The Best Racing Games Of The Last 10 Years

10Forza Motorsport 7 (2017)

Forza Motorsport 7 could be the all-powerful card you'd discreetly smuggle into your own hand while you were dealing the cards in the racing game Top Trumps. With over 800 automobiles from 99 manufacturers & 30 circuits to test them out, FM7's statistics are just impossible to contest.

Forza 7 is graphically spectacular, as one would expect from a game with such a development budget comparable to the GDP of something like a relatively small country. With its smooth 60 frames a second movement & clear 4K images, this semi-sim pushes the most advanced Xbox technology to its ultimate limits.

9Blur (2010)

Blur was an unsuccessful effort to combine Mario Kart plus Project Gotham Racing, and it was purchased by about three individuals. However, those three individuals will have experienced one of the most thrilling and underrated multiplayer racers ever.

Blur used actual vehicles and real locales but then stuffed them with power-ups from Mario Kart and more neon lights than an 80s disco. The end result was a game with two main sources of satisfaction: handling that was genuinely satisfying and the exhilaration of clattering your partner with the red shell, which is the game's legally acceptable equivalent.

8Rocket League (2015)

We're interested in knowing what old Ernie would have thought of Rocket League, which is somewhat similar to his adored motorsport but rather integrates kerosene-powered vehicles, a giant football, and literal blasts once you score. Not quite enough dead bulls for him, likely. Ernest Hemingway is credited with simply stating there are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering.

We'll admit that Rocket League is only loosely a driving game because you'll spend a lot of time in the air, but we're embracing this fantastic multiplayer sports game from our own nonetheless.

7Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (2010)

The fictitious police department in Need of the Speed Hot Pursuit's Seacrest County agonizes over whether to choose the Carrera GT, the Zonda Cinque, or the Reventón while UK coppers are busily cutting around in BMW 3 Series Touring.

The most enjoyable aspect of Hot Pursuit was still pursuing them once again as the fuzz, each implausibly pricey 'cruiser' outfitted with spike strips, EMPs, and deployable barriers. A completely balanced police pursuit is created by the racers' increased boost and defensive jammer.

6F1 2019 (2019)

While this year's F1 championships ultimately produced some incredible races, the official game continuously serves them up whenever you press the start button. F1 2019 may be the product of years of small improvements, but that's precisely why it was also among the great racing simulations available.

The trick that makes F1 2019 special is how it somehow succeeds to convert all the perplexing nerdery of professional motorsport into gameplay that makes sense and makes sense.

5Dirt Rally 2.0 (2019)

Although Dirt Rally 2.0 may not have the same financial resources as your Gran Turismos and Forzas, it does a remarkable job at perfecting the craft of offroad handling. Whether you're pushing a Group B monster around over a tight mountain hairpin or dancing a contemporary R5 machine through a series of quick sweepers.

Dirt Rally 2.0 is so convincing that we've changed our names by deed poll to Juha, wear bobble hats tonight, and insist on getting pace notes given to us throughout the daily commute.

4Assetto Corsa (2014)

It's tough to recall a time before Assetto Corsa existed because it has assimilated so completely into the sim racing ecosystem. Like all excellent racing simulations, AC first and foremost perfected the fundamental handling before adding vehicles and tracks to suit the player's preferences. The game looks rarely better than when they're slithering around with an E30 BMW, despite the fact that there is plenty of racing equipment there with slick tires.

3GT Sport (2017)

All eyes were on Kazunori Yamauchi, the creator of the Gran Turismo series when GT Sport debuted in late 2017 with a small selection of vehicles and only a rudimentary single-player option. It turned out, though, that it was his tactic for subtly nudging gamers into an online racing ecology that drew inspiration from actual motorsport. After everyone had been converted to the daily online race religion, he moved on to add more cars as well as a career mode, the wag.

2Mario Kart 8 (2014)

Mario doesn't really fit the mold of racing icons. He is not an athletic, skilled athlete who subsists solely on chicken & brown rice. His overalls aren't covered in sponsor logos either. He does, however, have such a Nigel Mansell mustache, which adds downforce. Despite the Italian plumber's dubious credentials, Mario Kart delivers several of the best racing activity available; however, rather than taking place on a Sunday afternoon, it typically takes place after hours at the neighborhood bar in the picturesque settings of the Circuit de Dave's Sitting Room.

1Forza Horizon 4 (2018)

Here is our selection for the racing game of a decade that best represents our passion for automobiles. The Horizon series, which took the Forza franchise's extensive car list and gave you the action-adventure sandbox to play them in, forced brought the fun back to it in 2012. With the addition of seasonal weather changes and the condensed, finest hits of such British countryside, Forza Horizon 4 improved that delicious concoction. It's comparable to speeding through the Emmerdale opening sequence in a McLaren Senna.