Racing games on prevalence and popularity occupy one of the first lines of rating of games in general and have big army of admirers among gamers. Racing franchizes and certain representatives of a genre exists very much, the most popular of them can be selected on the basis of polls of sales and responses of players. At the same time, unambiguously to tell that one of these games and is the best it is impossible, all are good in own way.
Electronic Arts – the publisher of racing hits
The racing franchize Need for Speed from the Electronic Arts company publisher in itself is one of popular and most successful game racing series in the world. 20 games of this series, but the most popular, on polls of users are at the moment released, the part of a series under the name Most Wanted which left in 2005 is.
Most Wanted absorbed in itself all best. Creators returned police pursuits to this part of a series, possibilities of tuning were considerably reduced, but still were present, also here for the first time in the history of a franchize computer special effects were combined with a game of living actors. Besides Most Wanted has the fascinating mode of career presented in the form of the "black list" consisting of 15 racers who should be defeated an excellent soundtrack and recognition of critics.
It is also worth noting that in addition to Most Wanted, the franchize has also other parts, in anything not inferior to the elected relative.
In 2012 Electronic Arts signed the long-term partner agreement with the racer Ken Blok who will be a consultant of races of the media franchize Need for Speed.
One more unconditional racing hit from the same publisher, the Electronic Arts company, is the game Burnout Paradise. This racing arcade is the 7th game of the Burnout series differing from all the predecessors radically. Action of a game is developed in the world where there are no people, carrying the name Paradise City, there are only dizzy races, megatricks, a set of routes, springboards and accidents. In the course of the game it will be possible to do a bit of traveling on pickups, SUVs, masklkara, sports cars, vans, formular race cars, and even on motorcycles. Excellent graphics, change of day and night, the mozgovzryvayushchy system of damages, a set of additional missions, perfectly worked multiplayer – all this, certainly, does Burnout Paradise of one of the best races.
Worthy applicants for a title of the best
The FlatOut series from the Finnish developers from Bugbear Entertainment brought the sea of madness, deliberate road accidents and masterly kaskadersky tricks to the world of arcadian races. The most popular game of this series is its 2nd part of FlatOut 2. Rigid rams of rivals, colliding in a ditch and full destruction, kaskadersky tricks and a game the driver's body in bowling, game process of these races also consists of all this. FlatOut 2 – the spectacular simulator of road madness deserving attention all fans of arcadian races.
The first game with races on the road the game Speed Race from the Atari company which appeared in 1974 is considered.
Test Drive Unlimited – a racing game which main feature is existence in it more than 125 licensed sports cars and motorcycles and the game world repeating the Hawaiian island of Oahu with an accuracy of one meter. In this game having completely open world it is possible to go everywhere where the car or the motorcycle will pass, competing with any counter racer. Besides in breaks between races the player can buy the real estate, fashionable designer clothes, new machines in the garage or tune old.
Colin McRae: DiRT – the 6th part of the racing Colin McRae Rally series which became the last game published before death of the famous racer Colin Macrae, certainly, is a dream of admirers of a rally. This game represents the arcadian simulator of rally races. Mad turns at mad speeds, the sand and lumps of dirt flying from under wheels the sitting next navigator and reliable physics of machines are the main features of this game.
In addition to above-mentioned racing games it is also possible to mark out such representatives of a genre as: F1 2010, Split/Second, Blur, ModNation Racers, the Gran Turismo-exclusive series for PlayStation, Race Driver: Grid.