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Need for Speed: The Run, created by EA Black Box and Fireband Games is an action packed Car Racing video game. The story of the game revolves around the character of Jack Rourke Aka the protagonist who gets abducted by the mob for not paying back the loan he took. Finally after getting the word, the mob sets him free to take part in an upcoming race tournament, earn money and pay back the loan. Jack calls up his girlfriend and a longtime friend Jack Harper, tells them about taking part in the racing event and asks for some money and a car. After getting the money and car, jack pays the event entrance fee ($250,000) and starts up his career. This is where you get into the play as Jack Rourke and you get tasked with winning the races and saving the money to pay the loan. Need for Speed: The Run provides with cool racing cars from licensed manufacturers, great racing tracks based up on real life locations (Altamont Pass, Death Valley, los Angeles, Chicago, New York Etc.) and environments, great visual details, a well written story-line, fast action and thrill filled game-play and an open world.

The Crew by Ivory Tower in collaboration with Ubisoft Reflections, Asobo Studio and Ubisoft Shanghai is a superbly addicting, fast paced and a groundbreaking MMO car racing game. The game is set in an open world situated in the boundaries of United States and provides with a 20 hour long single run campaign, features the protagonist Alex Taylor who tries to infiltrate the criminal groups to gather info about ongoing underworld businesses. The game offers the players to participate in a lot of mini games to build up the skills required to play the game properly. As the multiplayer nature of the game, you can play the game with friends, other online players around the world in one on one challenges or you can play the game alone in the free ride mode. You can choose the vehicle of your liking from a lot of options and form crews to race together against your rivals. The Crew is an amazing car racing game to play and provides with a blasting game-play, a well written story-line, superb graphic details and RPG and action elements to boost up the level of entertainment. You’ll definitely like it.

A marvelous addition to the series Burnout Paradise, Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box is a super thriller and fast paced, action-packed Car Racing video game by Criterion Games. The game offers a ballistic and super thrilling game-play in which you can have the license to devastate each and everything you want and crash your vehicles into hundreds of other vehicles and cause a massive pile up on an intersection. You can break each and every traffic law and be the cause of a chaos. The game takes place in an open world environment and allows you to play in single or Multiplayer modes in which you can earn upgrades for your license, complete different challenges (Races, time trials etc.) perform stunts, cause massive vehicle pile ups on intersections by crashing into other vehicles. You can unlock and drive different cars and find the hidden items to boost up your points count. Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box lets you play the game in a style you want and be the most wanted figure in the game world. With all the action and thrill, you’ll definitely get lost in the game world. Try it out and feel the awesomeness and freedom of destruction.

Need for Speed: Undercover, the 2008 thriller and action filled Car Racing game that definitely rocked the enthusiasts all around the world. Super addicting and scenic game world, an amazingly huge range of cars, fast-paced and action packed game-play, a great storyline and its availability on almost every major gaming platform made this game unbelievably addicting and engaging for all the racing game lovers around the globe. The game was a huge success and sold over 5.5 million copies worldwide and handed over a huge profit to both EA Black Box and Electronic Arts EA. This twelfth installment of the series offers game-play on a number of platforms such as Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, iOS, Android and Windows Phone. The game features over 109 miles of road to race on and a huge highway network. The game map is divided into four main parts known as Palm Harbor, Port Crescent, Gold Coast Mountains and Sunset valley and offers a number of different race events for all the boroughs. With all the amazing Perks, upgrades and stuff, Need for Speed: Undercover enables you to customize your vehicles just according to your needs and enjoy racing while driving the world class race cars. With all the amazing races, beautiful and realistic race tracks and visuals, enhanced mechanics and incredibly challenging and Adrenaline pumping game-play and epic encounters with the Police, Need for Speed: Undercover is an exciting game to play and enjoy.

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.

Dirt: Showdown, developed by Codemasters Southam is a Single and Multiplayer Car Racing video game. The game lets you be a racer who gets into a series of racing events and tournaments to compete and win against a lot of hardcore rivals. With every win, you get an amount of money as reward that can be used to buy more cars and upgrades (Cars, race tracks, aftermarket parts etc.). Dirt: Showdown provides with a number of registered vehicles from renowned manufacturers, four main game modes (Racing, Demolition, Hoonigan and Party). All the modes are further divided into different race events all packed up with different locations and rivals. Dirt: Showdown also provides with multiplayer gaming mode in which you can engage yourself in different race events against your friends on a network or with other online player around the globe. With a great mode based storyline, col visuals and an open world, Dirt: Showdown is a great car racing game to play and enjoy. For an awesome racing experience, you must play this cool game. You’ll definitely love it.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a Fast-paced Action Car Racing video game by Criterion Games. The game offers Open World environment in which you are allowed to compete against other racers, defeat them in different races such as Sprint, Circuit, Ambush etc. Need for Speed: Most Wanted is basically a remake of the 2005’s Need for Speed: Most Wanted and offers brilliant new enhancements in mechanics, visuals and game-play and provides with new vehicles, Race tracks and controls etc. If you have previously enjoyed this cool game, you should try this remake version of the game too. It’ll definitely make you love it even more with all the great stuff it has to offer. With all the thrill and adrenaline pumping action, Need for Speed: Most Wanted is available to play on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, iOS and Android Platforms. For all those who love playing Need fro Speed Series games, this game is actually a masterpiece. However, the game is a bit oldie now, if you play it, it’ll definitely entertain you good.

Split/Second: Velocity is a cool Arcade Style Car Racing video game by Disny’s Black Rock Studios. The game takes you to a T.V Reality Show in which you must take part as a Car Racer, race against your rivals and defeat them in different events. As this game is all about earning race money, so on every win, the game rewards you with money that you can use to buy more cars and upgrades for your current in-game vehicle. The proper and regular use of the upgrades makes your car more powerful, speedy and a winner, so you must use the upgrades. You will experience some really hardcore action and thrill in this game along with excellent action filled racing and driving experience. Split/Second: Velocity offers a number of racing vehicles, tracks and opponents to race against in an amazing real life like environment, great controls on the vehicles, astonishingly cool game mechanics and a blasting game-play that surely will amaze you with all the great things this game has to offer. If you really want to experience something that will remain with you for quite some time, you should play this game. Split/Second: Velocity will prove its worth as a great Car Racing video game.

Need For Speed: Shift a super thrilling and quite exciting Car Racing video game developed by Slightly Mad Studios in collaboration with EA Bright Light and published by Electronic Arts (EA). Specially developed for hardcore race gamers, Need For Speed: Shift follows the lead of its predecessor Need For Speed: Pro Street and provides with a similar game-play experience. Without a specific story-line, this game lets the player roam in an open world and decide to race against AI’s, Online or players on a local network. The game features over 50 different types of cars all divided into different tiers according to their classes. On every race event win, Need for Speed: Shift rewards the players with race money and unlocks new vehicles and race events and once all the races on a borough are completed, another borough gets opened and player gets a chance to earn more money and respect by defeating the rivals and bosses. Being a part of the mighty gaming franchise Need For Speed, Need For Speed: Shift is an amazingly addictive and quite thrilling game to play. If you haven’t played this fantastic game yet, you are definitely missing the amazing action-packed experience of racing genre. Need for Speed: Shift offers a great setting, beautifully created visuals and an addictive game-play to enjoy. Do try it out.

NASCAR The Game: Inside Line is an exciting Car Racing video game that provides with a bunch of similarities to Need for Speed series games and allows you to have a similar gaming experience. Being a sequel to NASCAR The Game, this Action-packed thriller and Fast-Paced marvel features the main event of Sprint Cup Series and allows the players to compete against the AIs and other online players to win the cup. You can take part in any career mode to get new vehicles, sponsorships and chances to get into your desired race events. With a good amount of Cars from well-known manufacturers, a lot of real life inspired race tracks, great visuals, superb controls, enhanced mechanics and an addictive game-play, NASCAR The Game: Inside Line is a best game to play and enjoy. If you are fond of Car Racing games, this one might be the best for you. Try it out and enjoy the ultimate fun.

GRID 2, is an awesome Car Racing game developed by Codemasters Racing. This super exciting game actually is the reboot of TOCA Race Driver Series GRID. Built using the sophisticated EGO 3.0 gaming engine, this amazing game features a new and enhanced car handling system named as TrueFeel that provides good balance and improved accessibility and details. GRID 2, provides with a number of cars (Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, Audi, Ariel, Bac, BMW, Caterham, Bugatti, Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge, Honda, Jaguar, Koenisegg, Mazda etc.) from renowned manufacturers, lots of new race tracks and beautiful locations including Abu Dhabi, California Coast, Paris and Chicago”. This marvelous game supports two main gaming modes, Single and Multiplayer. In single player gaming mode, you can roam freely in an open world and take part in different race events as a solo player but in multiplayer mode, you can be part of a team of racers or you can make your own team and race against your opponents to win the events. Every race win awards you with points and money that you can use to buy new vehicles and upgrades etc. This thrilling and action packed car racing game is quite fun to play and enjoy. Do try it out.

Driver: San Francisco is a brilliantly Action-filled Car racing video game by the popular Ubisoft Reflections and a number of other Ubisoft Studios. This Action-driven and thrilling game takes you to the amazing City of San Francisco and allow you to drive anyone of the 125 fast cars from various manufacturers, and be the protagonist Jericho, a Skilled Driver who gets arrested unlawfully, takes on the revenge ride and goes against all the responsible, including his true enemies and all the bribed officials in police force. Your task is to get into amazingly action and thrill filled races, defeat your opponents and gain some reputation, reach down to the top tier of mafia and finally kill all the enemies one by one to complete the game objectives. With a massive Open World, cool visuals, and an addictive, engaging game-play and a brilliant game story, Driver: San Francisco is one of the greatest Car Racing video game to play with a bit of drama.

Forza Horizon 2 is a remarkable Car Racing video game by Playground Games and Microsoft Studios. Being part of the Forza series, Forza horizon offers similar game-play to its predecessors and add up new enhancements to visuals, mechanics and core game-play. Great new features of the game include, a number of new cars from the most prominent manufacturers around the world such as Lamborghini LP610-4, Veneno, McLaren, LaFerrari, Agera and Super Sports, countless new racing tracks, beautiful locations, Super cool graphics, Open world gaming environment and single and multiplayer gaming modes etc. Like all the Forza series games, players can be racers or cops upon their liking. With enhanced mechanics, an open World and an addictive game-play, Forza Horizon 2 is one of the best games in the series and offers loads of entertainment for all the hardcore gamers. Try it out and you’ll definitely be amazed at what this cool game has to offer.

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.

F1 2012 created by Codemasters Birmingham and Feral Interactive is a super cool Car Racing video game. The game provides with a fast-paced game-play, twenty four drivers and twelve teams, Circuit and Grand Prix racing events all settled up in Austin, Texas, USA. F1 2012 lets you select a driver character for yourself and choose a F1 (Formula 1) racing car from a huge range of manufacturers, and get into the race events to defeat your opponents and earn rewards and reputation among other racers/players. The game supports two main game modes Single and Multiplayer modes. In single player mode you can roam free or get into race events all by yourself and complete the races and campaigns, however, in multiplayer mode you can be part of a team or you can make your own team of racers to race against your rivals and defeat them as a team. With great graphics details, story-line and an action-filed game-play this game will definitely provide you with a loads of pure entertainment. Do give it a try.

Test Drive Unlimited 2 or shortly abbreviated as TDU2 in an open world car racing video game packed with all the Hardcore Action and Thrill. The game is set on the islands of Ibiza and Oahu and provides with 1864 miles of roads to race on against your rivals. You as the protagonist are featured as a driving valet who wants to race and win the Solar Crown Cup and race money. You can drive a lot of different cars and bikes from licensed manufacturers and engage yourself into different types of race tournaments and win the Solar Crown Cup by beating a number of your opponents. You can drive any one of the 176 vehicles provided, upgrades them or install after markets and enjoy customizing your vehicles the way you like. The vehicles include Bugatti Veyron, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Pagani, Alfa Romeo etc. The game lets you tune up your car according to the requirements for a specific race event. Along with best 3D graphics, a story-line and multiplayer gaming mode, you’ll definitely like playing this great car racing video game.

As you can guess by the game title, Burnout Crash is an action-packed car racing game that features chaos and destruction. Developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts (EA), Burnout Crash is available to play on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Network, and iOS platforms. Player drives his car along with other racers and tries to cause a massive pile up of crashed cars on an intersection. On his way to the intersection, player earns points by damaging and destroying opponent’s cars and everything on the trackby the use of advanced weapons mounted on the vehicle and stuff. The game includes three main game modes, six different intersections, and seven different cars to choose between them. Offering super best graphics details, an open world, and a destructively engaging game-play, Burnout Crash is quite a piece of art. Playing this game will surely make you feel like being a hero in an action movie and you’ll definitely enjoy it. If you really want to experience awesomeness, you must play Burnout Crash and enjoy the ultimate fun.

NASCAR Unleashed is an ultimate Action and Thrill filled Car Racing video game by Fireband Games. The game is one of the best addition to the series “NASCAR” and offers more enhanced game-play and mechanics as compared to its predecessors. NASCAR Unleashed allows you to take part in the mega Car Race Event NASCAR Sprint Cup and select a driver for yourself from fifteen different drivers, select best suitable race car and start racing. This marvelous video game offers six different and quite beautiful car racing locations all based up on real life like environments and locations (Chicagoland Speedway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Martinsville Speedway, Daytona International Speedway, Talladega Super Speedway etc.). Each and every race location is designed with unique layouts and opponents. With advanced game mechanics, a thrillingly fast-paced game-play and an open world gaming environment, NASCAR Unleashed offers amazing visuals, great story and missions along with loads of entertaining stuff. Do give it a try if you are a true fan of racing games, you’ll definitely like it.

F1 2013 is a fantastic Formula One Car Racing video game based on the 2013 FIA Formula One World Championship. The game offers all the racing events, cars, circuit and stars etc. and allows you to compete against your opponents in a totally new environment. With the Classic game mode, F1 2013 allows you to race against the legendary racers, use the iconic race cars, and drive of tracks from the 80s. F1 2013 features enhanced controls, all new drivers, teams, and enhanced car handling mechanics, along with graphical and visuals enhancements, a new engaging game-play and a lot of new rivals. F1 2013 features over eleven new teams and 22 world class drivers and their Formula 1 Race Cars for you to choose between and race against the opponents to defeat them and to win the circuits. F1 2013 offers 19 main Circuit race events along with Grand Prix challenge and lets you drive some of the most rare and old F1 race cars on old and legendary race tracks and enjoy the game to limits. With an advanced GUI, fantastic and ultra-realistic visuals and details, enhanced mechanics and an addictive game-play, F1 2013 is a fantastic Car Racing video game to play.

Need For Speed: Rivals, is developed by Ghost Games in association with Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts. This incredibly addicting and open world car racing game features strikingly marvelous cars and high speed police chases with a thrilling and quite fascinating action game-play. Need For Speed: Rivals was initially designed to be played only on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 but On a huge demand from the players around the world, a PlayStation 4 compatible version made its way to the market back in February 2014. Most of the game characteristics and details are inherited from Need for Speed Hot Pursuit because of a slightly resembling game-play. Players in Need for Speed: Rivals can get into the role of a racer or they can be cops upon their fondness. Great inclusions to the game are up-gradable EMPs, Shock-waves and on call obstructions (Road Blocks), new unlock-able cars, speed traps and full career progress for both racer and cop etc. Need for Speed: Rivals is one of today’s best racing games and is quite hard to let go even if you are bored as hell playing this game. Try it out if you haven’t yet and enjoy the Ultimate Fast-paced and thrilling fun.

The fifth addition to the Burnout series, Burnout Paradise is an open world action-packed car racing game developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts (EA). Being set in the fictional location of Paradise City, the game lets the players decide about what type of race they want to participate in. Player gets to drive and race against the rivals in an open world destroying buildings and crashing into road blocks set by the police. On every race won, player gets cash reward and later on, uses it to buy after markets and other upgrades. If player defeats the boss, he gets his ride, the reputation of boss, and all the crew starts working for the player. Due to the fast-paced nature of the game, player keeps on pushing to the limits to win the races as he wants to improve his ranks and reputation among the other racers around the city. Once player finishes all the races, the game concludes. Burnout: Paradise features super best 3D graphics, an action-packed game-play along with an awesome story-line and a lot of other cool things that keep you engaged in the game from the start to the very end. For hardcore racing game enthusiasts, this game is a real deal. If you like playing games with a lot of thrill and drama like feeling, this game is made just for you. Do try it out.

Ridge Racer Unbounded is the latest and well-liked addition to the already trending Ridge Racer Franchise. Following up the trends of Action and Arcade Racing games, Ridge Racer Unbounded lets the players get familiar with an entirely new breed of Racing genre. Packed with adrenaline-pumping Action and Thrill, Ridge Racer Unbounded makes the players enjoy an absolutely great experience. With a compelling backstory, Ridge Racer Unbounded tasks the players to join a street racing gang, be their leader Kara Shindo and defeat the most challenging rivals of all times. Ridge Racer Unbounded offers cutting edge physics-based gameplay, smash into everything that comes in the way and carve a new path every time you play the game. With many different locations in Shatter Bay area such as Commercial Zones, Refineries, Ports, High rise building construction sites, amazing new and advanced racing vehicles, beautiful game visuals and great mechanics, Ridge Racer Unbounded offers a truly remarkable way of entertaining the players.

Dirt 3 is an Action, Open world, Racing, Single and Multiplayer video game created and published by Codemasters. It is the third game in the series of Dirt and the player must earn reputation points in his main mode in different events to gain attract the sponsors’ interest who offer him a new vehicle. It offers the similar gameplay like its entries and introduces new vehicles, tracks, and locations and challenges. The game includes new mode named gymkhana, in which game puts the player in obstacles, he has to perform various tricks to make points. There are different modes such as capture the flag, spread a zombie infection, smashing wooden targets and more. Weather and day/night system also featured in the game to make it more challenging. Select the vehicle and dive into the game world where the player has to compete against rival drivers, show his driving abilities and eliminate those using different tricks. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.

Need for Speed: Carbon is the wonderful Racing video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronics Arts for those players who love playing Driving Games. It is the sequel to the popular game called Need for Speed: Most Wanted. The game takes place in the fictional city known as Coast City with a different storyline and introduces an AI teammate features. It offers the similar gameplay to Underground 2 and Most Wanted and focuses on Street Racing Crew. You act as the protagonist in this marvelous game, and your ultimate task is to hire specific racers to be in your crew. Each racer has two different skills such as a Racing Skill (drafter, blocker, and scout) and a non-race skill (mechanic, fixer, and fabricator). Before starting Career mode, you have to select your class, which will remain through the game. Select the track and race against rival drivers to win trophies and amazing rewards. The driver who crosses the finish line first will win the race. The game features Police vehicles which chase you when you are in a race against other brutal drivers. Avoid police, navigate the environment from a third-person perspective and fulfill your objectives to earn experience points and money that can be used to unlock other vehicle classes or upgrade your vehicle. Need for Speed: Carbon offers enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, detailed graphics and fantastic features. Try it out, if you love playing Racing Games.

Midnight Club: Los Angeles is an Action, Racing, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. The game takes place in an open environment consists of Los Angeles and offers the three times bigger world than the previous title. It features up to forty-three vehicles of different manufacturers and four motorbikes. To start the match, the player must choose his car from available to navigate the world from a third-person perspective with dynamic weather settings. The game features day/night cycle and lets the player maintain his vehicle by spending his money. The player has to race against rival drivers and defeat them by crossing the finish line. In Single-player campaign, the player can compete against AI-controlled vehicles or can play in career mode while in Multiplayer mode, the player can challenge another player on the local network to compete against him. Realistic damage system decreases the performance of the vehicle, and the player needs to upgrade it using multiple features like brake, tires, suspension, engines, fuel tank and more. Midnight Club: Los Angeles is the excellent game for those players who love playing Racing games.

Colin McRae Rally 3 is a Racing, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Codemasters for Multiple Platforms. The game acts as the third title in the series of Colin McRae Rally video game and introduces the rally cars from the 2002 World Rally Championship. The player starts his career as the driver by selecting his favorite car from available with an aim to become the world’s best driver. The game is played from a third-person perspective and the player can drive different vehicles over the course of the game on different racing tracks. The screen of the game contains the map, speed meter and the time as well as the remaining distance to reach the end point of the track. The track in the game contains challenging curve, obstacles, and more. The player needs to wake up his inner driver, grab the steering and start driving the car on the selected track against AI controlled drivers. The driver will win the race who reaches the finish line before anyone. Check it out, if you love playing racing games.