[Fineus]

In my continueing desire to distract myself from work, I'd like to try a racing game for the PC. This move is inspired from watching Top Gear.

Therefore I'd like something fairly arcade and fun but with decent graphics and a tremendous sense of speed (that last bit is very important, if it doesn't feel fast/powerful then it's not worth mentioning). I'd prefer something involving road / rally cars to F1.

So.. any suggestions?

[CP5670]

If you mainly want speed, get Ballistics. It's not really a car game and is around four years old but nothing comes even close to that game in terms of speed. You can easily hit speeds over 2000mph and it actually feels like you are going that fast.

[Col. Fishguts]

I like NFS: Hot Pursuit 2.

Nothig compares to thundering over the road with 200 mph in a Lamborghini Murciélago while a police chopper drops burning fuel barrels in front of you

[Dark RevenantX]

Try TrackMania: Sunrise if you want cars that can go really fast pretty quickly.  Though, you don't actually race anyone and there isn't collision detection between cars, you actually are beating the clock.  (That is actually a GOOD thing seeing as you make a lot of crazy AND I MEAN CRAZY jumps and stunts.)  Luckily, there are three (soon to be five) other more gametypes including platform, puzzle (you build tracks in puzzle), and crazy (the name is true), and soon to be stunt and extreme race.  You can really feel the speed if you happen to have a good enough computer to use the motion blur.  The motion blur is very excessive, it gives me the feeling that I was driving impossibly fast, but it cut my framerate in thirds.  The best part is that you can create your own tracks with it provided that you earn coppers to build them.  You earn coppers by doing well on the road, and you can use up to your total amount of coppers when you build tracks.

Btw, your car can get up to 400kph+ on its own with a straight track.  This goes MUCH higher when you are going downhill and when on speed strips and super speed strips.

But, if you aren't interested, I don't know where (if you could) you would find exactly what you are looking for.

[Singh]

If you can go through abandonware sites and the like, do search for Demolition Derby 2. It's not as good as Burnout: revenge, but hell yes, it more than makes up for it in sheer destructive chaos

[CP5670]

Does anyone here have Rollcage or Rollcage Stage II? Great games, and some of the very few PC games to have a split screen mode, but I can't get them to work on either my main computer or my old gaming one for some reason, even though I played them for years on that old one. They both run way too fast on any video card I try them on, even an old Voodoo2.

[kode]

Does anyone here have Rollcage or Rollcage Stage II? Great games, and some of the very few PC games to have a split screen mode, but I can't get them to work on either my main computer or my old gaming one for some reason, even though I played them for years on that old one. They both run way too fast on any video card I try them on, even an old Voodoo2.

yeah, I have the first. I can't remember how exactly I got it to work properly, though. It ran at reasonable speed, however. It might be that I used software rendering or something. some setting, anyway, for direct3d.

[ZmaN]

need for speed: most wanted comes out on the 17th.  its gt great graphics and a sense of speed close to burnout 3..  and there of cops in it..  (and those cops are VERY intelligent!!)  get the demo on www.needforspeed.com

[Night Hammer]

I like NFS: Hot Pursuit 2.

Nothig compares to thundering over the road with 200 mph in a Lamborghini Murciélago while a police chopper drops burning fuel barrels in front of you

Great game, pretty old too so I bet you could get it for not too much$$$. I like the levels where you get to be the cops

[CP5670]

yeah, I have the first. I can't remember how exactly I got it to work properly, though. It ran at reasonable speed, however. It might be that I used software rendering or something. some setting, anyway, for direct3d.

I don't think it gave me a software option, but I have to double check. Although I used to run it on D3D with the Geforce3 in that computer for quite a long time, so I don't know what's going on. Maybe a framecap or something like that is needed.

[Flipside]

I think it's largely a DirectX thing, I've run Dungeon Keeper 2 under DirectX on this computer before, but with the latest version of DirectX and the new card, it refuses to start at all

[Falcon]

I'm trying the demo of NFS: MW... so far being chased by cops is fun.

Oh and I almost went insane after briefly listening to the games music. Good thing I shut off the music just in time or else bad things would have happened.

[Sandwich]

Or Midtown Madness... some of those MODded cars can get... well... let's just say they had a rudimentary pod-racer in there.

[achtung]

Link

*Runs around street corner and starts shooting random people*

[Dark RevenantX]

(and those cops are VERY intelligent!!)

Are you kidding me?  Those cops are retarded!  What you can give them credit for is their agressiveness.

[Night Hammer]

is most wanted like hot pursuit or is like more like underground?

not a big fan of underground

[Dark RevenantX]

I've only played High Stakes and Most Wanted, so I can't make the comparison.  What I can do, however, is say that most wanted is less about beefing up your car, it's about being a bad dude.  You need to cause damage, wreck cars (especailly cops), and get away without going to jail.  The motion blur is weak, but it's a good all-round game.  Pick it up on Friday if you want to try it out.

[Night Hammer]

kinda sounds like a burnout ripoff now

[IPAndrews]

Burnout 3 is the most fun I've had since GTA San Andreas if you have that on the PC.

[General Freak]

Ignition: http://www.abandonia.com/games/en/107/Ignition.htm