History YMMV / RideToHellRetribution

* AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: The "Find and enter cover with LB/L2" prompt. Instead of simply showing up once so the player can memorize it, it pops up constantly throughout the game, even when there are no enemies present.

* WhatAnIdiot: During one point in the game, Jake is confronted with an electrified fence that he needs to get over.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Him to just climb one of the nearby trees and climb over the fence. Or get a shovel and dig under the fence (sure, it would've taken some time, but considering how muscular Jake is, it surely wouldn't have been a problem for him). Or clip some wires. Or drive a car/truck through the fence. Or, worst-case scenario, blow up the fence[[note]]you can buy explosive weapons from the gun dealer, so it's not ''that'' much of a stretch to imagine Jake could purchase regular explosives from him[[/note]]. Surely any of those would allow him to get past the fence without inconveniencing anyone else and would make him look like a better person since he's willing to try ideas that limit the collateral damage.\\
'''Instead:''' Jake's solution [[ComplexityAddiction is to steal a tanker truck, park it near the power plant, and blow up the tanker truck]]. Sure, this does get the job done, but [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic as noted]] [[DesignatedHero above]], this does not do Jake any favors in terms of casting him in a heroic light, especially since he goes on to MURDER a large number of innocent truck drivers, police officers, and dam employees while stealing it. There's no reason he couldn't have used the tanker truck to just drive through the fence, or blow up the tanker next to the fence.\\
'''Even Worse:''' When Jake does get back to the fence, he ends up entering a gate with 2 ''stone walls'' next to it, which he effortlessly climbs over. One can't help but wonder if he was trying to win an award for "most blatant disregard for human life".

* SpecialEffectFailure: Jake’s model has an obvious bald spot in his hair where they didn’t finish the model that's visible when you zoom in to aim.

* DesignatedHero: Jake always solves his problems in the most convoluted and violent manner possible, even when saner options exist. Case in point, his solution for bypassing an electric fence consists of stealing a tanker and using it to destroy a power plant to cut the electricity, murdering a whole bunch of truckers, cops, and plant workers along the way, instead of simply finding the off switch, using the trees to jump over the fence, or simply destroying the fence.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The game’s cover art looks incredibly epic and badass.

* MemeticMutation: Given the game’s reputation, people have taken to using the 1% in the game’s title (which is meant to refer to biker culture) to refer to the game’s average score from critics or [[ObviousBeta or the amount the game was completed]].

* LoveToHate: The game itself is this for reviewers and critics, as it is considered one of the worst games of all time.

* SignatureScene: The part where Jake murders a bunch of civilians and police to steal a truck and drive it into a power plant to turn off an electric fence has become this, for all the [[MoralEventHorizon wrong]] [[ComplexityAddiction reasons]].

** You can even disregard melee combat altogether and headshot enemies with your pistol before they get into fighting range. This may be why the EliteMooks have bulletproof masks altogether, as otherwise the player could go through the entire game simply shooting every enemy to death.

** [[BigBad Caesar]] is the founder of the Devil's Hand, a powerful biker gang responsible for drug dealing and illegal arms trade on an international scale. Originally a close friend of Toledo Conway, the [[AmbitionIsEvil power-hungry]] Caesar grew to enjoy the thrill of hurting others and desired to be something far greater than a humble biker. Betraying Toledo, Caesar steadily amassed support to transform his hometown into a criminal empire and deposed his former friend by drowning him in debt, taking everything away from him but his wife, whom Caesar lusted after. After Toledo fled with his wife following a lost "all or nothing" race, Caesar, feeling his ego was wounded, brutally murdered both of them and passed an order to hunt down every remaining Conway and their friends to the last child. Expanding his gang to a paramilitary force that threatens the region, Caesar will stop at nothing to achieve more power.

** Jake's angry scream. See it for yourself in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVkCly7E5OM&t=7m this video.]]

** The Test Chamber guys found Jake's fight with the fat guy, wherein he just kicks the guy for like two solid minutes, immensely hilarious.

** You can even disregard melee combat altogether and headshot enemies with your pistol before they get into fighting range.

** The sex scenes, where Jake and his sex partner have completely deadpan facial expressions. And both remain fully clothed. It's so bad, it makes amateur porn look ''professional'' in comparison.

* UnfortunateImplications: As pointed out by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKucJJeZMwc practically]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1HTKWX15oo everyone]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWxEwdGpIPQ who]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGonA7VmW3U has]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2bB4aAQS-o reviewed]] the game, women are literal trophies that you get to have sex with as a reward for beating up their attackers. This also can be seen as a VERY bad instance of ValuesDissonance in gaming.

* SpecialEffectFailure: ''[[UpToEleven The whole damn game.]]'' Even worse considering how the game was in DevelopmentHell for five years, and that even ''sound effects'' are messed up: there's only one kind of explosion noise, the bike engine is an annoying drone after you get it past 40 miles per hour, and the voice acting is just DullSurprise over and over. WebVideo/AngryJoe claimed that ''[[InsultToRocks sound files available for free on the Internet had better quality than the sound effects in the game]]!''
-->'''Angry Joe''': You couldn't pay for ''two'' explosion sounds in your whole ''piece of SHIT'' game?

* MoralEventHorizon:
** Caesar tortures Mack to death and leaves his body for Jake to find with a challenge on it.
** Jake's infamously violent and [[ComplexityAddiction overly-convoluted]] solution to dealing with an electric fence.

* FridgeHorror: Why is Jake so seemingly AxCrazy straight to the point of the numerous tropes listing how much of an asshole he is? He ''just'' got back home from a tour in Vietnam, and is blatantly edgy and twitchy, almost ready for violence with what seems like [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]]. With his brother Mike dying so shortly after coming back home, he's effectively pulling a [[{{Franchise/Rambo}} John Rambo]] as a traumatized vet with nothing holding him back from considering every biker gang member in the county someone to shoot.

* AcceptableTargets: The game itself is one for reviewers and critics, as it is considered one of the worst games of all time.

* NeverLiveItDown: Jake destroying a power plant so he can deactivate an electric fence is brought up by so many reviewers[[note]]about the only reviewer who ''doesn't'' mention the electric fence is [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctualtion Yahtzee]][[/note]] (and mentioned so many times on this very page) that you'd think it was the only thing he ever did in his lengthy revenge quest.

* NeverLiveItDown: Jake destroying a power plant so he can deactivate an electric fence is brought up by so many reviewers (and mentioned so many times on this very page) that you'd think it was the only thing he ever did in his lengthy revenge quest.

* CriticBreakdown: At least one notable reviewer, WebVideo/AngryJoe, took this approach during his review; the review begins with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1HTKWX15oo Joe clutching at his eyes and moaning]].

** It's possible to enter a quick time event to dispatch a baddie, which always starts with Jake grunting angrily into the camera; especially narmful if accompanied with total silence, as for large sections of the game there's no music playing.

** The sex scenes and the events that lead up to it are meant to be serious, but end up laughable for a [[UnfortunateImplications multitude]] [[FetishRetardant of]] [[RightThroughHisPants reasons]].