Oh, and a force feedback wheel is quite literally required here - that's not us saying the gamepad support is poor. The game just won't let you race unless you have a wheel. But for a certain class of sim racing fan, there is nothing that compares. The very best iRacing players often compete in real motorsport too, and make a career out of eSports sim racing. And having first released now over a decade ago in , it's consistently stayed astride with the latest simulators each year.
Quite an achievement. This is a brilliant, great-looking F1 sim and just keeps getting deeper the more you look into it. It could also use a little more flair and personality in its presentation. As for polish, forget about it. What this license gives its successor is an inviting championship structure with different vehicle categories and highly scalable endurance racing across treasured circuits like Paul Ricard, Spa Francorchamps and Circuit de Catalunya.
Almost a decade after the release of Trackmania 2, Ubisoft Nadeo debuted its semi-reboot of series with Trackmania The new game features some significant graphical upgrades, but the real treat is the addition of daily featured tracks, new track pieces like ice, and improved checkpointing. Most importantly, it's a fresh start for Trackmania detached from Nadeo's strange Maniaplanet platform.
But don't worry, Trackmania is still incredibly weird. I've already played tons of nonsensical tracks that require pinpoint timing, endless repetition, and a little bit of luck. Nadeo is also taking a more hands-on approach to post-release content by releasing new tracks made by the studio on a seasonal basis. If you're a lapsed fan or new to the series, this is where you want to be. Motorcycle racing is inherently exciting - the lean angles, suicidal overtakes and acceleration rates just make for a great spectator sport.
And Italian superbike specialists Milestone really nail that feeling of terror and bravery of being on a factory MotoGP bike. The Codemasters F1 games are obviously a big inspiration, to put it politely, but the upshot for anyone playing it is a layer of career simulation on top of the racing.
Work your way up through slower categories, build a reputation, and hold out for that big team ride. It's not a cheap habit, but it will please serious racers. That's only half the story, though. The sheer volume of user-created mods is enormous, and while the focus is on Formula One throughout the years those with an itch to be scratched in DTM, WTCC, GT racing and other open wheelers will be satiated too. Hot Pursuit is a driving game frozen in a particularly special time for arcade racers.
The purest essence of Need for Speed before the series went all open-world, it delivers exactly what the title promises, in race after race, with no downtime. Enjoy the simple life as you aim a European exotic down a stretch of hauntingly beautiful Pacific coast highway with a train of police cars following in your wake. It's aged like an oak-smoked A-lister too.
The roadside textures and car poly counts might not be able to compete directly with the latest releases, but the overall aesthetic in Hot Pursuit still looks luxurious. And above all, fast. At least half your time in My Summer Car is spent outside of a car. It all begins with a note from your parents telling you to rebuild the junked car in your garage.
Go Go Ufo Flash. Speed and crash Unity 3D. Rush Flash. Cruisin 2 Multiplayer Flash. Mud Fury WebGL. Bike Riders WebGL. Monster 4x4 WebGL. Renegade Driver WebGL. Xcross Madness WebGL. City Drifting WebGL. Truck Legends WebGL.
Snow Storm WebGL. Mall Dash WebGL. Stallion's Spirit WebGL. Driving Wars WebGL. Even if you're new to sims, you'll probably know a little about iRacing: that it's expensive, time consuming, tough.
It is also, if you allow it, an all-encompassing take on some of the very best aspects of motorsport. Work your way through the ranks and earn a slot in a team endurance event and you'll be witness to all the camaraderie, excitement - and, yes, crushing disappointment - of the real thing. There's no doubt that some aspects of iRacing are getting a little long in the tooth - and there are certainly better-looking sims out there - but with all those years of experience since the service rolled out well over ten years ago comes a competence that you can't find elsewhere.
Find out what makes iRacing the ultimate driving sim. Kunos Simulazioni offers up two very different experiences - though they're both so good we've cheated and included both. The original Assetto Corsa might be getting a little long in the tooth, but with a handful of the right mods it can still be the best pure driving game on PC, while Competizione - after a handful of welcome updates - now offers a purebred racing experience that's the measure of iRacing. When it comes to GT racing - perhaps the healthiest and most diverse form of motorsport right now - it's pretty much peerless.
See our full Assetto Corsa Competizione review and buy it now from Amazon. There's still the sense that rFactor 2 has yet to reach its potential, and that it might be some time until it properly does so - Motorsport Games' acquisition of developer Studio combined with mouthwatering licences such as BTCC and WEC suggests there's plenty to get excited about in the future.
For now, though, and for all its little faults, there's no denying the authenticity of rFactor 2's handling, serving up a simulation model like no other. If you've any interest in pretend race cars, you at least need to take this one out for a spin. Some old problems persist, and a handful of new ones crop up in what's still an occasionally lumpy package, but none of that can hold back this year's F1 game as being the best yet.
An all-new story mode, riffing heavily off the overstated drama of Netflix's Drive to Survive, works surprisingly well, and it's matched by decent next-gen versions and a few welcome nips and tucks to the existing racing. The AI puts up a decent fight, there's a whole season's worth of racing and it all looks impressively authentic - and given we're enjoying a season for the ages in F1 right now, it's fitting that the official game is up there with Geoff Crammond's 90s efforts in being some of the best takes on the sport to date.
See our full F1 review and buy it now from Jacamo. Codemasters will take over the licence for the world's preeminent rallying series from , which should be interesting - but don't think for a minute that it's because the current KT Racing games are substandard.
They have the goods where it counts: a beautiful, detailed, hard-edged handling model that is not mucking around and ensures this demanding sport makes for a challenging game, as it should do. Some other games have attempted to replicate the madness and majesty of the Isle of Man's KT Racing smoothed out some of the bumps for this sequel, while importantly staying true to the bumps and bends of the course itself, making for a racing experience that stands alone and manages to do justice to the great event.
It doesn't get a lot of attention or serve up the same sense of drama as Ride on the Edge, but Milestone's long-running licence based on the premier motorcycle racing series is a well-sorted motorsport sim all the same. The Italian developer has more experience with bike racing than any other developer, and it shows in the fine-tuned handling.
The sport itself remains a perfect inspiration for video games, with a sense of precariousness and danger that modern car racing has largely lost. Buy it now from Amazon. We want to make Eurogamer better, and that means better for our readers - not for algorithms. You can help! Become a supporter of Eurogamer and you can view the site completely ad-free, as well as gaining exclusive access to articles, podcasts and conversations that will bring you closer to the team, the stories, and the games we all love.
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