Known as Choro-Q HG 2 in Japan, or Everywhere Road Trip in North America, Road Trip Adventure utilised an open-ended career and fully explorable world in a time where open world games were still finding their feet. It also has the world of Pixar’s Cars beat when it comes to anthropomorphic vehicles, so Road Trip Adventure is quite the trailblazer. In a lot of ways, Road Trip Adventure is a precursor to a lot of modern day racing games. Road Trip Adventure Road Trip Adventure PS2 You’ll need to manage your staff morale and car durability from race to race if you want to have any chance of claiming the championship for yourself.ġ1. Using tracks and cars from the 2000-2002 WRC events, you’ll build a team to compete against the best of the best from across the road, but it’s the decisions you make off the dirt track that make just as much of a difference as the decisions and performance on the day. The gameplay side of things is stellar, with plenty of thrilling moments as you race across the game’s 24 different tracks, but the real highlight here is the Career Mode. While we’ll touch on the actual juggernaut of the rally gaming genre later on in this list, one game that deserves some love is V-Rally 3, which built on the foundations that the series put forth in the original PS1 titles. Now if we could get a new Wipeout on PS5, that’d be real swell. While critics weren’t keen on some of the track designs, no one could deny that the magic was still there. Still, Fusion also retained the excellent gameplay and physics that had been present in the series since Wipeout 2097. Wipeout Fusion had some big boots to fill, and it certainly gave it a great shot.įusion saw the futuristic world of Wipeout look the best it ever has before the release of the Omega Collection on PS4, with improved graphics and colours. Much like Crash Bandicoot’s escapades in kart racing, the WipeOut series never really captured the same spark on PS2 as it did on the PS1, but then again, how could it? The first three games on PS1 were almost single-handedly responsible for pioneering 3D anti-gravity racing before F-Zero X even launched, while also raising the profile of the underground British trance music scene. Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment, BAM! Entertainment You can’t make it over the finish line if you keep exploding, after all. You’ll compete against 11 other racers on high-powered bikes outfitted with a variety of weapons, with victory going to either the fastest or the one who can blow everyone up. Like most futuristic racers, XGIII sees players racing around massive tracks filled with twists, turns, drops and other kinds of gravity defying shenanigans. Weak sales and a lack of originality beyond “what if bikes instead of ships” didn’t help the series’ longevity, but Acclaim put everything into the release of XGIII: Extreme G Racing, and the result is an extremely fun yet challenging racer, and one of the best PS2 racing games ever made. There’s a reason why the Extreme G series didn’t quite have the same amount of staying powers as Wipeout, a fellow sci-fi racing franchise, and it’s not just because Acclaim went belly up in 2004. While it might not be quite as good as the original, Crash Nitro Kart is still great fun to play. However, Crash Nitro Kart upped the ante even further by introducing the powersliding mechanic, which gave the series some much needed depth. Still, there’s a reason why Crash Nitro Kart played a core factor in the Crash Team Racing re-release a few years back.įor starters, Crash Nitro Kart featured plenty of great tracks, along with the same compelling gameplay that made CTR such fun to play a few years prior. They were still fantastic games, but not quite on the same level as CTR. Crash Team Racing is one of the most universally beloved racing games ever made, but that launched for the PS1, and the Bandicoot’s racing game adventures on the PS2 didn’t exactly match up to that original outing.
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