Category: Racing

Title: Need for Speed Rivals
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS4
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 11/14/2013
Overview: Need for Speed: Rivals takes the open-world racing game genre to new levels. While the huge, open map, exotic cars, and high-speed police chases the series is known for are back, Rivals adds a new social system called AllDrive, which allows players to transition from playing alone, to playing with friends. Described as “destroying the line between single-player and multiplayer,” AllDrive allows for both co-op and competitive multiplayer. The game also features a dynamic weather system designed to make the world feel alive in a bigger sense than any previous Need for Speed game. The next-gen versions of Need for Speed: Rivals offer more than just improved visuals. PS4 gamers will enjoy new weather effects, an increase in online player counts, and different ways of interacting with the game through the unique control elements of the PS4.

Title: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox One
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/18/2013
Overview: The latest Assassin’s Creed takes players deep into the world of pirates, privateers, and the salty dogs and scallywags of the open sea. Set in the exotic Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag boasts three major cities and over 50 smaller locations within a huge open world ripe for plunder and exploration. You’ll battle fellow brigands in ship-to-ship combat, go deep into underwater investigations, and enjoy the stealthy gameplay and exotic weaponry that fans of the series crave. You’ll play as Edward Kenway, genetic relation of past AC protagonists Connor and Haytham Kenway, and delve deep into the history-wide conspiracy that defines the Assassin’s Creed experience. 

Title: Forza Motorsport 5
Publisher: Microsoft
Platform: Xbox One
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 11/21/2013
Overview: Forza Motorsport 5 is the Xbox One’s ultimate racing experience. The series’ signature crazy-realistic graphics return, but the Xbox One version is a whole-generation better-looking than past games. Forza 5 is more than just flashy visuals, though. There’s a lot under the hood, including spot-on driving physics, a seamless online experience, and more than 140 cars from over 49 manufacturers. You’ll race on tracks from all over the world, including Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Mount Panorama Circuit (Bathurst), and more. Forza 5 is the first title in the series to feature laser-scanned racetracks and open-wheel racing cars, as well as the Drivatar feature. Drivatar is a cloud-based artificial intelligence that adapts to the gameplay style of the player. Once the system has your driving style down, your Drivatar can compete in races without your input.

Title: Need for Speed Rivals
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox One
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 11/21/2013
Overview: Need for Speed: Rivals takes the open-world racing game genre to new levels. While the huge, open map, exotic cars, and high-speed police chases the series is known for are back, Rivals adds a new social system called AllDrive, which allows players to transition from playing alone, to playing with friends. Described as “destroying the line between single-player and multiplayer,” AllDrive allows for both co-op and competitive multiplayer. The game also features a dynamic weather system designed to make the world feel alive in a bigger sense than any previous Need for Speed game. The next-gen versions of Need for Speed: Rivals offer more than just improved visuals. Xbox One gamers will enjoy new weather effects, an increase in online player counts, and different ways of interacting with the game through the unique control elements of the Xbox One.

Title: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/28/2013
Overview: NOTE: This is a two disc game, but it only counts as one disc against your rental plan. Rental of this title does not include the Uplay Passport required by Ubisoft for access to online features and game modes beyond level ten. The single-use code is included with purchase and is also available for purchase separately via Xbox LIVE. 

Some pirates sail the seven seas. In Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, you’ll slay them. Enter an 18th-century world where pirates rule the Caribbean. Play as Edward Kenway, a ruthless pirate captain, and explore the most expansive Assassin’s Creed world ever created. Loot shipwrecks, assassinate enemies, plunder lost ruins for treasure, battle enemy ships, board galleons, and more in 50 unique locations. Choose your tactics as you switch seamlessly between the Hidden Blade of the Assassin’s Order and the flintlock pistols and cutlasses of the pirates. Take your place alongside legends like Blackbeard, and live history’s golden age of pirates as you become the most feared outlaw in a lawless republic that’s full of them. 

Title: Batman: Arkham Origins
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/24/2013
Overview: NOTE: This is a two disc game, but it only counts as one disc against your rental plan.

Before he became the Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne had to learn how to become a hero. Experience the Caped Crusader’s rise from raw crime-fighter to unstoppable superhero in this Batman prequel. Years before the events of Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, a young Batman patrols the streets of Gotham. A ruthless, masked criminal has put a price on his head, and eight of the world’s deadliest assassins have come to claim the bounty. It triggers an all-out battle for survival in a Gotham that’s double the size of the Gotham in Arkham City. Form pivotal alliances, prove new gadgets in battle, and hone your heroic skills to justice-dispensing perfection as you experience the rise of a legend.

Title: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 8/19/2013
Overview: America is on notice. A radical group called The Engineers has issued a blacklist: a series of deadly attacks that will be carried out unless America meets its demands. Sam Fisher has been given one rule in this sweeping Splinter Cell saga: do whatever it takes to stop the attacks. Operate without limits in three play styles. Panthers strike quickly, then slip into the the shadows. Assault players rely on instincts and firepower. Ghosts go totally undetected. Use new black ops gadgets, including the Sticky Noisemaker, which can distract enemies or lure them, and the Tri-Rotor, a dart-shooting scout drone. Use the Strategic Mission Interface for co-op play, go team vs. team in Spies vs. Mercs, and more.

Title: Saints Row IV
Publisher: Deep Silver
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 8/19/2013
Overview: NOTE: This game requires an Online Pass code to access online multiplayer content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title.

In Saints Row IV you’ll save the world, Saints style! The Saints’ head honcho has been elected President of the United States, but the Saints are just getting started. The larger-than-life insanity of the Saints series gets a new twist with a catastrophic alien invasion, and the aliens have transported the Saints to a bizarre simulation of Steelport. Use an arsenal of alien weapons and technology that will turn each Saint into an ultimate entity of destruction. Wield gargantuan superpowers and fight to free humanity from alien Zinyak’s mental control. Leap over buildings, outrun sports cars, and send enemies flying with telekinesis in the most insane installment of Saints Row yet. Escape the simulation that’s trapped the Saints crew, or die trying.

Title: Diablo III
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 8/31/2013
Overview: The end of the world is just the beginning in this underworld adventure where you’ll play as one of humanity’s last defenders. As Diablo III begins, a dark omen has risen: a fallen star signals that the End Times have come. Battle hordes of demonic creatures to stop the coming apocalypse in hack-and-slash RPG-style action. Fight as a barbarian, wizard, monk, witch doctor, or demon hunter and level up your character to unlock new powers as you face a seemingly never-ending parade of horrors. Make your stand solo or form a party with three friends, on or offline. The dynamic 3D battlefield environments are full of swarming enemies, hidden quests, and loads of valuable loot.

Title: Grand Theft Auto V
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 9/16/2013
Overview: NOTE: This is a two disc game, but it only counts as one disc against your rental plan. Game installation requires an Xbox 360 Hard Drive or a 16GB USB flash drive (USB 2.0 with 15mb/s).

GTA V unleashes a saga so big you’ll need three main characters to experience it. Switch between the lives of three criminals chasing success in a city that was once great, but now finds itself awash in economic doubt and cheap reality TV. Explore the massive (even by GTA standards) city of Los Santos and the surrounding Blaine County, a world of fading celebrities, wannabe starlets, self-help gurus, fitness freaks, and other sun-soaked weirdos. Here, street crime will only get you so far. To score big, you need to create a blockbuster. Work together on epic heists, multi-part missions that require precision planning and execution, and risk it all in a city built on big dreams…and littered with spectacular failures.

Title: MUD – FIM Motocross World Championship
Publisher: Namco
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 2/26/2013
Overview: Get the only authentic motocross experience with this game that lets you compete for the Monster Energy Motocross World Championship. Tear up the track on three Monster Energy Motocross circuits: The MX1, MX2, and MXoN championships. Choose from 84 of the sport’s best riders from 32 teams and race in 12 real-life motocross locations. Compete to be the world’s best among 16 national teams as you chase global bragging rights in the Motocross of Nations. Show off your speed on the track then show off your skills in post-race freestyle Trick Battle Mode. Rise up the ranks as you master your riding skills in gameplay featuring authentic racing physics and real-time track deformation.

Title: Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Publisher: Sega
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 11/13/2012
Overview: The rules of the road no longer apply in this Sonic racing challenge where you’ll leave the track, soar into the air, and rocket across the water! Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed puts you in control of vehicles that convert from racers to fliers to boats and back. Switch between vehicle modes to conquer terrain that could shift at any moment. Get an edge on the competition with more powerful All-Star moves and build up your skills to avoid or block power-up attacks by other players. The expanded roster of playable characters includes returning racers like Sonic, Dr. Eggman, and AiAi, plus Gilius Thunderhead from Golden Axe, Vyse from Skies of Arcadia, and other characters from the Sega universe.

Title: F1 Race Stars
Publisher: Codemasters
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 11/12/2012
Overview: Formula One performance meets kart racing insanity in F1 Race Stars! The real tracks from the F1 circuit have been remade with extreme verticals and other twists that would never be possible in real life. Experience a fantastical twist on high-speed Formula One action on tracks filled with soaring loops, crazy jumps, and impossible hairpin turns. Collect power ups as you speed along F1 tracks like Monaco, Silverstone, and the Circuit of Americas. Use them to leave your opponents in the dust and claim the checkered flag. Chase multiple championships in the single-player Career Mode or compete with friends in 4-player split screen or 12-racer online play.

Title: Little Big Planet Karting
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 11/5/2012
Overview: NOTE: This game requires an Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title.

Journey to the Little Big Planet for a new kind of kreative kart racing experience, one where no two tracks are the same! Sackboy and Sackgirl take the wheel and compete on some of the kraziest kart tracks you’ve ever seen in a racing world that moves as fast as the Little Big Planet community’s imagination. Use Little Big Planet’s Create tools to build your own tracks, customize karts, and dream up imaginative power-ups, then share your creations with the world. The simple design tools give everyone the power to build their own tracks. Compete on pre-made tracks featuring your favorite LBP themes, challenge friends to split-screen online races, and more.

Title: NASCAR the Game: Inside Line
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 11/5/2012
Overview: Experience NASCAR racing any way you want in NASCAR the Game: Inside Line! From quick-hit challenges to the race for the checkered flag to the relentless pursuit of the Sprint Cup, it’s all here. Compete as your favorite driver in Season Mode. Create your own driver and compete over multiple years in Career Mode. You’ll not only jockey for position with other drivers on the track, you’ll compete to earn your team dollars from over 60 official NASCAR sponsors. Relive the most remarkable moments in racing history in Challenge Mode. Pick from over 120 customizable looks for your car in the Paint Booth, face off with friends in split-screen multiplayer, and more.

Title: Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 10/29/2012
Overview: NOTE: This game requires an EA Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title.

To be the Most Wanted, it doesn’t matter if you put the most distance between you and the law – you only need enough room to escape. Outrun the law and outsmart your rivals in this high-speed race to become the most skilled, most ruthless, most wanted wheelman on the road! Need for Speed delivers another completely fluid, open, street-racing world where you can take on missions, challenge friends, and compete against rivals with seamless transitions between single and multiplayer. Choose a vehicle to match your driving style and hit jumps, blast nitrous, and more in play where the action never stops. Discover hiding spots and hidden shortcuts and share your inside knowledge, or keep it to yourself to gain an advantage.

Title: F1 2012
Publisher: Codemasters
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 9/17/2012
Overview: NOTE: This game requires an Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title.

Immerse yourself in the adrenaline-charged world of F1 racing with the official game from the globe-trotting chase for the checked flag. Choose any driver and team from the 2012 season and compete on every one of the circuits on the F1 race calendar. In addition to presentation and technical fine-tuning, the 2012 edition adds a new Young Driver Test Mode that offers tutorials on driving F1 vehicles then challenges you to earn a spot on a team. The 2012 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix at Austin, Texas makes its video game debut, and the famous German Hockenheim circuit makes a triumphant return to the competition to be 2012’s best.

Title: Test Drive Ferrari Racing Legends
Publisher: Atari
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 7/3/2012
Overview: Odds are good that you’ve always wanted to drive one of Ferrari’s dream machines. Here’s your chance to get behind the wheel of 52 of them! Test Drive: Ferrari Legends fills your garage with premier automobiles from one of the world’s most prominent car makers and gives you plenty of ways to see what they can do. Choose from 52 modern and vintage Ferrari sports cars, all rendered with remarkable attention to detail. Pick from a variety of racing challenges, including F1, GT, and Rally style, and compete on 36 racing circuits or in 8-driver online multiplayer. The only thing more ferocious than than the competition is the Ferrari engine under that hood.

Title: DiRT Showdown
Publisher: Codemasters
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 6/15/2012
Overview: NOTE: This game requires an Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title.

You won’t win if you aren’t willing to lose some paint in this driving challenge where the most impressive engine might be the damage engine. From demolition derbies to stunt challenges to high-velocity racing, DiRT Showdown has it all. Push your engine to its limits on courses filled with jumps, obstacles, and multiple routes to the finish. Put the damage engine to the test in a demolition derby. Tear through free-roaming stunt parks in trick competitions, and more. In each contest, you’ll trade paint and smash up vehicles in truly spectacular fashion. With easy-to-master controls that let anyone dive in and drive, DiRT Showdown is racing at its no-holds-barred best.

Title: Ridge Racer Unbounded
Publisher: Namco
Platform: PS3
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 4/2/2012
Overview: Wage a battle of drift and destruction as Ridge Racer adds a new smash-and-crash element to its finely-tuned drift-racing style. Unbounded takes off the training wheels for a high-speed rampage through the city of Shatter Bay. Become a member of the Unbounded street racing gang and take on your rivals on courses throughout the streets of the city, expanding your turf with each win. Drive new machines built for destruction, follow the signs to see what you can smash through in Demolition Mode, and smash speed records in Drift Attack Mode. You can design your own racing cities, compete in 12-driver online multiplayer, and much more.