Drifting is a technique in Driving video games, where the player as the driver intentionally oversteers, in loss of traction in all tires or the rear wheels, while struggling to maintain the control and driving the car through the track’s corners. In these games, the car drifting happens when the rear slip angle is massive compared to the front slip angle, often front wheels of the vehicle are pointing in the opposite direction to the turn. There are a variety of cars of licensed manufacturers, and the game enables the player to select his favourite vehicle and start driving on the circuit while drifting to impress the fellows. There are similar objectives like traditional racing cars like reaching the finish the before anyone or eliminate the opposing drivers during the race using the tricks and stunts. During the gameplay, the player explores different locations of the world and experience the driving gameplay. Some games enable the player to customize his vehicle by doing a paint job, upgrading using modern parts, and more in the workshop.
#1 DiRT 2
DiRT 2 is a Racing, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created and published by Codemasters. The game serves as the 7th title in the series of Colin McRae Rally game. It introduces Tanner Foust, Travis Pastrana, Ken Block, and Dave Mirra. It offers new racing events, stadiums, and more. There are five different events such as Land Rush, Rallycross, Rally, Raid and the World Tour. In the game, the player needs to select his favorite vehicle from available and race against rival drivers in realistic environment to show off his racing skills. It has special modes such as Gatecrasher, Domination, and Last Man Standing. In Multiplayer mode, the player can compete against his friends, drift his way while struggling to eliminate his friends from the track or crossing the finish line before anyone. Up to four players can compete against each other in single game on local network. DiRT 2 includes prominent features such as Realistic Landscapes, Exploration, Special Modes, Multiple Events, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#2 Luftrausers
Luftrausers is a Shoot ‘em up, Side-scroll, and Single-player video game developed by Vlambeer and published by Devolver Digital for multiple platforms. The game focuses on air-plane-based shooting gameplay and takes place in the stunning environment full of enemies. Unlike traditional Shoot ‘em up games, where the position of the aircraft controlled by the player is fixed, Luftrausers introduces 360 degrees of motions, revolving around multidirectional shooter elements. The airplane in the game is equipped with a weapon which the player can use to take down enemies. In the game, the player must explore the land from a side-scroll perspective, use the primary weapons to shoot at any direction while flying. During the gameplay, the player can use drift and gravity to manoeuvre forward population. There are multiple weapons, and the player can upgrade these weapons using the earned points. It has more than 125 combinations of bodies, weapons and more and the game consists of 100 daring missions. Luftrausers includes core features such as Bold Aerial Combat, Customization, Daring Missions, and more.
#3 Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends
Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends by Atari, Inc. and Slightly Mad Studios is a fantastic, exciting and quite engaging Car Racing video game. The game provides with an enhanced mechanics system, physics and graphics and it focuses on providing you with a lifetime experience of racing. This wonderful driving simulation video game lets you drive a lot of models of Ferrari (Just like in Need for Speed: Porsche unleashed you can only drive different models of Porsche) and take part in some insanely addictive and fast-paced car racing events such as Formula One, GT Racing, Grand Prix, Circuit Racing, Drifting etc. to defeat your opponents and earn reputation and experience points. Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends provides with single and multiplayer gaming modes in which you can experience totally different and amazingly insane racing events and win loads of different rewards. Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends greatly mimics a lot of great features of Grid Autosport and Need for Speed series games and provides with a similar gaming experience. Try it out and enjoy the ultimate fun.
#4 Blur
Blur is an Action-Arcade and a fast-paced Car Racing game by Bizarre Creations . Blur is a bit different than other car racing games in a sense that it includes an arcade style behavior of the vehicles and on vehicle combats in its game-play. The player gets to drive cars like Ford Transit, Lotus Exiges, Mustang GT and Dodge Vipers all fitted with F1 engine capabilities and more enhanced controls over acceleration, speed, drifts, and road grip. Most of the in-game racetracks and a lot of cars are specially designed by the game developer to merge the contents of real world with the game characteristics. Player gets the freewill to race alone or be a part of a racing team as per his skills and reputation. Player reputation depends on how good he performs in races and what skills he uses to defeat his opponents. Talking about the combats in the game, player completes short challenges by taking part in races with other racers like Friends on a network or online on internet and if he defeats the opponent he wins the race and his XP level raises a bit that actually boosts up his reputation among other racers. Blur provides with refined HD graphics, an open world gaming environment and quite engaging game-play along with single and multiplayer gaming mode options.
#5 Driver
Driver mixes the Action, Driving, Open World, and Exploration elements developed by Reflections Interactive and published by GT Interactive Software. The game takes place the four major cities such as Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and New York and offers an open-ended environment and played from a third-person perspective. It features classic vehicles from the 1960s to 1970s and lets the player choose his car and jump into the game where he has to fulfill his missions to earn points and use them to unlock further content. The game follows the story of the protagonist named as John Tanner, who is a detective and going on an undercover mission to wipe out a criminal gang and the boss who lead it. The game offers a chance to the player to show off his driving abilities and complete his missions within the time limit to go to advance. As the game progresses, other challenging missions will be unlocked to play. With prominent features, NPCs interaction, lots of challenging tasks, an engaging story, Driver is the best game to play.
#6 Midnight Club: Street Racing
Midnight Club: Street Racing is an Action, Racing, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Angel Studios and published by Rockstar Games. The game revolves around competitive street racing based on the movie The Fast and the Furious. It is the first title in the series of Midnight Club and followed by Midnight Club 2. According to the story, a mysterious group of urban street racers rule on the New York City called the Midnight Club. You assumes the role of the protagonist, a cab driver and your primary objective is to learn about the secret club and struggle to join it. You starts your career with slow and unmodified vehicles, that being a taxi. There are a series of races available and each race offers a variety of goals, in which you must effort to defeat the rival racers and win faster and expensive cars. Midnight Club: Street Racing offers prominent features such as a variety of Cars, Customization, Third-person Exploration, Street Races, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#7 Fuel
Fuel is a Racing, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created by Asobo Studio and published by Codemasters for multiple platforms. It takes place in the open world environment and focuses on pure racing elements. It offers the Mad Max-like post-apocalyptic environment with dynamic weather and day/night system. There are a variety of vehicles from which the player needs to select his favorite one with the best statistics. The primary goal of the player is to explore the land, race against rivals while winning the tracks to become the master. The player explores the land from a third-person perspective and can upgrade his vehicles using powerful parts. During the gameplay, the player can drift his way through a variety of challenging courses while crossing the finish line before anyone. It takes place in the lush environment and offers the modified vehicles each with unique characteristics. Fuel includes prominent features such as 3D Environment, Physics-based Gameplay, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#8 World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars
World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars is a Racing, Single-player and Multiplayer video game with an emphasis on Split-screen elements, developed by Big Ant Studios and published by THQ. The game introduces more than twelve tracks in different locations and twenty professional drivers such as Donny Schatz and Steve Kinser. It has an online racing campaign, where up to eight players can compete against each other with five exciting multiplayer modes. The Dirt Track, Knoxville Raceway, Eldora Speedway, etc. are prominent racing tracks in the game. In the beginning, the player needs to declare his vehicle from available, select his track, and jump into the game after selecting the mode. The ultimate job of the player is to drive his car as fast as he can, drift his way and struggle to eliminate the opponents from the race or reach the end of each track after completing the laps before anyone. To win the race, the player needs to unleash his inner driver, compete against friends and defeat them to prove his skills. Race, Hot Spot, Hot Spot Delivery, Tag, and Bomb Tag are prominent five modes in the game.
#9 Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights is a Racing video game developed by Juice Games and published by THQ for multiple platforms. The game offers both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and comes with modern car modification methods than its predecessor. The plot starts off in a nightclub where the player chooses his playable character and his car. After selecting the car and character, the player will receive a list of races, three of which must be conquered by the player in order to unlock other levels. There are three types of racings such as Drift, Destination, and Circuit races. The game introduces new features in the game, in which the player has an ability to modify his car using a modern method. In Multiplayer mode, the player can compete against rival drivers or other players with a task to reach the finish line before anyone. Other powerful vehicles will be unlocked, as the player completes a variety of goals or earn enough points required for unlockable cars. With detailed environment, superb mechanics, and brilliant graphics Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights is the best game to play and enjoy.
#10 Daytona USA
Daytona USA is a 1993 Racing, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the 3D environment and offers the realistic appearance. It puts you behind the wheel of a stock car with the option of three tracks as well as manual or automatic transmission. In the game, the primary objectives of the player are to outrun his car and struggle to complete the race before the time runs out. The game comes with Multiplayer mode, enabling up to eight players to compete against each other. It features a map on the screen to display the position of you and opponent. You must drive your car as fast as you can, avoid heavy traffic, and overcome challenging curves to maintain the balance of the car on the track and struggle to eliminate rival drivers through the game or cross the finish line before anyone. You can explore the track from both first-person or third-person perspective and can perform drift to take a challenging turn. Daytona USA is the wonderful game for those who love playing racing games.
#11 Shift 2: Unleashed
Shift 2: Unleashed or Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed is a great Car Racing video game and a sequel to 2009’s top hit Need for Speed: Shift. This cool game offers enhanced graphics, Multiplayer Mode, Autolog System like the one in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, a new Campaign mode and a lot of other great things to explore. Developed by Slightly Mad Studios, Dice and Straight Right, this game was a massive hit and is still an attraction for the hardcore racing game enthusiasts all over the world. Shift 2: Unleashed allows you to drive a lot of super speed cars in different race events such as Muscle, Drifting, Endurance, Time Attack, Eliminator, Circuit Racing etc. You can earn experience points by defeating your opponents and spend them on buying upgrades or customizing your super vehicles. With state of the art graphics, enhanced game mechanics, easy controls, and a thrilling game-play, Shift 2: Unleashed is one amazing car racing video game to play and enjoy.
#12 Grid Autosport
Grid Autosport, developed and published by Codemasters is a car racing video. Being a third installment in the series, Grid Autosport is a bestseller and the most played game that features best quality graphics, open world gaming environment and a thrillingly action-packed game-play along with single and multiplayer gaming modes. Cars in the game are divided into four main tiers according to their classes. Player builds his own game career in a single player mode by taking part in races against game AI’s. The career mode of the game lets the player race against other opponents on line in multiplayer mode. As the player gets more XP (Experience Points), his reputation boosts up among other players. The inclusion of different racing disciplines like Touring, Endurance, Open Wheel, Tuner and Street makes the game more engaging and differentiates it from a lot of games of the same type. Each discipline features different cars and different races like Endurance Races, Standard Races, Time Attack and Drift and Drag Events, Time Trials and sprint races etc. With all these fancies mentioned above, Grid Autosport is an amazingly engaging and quite thrilling game to play. Grid Autosport is available to play on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
#13 Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift is a Racing video game by Evolution Studios and Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3 platform. Single and Multiplayer both modes are available in the game and it is the sequel to Motorstorm. The game introduces up to sixteen tracks, taking place around jungle, caves, sugar factory, mountainsides, etc. It offers the similar gameplay to its previous title and includes seven different vehicle classes such as Bikes, Buggies, Rally Cars, Mud Pluggers, ATVs, Racing Trucks and more. Before starting the race, you must select your vehicle and track to race against several opponents. The primary job is to eliminate the competitors from the race or cross the finish line before anyone. The player can explore the world from a third-person view, and can use boosters during the game to speed up. Motorstorm: Pacific Rift includes key features such as a Brand new Island, Dynamic Events, Brutal Off-Road Racing, Split Screen Mode, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.