My top ten racing game titles all-time

[sablescort]

As a racing game fan, I have played a LOT of racing games on the Commode 64, Sega Saturn, NES, Windows 95, PSOne, PS2 and xbox,

My top ten all-time racing titles would be in no particular order:

1) Project Gotham Racing 2 (xbox)
2) Pro Race Driver (xbox)
3) Need for Speed 5 Porsche Unleashed (Windows 95)
4) Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec (PS2)
5) Gran Turismo 2 (PsOne)
6) Need for Speed II SE (Windows 95)
7) Sega GT 2002 (xbox)
8) Need for Speed 6 Hot Pursuit 2 (PS2)
9) Need for Speed 4 High Stakes (Windows 95)
10) Project Gotham Racing (xbox)

My top ten favorite in-game car models (I prefer to race real-licensed cars instead of made-up fantasy cars in my racing games) :

1) 1984 Nissan Skyline GT-R R30 Silhouette Formula (Gran Turismo 2)
2) Caterham 7 Classic (Project Gotham Racing 2)
3) Delfino Feroce (Project Gotham Racing 1)
4) 1988 Mazda RX7 Infini III (Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec)
5) 1998 McLaren F1 (Need for Speed 2 SE)
6) Holden HSV GTS Monaro (Need for Speed 6 Hot Pursuit 2)
7) 2004 Porsche Cayenne Turbo (Project Gotham Racing 2)
8) 1988 Porsche 944 Turbo S (Need for Speed 5 Porsche Unleashed)
9) 1978 Porsche 930 Turbo (Need for Speed 5 Porsche Unleashed)
10) 1967 Chevrolet Corvette L71 435/427 Roadster (Project Gotham Racing 2)


My top-ten favorite tracks to race (both real licensed race tracks and fantasy race tracks)

1) Nurburgring Nordschleife, Germany (Project Gotham Racing 2)
2) Mount Panorama Bathurst, Australia (Pro Race Driver)
3) Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway, California (Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec)
4) Brands Hatch Indy, England (Pro Race Driver)
5) Seattle, Washington (Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec)
6) Zone Industrelle (Need for Speed 5 Porsche Unleashed)
7) Corsica (Need for Speed 5 Porsche Unleashed)
8) Trial Mountain (Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec)
9) Grindelwald (Gran Turismo 2)
10) Route Adonf (Need for Speed 4 High Stakes)

 

[WhoCare]

Hi,,, I am big fan Need For Speed myself for 4 yrs.
I retired for Porsche Unleashed & High Stakes (love it).
I downloaded demo for Hot Pursuit 2 and its sucks!!!
I played Motorcity Online. Its #1 for me. I loved 1974 Firebird Formula and 1967 Cobra 427. Now EA closed MCO for no reason. When EA closed MCO, I started to retire NFS. I still pissed off at EA.
I have not play Underground yet because I am taking a night couses. I don't know how long I can play Underground.
You can visit www.needforbetterspeed.net.

I stopped racing for awhile but not know when I can back and play.

Did you play High Stakes online? my old persona was FollowMe and WhoCare.

 

[sablescort]

Hi,,, I am big fan Need For Speed myself for 4 yrs.
I retired for Porsche Unleashed & High Stakes (love it).
I downloaded demo for Hot Pursuit 2 and its sucks!!!
I played Motorcity Online. Its #1 for me. I loved 1974 Firebird Formula and 1967 Cobra 427. Now EA closed MCO for no reason. When EA closed MCO, I started to retire NFS. I still pissed off at EA.
I have not play Underground yet because I am taking a night couses. I don't know how long I can play Underground.
You can visit www.needforbetterspeed.net.

I stopped racing for awhile but not know when I can back and play.

Did you play High Stakes online? my old persona was FollowMe and WhoCare.

I did play some HS online but hadnt played on EA.com for both Porsche Unleashed and High Stakes since 2000. I m not sure if I raced against u online (pardon me since my memory's pretty rusty)

The reason why NFS6 HP2 sucked on PC was that EA Seattle did the PC version instead of EA Black Box (the developers of the PS2 version that didnt suck big time)

I had so much love for the NFS series in the past starting with the Road & Track presents Need For Speed on the Sega Saturn way back in '96. Nowadays I play more Project Gotham Racing 1 and 2 than the NFS series.

 

[WhoCare]

I using PC all the times. never try Xbox, PS2 blah blah.
Never try on that Project Gotham Racing series.

I am little old and raising my kids. I believe I can come back to play any racing games/online when kids finish high schools. HEHEHEE

 

[DeafSCUBA98]

i'm big fan of nascar thunder 2003

 

[WhoCare]

i'm big fan of nascar thunder 2003

Driving a-round, driving a-round like Merry-go-round.

Its cool graphic but which one EA or Sierra??
Have yu try race online with other ppl??

 

[WhoCare]

Hey sablescort, maybe someday we can play High Stakes with TCP/IP next month, March ??

WhoCare

 

[Steel X]

I dont play alot of racing games but I enjoyed Motor Racer on PSX, Mario Kart 64 and Diddy Kong Racing on N64.

 

[DeafSCUBA98]

Driving a-round, driving a-round like Merry-go-round.

Its cool graphic but which one EA or Sierra??
Have yu try race online with other ppl??

its EA sports... i don't have on-line service for my PS2.. anyway yeah its driving around and around and around.. but some tracks are not around and around.. like the walkin glens

 

[sablescort]

Hey sablescort, maybe someday we can play High Stakes with TCP/IP next month, March ??

WhoCare

I would, but unfortunately my PC at home died a long time ago and I lost my NFS collection along with my other Windows 95 game discs.

When I get my hands on another PC, I'll take you on someday if I can also grab a replacement for the NFS collection (right now they just released NFS 2 thru NFS6 HP2 in one package at the wally world)

 

[sablescort]

Oh one thing about NASCAR Thunder and NASCAR games in general....I did play NT 2002 with my PS2, but NASCAR games are not exactly my cup of tea since its mostly ovals with the expection of Watkins Glen and Infineon Sears Pointe Speedway. Besides the cars are just basically the same thing except for the body and engine.

some developer could figure a way to put in the 14 mile Nurburgring Nordschleife track in a NASCAR game but pigs will fly before that could be acheived (BTW I pulled off a 6:30 lap at the Nurburgring Nordschleife with a Porsche 911 GT1 in Project Gotham 2. That is only 15 seconds off the real-life lap record of 6:15 by a guy driving a Porsche race car in 1983 during the 24 hour race at the Nordschleife)

 

[WhoCare]

When I get my hands on another PC, I'll take you on someday if I can also grab a replacement for the NFS collection (right now they just released NFS 2 thru NFS6 HP2 in one package at the wally world)

Sure, I can wait. When you get NFS, Let me know and will send you some patches for improving grahpics, no lags in TCP/IP blah blah. I think there are 4 patches.

 

[WhoCare]

Sorry, There are 3 patches. I checked at Need For Better Speed in download page.

At Need For Better SPeed, there are really really good informations for everything for racing games.

 

[sablescort]

UPDATE:

Last night I picked up the sequel to "Pro Race Driver", "TOCA Race Driver 2".

I finally had a chance to compare 2 virtual versions of the Mazda Laguna-Seca raceway that is out in Montrerey, CA in real life.

As I remember the Laguna-Seca from Gran Turismo 2 and Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec, the "Corkscrew" S-bend in both Gran Turismo games were deeper and narrower. While playing TOCA Race Driver 2's version using the 1968 Mustang, I noticed a huge difference in the "Corkscrew" that it was higher and shallower. I also have to say something unusual about the lap times in both versions of the Laguna-Seca track..... Driving a Nissan Skyline GT-R R32 Nismo edition in GT3 A-Spec, my lap times were usually in the 1:20's, but with TOCA Race Driver 2 and the same 1968 Mustang, a lap was worth 1:17.xx.

I also have to say there was something really funny about TOCA Race Driver 2: ..... Racing big-ass Kenworth-type trucks (without trailers, mind ya). Trust me, the trucks were a bitch to drive on a narrow race track! Braking these mutha's take so long than a Ferrari can do! Not to mention the steering....figure it out, man.

The only thing I gotta bitch about TOCA Race Driver 2 (and same for Pro Race Driver 1) is the cutscenes aint got subtitles, but I dont care....all I wanna is race!