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DiRT 2
As we moved from the last generation of consoles to the current one, Colin McRae Rally became Colin McRae DiRT. Codemasters saw the opportunity to branch this offshoot from the Colin McRae's Rally series when it became clear that racing fans had a broader range of off-road racing tastes than just the arcade-sim World Rally Championship style of the older series. DiRT delivered a thrilling melange of off road racing gameplay styles, but many thought the handling had lost something.
Colin McRae DiRT 2 has addressed those problems, and delvers a mix of traditional Rally style racing with a selection of other off-road gameplay styles. Apart from the classic stage-based Rally style race, there's Trail Blazer which sees you blasting along cliff edges and mountain tracks in long high-speed races in China, Morocco and Utah, USA. Rally Cross is taken straight from DiRT and features dramatic wheel-to-wheel circuit racing on tight courses in London, England and LA. Land Rush brings a host of vehicles together for thrilling multi-class racing on short circuits full of jumps and drop-offs. Raid is extreme Rally, with huge point-to-point courses, littered with rocks, trenches and trees.
DiRT 2 has powerful vehicle customisation features including gear ratios, suspension setting and aerodynamics, but also the fluffier stuff like dashboard mascots and sticker packs. The innovative Flashback mechanism, which gives drivers a second chance to avoid a crash, lifted directly from Racedriver: GRID is included. Throw in a smattering of special modes, Domination, Last Man Standing and Gatecrasher, and eight player on-line multiplayer with integrated social networking features to enable you to broadcast your victories and you have one of the most comprehensive off road racing games ever created.£7.99 -
Driver: San Francisco
Ubisoft Reflections has brought Hi-Def graphics and a ‘Shift’ mechanic - where players can ‘fly’ in and out of vehicles - to the beloved Driver series.
Driver San Francisco sees gamers play detective John Tanner as he takes the wheel in more than 120 fully licensed and accurately rendered vehicles in a free-roaming, sandbox environment.
The addition of the ‘Shift’ mode enables all those licensed vehicles – from trucks to sports cars – to be experienced. Basically Tanner has been involved in a horrible car crash. It’s not all bad news though, because he gains the ability to view the city from above and then to ‘shift’ into any available vehicle. This enables the gamer to choose a faster car, to deploy non-cop vehicles against the enemy and even take control of enemy cars.
This enables the gamer, as Tanner, to pursue the mysterious figure of Jericho as he attempts to uncover the secrets of his own life.
All of this comes with 20 races and 80 “Dares” to be played as 60 music tracks – including the original Driver theme – provide a soundtrack.
There are more than 200km of urban road networks, including the iconic Golden Gate Bridge and Russian Hill environment in San Francisco, to drive through and numerous characters to interact with in single-player mode.
In Multi-player, there are nine individual modes to play through that enable you to team up with or against your real-world friends and enemies or to get high on the leaderboard with individual exploits.
The gamer’s best stunts and chases can also be recorded in Director replay mode – they can then be edited and shared online.£9.99 -
F1 2010
When the news broke that Codemasters had secured the license to the 2010 Formula 1 series game, smiles broke out as well. The reason being the track record for racing games already under the belt of development team at Codemasters Birmingham armed with the EGO game engine.
This has already brought gamers such racing crackers as Colin McRae: DiRT 2 and Race Driver: GRID. Could the team turn work on high quality, bump'n'grind rally driving games into the kind of highly-detailed, precision F1 experience demanded by fans of the genre was the question.
Well, with F1 2010 gamers having to take on four FIA world champions: Jenson Button, Michael Schumacher, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton in a range of game modes, the challenge has certainly been laid down.
F1 2010 can be played in stand-alone single-player or online multiplayer modes, with both presenting dynamic weather conditions and, yes, actual car damage to make for a highly realistic experience.
Newcomers can experience quick-fire, one-off races before trying to compete at the top level in full Grand Prix weekends on tracks such as Spa, Monza, Silverstone and Monaco. Also, for the first time in an F1 video game, gamers can drive the Singapore night race and sparkling new Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi.
200MPH and more, hardcore to new driver racing, in high definition, F1 2010 from Codemasters is all about the actual thrills, as well as the detail and under-the-hood finesse expected by F1 gamers.£4.99 -
F1 2012
Drag races? Pah. Rally driving? Tsk. Everybody knows that the real king of racing is the Formula 1 - an intense motorsport that separates the men from the boys (or the women from the girls). And you want to be a man/woman, don’t you? Of course you do - and you can realise that dream, even if it’s just a little bit, with Codemasters’ F1 2012.
As you would expect, the studio known best for top-notch racing experiences haven’t cut any corners with the latest instalment of its F1 series. A host of new features, gameplay and technical advancements and a wealth of new online components make this the most comprehensive game in the franchise yet.
All of the official teams, drivers and tracks that you’d expect to find from the Formula 1 World Championship are all present and correct. Maybe not so surprising considering this is a fully-licensed game, but what might leave you pleasantly stunned is the fact that Codemasters has also taken the trouble to include the 2012 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix at Austin, Texas, as well as Germany’s famous Hockenheim circuit.
On top of extensive online competitive and co-operative elements, F1 2012 also introduces a brand new Young Driver Test mode which introduces you to the world of Formula 1 through a range or tutorials. You’ll be a pro in no time!£12.99 -
F1 Race Stars
F1 isn't the most humorous of sports. Then again, most sports aren't particularly amusing. (With the possible exception of synchronised swimming, that's just plain hilarious.) Despite the po-faced attitude of many athletes towards sports, there have been attempts in the past to bring some levity to the proceedings via the medium of video games.
F1 Race Stars is the latest title to try and capture the essence of a sport while trying to raise a chuckle with its player base. Based on the F1 2012 racing license, this cartoony racer puts players in a miniature F1 car that resembles a go-kart. All of the drivers are represented with bobble-head-like versions of themselves to reflect the cartoon-like styling of the game.
Along with Championships, Free Play, Time Trials and various multiplayer modes, F1 Race Stars includes several gameplay features that aim to keep it ahead of the pack. KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) allows the player to pump the accelerator around certain highlighted corners and thus energise their KERS. This results in them catapulting out of the corner at great speed in a manner similar to how KERS is used in F1.
DRS (Drag Reduction System) is used as a power-up that is somewhat like a temporary shield that prevents your car from being subjected to any of the negative power-ups the other drivers have littered the course with. For yes, there is indeed the power-up mechanic in play here with large spheres acting as traps for unsuspecting drivers to become trapped in for a short period.
Featuring the likenesses of drivers such as Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel, along with many licensed brands and vehicles, F1 Race Stars is a title that will appeal to petrolheads as well as their family members.£7.99 -
Forza Horizon 2
Forza Horizon 2 bursts out of the screen with buckets of arrogance. Opening with an ASMR-inducing cutscene that puts your back up, it presents you with a lead character that’ll make you grind your teeth out. It then continues to show off for the next hour or so, with its stunning visuals, vast array of cars and its constant reminders of its 'Drivatar's.
For all of Horizon 2’s arrogance, it’s backed up with an impressive game and what seemed like needless swagger soon turns into endearing charm.
The game looks good. The cars themselves reflect their real-life counterparts with seamless ease and when you notice beads of water on your bonnet after a race in the rain, their place sits within the world perfectly. The environments you drive around are impressive, and create a sense of place that's rarely seen outside of a Rockstar game.
It may not be the most realistic racer you’ve ever played, but Horizon 2 shows no attempt to even try and replicate that side of the driving genre. Heading off-road in an Audi R8 wont leave you spinning around as you’d expect. Developer Playground understands that you just want to get back on the road and rejoin the race.
Drivatars make a return to the Forza series, with the AI mimicking the play style of your friends so that even when you're driving solo, you get the sense of your mates being around you and the rush of the multiplayer mode.
The racing is great - with the focus being on championships made up of a string of conventional races where you build up points by finishing higher - but there’s so much more to do in Forza Horizon 2. Speed cameras, rival races and crashing through bill-boards are all here, but this game has a few tricks up it sleeves to offer you more than just deja vu.
Discovering classic cars also offers more than simply buying cars from specialist dealers. In Horizon 2 you’re given a tip off as to where they might be and you have to go hunting for them. These are the moments that find you exploring.
Forza Horizon 2 delivers a looser, faster style than its Forza Motorsports counterparts, and it's a bucket of fun.£24.99 -
Forza Horizon 2
Forza Horizon 2 bursts out of the screen with buckets of arrogance. Opening with an ASMR-inducing cutscene that puts your back up, it presents you with a lead character that’ll make you grind your teeth out. It then continues to show off for the next hour or so, with its stunning visuals, vast array of cars and its constant reminders of its 'Drivatar's.
For all of Horizon 2’s arrogance, it’s backed up with an impressive game and what seemed like needless swagger soon turns into endearing charm.
The game looks good. The cars themselves reflect their real-life counterparts with seamless ease and when you notice beads of water on your bonnet after a race in the rain, their place sits within the world perfectly. The environments you drive around are impressive, and create a sense of place that's rarely seen outside of a Rockstar game.
It may not be the most realistic racer you’ve ever played, but Horizon 2 shows no attempt to even try and replicate that side of the driving genre. Heading off-road in an Audi R8 wont leave you spinning around as you’d expect. Developer Playground understands that you just want to get back on the road and rejoin the race.
Drivatars make a return to the Forza series, with the AI mimicking the play style of your friends so that even when you're driving solo, you get the sense of your mates being around you and the rush of the multiplayer mode.
The racing is great - with the focus being on championships made up of a string of conventional races where you build up points by finishing higher - but there’s so much more to do in Forza Horizon 2. Speed cameras, rival races and crashing through bill-boards are all here, but this game has a few tricks up it sleeves to offer you more than just deja vu.
Discovering classic cars also offers more than simply buying cars from specialist dealers. In Horizon 2 you’re given a tip off as to where they might be and you have to go hunting for them. These are the moments that find you exploring.
Forza Horizon 2 delivers a looser, faster style than its Forza Motorsports counterparts, and it's a bucket of fun.£39.99 Buy Now -
Forza Motorsport 2
Forza Motorsport 2 is Microsoft's answer to Sony's much-admired Gran Turismo series and the follow up to the delightfully rendered Xbox original. That game caused more than a few ripples on its release, and is one of the reasons for hanging on to Microsoft's debut console. Well, make room now, get rid of the old and bring in the new with Forza 2. At the time of release, Forza is well ahead of Gran Turismo for PS3 (and yes, that's including the laughable GTHD on PS3 Network) and from what we've seen so far, looks like racing away with the honours regarding race car simulations. With a plethora of racing options available, there's something for everyone, whether playing solo or via system link or online. And the number of cars available is huge. From A to Z (well, Acura to Volvo - no sign of Wartburg Knight or Zil here) and lots in between, some very desirable motors are on offer, including models from Lamborghini, Maserati, Panoz, Porsche, Audi, Shelby, Subaru, Nissan, Pagani and Saleen and many more. And unlike the cars in Gran Turismo, panels get bent out of shape, bumpers get dislodged…so once you've customised you motor with a shiny paint job and fancy decals, take a photograph of it, 'cos it probably won't stay like that for long.
In Arcade mode, there are three sections: Free Run, Time Trials and Exhibition. Free Run is a solo drive around any unlocked track in an unlocked car. Time Trials is where you are charged with setting the fastest lap time on a specific track with a specific car. Each track has a time you have to beat, and when you do, you unlock that car. Exhibition is where you compete wheel-to-wheel against CPU-controlled drivers to unlock new cars and race series. To unlock the next series of cars and races, you must place in the top three in all races in the current series. Which position you cross the finishing line in determines how many cars you unlock, and cars that you unlock in Exhibition mode can be used in Free Run and Time trials too.
Career mode is the heart of Forza 2. You can compete online or offline in a selection of race types to earn money and collect and customise cars. You begin with a small amount of in-game currency to buy and upgrade cars. As you compete in races, you have the chance to earn much more. You can also win cars by finishing first in all races in a Career event. In Career mode, some race types and events are restricted by driver level, which starts at zero. Your level increases as you progress through the game and earn credits. At the highest level, you can unlock new cars to buy and qualify for discounts from manufacturers.
Saving the action you've been part of in Forza 2 is possible with the facility to save replays and take photos of you cars. These are then uploadable to the game's official site - forzamotorsport.net - for other racers to admire.
Go on, put a dent in your wallet and buy this masterpiece of a game.£1.99 -
GRID 2
Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, Grid 2 is all about high speed and fast reflexes. Don't go mistaking it for a Need for Speed knock-off, though.
The flashback feature, was the selling point of the first game. Having found its way into a number of games since then it's not massively unique any more, but tt does speak to the style of Grid 2. It's a tough game. You can't expect to have multiple crashes and still get a podium finish. You have to build a win, moving through the pack methodically and usually taking places one at a time with finely-tuned manoeuvres. Flashback plays into this, enabling you to nail a racing line you lost on your first attempt. The team at Codemasters has done a terrific job of building tension. Victories are hard-won and rewarding because of it.
As well as standard races there are eliminators, drift challenges, checkpoint, LiveRoutes (the track changes as you go round), face off (one-on-one tournaments), time attack, touge and overtake (earn points multipliers by... well, overtaking).
Codemasters seems to have upped its game with its online offering, Racenet. Like Need for Speed's Autolog, it collates your stats and compares them to those of other players. New to the game is Rivals, which pits you against an automatically selected 'Weekly Rival' of similar ability to you to compare your performance to. You also get weekly custom rivals based on a set of parameters such as event type and social rivals who you pick yourself.
Complementing Rivals is Global Challenge, which sets seven events every week in which you can set times and scores for your friends to compete against. And, of course, you can play traditional online multiplayer across the range of events and locations available. Split-screen is, happily, also available.
Grid 2 is a tough arcade racer that's tightly built for a tense racing experience.£9.99 -
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
Juice Games is back with the follow-up to, well, Juiced. The developer's promising to evolve the street racing scene, bringing the real-life Hot Import Nights racing show - which focuses on tuner import cars and tours the U.S. - to the small screen.
Gameplay is basically made up of two mechanics: racing and drifting. Racing is self-explanatory, but for the uninitiated, drifting requires drivers to pour on the power and slide round bends, accelerating out to hang on to every last ounce of speed.
Hot Import Nights ups the ante from the last game with a new driver DNA system which tracks players' personal traits. In a nutshell, it will allow gamers to swing their (and the AI drivers around them's) racing style from red hot and aggressive to icy cool and refined. Also up for grabs is the DNA of celebrity drivers for your downloading pleasure.
Another new feature to the second instalment in the Juiced series is goal-based progression. It's not all about coming in first this time. Players might progress by winning a bet or amassing six seconds of air time instead.
Additionally, the sinful drivers out there might get a kick out of Juiced 2's most evil new feature: gambling. You'll be able to lay down cash (or even your pink slips) on your race or the races of other drivers, building up your fortune with which to mod and customise your car.£1.99 -
Kinect Joy Ride
Breaking all rules about keeping your hands on the wheel Microsoft's Kinect, the controller-free controller, has a racing game in the classic 'kart' mode. Kinect Joy Ride, like many of the Kinect titles is aimed at multiple players getting involved. This means more than racing against each other, as you can now choose to have a co-driver racing in the same kart - something you're not so likely to see elsewhere.
Players don't make use of steering wheels or pedals, this is a whole-body control experience in which the gamer attempts to be the car itself. Using changes in position – both left, right and literally up and down, by jumping – the idea is still to beat the opposition.
While traditional tracks are, of course, included, so are Destruction Areas in which the idea is to make your racing environment suffer using rockets as well the force of the vehicle itself.
Once the basics are mastered in the sitting room, there is also the opportunity to race head-to-head competitively using Xbox LIVE in races against with up to eight players.
All of this takes place in three game worlds with six mad courses that makes use of a host of different and varied environments. Plenty to satisfy your need for speed!£2.99 -
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Need for Speed's long-standing popularity in the driving game market could have taken some knocks in recent years. So, Electronic Arts decided to give it a twist and bring in Burnout Paradise developer Criterion Games to add some pep.
Along with the pep, the UK-based developer has also added multiple weapons and an environment called Seacrest County that is several times bigger than the Paradise City environment featured in Burnout.
In Need for Speed, gamers play as Cops or Robbers in high-speed, challenging chases.
While the game majors on driving the kind of physics and collision detection and display that Criterion is rightfully famous for, at the core of is something called Need for Speed Autolog.
This is a system that connects the gamer's online friends within the game itself. This enables players to share and compare race data including pictures and challenges. Essentially the system creates challenges based on the data it receives from the network of players.
This is combined with the Career mode – a first for the Need for Speed franchise - Hot Pursuit, wherein points and achievements are linked back via Autolog.
As a Cop or a Robber, the player has access to a wide variety of weapons and tactics – in limited supply - to deploy in order to either evade capture or stop the “crims”.
Cars included in the game (with others being unlockable) include the Lamborghini Reventon and the Pagani Zonda Cinque.£4.99 -
Need For Speed: Most Wanted
As sure as Christmas comes every December, just a few weeks before it comes a Need for Speed game from Electronic Arts. This time it's the heavy-hitters from Criterion - the team that brought the world Burnout - at the wheel. Two years ago criterion delivered their first NfS game with a reboot of Hot Pursuit, this time they are giving a turbo boost to another previous NfS title - Most Wanted.
Once again,the action takes place in a large open world environment, along the lines of the one Criterion introduced to the racing in Burnout Paradise. This time, it's called Fairhaven City. Unlike most other driving games, almost every car is available from the get-go. Each car has events tailored to its particular performance and handling strengths. Complete them all in your own time, and your preferred order to rank up. Awesome exotica such as the Lamborghini Aventador LP-700, Marussia B2, and the Koenigsegg Agera are joined by down and dirty drivers cars like the Ariel Atom, BAC Mono and Caterham Superlight R500. Every car can be modified to make it drive and handle the way you need to complete the mission in the game and get the drop on the cops.
As the title suggests, you're the cops favourite person, but not in a good way. So as you compete against other drivers in NfS signature long-distance point-to-point races, you'll also have to dodge and weave to avoid the police's attention. In the single-player game, you'll campaign to be most wanted, in races that let you choose your own route to the finish, so it's as much about exploiting the shortcuts as it is about driving the fast and clean. But remember, the better you get the more the cops will be on your tail.
Criterion has been instrumental in bringing some of the best online and multiplayer features to the arcade racing genre, and this game is no exception. Along with the usual head to head realtime races, there are a host of other online competitive and even co-operative challenge modes. Most Wanted will continue to feature the innovative Autolog system to enable you to compete with friends even when they are not online through leagues, rankings and goals system. This time round Autolog is more closely integrated into the game world, rather than being separated out in the menu system.
As you free-ride around the game-world and pass each jump, speed camera or Jack Spot, you'll get a quick glimpse of the leaderboard. Think you have a chance? Just take a run up and have a go. Get the biggest air on a billboard jump, and it'll be your ugly mug that other gamers will see in their game.
Most Wanted features the all-new CloudCompete social gaming system, and this introduces revolutionary cross platform competition and levelling up, so that progress gained using your profile on one platform can be continued on another.£7.99 -
Need For Speed: ProStreet
Street racing? It's all about seedy garages and night-time races in the back streets of large cities. Or maybe it's about spending summer days driving at high speed through the countryside traffic or along the beach front? Not in Need for Speed ProStreet it's not. Here you will be competing in well-organised races held legitimately on closed roads, you won't be pursued by the police and you won't have to weave in and out of traffic. So where's the fun in that? Well, make no mistake, this is still a dirty and dangerous sport, and in ProStreet your car will wear the results of every bump, scrape and crash you go through.
Races are organised into several championships, from straight drags to drift and grip racing, and you will have to compete to climb the rankings and become the king of the events. A completely new race type has been introduced in ProStreet in the shape of Speed Challenge. This race type involves maximising your speed through several checkpoints along the course, the winner being the one with the highest total of these measured speeds.
In order to win these races and become the Street King, you will have to get very familiar with modding your cars. You can change almost anything about your car, from the engine to the tyres and from the paint job to the shape of the body panels. The Autosculpt system is back, but this time you can see the performance results of your changes in real time in the wind tunnel. Once you have tuned your car, it's ready to race, or you can share your creations with the rest of the ProStreet community and you will be credited whenever someone wins a race in one of your cars.
Cars, locations, races and modding; this Need for Speed has it all. Can you become the Street King?£7.99 -
Need For Speed: SHIFT
EA's perennial ever-changing racing game is back, and for 2009 it's splitting into three strands, aimed at core, casual and free-play audiences. With Shift being the (hard)core title, the focus is on a more simulation style of gameplay, and EA is claiming that the game is built by racers, for racers. (Though in reality, it's probably built by programmers who race a little bit in their spare time for gamers who don't). The game is being produced in collaboration between EA and Slightly Mad Studios, who under their former name of Blimey! Games were at least peripherally involved in the creation of GT Legends and GTR2, which was one of the best driving games of 2006.
The first person in-car viewpoint returns for the first time since NfS Porsche Unleashed in 2000, and the detailed cockpit is reputed to give the realistic feeling of racing at high speed. Though an outside camera is available too, if you prefer. Camera tricks like depth of field compression and blurring add to the sense of realism. These same effects go into turbo mode when you crash - giving a visual overload of shattered, blurring visuals. Vehicle deformation is the inevitable result of crashing, and once your car is stoved in it handles differently from when it's straight and shiny.
The focus of Shift is more on drifting, and the G-force meter plays an vital part in the game. Knowing when your car is on the limit of traction and how it will perform once grip gives way is vital to getting your racing line right and your lap times down.
Gone are the police and the open world environments of recent NfS games, and in their place is a Gran Turismo-style track racing game. Gone is the car modding and garage building. In their place is a focus on career building and sim style racing. The action takes place across a series of beautifully modeled real and imaginary race-tracks, including some cityscapes that will be familiar to fans of the PGR games. Shift is the first Need for Speed aimed at serious driving fans... those with more arcade based racing tastes will be advised to wait for NfS: Nitro - but that's Wii and DS only.£12.99 -
Need for Speed: The Run
Another Need for Speed game hitting our screens is an annual event as inevitable as Christmas itself. But in recent years EA has upped the ante with two or even three games per year. This year is no different, with Need for Speed The Run following on from last years spectacular NfS: Hot Pursuit in offering adrenaline pumping arcade racing thrill.
This time it's Canadian developer Black Box taking on the development duties using the same Frostbite 2 engine that Battlefield 3 uses. Need for Speed: The Run looks fabulous. And the cars drive superbly too.
The premise of the game is simple, you are an outlaw racer, taking part in a Cannonball Run (the Run of the title) style race across the United States - from sea to shining sea. This gives the game an episodic storyline, split into 9 main stages, with each split into shorter races. So none of that circular track racing of other games - this is back to the long distance point-to-point drags that classic Need for Speed games are famous for.
Race against a set of opponents all sporting super-exotic cars, and all gunning the throttle for the same $25,000,000 prize, while at the same time avoiding the onslaught of the highway police in cars and choppers. Switch between vehicles to choose the one best suited to the changing road surfaces, and conditions.
Take on friends in on-line multiplayer, and even compete with them when they are not online using the Autolog off-line multiplayer feature.
NfS: The Run puts you behind the wheel of a massive selection of real-world supercars, in an epic race the likes of which has never been seen in gaming before.£7.99 -
SBK08 Superbike World Championship
The Superbike World Championship is a truly global event. Milestone's SBK08 Superbike World Championship (SBK08) is the only official game of the HANNspree Superbike World Championship. As well as featuring all the official teams, riders and tracks of the contemporary Championship, SBK08 combines fast-paced, knee-scraping racing action with the very latest technology.
The game has six modes - from Instant Action through to full championship weekends from the 2008 season - and six difficulty settings, that will doubtless appeal to motorcycle racing fans and general speedfreaks alike. There's a fast-paced, action-packed Arcade mode for gamers that want to jump in and challenge great riders like Troy Bayliss and Max Biaggi, and a full simulation mode for those that fancy the challenge of racing a superbike around some of the most famous circuits on the calendar including Miller, Misano, Assen, Magny Cours, Donington, Valencia, and many more. The game also features an online multiplayer mode that enables up to eight players to go head-to-head.£4.99 -
The Crew
It's difficult to set apart a console racer. Some attempt to do it with laser-focused realism, some go for mad, over-the-top racing antics. With The Crew, Ubisoft is looking to set itself apart with masses of ambition.
First, the plot. Yes, this is one of those racing games with a plot. Your job is to infiltrate and overtake the 510s, a gang that's come up from Detroit's illegal street racing scene. To do this, you'll need to build up a rep while secretly wreaking havoc on their activities in cities right across the United States.
And there is a LOT of the United States to go at. Locations include everywhere from New York City to Los Angeles, to Miami Beach to Monument Valley. The terrain ranges from the tight corners of downtown cities to suburbs to cornfields to canyons.
The real drive of The Crew, though, is its massively multiplayer status. It's a world populated by other real-world drivers. You'll need to build a crew of four with an interface that's designed to be seamless. You might be taking out a convoy, evading police or just flat-out racing, but you never have to do it alone.
The style is very much on the arcade-y end of the spectrum, but The Crew still also offers extensive customisation tools to tune and perfect your licensed cars.£14.99 -
WRC: FIA World Rally Championship
The long awaited World Rally Championship comes crashing back to your living room in a blaze of dust and glory! The only game to deliver all the official cars, the courageous heroes, the thrill of the time challenge, and the ultimate test of mastering the skill of rallying maneuvers on your PC and game consoles!
THE ROAD TO THE WRC
Follow the tyre tracks of the real WRC heroes with a unique career mode progressing you through the ranks to reach the pinnacle of the world's most skilful motorsport. Start by building your own team and entering a regional championship before progressing up the WRC ladder to land a virtual contract with an elite WRC team.
TIME ATTACK
Select your favourite car to do battle in your crusade to set a record time on the special stage of your choice. Upload a replay of your best performance online and download those of the true world record holders
to compare your skills!
ONLINE RANKING
Compete online against other challengers across the world. Organize and participate in individual stages, rallies or championships of your choice. Build your experience and credits to improve your online ranking in the mission to become the virtual World Rally Champion!
INCREDIBLE WEATHER CONDITIONS
Conquer epic locations in all the conditions that mother nature can throw at you as you take on the Swedish snow, dusty Jordanian desert, Spain’s unpredictable mix of tarmac and gravel and much more!£7.99
