The Need For Speed franchise has attracted a growing number of critics over the years, not least EA itself, which has restructured its development of the games and split them between two development studios. This means ...

Los Angeles is huge. We can still remember the first time we flew into the place at night, just marvelling at the city lights below stretching to the visible horizon in every direction. And Rockstar has ...

Bringing a console game - particularly a racing one - to the PC is generally a road fraught with problems. For one, people have a horrible habit of taking PC racing games terribly seriously, which is ...

It's perhaps surprising, in a games market awash with four-wheel racers covering everything from Formula 1 to off-road and ‘street', that there have been so few games given over to motorised two-wheelers. Most of the time ...

The latest game in the evolution of the Race Driver (formerly known as TOCA) series makes some interesting tweaks to the standard racer formula. Perhaps the most novel concept is the addition of flashbacks. One minute ...

Some kids want to be astronauts. Others stunt bike riders. Or perhaps pilots. Of course, there are those who grow up with an ardent desire to become bus drivers. Well, there must be. The allure of ...

So who started messing around with the Burnout franchise? For four games up to this point, it's proven to be the finest action-packed arcade racer on the market. Blistering collisions. Bracing speed. Tremendous, exhilarating and without ...

Racing around various European cities sounds like fun, doesn't it? Flooring it down narrow Parisian streets, roaring past all those pavement café tables and upsetting everyone trying to enjoy their morning cup of sludge (we refuse ...

This reviewer still remembers his first go on Sega Rally in the arcades, all those years ago. Graphically it made for compelling viewing, but behind the wheel the actual handling was rather shocking. Whether driving on ...

Ask any speed freak and he'll tell you that race bikes are to race cars what snowboarding is to skiing: faster, more thrilling, more dangerous, more adrenaline-pumping and more on the edge. It's therefore no surprise ...

If you live anywhere near a city or motorway, odds are you're a big racing game fan. After spending hours in yet another painfully predictable snarl up on the M25/M6/M62 (delete as applicable), when you finally ...

A franchise that bides its time more than most in between iterations, the Colin McRae games have proved, over many versions, to be really something quite special. Colin McRae: Dirt is, thankfully, no exception. And the ...

If Resistance: Fall Of Man was the Playstation 3 launch title that got most people interested on day one, Motorstorm can't have been that far behind, certainly if the sales figures are anything to be believed. ...

Test Drive Unlimited declares itself to be more than just a racing game. It is, in fact, a racing lifestyle game. Which might sound like a load of old gimmickry, but it isn't. Atari has actually ...

Defying the supposed death of indie programming and taking on a genre that's regularly stamped with teams of artists, coders and designers that run into dozens, Australian group DownforceFX has set itself quite a task. Comprised ...

The great British buying public, of which this reviewer is a paid-up member (with the credit card bill to prove it) has, for the past few years, chosen to bestow the honour of Christmas Number One ...

Last year, when we first took the original GTR out for a spin on the medium (semi-pro) difficulty setting, we could have had Miss Daisy along for the ride, happily knitting away without dropping so much ...

Make no mistake about it, this is a cracker of a bike racing game. In fact, if it was Christmas, this would be one of those deluxe twelve packs of silver-plated crackers with not just party ...

Quietly chugging some way behind the leading pack of racing games, currently spearheaded on the PC by the likes of TOCA, the Ford Racing franchise has never won many plaudits, yet steadily satiates its fan base. ...

Full Auto on the Xbox 360 should, in principal, work. At its core, it aims to take the wild arcade racing of Burnout and add guns to the mix. It then throws in wanton destruction on ...