# Your favourite driving games
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 26, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600 "2007-03-26T20:22:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/1 "2007-03-26T20:22:17Z")
Having finally bought a car, I found out I like driving much, much faster than I actually can. Therefore, I decided to be a calm and relaxed driver in real life, and to get my high speed fix using games. What are your favourite driving games?
Me, I have _Colin McRae 2004_ and it’s quite nice but I’m not keen on rally: I prefer speed racing. On the other side it has cars that are not your usual Ferraris and Lamborghinis, but more common ones, like the Subaru Impreza and even the Fiat Punto! 🙂
I’d like to find a driving game that is not too much of a management simulation (I want to drive, not deal with team management), that does not only have supercars (they’re OK in, but I want to see something I could happen to afford in real life - hey, is there any game with Skodas and Vauxhalls? 🙂 ) and, most important of all, with opponents that do not go on rails whatever happens and take the same path even when you’re overtaking them. Suggestions are appreciated!
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### Author:  [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/2 "2007-03-26T20:27:05Z")
My personal favorite is Flat Out. I enjoy the multiplayer demolition derby aspect. LAN parties of 8 people trying to crash into each other are great!
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### Author:  [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/3 "2007-03-26T20:29:18Z")
My kid’s favorite is “Slug Bug”. Whenever you see a VW Bug, you yell out “Slug Bug!” Loves that game.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/4 "2007-03-26T20:48:53Z")
From the arcade era, these were some favorite of mine:
Spy Hunter
Bump N Jump
The Great 1000 Mile Rally
RoadBlasters
Mad Gear
These have all been ported to the MAME system.
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### Author:  [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/5 "2007-03-26T21:13:31Z")
Is it too dumb to mention GT4?
I’m not sure if you are playing on a computer or console system, though.
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### Author:  [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/6 "2007-03-26T21:21:36Z")
[QUOTE=Necros]
I’m not sure if you are playing on a computer or console system, though.
[/QUOTE]
Sorry, I should have mentioned. I hav a PC with an Athlon 2200+ and a GeForce 4 MX 440. So the Slug Bug game is not really what I’m looking for! 🙂
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### Author:  [@joemama24\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joemama24_98)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/7 "2007-03-26T21:30:16Z")
[QUOTE=Necros]
Is it too dumb to mention GT4?
I’m not sure if you are playing on a computer or console system, though.
[/QUOTE]
The Burnout series on the consoles…
…more like crashing games than driving games, but insane fun.
The old Carmageddon series on the PC - no other games gets you a “Piledriver bonus” for smashing a pedestrian up against a building. I’m not into gore or anything, but the animantions of exploding people and limbs flying everywhere were really just funny in an overdone kinda way.
And Need for Speed II - one of the first PC games to support 3D hardware. I bought a 3DFX Voodoo card just to play it. It was beautiful, and a lot of fun, especially once you networked it and got some of the unlockables. The supercharged school buses were a riot.
And who could forget Rad Racer on the NES? I spent way too much of my childhood on that game.
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### Author:  [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/8 "2007-03-26T22:32:35Z")
I don’t drive-- never had a license-- so I love Carmageddon and Burnout Revenge and such things. I’m a virtual menace.
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### Author:  [@el\_nombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/el_nombre)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/9 "2007-03-26T22:45:09Z")
R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 /w the Jogcon controller. It was a controller with a little wheel that you steered with your thumbs. The wheel even had realistic force feed back. Everyone I know hated that controller but it and I somehow became one.
I wish I never traded it in.
The first F-zero also brings back good memories.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/10 "2007-03-26T23:05:00Z")
I always liked [Quarantine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_%28computer_game%29) for the 3DO. You’re a taxidriver in a city where most of the population is violently insane. It’s first person, and you use the money you get from carrying people to buy armor and guns for your cab. I always had a soft spot for the nuke with a smiley-face on it you used for the last mission.
I also like the Grand Theft Auto games, but I realized that they weren’t that good a guide to driving when I noticed I was constantly shortcutting to Azuka by driving full speed off an overpass and hopping out of the car after it crashed.
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### Author:  [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/11 "2007-03-27T02:13:01Z")
I haven’t played GT4, but I liked Gran Turismo 3. The physics are absolutely amazing, especially with a force-feedback wheel, and the tracks are good. It does have some regular, cheap cars as well as supercars. On the downside, the racing isn’t great. There’s no damage or penalties and the cars aren’t smart. Often the easiest way to win a race is at the first corner when everybody is bunched up; you just dive fast down the inside and bounce off.
The real problem I had though was in the tuning. It’s great but it takes too much time. For a given series, you have to get a car just right for it to be fun. A few seconds a lap makes it impossible to win, or conversely to lose. You have to do a bunch of tweaking and testing every time. I never got very far in the main racing part of the game. An alternative would be to just make the fastest cars you can, and keep going until it starts to get difficult regardless, but that means you blow through a bunch of races with no challenge or fun. I would have preferred if they had provided some default cars and setups for the various series.
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### Author:  [@ChessPieceFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChessPieceFace)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/12 "2007-03-27T02:20:53Z")
Carmageddon II for classic cartoon ultraviolence on the PC. Burnout 3 for incredible speed and spectacular crashes on the consoles.
Gran Turismo I find slow and boring. Burnout Revenge added too much extraneous stuff, and sucked all the fun out of the Crash Junctions for me.
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/13 "2007-03-27T03:07:50Z")
If it’s pretending to drive a ‘realistic’ car, I love Forza Motorsport for the Xbox, with a wheel. (goddamn madcatz wheel died before it’s time) Right out the gate you have a LOT of cars available, and a good selection of tracks…including Nürburgring, which made me giggle like a schoolgirl. I would _kill_ to drive a real car round the 'ring.
Don’t downplay the input method. If you truely want to drive the car, you can’t do it with a mouse, keyboard, or joystick.
I also really dug RallySport challenge, also for the first xbox.
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### Author:  [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/14 "2007-03-27T03:32:28Z")
Fkat Out and Simpson’s Hit and run… (Hit and run is one of my very fave games, driving or not)
regards
FML
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### Author:  [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2007, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/15 "2007-03-27T11:52:36Z")
Carmageddon:TDR 2000. Includes little screams as you run over pedestrians!
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2007, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/16 "2007-03-27T12:45:33Z")
Chicken
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### Author:  [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/17 "2007-03-27T14:06:59Z")
I owned an N64 instead of a Playstation back in the day, so the selection of “real” driving games was pretty limited. A couple of average F1 games, one horrible one (F1 Pole Position). But my favorite was the Grand Turismo-esque World Drivers Championship. They didn’t pay for real car licenses but had a nice selection of knockoffs and lots of interesting tracks and an excellent soundtrack. It took some patience early on to learn to drive the crappy cars you are allowed to start with as a rookie, but as you build points the better cars are made available.
But the greatest driving game of all time: Grand Prix Legends, by a lap at the Nürbürgring’s Nordschleife.
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### Author:  [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/18 "2007-03-27T15:08:08Z")
Thirding Flatout and Flatout 2.
Both games are excellent for a random “hop in and drive (or crash your opponents if you like that better)” games. 1 drives silky smooth and flooooows through the curves, 2 is a more realistic bumpy-almost-offroad-total-madness experience.
And, an oldie but goodie; Ignition. Almost top-down 3d racing with cute tiny cars and gorgeous landscapes. Problem is, it only runs on very old (pre-2000) versions of windows or just plain DOS.
Maybe I ought to go tinker with dosbox. That game rocked.
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### Author:  [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/19 "2007-03-27T15:10:07Z")
Rad Racer, though that game his zero margin of error.
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-driving-games/397600/20 "2007-03-27T15:10:33Z")
There is a recent, amazing driving game. It’s a sequel, 2, I think. For the PC. And I can NOT remember the name. Racing game.
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