The varied career mode and pumping soundtrack were the cherries on top. RalliSport Challenge, and later a sequel, is what they came up with. What made this game special was its variety. There were enjoyable stages set in Africa akin to the Safari rally and even the bonus of rallycross and hillclimb events too. An often over-looked gem. The third entry by Codemasters on this list, but forgive us seeing as it has released 11 rally-themed games across the last 23 years.
No crazy online modes or gymkhana here. Just some stages and a small selection of classic rally cars. Over time it evolved and was released as a finished game in for PC or console.
Thankfully, the game was a success and filled the rally simulator niche. DiRT Rally 2. It included fast and flowing Scottish stages and the best sounding rally car ever — no arguments — the Subaru Legacy. In total, five were produced although sadly one made it outside of the PAL region. Motorcycle racing is inherently exciting - the lean angles, suicidal overtakes and acceleration rates just make for a great spectator sport.
And Italian superbike specialists Milestone really nail that feeling of terror and bravery of being on a factory MotoGP bike. The Codemasters F1 games are obviously a big inspiration, to put it politely, but the upshot for anyone playing it is a layer of career simulation on top of the racing.
Work your way up through slower categories, build a reputation, and hold out for that big team ride. It's not a cheap habit, but it will please serious racers. That's only half the story, though. The sheer volume of user-created mods is enormous, and while the focus is on Formula One throughout the years those with an itch to be scratched in DTM, WTCC, GT racing and other open wheelers will be satiated too.
Hot Pursuit is a driving game frozen in a particularly special time for arcade racers. The purest essence of Need for Speed before the series went all open-world, it delivers exactly what the title promises, in race after race, with no downtime.
Enjoy the simple life as you aim a European exotic down a stretch of hauntingly beautiful Pacific coast highway with a train of police cars following in your wake. It's aged like an oak-smoked A-lister too. The roadside textures and car poly counts might not be able to compete directly with the latest releases, but the overall aesthetic in Hot Pursuit still looks luxurious.
And above all, fast. At least half your time in My Summer Car is spent outside of a car. It all begins with a note from your parents telling you to rebuild the junked car in your garage. From there you construct a driveable, moddable vehicle down to the most minute nuts and bolts, teaching you exactly what an exhaust manifold looks like and what happens when it rattles loose along a lakeside single lane road at 70mph.
Car ownership has never felt more satisfying and personal in driving games than in this slightly janky but beautifully esoteric builder-meets-racer. Venerated for decades and still playable in , Grand Prix 3 was a turning point in racing games.
Grand Prix 3 was a new level of fidelity. It modelled things like tyre wear, wet weather grip, and tiny setup tweaks - things that games had only been able to approximate in the broadest manner previously. Simply put, it felt like sitting inside a Formula One car. And to look back on today as a playable museum piece, it has the added incentive of capturing the sport at an especially exciting time, when legends like Schumacher and Hakkinen were battling for top spot and previous champions Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve struggled at the back of the pack.
This is the descendant of SimBin's once-mighty racing empire. Think of it as GTR Online: it's the ruthlessly-authentic car sim you remember, but retooled for online free-to-play.
Is the latest WRC game one of the best rally games ever? Written by Curtis Moldrich. Well, it has some competition. Let's see if it can make it into our top seven Richard Burns Rally. Named after another great British rally champion, Richard Burns Rally isn't as well known as its McRae counterpart — but it should be.
Released in on the PS2, Xbox and PC, it combined achingly pretty graphics with some of the most realistic handling and physics models ever seen in a rally game. Despite being released over a decade ago, Richard Burns Rally is still being played, and has been updated and modified every year by a dedicated online community.
Originally designed to be an offline only game, modders even gave Richard Burns Rally a fully featured online mode, years after release. Skip to Content. The rally sport is considered the highest art of driving and so we have been honored with numerous video game titles in the last few decades that represent this point of view.
Terrifying terrain and the need to drive from start to finish in the shortest possible time have always been the source of inspiration for this sport. Fortunately, there are also a few games that hold all the fascination of the sport and are still outside the racing norm.
We are introducing you to four of our favorite rally games that look at the sport from a different angle. Dakar Dakar is not that far removed from the classic rally experience, but anyone who knows the event knows how crazy the race in the desert is. Big Moon Studios bring the annual madness to our screens without forgetting the challenge of inhospitable terrain.
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