Racing games for Xbox 360?

[Amoramor]

Great, thanks for all your help.

[Kazakovich]

If you can find it, I recommend a game called Full Auto.

 

Now, this games is a bit of an oddity in that you either love it or despise it, really. It's like most racing-games in my experience, except that your car and the opponent's cars have been modified with machine guns, missile launchers, minelayers... All sorts of stuff, really. Gameplay is two thirds regular racing and one third vandalizing the track and your opponents. It's not the most serious title out there, but it's quite fun most days. If you can find it in the discount-bin, then it's well worth a try at least. ;D

[Vindekarr]

Aye, I've played that little gem. Great fun for all and sundry, if you can find a copy worth the cash, get it, it's hilarious arcady goodness.

 

Also, from new personal experience, avoid F-1 2010. That game is soul suckingly unrewarding, and has simply deluded goals. It gives you the slowest car in recent F-1 history, whie you're totaly green, and expects you to win the world championship. Unlikely to say the least. In additon, it's not scalable at all for skill level, atleast not in any meaningful way, has rather disapointing graphics, and no proper reward path. The whole point is to win with one car so you can get put in a better car to do it all again in.

 

It's like a backwards version of a good racer: it starts out uber hard and gets easy. if anything you should start with a championship dominating Red Bull and work your way through to a Hispania, not the other way round. because if you fulfil it's demands and guide the Hispania to victory, in doing so you've achieved everything the game can throw at you and will only see repeats from here on in.

[Amoramor]

If you can find it, I recommend a game called Full Auto.

 

Now, this games is a bit of an oddity in that you either love it or despise it, really. It's like most racing-games in my experience, except that your car and the opponent's cars have been modified with machine guns, missile launchers, minelayers... All sorts of stuff, really. Gameplay is two thirds regular racing and one third vandalizing the track and your opponents. It's not the most serious title out there, but it's quite fun most days. If you can find it in the discount-bin, then it's well worth a try at least. ;D

I'll keep that in mind, thanks. :)

[GETbacon]

Juiced 2 a fair title and considering you could get it in a bargain bins a plus. It's not fault-less thou, for example in order to upgrade your you have to finish challenges which could be trying, the end games sorta disappointing, and the models border on ugly. Also they HATE Bimmers.

 

The other one that springs to mind is Import Tuner Challenge. It has surprising amount of story nice choice of cars and tons of customizing, also feels a lot like NFS in the physics department (all be it an early game). The cons are It's got some spotty translations, the car choice isn't as nice as it could be especily when you count some of Genki's last games like Tokyo racer and the like, and they even desplay they could have put two more in the game to buy as a standard cars (what do you mean I can't have a new AE86 or Datsun 240Z you have an RX-7 and an 80' supra over there!). Also if you fiddle with your car's settings (I.e. tuning) you can become an unstoppable god of the road way only being challenged because lack of funds (and the draw mechanism) also you gotta work for your ending (Speed king arse, I could have polished off this chump a couple of teams ago) but the games nether the less worth the bargain bin retrieval.

 

Say can you tell which one I like more?

[JimboUK]

Aye, I've played that little gem. Great fun for all and sundry, if you can find a copy worth the cash, get it, it's hilarious arcady goodness.

 

Also, from new personal experience, avoid F-1 2010. That game is soul suckingly unrewarding, and has simply deluded goals. It gives you the slowest car in recent F-1 history, whie you're totaly green, and expects you to win the world championship. Unlikely to say the least. In additon, it's not scalable at all for skill level, atleast not in any meaningful way, has rather disapointing graphics, and no proper reward path. The whole point is to win with one car so you can get put in a better car to do it all again in.

 

It's like a backwards version of a good racer: it starts out uber hard and gets easy. if anything you should start with a championship dominating Red Bull and work your way through to a Hispania, not the other way round. because if you fulfil it's demands and guide the Hispania to victory, in doing so you've achieved everything the game can throw at you and will only see repeats from here on in.

 

F1 2010 is also seriously bugged. Some AI cars don't make their mandatory pit, fuel and tyre simulation doesn't work and saves are still being corrupted. The thing recently had a patch which promised much and delivered little.

 

Strange nobody has mentioned Flatout, good chaotic fun.

[Vindekarr]

This will be an unpopular comment but I really dont give a stuff, as usual.

 

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.

 

What can I say about this game? well, firstly it just aint Need Ffor Speed, and that's a good thing.

 

Built from EA funds by Criterion(Burnout Paradise' devteam) this game marks the official merging of the Burnout and NFS franchises-it's got NFS' cars and pretty graphics, mixed with Burnout's awesome gameplay.

 

A lot of you just say "NFS, yuck!" and walk away, but to be honest, that's just dumb-by doing so you're missing out on one hell of a good racer.

 

While still branded as an NFS game, Hot Pursuit is in actual fact a hybred of Burnout and NFS on every level. The menus have the feel of an NFS game from the '90s, as does the excellent progression and campaign system. However the gameplay is all Burnout, it's got the same great Drift and Takedown mechanics, mixed in with NFS' police chases and scripted spectacle. It's hugely good fun, the cars, of which there are a LOT,excellent track design, excellent reliability, and superbly dialed in controls and dificulty.

 

This is a game for the arcade racer purist. It's got all the best parts of older (1990s) NFS games, mixed through with the best parts of older (Burnout 3 largely) Burnout games. Anyone who liked Burnout Paradise will love this game-I havent played a racer this good in a LOOOONG time. You just cant find anything to reasonably fault here-it's excellent fun, but also excellent quality and has huge variety.