![]() ![]() It wasn't very realistic, but it was huge fun. The best part, let's be honest, was the ability to smash, crash, jump, and drift virtual cars all around darkened city streets, including banging into other computer-driven traffic and using nitrous-oxide booster upgrades. the "Citi Turbo" that looks remarkably like a modified EJ-series Honda Civic – and motorcycles. ![]() Midnight Club: This series is an open-world street-racing game set in virtual recreations of major world cities. Published in 2001, Road Road was followed shortly thereafter by Simpsons Hit & Run, which was less Crazy Taxi more Grand Theft Auto, and not nearly as good. The Simpsons Road Rage: Think of this game as a riff on Crazy Taxi, except you do it all with Simpsons characters, and while driving some of the weirdest and wildest cars from the beloved cartoon series. Gameplay is about fantasy, about doing things who would never do in the real world, and Carmageddon owns this space. If we were doing a top 11 list, Carmageddon would have made the cut. Otherwise, the gameplay is excellent and accurate to the film plot. ![]() This is every time we start the game system. Honorable MentionsĬarmageddon: Straight racing games are fun, but racing while crashing into each other and mowing down as many pedestrians as possible is arguably even more fun. Cars 2 is an excellent game, but if you have 3D on your TV, it tries to start in 3D mode, and you have to navigate to options while in 3D to turn off 3D mode and see anything. Credit this game with exploding the genre that Forza and others eventually entered. Later installments, of course, offered amazing graphics and hundreds of track and vehicle options, but back then it was less about how the cars looked and more about the selection, the ability to customize, and those amazing camera angles and sweeps in the replays. Honestly, it pushed the PlayStation to its limit. Gran Turismo 2 took the successful original concept of a polygon-based racing game from the first installment and exploded it with more cars, more tracks, and better graphics. ![]()
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