BEST car games ever (NEW & OLD)

RedHotGT · 01-10-2008, 10:28 PM

Some memories were brought back to me from another thread, so its motivated me to ask a question in this thread.....

Best Car Game (OLD - Pre 2000) - STUNTS
Best Car Game (NEW - Post 2000) - GRAND TURISMO 4

I was a massive fan of STUNTS on PC (circa 1990s) which you could make your own stunt tracks consisting of jumps, loop to loops, and all sorts of weird and wonderful turns and chicanes... there was a heap of glitches in the game too which enabled some pretty amazing things to happen....
I can remember driving the Lamborghini Countach up a bridge ramp one day, and for some reason the nose just picked up into the air, and I was driving vertically!!! Eventually I came back down nose first and KAPOW... game over.... Looked awesome on the replay that I saved....
Notable mention to Test Drive 3 - first game that I can think of that was like a roadmap and you could explore properly off the road....
Also notable mention to Daytona USA (Arcade)... made in 1994 - still makes more money in pinball parlours than most of the new games... and still awesome with 4+ mates onboard....

Grand Turismo would be perfect if they could do car damage like Carmageddon, V8 supercars, or Grand Theft Auto.
Other than that.............. its pretty spot on......
I havent really played a lot of the new car games, but TEST DRIVE UNLIMITED is pretty damn good.... the whole map of Hawaii..... heaps and heaps of cars to buy, hire, steal... as well as the whole real-estate thing...
Good fun...
GRAND THEFT AUTO also a notable mention, basically for the amount of stuff you can do, and the cars you can drive (though carefully avoiding lawsuits with their parodies of names of cars... I'm sure the Patriot is a Hummer etc)

Anyways, I could go on all day.................................

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I feel like I have................... but what are your opinions fellas??

snappy · 01-10-2008, 10:41 PM

street rod 2

**Peuty** · 01-10-2008, 10:44 PM

Need For Speed II SE

zetec · 01-10-2008, 10:49 PM

Stunts was MAD!!! My first ever driving game on the 486 DX33!!!!

Now I reckon it's GT4 for outright driving quality, or Test Drive Unlimited for graphics, breadth and sheer size.

pauljh74 · 01-10-2008, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by loftie

I was a massive fan of STUNTS on PC (circa 1990s) which you could make your own stunt tracks consisting of jumps, loop to loops, and all sorts of weird and wonderful turns and chicanes... there was a heap of glitches in the game too which enabled some pretty amazing things to happen....
I can remember driving the Lamborghini Countach up a bridge ramp one day, and for some reason the nose just picked up into the air, and I was driving vertically!!! Eventually I came back down nose first and KAPOW... game over.... Looked awesome on the replay that I saved....

With the Indy car, it would only go up to about 75% revs in top gear, but if you hit a jump or something, it would hit top revs in top gear and the car would be going about 240MPH.

The Colin McRae rally series was pretty good.
Sports Car GT was good too - apparently the people who made that are the same people responsible for RFactor. NFS Porsche was one of my favourites in the NFS series. I'm getting a Logitech G25 soon
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/ga...s/131&cl=au,en
and getting hold of all these driving sims I couldn't play properly with a keyboard - and I do pretty well on the keyboard on the arcade style games.

zetec · 01-10-2008, 11:38 PM

I just got my G25 and it works on both my PS2 and PC. GT4 is simply breathtaking now, and the PC has a new lease on life also with RFactor really awesome and realistic.

The best of them all is WRC Rally Evolved with the wheel. It adds a whole new level of challenge and is soo addictive!!

DJL351 · 01-10-2008, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by zetec

Stunts was MAD!!! My first ever driving game on the 486 DX33!!!!

Now I reckon it's GT4 for outright driving quality, or Test Drive Unlimited for graphics, breadth and sheer size.

Ah ha! I had the DX2 66 but was out done by another mate with his DX4 100

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GORDZ · 02-10-2008, 12:05 AM

Live For Speed (.com) is the only game (pc) i'll bother playing, because it's the only game that makes me feel like i'm driving a car. Still in production, but it's already got clutch temps, deforming tyres, wind, fuel, pit stops, damage, clutch support and THE best online multiplayer of any driving game.

Free demo download at www.liveforspeed.net well worth it.

xy500 · 02-10-2008, 12:18 AM

man gran turismo is way above any another car game i've played, could only be better if it wasnt so biased towards jap cars like skylines.

Rob · 02-10-2008, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by pauljh74

With the Indy car, it would only go up to about 75% revs in top gear, but if you hit a jump or something, it would hit top revs in top gear and the car would be going about 240MPH.

Think that worked with the Porsche 962 as well, if you hit the fence at high speed it'd just stick at that speed on any surface.

Fev · 02-10-2008, 09:58 AM

Gran turismo 2 was awesome when it came out(over 500 cars)

Test Drive 2 was pretty good, played that one alot

NFS Hot Pursuit i loved, would just drive around tracks for hours jumpin my porsche lol

GT4 is a well detailed game but it lacks excitement in my books. For exciting games i'd go NFS Underground 2 or Carbon. the latest one was absolute rubbish, full of glitches etc etc

ch33z1l · 02-10-2008, 11:27 AM

Colin McRae DiRT isn't bad if u like rally games. Graphics are pretty cool Drive into a rock wall and loose rocks at the top of the wall fell down through my windscreen.

Road Wars on PC, Project Gotham on Xbox,

EF Hoon · 02-10-2008, 11:36 AM

GT2 for pre 2000, and forza motorsport for post 2000.

ive played gt4 and it has nothing on forza motorsport, not sure about the second version though, but the first is awesome.

Ghosti · 02-10-2008, 11:44 AM

Forza MS2 is the best racing game out at the moment imo.

DBourne · 02-10-2008, 11:48 AM

simulation: live for speed
fun: Grid (graphics are tops and the wheel spinning is awesome)
things to do: test drive unlimited

GORDZ · 02-10-2008, 11:56 AM

yep totally with you on those ones sgtbourne!

As for my old pick, who has heard of VERY old game called 'Quarantine'?

Basically you're a taxi driver, you earn fares, you can race poeple, run them over, etc. oh, and the taxi has inbuilt machine guns and springs capable of launching the car...

ten[A]cio[U]s · 02-10-2008, 12:12 PM

I am really getting into the NFS Pro Street. Its got me hooked actually.. I lot of fun and its getting pretty realistic for a NFS too!

BOTTLEDUP · 02-10-2008, 12:26 PM

Stunts would have to be my pick of the early driving games, so many cars and almost unlimited tracks! I think I ended up with about 500 or so which I'd made myself. Grand Prix Legends was another favourite of mine, the sound of 1967 grand prix cars was fantastic! Test Drive 3 was a landmark for not having to follow a 'set' track, (ok you were limited to where you could go) but the physics simulation let the side down.

On console my faves are the original Gran Turismo, GT4 and Forza 2. GTA isn't really a car game but you have sooooo much fun driving in it!

BOTTLEDUP · 02-10-2008, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by GORDZ

As for my old pick, who has heard of VERY old game called 'Quarantine'?

Basically you're a taxi driver, you earn fares, you can race poeple, run them over, etc. oh, and the taxi has inbuilt machine guns and springs capable of launching the car...

I remember that! I couldn't ever get past the first 'level' but the first few times I played I was in stiches, I found it so funny. Remember the portaloos called 'Dump A Lump'

OJ_Pursuit · 02-10-2008, 12:41 PM

I used to love playing Chase HQ at the arcades (old favourite)

Gran Turismo 3 I found really addictive when it was a new game.

I have a bunch of car racing games that are still new and unplayed, as I haven't had
time to sit down and get into them much these days. But I will soon.

ogtrip · 02-10-2008, 12:55 PM

Yea stunts was sick.....

GORDZ · 02-10-2008, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by BOTTLEDUP

I remember that! I couldn't ever get past the first 'level' but the first few times I played I was in stiches, I found it so funny. Remember the portaloos called 'Dump A Lump'

haha dump a lump yeah! ima google it see if i can download. nostalgia plus!

alecrain · 02-10-2008, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by GORDZ

Live For Speed (.com) is the only game (pc) i'll bother playing, because it's the only game that makes me feel like i'm driving a car. Still in production, but it's already got clutch temps, deforming tyres, wind, fuel, pit stops, damage, clutch support and THE best online multiplayer of any driving game.

Free demo download at www.liveforspeed.net well worth it.

I agree with Gordz, the LFS is amazingly realistic, and free to play (3 out of ~20 cars). The physics are incredible.

I also love GTAs, for the freedom and handling and damage and..... just love it.

For the oldie I'd vote for the Driver (the original), it really made you work for it.

Dezza · 02-10-2008, 01:38 PM

GT4 and RFactor are 2 of my favourite new games in terms of realism. For overall fun, it's hard to beat the GTA series and Flatout 2 (very Carmageddonish style of game)

For the older games, my favourites are NFS3: Hot Pursuit and Carmageddon. With Carmageddon, the graphics aren't great (but the attention to detail of cars and tracks is excellent) but it is awesome fun, is well ahead of it's time with damage modelling and car upgrades, and is insanely addictive. I still play them.

FlipXW · 02-10-2008, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by alecrain

For the oldie I'd vote for the Driver (the original), it really made you work for it.

I still play this on the old playstation. Very fun game.

Riksta · 02-10-2008, 02:01 PM

Let's see.

In no particular order:

- Street Rod (1 & 2)
- Test Drive (on the C64!)
- Test Drive Unlimited
- GTR2 / RFactor / GT Legends (all use the same game engine, love the realism)
- Flatout 2 (school bus in a demolition derby ftw! - was hooked at this for a few LANs in a row).
- 1NSANE (didn't get much press or anything but was a lot of fun)
- Ignition (kinda like lil mini micro machines racing)
- Fatal Racing / Whiplash (was the same game marketed under 2 different names)

And not sure whether it classes as a "Cars" game, but was hooked on Monster Truck Madness for months in the old original Pentium computer days!

GORDZ · 02-10-2008, 02:36 PM

- GTR2 / RFactor / GT Legends (all use the same game engine, love the realism)

yes, an engine that has a disgracefull crash engine.. have you not tried Live for Speed seeing you are into these games??

1NSANE was a hell of alot of fun, and AFAIK the only game you can bend your car in half?

Fatal racing, wow that was old, and as a kid I only ever had the demo, but stock car racing with 200feet jumps is always going to suck a kid in =)

How about the WORST car games ever??

EA Sports V8 Supercar challenge gets my vote... sit in the car stationary, turn the wheel, and the car rotates on the spot! hahaha.

Fev · 02-10-2008, 03:02 PM

hahah but so does GT2 and GT3 :P

Driver was an awesome game, i used to love fanging it around in the old Chevy SS 2doors and watch the hubcaps roll down the steer hehehe and then run from the cops into carparks etc and do cool chases and stuff. was a great game when it was 100% car based

loxxr6 · 02-10-2008, 03:27 PM

Spy Hunter on C64 (maybe?).

Cars with guns, oil slicks, smoke clouds and the ability to drive and become other vehicles (boats/bikes). Really basicly but a lot of fun (back then).

Gran Turismo - can't not include that.

Sega Rally/Daytona USA - both good.

Test Drive back in the days wasn't bad either. Stunts was cool too. The original bunch of Need for Speeds too were cool back then.

loxxr6 · 02-10-2008, 03:30 PM

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How about the WORST car games ever??

EA Sports V8 Supercar challenge gets my vote... sit in the car stationary, turn the wheel, and the car rotates on the spot! hahaha.

Any car game on PS2/3 that makes you use the friggin stick things on the controller to move/accelerate. It sucks. I'm sure v8 supercars was like this. I can't remember being able to change the config on it....