Archive for the ‘Racing Games’ Category

DiRT 3 Complete Edition

Posted on Mar 9, 2012 02:00:01 AM

DiRT 3 Complete Edition will see DiRT 3, Gamespot’s ‘Racing Game of the Year’ and rated 87 on Metacritic, expanded with 12 new routes across two locations, new cars and a range of liveries (via download on PC) to deliver the definitive version of the ultimate off-road racer.

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SSX Launch Trailer

Posted on Feb 29, 2012 11:05:16 AM

SSX is a terrific evolution of the series that delivers extreme snowboarding thrills like no game before it.

     

Those who have played past SSX titles will jump right back into hitting all of their favorite moves. New users should definitely look to take the training course; with practice, like a lot of things, it may not be anywhere near perfect, but you’ll get it eventually (maybe). Or you can do what I did and just play every course with your flying-squirrel-like “wingsuit”. Who cares about points when you can soar down the mountain at blistering speeds like Batman on a snowboard?

Score: 8.5 / great


SSX Review” was posted by Carolyn Petit on Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:59:16 -0800

Bang Bang Racing – Multiplayer

Posted on Feb 22, 2012 01:59:36 AM

Speed your way along every course while fine-tuning your technical driving skills.

The intuitive control system and the exciting tracks provide endless fun for every member of the family. Be fast, be furious and be one step ahead of your competitors by finding shortcuts, repairing your car in the pit lane, dominating your opponents from the top-down view and more!


Obstacles and Multiplayer Gameplay Trailer – Bang Bang Racing” was posted by erickt on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:59:36 -0800

Off Road And Off Their Meds: Mad Riders

Posted on Feb 16, 2012 08:00:13 PM

Techland are a developer famous to different people for different things. Some know them as the people behind the Call Of Juarez series, others for last year’s very decent Dead Island, and others still as the racing game team who gave us Nail’d. (Oddly though, they don’t seem to know this about themselves, with a website that doesn’t mention the latter two games at all.) It’s in their racing guise that they offer Mad Riders (also not mentioned on their site), an Ubisoft published off-road arcade racer that just about gets a mention on their site.

I say “just about”, as the their site”>UK version of that page lists it as an XBLA game with a release date of “COMIN”. It seems more accurate information straight from Ubi reveals it to be coming out on PC, XBLA and PSN in the Spring. Nowhere, from its trailer, the email, press release, nor the website, seems to want to say the word “quadbike”, but the trailer seems to indicate that’s what you’re riding on here.


Off Road And Off Their Meds: Mad Riders” was posted By John Walker on February 15th, 2012 at 11:59 am

Little Racers STREET

Posted on Feb 14, 2012 02:00:01 AM

As a follow up to their 2009 XBLIG racing game, Little Racers, Milkstone Studios have just released Little Racers: Street.

     

Unsurprisingly, this one takes place on streets, and it looks like it’s quite fun.

The camera viewpoint is vaguely reminiscent of the Micro Machines games. The cars actually look like they are normal sized to me, just with the camera zoomed out really far. Perhaps it’s taking place in a model city…It’s available now for 80 MS points, with a free demo.

The career mode provides hours of fun, challenging races. You need to tune your car and earn money to get the most wanted cars. Pursuit the top ranked drivers and become the best in the world! Underground urban racing has never been so much fun!


Little Racers Street Screens” was posted on Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:00:01 -0800

Ridge Racer Unbounded Is Coming

Posted on Nov 3, 2011 08:29:33 PM

Bugbear Entertainment’s destruction-focused take on Namco Bandai racer franchise crashes onto Xbox 360, PS3, and PC early next year.

Namco Bandai has been overhauling its Ridge Racer franchise, and the results are almost ready for a road test. The publisher today announced that Ridge Racer Unbounded has been given a North American launch date of March 6, 2012.

Developed by Bugbear Entertainment, Unbounded takes the circuit-racing franchise onto city streets with a new emphasis on havoc and destruction. Players will be able to choose how they race through cities, both in designing the city layouts and opting to take shortcuts through storefronts when expedient.

Bugbear’s previous work includes the FlatOut series of demolition derby racers for Empire Interactive, which featured minigames requiring the player to crash such that the car’s driver would be ejected through the front windshield and into targets, such as a set of giant bowling pins. The studio also developed the PSP edition of Sega Rally Revo in 2007.

Unbounded will be the first installment in the Ridge Racer series to appear on the PC, and the first to hit consoles since the 2006 release of Ridge Racer 7, a PS3 launch title. However, the series hasn’t been completely dormant in the meantime. It debuted on the iPhone in 2009 with Ridge Racer Accelerated, and Ridge Racer 3DS launched alongside Nintendo’s newest handheld in March.


Ridge Racer Unbounded on March 6” was posted by Brendan Sinclair on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:29:33 -0700

GTAV —– IT’S COMING!!!

Posted on Oct 26, 2011 06:12:26 PM

Rockstar sequel rumored to put players in control of a handful of characters, return to the sunny part of the West Coast.

Individual Grand Theft Auto releases have traditionally put players in the role of a singular protagonist. A recent report suggests the next entry in the series may provide a few different playable perspectives on the game’s story, while returning to familiar territory with its setting.

Yesterday’s announcement of Rockstar’s latest provided nothing more than a logo, but citing a “source familiar with the game,” Kotaku reports the game will purportedly use Los Angeles as its city of inspiration and will feature more than one protagonist. It would not be the first time Rockstar turned to LA for ideas, as the West Coast metropolis loomed large as a clear muse for the fictional California microcosm of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

While GTAV could be the first title in the series to tell its primary story through multiple characters, the idea isn’t entirely unprecedented. Grand Theft Auto IV focused on the story of Niko Bellic, but subsequent expansions depicted Liberty City from the viewpoints of two more characters. The Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories PSP games also returned to cities from the main console versions of the series, but with new characters driving the story.

This is not the first suggestion that GTAV could return to an LA-inspired setting. In March, reports linked a casting call for voice roles in an interactive project codenamed “Rush” to Rockstar’s next game. Those listings described a motley crew of California characters, including the return of GTA: San Andreas character James Pedeaston.

Whatever the setting, it’s likely to be revealed soon. The first GTAV trailer is set to be released November 2.


GTAV puts multiple protagonists in fictional LA – Report” was posted by Jonathan Downin on Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:12:26 -0700

Were Christina Hendricks’ breasts made smaller in this video game?

Posted on Oct 19, 2011 06:06:34 PM

There’s a lot to look forward to in Need For Speed: The Run. They’ve got Porsches, an interesting plot, and, oh, did we forget to mention a completely digital Christina Hendricks? That’s a lot of polygons. But doesn’t it feel like something’s missing?

Electronic Arts, the game’s producers, are going to let the (mostly) guys who play these action racing games gawk at a digitized version of Christine Hendricks — famous for being the busty redhead from Mad Men and the busty redhead from Drive. We only have one photo of Hendricks in the game, but it’s hard to ignore her uncanny valley is a little less uncanny.

If that’s the case, it’ll be a first video games, which has a strange habit of giving women completely unworkable anatomy. (Ahem, Lara Croft.)

But more importantly than seeing a fake version of Hendricks, you’ll get to hear the real thing as she whispers commands into your earhole. Get ready for the sexiest gaming voiceover since Betty White appeared on Hollywood Squares.


Were Christina Hendricks’ breasts made smaller in this video game?” was posted By Matt Hardigree on Oct 18, 2011 3:00 PM

Liberty City Becomes a Beautiful NYC In This Stunning GTA Mod

Posted on Oct 19, 2011 10:48:40 AM

Impressive Grand Theft Auto IV mods are nothing new, but this one—which turns the fictional Liberty City into a very real, very beautiful New York City—is really impressive.

OK, so here’s what it does: First up, it replaces advertising and store signs with ones you’d actually find in the Big Apple. But it also greatly improves the game’s visuals in just about every respect.

The mod’s creator, Gionight, says that it’s “just a beast visually” and yet doesn’t “eat much resources at the same time”.

If you’ve got GTAIV on PC, you can download it from the link below.

Gionights’s Best ENB Final


Liberty City Becomes a Beautiful NYC In This Stunning GTA Mod” was posted By Luke Plunkett Sep 9, 2011 5:30 AM

DreamWorks Super Star Kartz

Posted on Oct 7, 2011 08:30:01 AM

DreamWorks Super Star Kartz is a kart-racing game in which you compete with characters from animated DreamWorks movies.

     

The publisher has announced Super Star Kartz, a kart racer starring characters from Dreamworks films including Shrek, Madagascar, How To Train Your Dragon and Monsters Vs Aliens. It will be released for DS, 3DS, Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 before the end of the year.


DreamWorks Super Star Kartz Screens” was posted on Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:30:01 -0700