Best driving game ever

[Valiance]

I loved me some Rollcage 2. What ever happened to that series?

Game was effing awesome, especially the time-trial platforming.

If you like that sort of thing, you might like some of the later maps in TrackMania Nations Forever.

Anyway, yeah, F-Zero GX is my favorite -racing- game...but best driving game? I'd probably say TMNF since I love it, though it's unrealistic. I've played TOCA 3, and that seemed pretty good, as Sega GT did as well, but I haven't played GT4 or 5, so...my opinion seems kind of empty.

 

[LiquidForce]

Midtown Madness 2!

Just wondering if anyone remembers it

 

[Laughing Man]

GTR2 with the World Super GT mod. You haven't tried realism until you try to navigate the Enzo Fxx round Monza with all the driver aids turned off.

The car offers the most realistic exprience of high performance driving I've seen based on the fact that to get the most out of it you need to be progressive with all the controls to get a good lap. None of this approach the corner, slam the brakes on turn and then hammer the throttle down. Do that and you'll lock the front wheels and lose the back end before you even get close to the apex.

 

[Hachura]

NEED FOR SPEED UNDERCOVER FOR REAL HOMES, THAT GAME BE CRUNK FO REAL!!!11one /sarcasm

Seriously though, Rock 'n Roll Racing was epic win back in the day on the PSX. Good times.

 

[mocruz1200]

driving sequence on HL2!
/thread

 

[RoZ]

Gran turismo stopped being good after GT2 when they screwed up the handling physics. Not being able to do even a basic donut/drift (the cars had no feeling of wieght or inertia) and the high end cars bouncing like crazy at high speed killed it for me. Happily switched to Forza 2.

 

[JamminOz07]

I loved me some Rollcage 2. What ever happened to that series?

Dude! I was just thinking the other day that we need an updated version of Rollcage, I played the hell out of those games!

San Fransisco Rush was an awesome driving game, not really that realistic, but still heaps of fun.

Burnout Paradise is awesome.

Midnight Club Las Angeles is also pretty damn good.

I have Gran Turismo 5 Prologue on PS3, but hardly play it, too realistic for my liking, I drive a realistic car on realistic roads every day, when I play video games, I prefer to be doing something a bit more removed from reality... then again, you can't actually crash the cars in Gran Turismo, which makes a mockery of the whole 'most realistic driving simulator' thing.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix and F-Zero GX get my vote.

 

[spiritslayr]

The problem I had with gran turismo was that it was so realistic it ceased to be fun.

IMO driving games should be slightly stylised such as with the burnout or the project gotham series.

I'd still say Need for Speed: Underground 2 is my favourite.

 

[PirateKing]

I really liked Burnout 3.

 

[Zer_]

The problem I had with gran turismo was that it was so realistic it ceased to be fun.

IMO driving games should be slightly stylised such as with the burnout or the project gotham series.

I'd still say Need for Speed: Underground 2 is my favourite.

Heheh, I found that funny. So realistic it ceased to be fun. Gran Turismo? Nah. It's not all that realistic I assure you.

 

[phar]

Umm depends. Most played now is Forza2.. just so much to play with for a car nut like me.. before that it was GT on PS2

Most fun id have to go with Mario Kart 64 or even GTA if you consider that a driving game, I enjoy just running from cops..

 

[j1-2themax]

Burnout Revenge. The Traffic Attack mode (or whatever that was called) is the most fun I'll probably ever have in a racing game from now on.

 

[zoozilla]

For me, nothing can match the rush I get playing the Burnout games.

I can never get into driving simulations; I always feel like the handling is much too cumbersome.

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

My favourite's always been PGR2 on the original Xbox. It's got one of the best mixes between arcade and realism with the added fun of having the kudos system before they screwed it up for later games in the series.

Plus it made you work for your cars. You want to drive a supercar, then you're gonna have to start out in a Mini (I'm well aware that GT and many other games let you do this as well, just in PGR4 you could play in supercars from the start if you wanted to.)

Plus nearly all of the cars had much more character than you'll find in any other arcade racing game and once you get used to it, it becomes immense fun to play. And, when you get bored of racing, you can pop to the garage for a blast of Geometry Wars!

 

[Railgun88]

All the Need For Speed games. I've been addicted to it since it first came out I have them all for PS2, PS3.

 

[FireBlade_2049]

Re-Volt, bar none. I bought this game a week after it came out on pc, and I still play it to this day. No other game has ever, or will ever do RC racing this perfectly. The graphics are crisp and clear even though they are 10 years old, and the cars handle wonderfuly. Add to that the massive amount of user content, and you have a timeless classic.

However, Fuel looks like it might start to monopolize my time once it comes out...

 

[Hanzo Hattori]

Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Everything that made the Need for Speed series great with updated graphics, in my opinion it was the last good Need for Speed game just before they tried to make it too realistic and just screwed it up, which would be why EA is now closing down their department.

I agree with you, but NFS:Shift isn't that bad though I pretty like it. Anyways I think it hadn't been released when you posted your comment.

 

[Mr.Black]

I'm a huge fan of Race Driver GRID and Dirt 2.

Yeah, Codemasters ftw.

 

[WillSherman]

Desert Bus.
What other game has led to over 100,000 dollars being donated to Child's Play this year?
http://desertbus.org/