Your favorite car games ever

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Jesus, I’ve played a lot of these… Or at least the demos. And loved 'em.

I personally prefer B3 over Revenge, because Revenge goes a bit too chaotic for my liking.

I also have another game that I’d love to introduce…

FlatOut 2

Jesus, I love this a lot. A gem of the PS2 era. I mean, everything just snaps together wonderfully. It’s great. It’s a demolition derby racer, and it has a quite impressive damage model. Varying on the cars, almost everything can fall off, aside from the body and the chassis, and everything on the cars can bend.

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The racing itself is solid. The cars feel right, they have weight and nice physics. It’s not a simulation though, taking some arcade elements, but again, it works well. There’s also the good ol’ derby mode, where you slam your car against the AI cars until you win or explode.

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The career mode works. It’s very bare-bones and simple, but it’s all you need from a career mode. A series of races, which can be completed in a semi-free order, money system, upgrade system and some owned cars. That’s literally all you need from a career in a racing game.

There’s also the series’s staple, the stunt mode, where you fling your character out of your car to participate in various sports, such as soccer, high jump, baseball and bowling. It’s… weird. And funny. And I love it.

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This. Game. Is. My. National. Heritage.

There’s also FlatOut Ultimate Carnage (a graphically polished version for X360/PS3) and the third one, which we won’t talk about, because it is horrible. (It’s the lowest rated game on Steam, go check it out :wink:)

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i have both 1 and 2 on PC

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Gran Turismo 4. Ahh, cant forget those 24 hours on Nurburgring, driving till tires were unusable. :smiley: Played those races with my friend and his father. Was so fun, unless we screwed up and forgot about fuel. :smiley:

Test Drive Unlimited. Still playing it sometimes. Cruising randomly in Skyline through whole island without any goal.

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I like the old school ones.
Xbox360: Forza 3, PC: Colin McRae rally and SLRR, dreamcast: Tokyo Xtreme racer, and the classic msdos Street rod.

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The most important and the one I loved the most has to be Gran Turismo 2.
I had played it extensively on my cousin’s console on the 02-03 summer break so when I got my first console, it was absolutely amazing to have that. I was already into cars because of my uncle who gave me car magazines to read, that game pretty much cemented my love for them.

As for the best game, that’s a tough one, I like codamaster’s f1 games, Dirt 3, GT6. In terms of handling, I’d say GT6 was the most natural I played with my G27 so far.

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Actually, i think you guys have gotten most of my fave’s in, from NFS:u2, TDU, SLR:R, GT3 - 5, Flatout 1 and 2, GRID and Dirt3, but i’m missing rFactor, Live For Speed and NFS Shift 2 :slight_smile:

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I love anything where you can take a “normal”, everyman’s car and upgrade the heck out of it, preferably by earning money through races. So mostly the Gran Turismo and Forza series, Need For Speed Underground 2 and Shift 2 Unleashed. I just wish there would be more games like that for the PC. Now there’s just Shift 2 and the newest Forzas, neither of which I can play now because Shift 2 keeps crashing and Forza needs windows 10.

I also adore My Summer Car

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Hory shet , chocobo racing is my favourite childhood game of all time (it has car inside and even tricycle) usually play with my sibling and we always laugh our ass out.

It’s funny and it’s dam fun .

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Enthusia Professional Racing

This game was amazing, I had it and only played it a few times, I really wish I still had my PS2 because back then I never appreciated how good it was, maybe it was because I was busy playing GT4 with its insane car list

FailRace reminded me I had it, I searched for years to find the name of this game because I lost the disc and didnt remember the name

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Best Derby game of all time has to be Driven to Destruction/Test Drive: Eve of Destruction.

I have played far too much of that in my youth.

For Street Games, I have to go with Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Remix.

I’m very close to finishing it ATM, and started a 2nd playthrough not too long ago.

The soundtrack was fucking amazing, too…

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Here’s my personal favorite. BOOGITY…BOOGITY…BOOGITY; ALL HAIL THE KING OF RACING SIMULATORS, BOYS!

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Can’t get more realistic than this. It has a huge selection of fictional and real-world tracks, as well as a plethora of alternate series modifications, allowing for loads of action behind the wheel, either hitting 200 at Daytona’s high banks strapped to the most current GEN-6 CUP racecars or accelerating past Monza’s famous Parabolica turn in a modern F1 machine. The best part is that it works wonderfully on the latest versions of Microsoft Windows and even with on-board graphics chipsets. There are a limited number of copies of it available thorough eBay averaging $40. so get yours now. (Although a good steering controller is a must for this and every racing simulator, any gamepad will work fine as well.)

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My list would be: iRacing.com, GRID Autosport, Automation (of course :wink:), BeamNG Drive, and my possibly all time favorite, Mario kart DS. :heart:

One of my favorite Mario kart DS memories is from my 3 day trip to Toronto in grade 8, where the most fun we had was in the hotel, playing MK and having a blast because of how funny it was seeing all of my roommates screwing up and me as well.

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For a PS2 or XBox game, that is some good graphics. Forza 6 is my all time favorite. It was GT5, then GT6, but I’m an XBOX Guy, not Playstation, and Forza was always better, even the original game was better cause the cars sold for more, and you could buy a car from another person’s profile :grin: and it had real time damage and physics were much better than any GT game (even in the original forza game).

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I’ve played plenty of racing games, but for me, Burnout 3: Takedown has to be my favorite. Loads of fun guaranteed every time I played it, and that’s still true more than a decade after it was released. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (the PS2 version) also gets my vote, if only because it was the last game in the series to feature Australian-made cars (specifically, the HSV GTS Coupe and Tickford TS50) if you disregard the Pontiac GTO from Underground 2 and the Vauxhall Monaro from Most Wanted, which are merely export versions of the Holden Monaro (the modern one). As a fan of Australian muscle cars, I am sad and bitterly disappointed to see both Holden and Ford abandon local manufacturing, and will sorely miss the wonderful machines they have built over the decades.

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I played Burnout 3 once. It was the coolest game til we managed to get Forza running on our old classic. I wish they had customizable cars.

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Interstate '76

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Need for speed underground 2

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Just to name a few…

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Along with most of the NFS, The Crew and more recently Dirt 3.

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ATARI - Pole Position

Test Drive 1

Gran Turismo 1

Yes, I`m old.

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Titles listed in this thread that I haven’t played:

  • Test Drive Unlimited
  • Bump’n’Jump
  • Sinclair Chequered Flag
  • Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune
  • NFS: Most Wanted

And that’s about it.

One of my favourite car games ever would be one of the earliest realistic 3D sims I can think of: Indianapolis 500

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I played it when I was a kid, and got nowhere. I came back to it as an adult, having learnt a thing or two about tuning, and realised that one had to tune the car to win. That a qualifying tune was completely different from a race tune. That in Indy, speeds of 248mph weren’t unusual, they were necessary to be competitive.

Then I remembered this game was made in 1989 and my mind was blown.

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