Whether you hit the podium or not, races give money and experience points to spend on
hydrojet upgrades, from speed to handling, and on various driving skills, like new tricks and boosts.
Not exact matches
A podium finish is required to advance in the career though, and the key to success is to keep
upgrading both
hydrojets and skillsets.
Acquiring new characters and
hydrojets while purchasing
upgrades and learning new tricks is a rewarding process.
Another thing we saw, the
upgrades affect
hydrojets in different ways, as we found some were perfect to control and some were not so easy, so you have to choose your
hydrojet wisely.
As you will find out, once you get to a certain point you will get to the stage of needing more powerful
hydrojets to compete against the other racers and be within a chance of coming in the top three, but to get the
upgrades Riptide GP: Renegade does become a bit of a grindfest.
The
hydrojet can be
upgraded using prize money you get from each race event.
We found there needs to be a bit of continuous grinding of previous events to even get enough prize money to get the decent
upgrades or a new
hydrojet, as you will never be allowed an easy win against the AI characters.