Category: Racing

Title: Dirt 2
Publisher: Codemasters
Platform: Wii
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 9/9/2009
Overview:
Put the pedal to the metal and get your gravel on! Take on a full roster of contemporary off-road events, including canyon racing, jungle trails, and indoor arena events. Compete in the World Tour, where you’ll have to prove yourself both solo and against other racers. Race all over the world in environments that are as diverse as the rides available. Choose your favorite type of vehicle, trick it out, and carry it across multiple disciplines. Blast through a rally cross in the massive Los Angeles Stadium. Shut down your friends online in the Malaysian rainforest. And push past the edge in out-of-control canyons in the Utah desert!

Title: Glacier 2
Publisher: Zoo Games
Platform: Wii
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 10/13/2009
Overview:
This race starts at the top. But not everyone’s guaranteed to make it down! It’s white-knuckle racing at its finest as you battle down a mountain in Glacier 2. On the way down you’ll catch some serious air off jumps, soar over canyons, and pull off other insane stunts. But this isn’t a winter wonderland. You’ll have to deal with falling rocks, mines, cliffs, and other traps waiting to stop you, and that’s just the mountain. This is combat racing, so launch missiles, fire machine guns, and lay down some mines to blow your opponents off course. Just don’t be surprised if your rivals do the same.

Title: Trackmania Turbo: Build to Race
Publisher: City Interactive
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 4/14/2011
Overview:
Pure racing madness gets even crazier as TrackMania finds a new gear with TrackMania Turbo! The high-octane racer returns with almost 200 dizzying race courses and TrackMania’s incredible 3D track editor that lets your imagination run wild and create an infinite number of tracks. Choose from four environments, including the returning Stadium and new additions, Coast, Island, and Snow, then hit the track in supercharged single-player Race, Platform, and Puzzle Modes. Use one card to link with friends for local multiplayer races, or go online to challenge any racer in the world.

Title: Monster Jam: Path of Destruction
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 11/17/2010
Overview:
You have driven the cars. Now, feel what it’s like to be one of the stars in this game that lets you be part of the Monster Jam circuit. Monster Jam 2011 is designed to bring home all the pyrotechnics and over-the-top thrills of a live Monster Truck Event. Choose from officially-licensed Monster Jam trucks including Grave Digger, Grinder, and Maximum Destruction, or create a car-crushing mechanical beast of your own. There are thousands of customizable options, upgrades to earn, and new parts to unlock. Become the world’s best driver real-life stadiums packed with roaring fans.

Title: Hot Wheels: Track Attack
Publisher: THQ
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 11/22/2010
Overview:
If you think the Hot Wheels tracks you build at home get pretty crazy, wait until you see what you can do in a video game! Hot Wheels: Track Attack lets you create incredible customized tracks rigged for stunts and built for speed. Build a track with pieces inspired by the same Hot Wheels track parts you use at home and laugh at gravity as you pack your track with jumps and loops. Race with 32 customizable and upgradable Hot Wheels vehicles. Each of the game’s four environments features a distinct theme and a monstrous villain waiting to wreak havoc, so look out!

Title: Galaxy Racers
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 7/26/2010
Overview:
Combine smarts and speed to win this quirky space-based racer that truly does its best to earn the title “out of this world.” In Galaxy Racers, you’ll discover a dark secret then compete against wacky alien characters in a mad dash to save the universe. Create a character that’s as outrageous as you can make it, then soar from planet to planet and complete 19 missions. Each features bizarre villains and challenges that require clever solutions. Solve riddles to open up new missions, outwit your rivals, and collect clues to solve the bigger mystery. The story moves as fast as the races with help from hilarious 3D cutscenes.

Title: Calvin Tucker’s Redneck: Farm Animals Racing Tournament
Publisher: Zoo Games
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 8/13/2010
Overview:
Old Macdonald never had a farm like this! Get behind the wheel as one of eight different animals in Calvin Tucker’s Redneck: Farm Animals Racing Tournament. Unleash your inner redneck in a crazy kart race through the farm, the tropical Pirate Island, the Polar Icecaps, and even inside a UFO. Collect special pickups to throw off your opponents. Grab the horseshoe to activate your character’s special ability and leave your opponents in the mud. If you end up losing to a chicken, you might just be a redneck.

Title: Dirt 2
Publisher: Codemasters
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 9/15/2009
Overview:
Put the pedal to the metal and get your gravel on! Take on a full roster of contemporary off-road events, including canyon racing, jungle trails, and indoor arena events. Compete in the World Tour, where you’ll have to prove yourself both solo and against other racers. Race all over the world in environments that are as diverse as the rides available. Choose your favorite type of vehicle, trick it out, and carry it across multiple disciplines. Blast through a rally cross in the massive Los Angeles Stadium. Shut down your friends online in the Malaysian rainforest. And push past the edge in out-of-control canyons in the Utah desert!

Title: Yamaha Supercross
Publisher: Zoo Games
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 5/7/2009
Overview:
Winning this race isn’t just about being first to the finish line. Yamaha Supercross combines motorcycle racing with a graphic-novel-style storyline to send extreme action even closer to the edge. You’re the younger brother of one of the biggest starts on the Supercross circuit. When a dirty rider puts him in the hospital, the race for revenge is on! Compete on 12 photo-realistic tracks with changeable weather conditions. Win races to unlock new tracks, upgrade your bike, and work your way into contention. If you make the World Championships, there’s more than just a title on the line. You’ll race against the rider that derailed your brother for the cup.

Title: Crazy Chicken: Star Karts
Publisher: Mumbo Jumbo
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 6/4/2009
Overview:
When you’re a Crazy Chicken and you wake up in another galaxy, there’s only one thing to do: race! Ride shotgun with the oddest bird in the universe as you go racing with Crazy Chicken: Star Karts. The intergalactic kart racer sends you rocketing through vibrant 3D worlds on wacky race courses packed with a pinata-worth of surprises. Choose from four racing modes, including two-player head-to-head. Pick your Chicken family driver, and hold on to the edge of your seat as you race at out-of-this-world speeds. Grab weapons whenever you can and blast your opponents out of contention. Do well and you’ll move on to faster, even more exciting tracks.

Title: Powerbike
Publisher: Majesco
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 6/5/2009
Overview:
When your bike takes off from the line, no one else even stands a chance. Here’s your chance to prove it! An anonymous sponsor gives you the cash you need to get your start, so now you have to get on your motorcycle and show the world who’s the boss. Speed through the streets, dodging through cars and jumping trains, bridges, and traffic jams as you run from the cops in high-stakes police chases. You can earn more cash by performing jumps, wheelies, burnouts, and drifts in Stunt Mode, all in the name of upgrading your bike. You can even race against and out-stunt your friends via Wi-Fi!

Title: MySims Racing
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 6/10/2009
Overview:
Speedville has a new resident: You! Help the town return to its speedometer-bustin’ glory days by being the best driver on the track in this MySims kart racer. Whether you’re racing against your friends in four-player showdowns or your favorite MySims, your reflexes and driving skills will be put to the test! Hit the body shop and outfit your racer with custom accessories, custom parts under the hood, and the perfect paint job. While the competition is fierce, it’s also friendly. Get to know other MySims and they’ll hook you up with blueprints, parts, and other bonuses to help improve your ride.

Title: Short Track Racing Trading Paint
Publisher: THQ
Platform: PlayStation 2
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 5/13/2009
Overview:
Every aspiring NASCAR driver has to cut their teeth somewhere. Where do they do it? On the short tracks in hundreds of small towns across the U.S.A. Choose your class, be it Stock Car, 3/4 Midgets, Modified, Wingless Sprint, Late Model, Hobby Stock, or a Pickup. Tune everything perfectly, down to the tire pressure and the steering ratio, to make sure your machine is running at peak performance. Then roll out on the the track and get ready to rub fenders with the competition. Try out 20 different tracks, including the I-10 Lucas Oil and the Peach State Speedway.

Title: MotorStorm Arctic Edge
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PlayStation 2
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 10/23/2009
Overview:
MotorStorm’s next race sends you to the edge of the earth. With the temperature falling as fast as speeds are rising, anything is possible! Ride through giant ice caves, into skinny mountain passages, and across the rugged Alaskan wilderness in win-at-all-costs races. Fortunes will crumble on broken ice bridges, hopes will be buried in avalanches that come out of nowhere, and racers will find themselves running on fumes in three altitudes. Those conditions call for some new vehicles, so MotorStorm has rolled out Snowcats and Snow Machines to go along with six existing vehicle classes. You can customize your racer, add your own soundtrack, share your favorite action shots with friends, and more.

Title: Nitrobike
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: PlayStation 2
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 10/16/2008
Overview:
Get ready for another reckless ride with this racer from the makers of the N64 classic Excitebike! Nitrobike lets you take control of a super-charged nitro-equipped dirt bike. Compete in 67 events in 20 environments where you’ll feel the rush of being right on the bike. Use your nitro for a boost to blow past your opponents. But use too much and you’ll blow your ride. On top of six-rider multiplayer, Nitrobike features a four-player pin-wrecking bike-bowling mini-game, Career Mode, customizable rides, unlockable content, and more.

Title: Monster Jam: Urban Assault
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PlayStation 2
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 10/30/2008
Overview:
Crushing cars is for amateurs. Lay waste to cities (and, of course, the vehicles in them) in this big, bad monster-truck extravaganza! Monster Jam 2: Urban Assault sends you into 12 urban tracks and sends out a call for maximum destruction. Destroy double-deckers in London, crush cabs in New York, bring down malls in Minneapolis, and more. Less is truly more, as the less you leave standing the more you score. Dish out punishment at the wheel of classic monster-truck favorites and the most powerful newcomers to the circuit. Double your impact with high-flying, stunt-filled mini-games like Skee Ball, Air Strike, and Monster Jump.

Title: Scores International: BAJA 1000
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PlayStation 2
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 10/30/2008
Overview:

Title: Moto GP 08
Publisher: Capcom
Platform: PlayStation 2
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 10/30/2008
Overview:

Title: Need for Speed Undercover
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PlayStation 2
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 11/19/2008
Overview:
Need for Speed returns and drops you even deeper into the world of illegal street racing. Take on a story of pursuit and betrayal, as you choose jobs and compete in races to prove yourself. Then use your skills and reputation to take down an international crime syndicate. You’ll fight off the cops in high speed multi-car chases, where an all-new AI system means the cops will do whatever it takes to take you down. The Heroic Driving Engine, a new engine built for this release, lets you pull off amazing moves for the ultimate driving edge. You can even play as a cop and chase down the criminals in Criminal Scramble Mode!