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 Dirt Rally
Dirt Rally developed and published by Codemasters is an Action, Racing, Single and Multiplayer Driving Simulation for multiple platforms. The game features a variety of modified vehicles and allows the player to select his favorite one to race against rival drivers throughout different tracks. The primary objective of the game is to cross the finish line before anyone while avoiding hurdles, and barriers to progress. In the game, the player needs to compete in timed stage events and can show off his abilities during the competition. It takes place in multiple locations such as Vermland, Jamsa, Baumholder, and more. In Single-player campaign, the player needs to pick up his car, customize it and jump into the world where he has to race against opponents and cross the finish line before anyone. In Multiplayer mode, the player can challenge up to four friends in PvP arena to show off his driving skills and abilities. Other tracks, and modes will be unlocked, as the player advanced. Dirt Rally includes prominent features such as Team Management, Online Challenges, Handling Model, and more.
#2 Project CARS 2
Project CARS 2 is a Motorsport, Single-player and Multiplayer Racing Simulation developed by Slightly Mad Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. The game takes place in the realistic environment and serves as the 2nd title after the previous game Project Cars. It features more than 180 licensed vehicles from manufacturers and introduces class-leading capabilities. To get into the world, the player has to select his favorite car with the best statistics and struggle to cross the finish line before anyone to win the race. The game has multiple tracks where different race competition takes place, and the player has a chance to show off his driving abilities. The player explores the environment from either a third-person perspective or behind the steering to immerse himself in the realistic driving experience. There are three new loose surfaces such as Mud, Dirt, and Ice. In Single-player mode, the player competes against AI-controlled vehicles with a task to eliminate them from the race or cross the finish line first. The game features a mini-map on the screen to display the locations of the player and his opponents. Project CARS 2 offers core features such as over 180 Vehicles, Pro Racing Drivers, Dynamic Surfaces and Weather Conditions, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#3 The Crew 2
The Crew 2 is a Realistic Racing, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Ivory Tower and published by Ubisoft. The game acts as the sequel to The Crew, released in 2014 and introduces the persistent Open World environment for the player to free roam. In the game, the player controls a series of vehicles including boats, cars, airplanes, motorcycles, and more. Like its previous title, the game focusing on pure racing elements, and it puts the player in the role of an unknown racer, who is struggling his way to becoming the successful driver. Each vehicle in the game has its unique control physics, and the gameplay depends on the vehicle controlled by the player. During the gameplay, the player switch between land, air, and sea vehicles instantly. It has four hub worlds each with unique playstyle and theme. The theme consists of street racing, off-road, pro racing, freestyle, and more. Using vehicle customization, the player can modify his vehicle with advanced parts, paint jobs, and more. The Crew 2 includes prominent features such as become the Champion, a series of Vehicles, Customization, Detailed Environment, and more.
#4 Grid
Grid is an Action, Sports, Racing, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Codemasters for multiple platforms. It serves as a tenth main installment in the TOCA series with offering similar gameplay to the recent releases. Throughout the course, the player adopts the role of a car racer who has to defeat the rivals in the race.
While racing, the player can view the car from both first-person as well as third-person perspective. The game features multiple modes such as career mode, practice, quick match, and online racing. In a quick game, the player races with different AI racers to improve the skills.
Online race mode offers the player to test his speed by competing with the world’s top best players. In career mode, the player has to rise like a real racer by achieving trophies and awards. The player can modify the car accordingly, and as he makes progress, the rank of the player improves through the global leaderboard.
#5 The Crew
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.
#6 Gran Turismo 7
Gran Turismo 7 is the 13th installment in the series of Gran Turismo and the first game to be released on PlayStation 4. The game has both Single and Multiplayer modes and focuses on racing gameplay. It offers the similar gameplay to its predecessor, and introduces a variety of licensed vehicles to select and race. The game takes place in different locations around the world and offers different courses to race against other players or AI controlled drivers. It has three different modes such as Sports Mode, Campaign Mode and Arcade Mode. The player can participate in both online and offline mode. Unlike Gran Turismo 4, 5 and 6, the title doesn’t feature day/night cycle and dynamic weather system. The player has the option to change the time of the race of day before getting into the race. 177 cars available, each has its unique abilities and stats and up to 27 configurations of 19 locations are presents to race. With improved mechanics, gameplay, controls and highly-detailed environments, Gran Turismo 7 is the best game for those who love playing Racing games.
#7 Project Cars
Project Cars is an extremely addictive Car Racing video game being developed by Slightly Mad Studios. The game recently released in May, 2015 on all major gaming platforms like PC, PlayStation, Xbox One and Wii U etc. This masterpiece is thrown into markets as a wonderful Car Racing Simulation Game with ultra-realistic graphics, enhanced car handling system and a number of racing cars from well-known manufacturers. Along with Multiple Racing locations and a lot of realistic race tracks, Project Cars provides with lots and lots of fun filled hours of pure entertainment and action filled game-play. Project Cars provides with both single and multiplayer gaming modes and is currently available on Optical Disc and Download. Project Cars offers 67 drivable cars and 52 race tracks, huge amount of DLC, great visuals and an engaging and immersive game-play. For a wonderful Car Racing experience, do try this cool game out.