Best Driving Game
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Driving games are a staple of every gaming platform. Highly approachable and purely thrilling at their best, driving games can be recommended to a broad audience. Some driving games strive for intense realism, while others shoot for pure thrills; but all attempt to keep you on the edge of your seat as you play. The following are our finalists for Best Driving Game of 2006.
The Burnout series was welcomed into the next gen with this intense, crash-happy Xbox 360 port of the popular Xbox/PS2 game. White-knuckle driving and teeth-chattering crashes don't get much more intense than this.
The Burnout series was welcomed into the next gen with this intense, crash-happy Xbox 360 port of the popular Xbox/PS2 game. White-knuckle driving and teeth-chattering crashes don't get much more intense than this.
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The racing events in Test Drive Unlimited are fine, but there's also something to be said for driving around in the meticulously re-created virtual version of Oahu and simply enjoying the scenery.
The racing geeks at SimBin followed up last year's brilliant GTR with the even-better GTR 2. Its decided focus on intense wheel-to-wheel action and realism hearken back to the glory days of PC racing dominance.
A Sony launch without an entry in this seminal console racing series? That's like a hairpin corner in Ridge Racer 7 without a hair-raising drift to go along with it. Ridge Racer 7 stays true to the long-standing formula with enough new additions to keep it fun.
Codemasters' third Race Driver entry delivers more of what the series has been known for: excellent racing AI, challenging physics, and enough car and race types to keep speed freaks busy for a good long time.
