Driver: San Francisco
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.
#1 Need For Speed: The Run
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.
#2 NASCAR Unleashed
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.
#3 Fast and Furious: Showdown
Fast and Furious: Showdown is an Action, Racing, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Firebrand Games and published by Activision. The game takes place in the fictional land and lets the player control the major characters of The Fast and Furious movies, except Dominic Toretto. According to the story, Monica Fuentes are looking for Riley Hicks digging across through files in her office. The game centers on co-op card combat elements and introduces a variety of modified vehicles, from which the player can choose to participate in multiple racing events to show off his driving abilities. The player manipulate the world from a third-person perspective and his main task is to race against rivals, and reach the end of the level before anyone. In Single-player mode, the player compete against AI controlled vehicles and can go against friends in multiple mode. Fast and Furious: Showdown offers prominent features such as Detailed Environment, Customization, several Vehicles, Realistic Racing Experience and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#4 The Sopranos: Road to Respect
The Sopranos: Road to Respect is a Beat ‘em up, Action-Adventure, and Single-player video game created by 7 Studios and published by THQ for PlayStation 2. The game offers exciting gameplay based, on the HBO series The Sopranos. The storyline of the game is set between the 5th and sixth seasons and revolves illegitimate son named Joey LaRocca, as he struggles to make his way through the family business. The story starts with NPC named Tony Soprano providing Joey LaRocca (the protagonist), a place in the Mafia. During the job, the protagonist accidentally murders Mario Buscetta, Angelo Buscetta’s nephew. After that, Angie sends a hitman to target the protagonist, but he kills the hitman during the rooftop chase. In the game, the player takes several missions from the main characters of the series at the specific points. The game is different from influenced games in that it is in a linear and story-driven gameplay as opposed to open world type gameplay of GTA. The game becomes challenging as the player advances through it and further levels will be unlocked.