / RideToHellRetribution

* ObviousBeta: The game is very unfinished and it shows with how buggy and crudely cobbled together the game is. At least [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation one reviewer]] correctly surmised that the game was originally conceived as a WideOpenSandbox despite not knowing the history of the game.

* CoitusEnsues: Jarringly frequently. If you have to rescue any female from harassment, it always goes "Jake murders the harasser(s) -> have sex with the victim -> go back to whatever you were doing" in that exact order with zero natural transition between these scenes.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Between his [[DullSurprise limited emotional range]] and his penchant for [[ComplexityAddiction ridiculously convoluted solutions to his problems]], you'd be forgiven for thinking Jake has something wrong upstairs.

** After defeating a bunch of miners who confused him for a member of the Devil's Hand and attacked him, Jake returns to the first miner he met and spares his life after interrogating him for the location of the next boss, saying he understands why they don't trust bikers. Whether this works or not depends on whether the player beat the miners with melee in an ambiguously non-fatal way like the game intended, or if the player gunned them all down because it's easier.

* LargeHam: Although most of the characters give various degrees of DullSurprise, Colt is definitely the most vocal of the Devil's Hand, ChewingTheScenery with his DeepSouth, CorruptHick accent.

* GetBackHereBoss: Anvil.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Brandy's shirt is so low-cut that it's a miracle her rack isn't spilling out.

* MsFanservice: Brandy, with her AbsoluteCleavage top and sexy British accent.

** Triple 6 is bald under his NiceHat, but he also makes up for it with his bushy sideburns.

* AntiHero: Jake, to NominalHero levels - he's out to get [[TitleDrop retribution]] on the gang that killed his brother but isn't afraid of murdering completely unrelated civilians and police officers in order to execute [[ComplexityAddiction needlessly elaborate plans]].

* BoomHeadshot: The quickest way to take down enemies is to pop one between their eyes. It's also how Jake finishes off Colt.

** ''Ride to Hell'' switches from shooting to melee combat frequently. Unlike some other games, though, it doesn't do anything to make you do the same, so there's nothing stopping you from simply shooting enemies that try to engage you up close. The only exception is the EliteMooks, which wear masks that make headshots useless and have a health pool big enough that shooting them in the torso will only exhaust your ammo reserves, making hand-to-hand combat the only viable way to kill them.

* NoEndorHolocaust: At one point, you destroy a power plant to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext shut off an electric fence]], which should've cut off the power supply for the whole area. Yet whenever you go to town, there's no sign of any power outages. It's almost as if that power plant was built solely to power that fence.

* VendorTrash: The drugs that enemies drop.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: The prologue sets the stage for it, with it jumping from biking to turret sequence, to brawler sequence, to a cutscene of Jake on a motorbike jumping over a Huey helicopter. The game takes this further, by cutting out of the action to a cutscene or different style of play, or even a different area.

* ArtisticLicense: A pretty stupid and mind baffling example. The game developers apparently believed that plastic hockey masks can deflect bullets, given that you can't kill thugs with hockey masks by shooting at their heads.

* DefiantToTheEnd: As opposed to every other Devil's Hand member Jake interrogates before murdering, Anvil does nothing but mock Jake before he gets his throat slit.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Marijuana is consistently referred to as "weed", just as it commonly was when the game was made and released. In the time the game is set, the slang term would have more likely been "pot".

* CoolOldGuy: Mack, Jake and Mikey's uncle, is a relaxing old man who doesn't mind helping Jake out on his quest for revenge, proving himself to be a pretty badass biker despite his age.

** Jake walks up to a woman working on a truck cab and mentions he never saw a woman working on a truck before. Since the game takes place in the early 70s this kind of makes sense (as Jake's childhood took place in the late 50s and 60s at a time when StayInTheKitchen was culturally expected), but it still comes off as overtly rude even by the standards of the time. She doesn't take kindly to his sexism but otherwise remains amicable.

* UnderTheTruck: This can be done during the bike sequences. You'll be doing it quite a lot since it seems like none of the civilian drivers in this game can drive in a straight line for more than five seconds.

** One gets the feeling from many of the decisions he takes over the course of the game, particularly the ones involving needlessly complicated [[ZanyScheme Zany Schemes]] involving the deaths of a ridiculous number of InnocentBystanders, that fighting in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar was ''not'' good for Jake's mental health.

* ObviousBeta: The game is very unfinished and it shows with how buggy and crudely cobbled together the game is.

* PaperTiger: Despite his huge, burly appearance, Anvil is the most [[DirtyCoward outright cowardly]] member of the Devil's Hand. He spends his entire mission running away and hiding from Jake, not even attempting to fight him.

* VillainProtagonist: Jake degrades to this point over the course of the game as more and more innocent people get caught in the crossfire of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Jake is a ruthless biker who has no qualms about killing and torturing people to get revenge for his brother's death, but the people he's going against are almost cartoonishly evil. However, as he [[HeWhoFightsMonsters starts killing civilians to fulfill his plans and begins killing bosses in needlessly brutal ways after already defeating them]] it shifts into him [[ALighterShadeOfBlack just being slightly less evil]] than them.

* BaldOfEvil: Anvil, though he makes up for it with his big mustache.

* AffablyEvil: Jake degrades to this point over the course of the game as more and more innocent people get caught in the crossfire of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:Mack.]]

** ''Ride to Hell'' switches from shooting to melee combat frequently. Unlike some other games, though, it doesn't do anything to make you do the same, so there's nothing stopping you from simply shooting enemies that try to engage you up close.

* UnderTheTruck: This can be done during the bike sequences.