Well with all the attention being hogged by huge open world games or action adventure games. We decided to shift focus to the exhilarating speed and concentrate on most exciting racing games which will be released in the not so distant future. Get started.
Forza Motorsport 5
Forza 5 brings the tremendously accomplished and well-rounded Forza 4 snarling onto far more potent hardware, so expect a lot of what you already love, only with drastically improved fidelity. In terms of additions, Australia’s legendary Mount Panorama Circuit (Bathurst) and Belgium’s renowned Spa-Francorchamps will finally debut, along with open-wheeled cars for the first time in the series. Also, all three UK Top Gear hosts are involved. Beating genre legend Gran Turismo to the next generation consoles, Forza 5 sends a warning to trigger a high octane arms race between Xbox One and PS4.
Gran Turismo 6
Gran Turismo 6 is set to boast 33 tracks with 71 layouts (including the return of Apricot Hill plus the addition of Brands Hatch, the Goodwood Festival of Speed hill climb course, and possibly Bathurst). It’s also coming with 1200 cars, a new rendering engine promising graphics that’ll push the PS3 to the very edge of the envelope, and a refined interface. It’ll also feature a radically different Course Maker that’ll allow players to lay down track in an area of 100 kilometres by 100 kilometres (meaning, if it were a country, its size would wedge it somewhere between Lebanon and Puerto Rico).
Project C.A.R.S.
Project CARS is going to have to be sold in opaque plastic bags from behind the counter because it’s nothing short of car smut of the highest order. The creators of this automobile pornography are independent, London-based dev house Slightly Mad Studios (Need for Speed: Shift and Shift 2: Unleashed). Slightly Mad Studios has been quietly courting revheads for some time with regular, impossibly beautiful videos and cluster after cluster of near photo-realistic screenshots. Built primarily for hardcore racing sim fans, Project CARS will let players steer themselves through a career that begins in karts before heading to the discipline of their choice, whether that’s touring cars, GT, open-wheelers, or more. You’ll also be able to play co-op with a friend as teammates and/or co-drivers. Project CARS’ advanced physics and lighting (the game will boast dynamic time of day effects for each track, plus localised weather) will obviously peak on PC, but the game is also set to hit PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii U at this stage.
Check out the trailer here.
The Crew
The Crew is an open-world racing game set across the entire United States. At top speed, sticking to just the main roads, it’ll reportedly take around 90 minutes to make your way from one side of the map to the other. In addition, The Crew will feature a version of New York City that’s slightly bigger than Grand Theft Auto IV’s Liberty City – and that’s just one of 16 cities set to be in the game.
You won’t want to miss the trailer.
Need for Speed Rivals
Is NFS the reason no other developers are allowed to feature Porsches in their racing games? Yep. And yet, there is something exciting about Need for Speed Rivals. It’s headed to next-generation machines, meaning the series has a chance for a fresh start. Ferrari has officially returned to the franchise too, for the first time in over a decade (Ferraris featured as DLC in 2009’s Shift as Xbox 360-exclusive DLC but haven’t been properly present since 2002’s fan-favourite Hot Pursuit 2). Sticking with the cops versus racers concept that Criterion successfully re-injected the series with in 2010’s Hot Pursuit remake, let’s hope NFS does well this time.
