Naturally, you can race all around the world, from France to China, and build your own tracks to share with your friends and rivals. For the first time, you can crank these games up to 4K resolution with HDR features. Other new features include improved textures and VR compatibility.
The Wipeout Omega Collection features single-player campaigns, local split-screen and online multiplayer, making it a good choice for both solo and competitive players. Until we get a new Wipeout game on the PS5, this may be as good as it gets for series fans.
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MotoGP is the latest game in the long-running bike racing series. If you've played recent entries in the franchise, MotoGP doesn't do much to move the needle, but it's still your best bet if you prefer two-wheel racing over four wheels.
A robust campaign mode lets you either create your own team or join a real-life MotoGP squad. For longtime fans, MotoGP is a treat, as it features plus riders.
The track list is relatively small, but each one is intricately designed and the moment-to-moment racing offers a superb challenge that encourages you to really get to know your bike, the tracks, and your competitors. Need for Speed Heat is mostly a return to form for a series that had been falling into mediocrity for years.
Like many games in the franchise, Need for Speed Heat has its own unique hook. As a street racer, you compete during official competitions when the sun is up. Once the sun sets, things get much more risky. You can compete in illegal street races and try to avoid less than savory cops who don't just want to bust you--they want to steal from you by any means necessary.
Heat also has a well-implemented drift system that feels more realistic than the simplistic overall car handling, which adds another layer to races.
Great customization features help you optimize your rides to your liking, too. Heat is at its best during the thrill of the chase, and luckily, there's plenty of that here.
See our Need for Speed Heat review. Project Cars 2 is a grueling racing sim designed for enthusiasts who prefer realism over fast-paced action. The handling system was influenced by input from real race car drivers, which makes it quite demanding. While playing with a controller is serviceable, Project Cars 2 really hits its stride when playing with a racing wheel. In terms of authentic feel, you'd be hard-pressed to find a racing game that tops Project Cars 2 when driving with a wheel.
The level of realism extends to the hour day cycles and dynamic weather and surface conditions, which are unparalleled in the genre. Project Cars 2 is chock-full of intricately designed tracks and more than rides, ranging from sports cars to IndyCars to rallycross.
See our Project Cars 2 review. Team Sonic Racing is Sega's answer to Mario Kart, and while it doesn't have the depth and polish of the Mario Kart franchise, it is still a ton of fun. Team Sonic Racing has a solid foundation thanks to great cart controls that are responsive and easy to grasp and a wide range of cool tracks filled with Sonic trappings.
With three different classes of drivers that have their own unique racing styles and an emphasis on playing as a unit, Team Sonic Racing adds its own flavor to the cart racing genre. See our Team Sonic Racing review. The Crew 2 is one of the weirdest racing games on this list, purely because it never really decides what it wants to be. In this case, that's a good thing. The Crew 2 is a consistently surprising open-world game that features cars of all types, boats, planes, and motorcycles--all of which you can cycle through instantly.
Fly off a bridge in a car and land in a boat. Soar past skyscrapers in a jet and switch to a muscle car that plummets out of the sky. The Crew 2 gives you free reign over how you approach its rather wild premise. The open-world map, which is a scaled version of the United States, is gorgeous to explore.
The many dedicated races and objectives help show off The Crew 2's myriad of approaches from getting from point A to point B. See our The Crew 2 review. Trackmania Turbo is different from most of the games on this list. Rather than beating your opponents on the track, your goal is to beat the track itself. The campaign has more than courses scattered throughout four unique environments. Each time you start your engine, it's a race against the clock in an effort to beat the best time.
This is pure arcade racing across some seriously zany tracks, each of which tests your skills and teaches you something new about how to approach the objective at hand. Trackmania Turbo also has a cool track creator that lets you make your courses or randomly generate tracks that can be uploaded to the servers for others to play. See our Trackmania Turbo review.
Trials Fusion is an always compelling and often hilarious physics-based motorcycle game filled with absurd tracks that keep the action interesting throughout. While you can play local multiplayer races with up to four players, Trials Fusion is primarily a game about besting times and scores, whether that be preset track times or your friends' best scores.
Trials Fusion could be aptly described as "touchy," because it's easy to get greedy and wipe out. It doesn't try to be realistic, but the adherence to this wacky physics system is ultimately what makes Trials Fusion so fun to play.
Despite the fact you're maneuvering across a 2D plane, Trials Fusion has plenty of depth and rewards those who stick around to really master the physics and the elaborately designed tracks. While there's a steep learning curve, you can make your own tracks using a robust course creator. Each event will earn you points based on your placement. Once you hit the minimum number of points for a given tier, you can move on to the next, even if you have events left over.
Each race features a different driving surface like gravel, dirt, or tarmac. How you tune your car depends on said surface. For example, tuning your suspension to the soft side will keep your tires on the ground when driving on rough surfaces like dirt and gravel, while a stiff suspension is better for tarmac.
Wreckfest integrates complex driving mechanics with the excitement of derby car racing. Your cars will suffer structural damage as you crash into opponents. Be careful; too much damage may throw off your handling. Aside from standard multiplayer, Wreckfest features a season-based semi-online tournament mode where players earn Fame to purchase seasonal cars and accessories. However, the weekly and seasonal events have you trying your best to place on the leaderboard to earn the most Fame.
DiRT 5 ditched the heavy-sim approach of its predecessors and opted for a more arcade-like racing experience. The controls are more manageable, the visuals are stunning, and the campaign is straightforward. DiRT 5 offers several different event types and tracks to keep each race feeling fresh in the beginning. However, some of the events start to feel pretty similar as the campaign progresses.
The campaign stretches over five long chapters with available events. One player starts as the vampire car and must tag other cars to turn them into vampires.
Everyone else must avoid the vampire car and maintain their distance until the sun rises. Other party games include King, where players fight to hold the crown for as long as possible, and Transporter, where players fight to deliver a designated item to its destination while fending off other racers. Finally, DiRT 5 becomes an entirely new game in Playgrounds. Playgrounds is a sandbox mode that allows for the ultimate custom-track building experience within the DiRT world. Thankfully, DiRT 5 has a massive database of user-created maps for inspiration.
That, or you can enjoy setting new time-trial records on community maps. WRC 10 celebrates the 50th anniversary of World Rally Championship racing with the latest game in the official series. WRC 10 centers on time trials.
WRC 10 features several single-player routes you can take. WRC 10 features 19 countries with a variety of tracks to choose from.
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