Joshua Morgan - Powerhouse Takahashi (Page 3)

The start menu for NASCAR Thunder 2004, with Tony Stewart doing a cool guy pose while in his white and orange Home Depot race suit.

BRGoF25

BRGoF25 - 20 Years The Prototype

Twenty-plus years on, the foundations that made NASCAR Thunder 2004 great still ring true with NASCAR 25 doing those things the right way in it's wake...

A blue, white and green Nissan GT-R LM NISMO race car crossing the finish line at a race, from the perspective of the flag man.

Gran Turismo

Memoirs of a GTWS Exhibition Series

So, on maybe a half hour worth of practice for each race, I did five of the six rounds of the championship in their last time slot. I was in it for the credits and to have a little fun, it was a Exhibition Series after all.

A open wheel racing car spinning off track at turn 9 of the Barcelona circuit. A plume of smoke hides the car as it heads towards the gravel trap.

Work of Fiction

A Work of Fiction - One Spin in Barcelona

A seemingly innocent spin would set the course for Alberto Cara, rookie teammate Fu Wen and how Yangwang has operated the entire season.

A loading screen from DiRT 2 that gives event details, with a polaroid snapshot of the next race location replaced with the GRiD title screen

BRGoF25

BRGoF25 - When Southam Ruled The World

..after getting their sea legs under them with their new game engine, it was time to put the hammer down and make the two best racing games the Southam-based developer and publisher has ever made.

Project Motor Racing

Project Motor Racing has a Nazi Problem

If there is one Nazi game developer in the room with ten other people working with them, how many Nazi game developers are there on the team?

The title menu for Wipeout Fusion, edited to be black and white.

BRGoF25

BRGoF25 - The Wipeout That Lost It's Way

It it a mastery of environmental storytelling never seen in racing games before, or since.

Four cars lined up side by side at the start of a race in Burnout 2: Point of Impact. They are about to drive across a dam at the Crystal Summit Lake track.

BRGoF25

BRGoF25 - The Honorable Mentions

Both this game and the game it got one-upped by left nothing on the table when it comes to expressing the racing condition it wanted to express.

The start of a GT World Challenge race at the Nurburgring, with a swarm of GT3 cars under braking for the first turn. The photo has been edited to be black and white.

Opinions

The Realities Facing The Desire for Racing Sims To Go Mainstream

With that in mind, would a AAA publisher want to greenlight a hyper-realistic racer or "racing sim" with those expectations that it must overcome?

A screenshot of Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2010 showing a red and white stripped Ford GT side by side with a Lamborghini Reventon police car.

Announcements

BRGoF25 - An Introduction

Welcome to BRGoF25, a look at the Best Racing Games of the First 25 years of the 21st century.

Project CARS

In Memoriam: Project CARS 3

I can't think of any other racing game that should be talked about in death in this way: because I have never seen a racing game so utterly wronged in it's birth, and in life.

NASCAR

Is there NASCAR Life on Mars?

Simply put, we are not racing on Earth anymore.

Ridge Racer

One More Win - A Love Letter to The Racing Game Made With Love

The team at Namco made Ridge Racer Type 4 the way they wanted it to be from the very beginning: crisp and cool with immediately recognizable shapes and colors in the menus and in the liveries of the teams you race for.