Simple question, IDK what exactly to call this kind of racing game, but in the PS3/360 era there was this brief trend of racing game where you raced on extreme conditions, natural disasters, exploding buildings that kind of stuff and I really only know 3 games, would like to know if there are more because I love them, the rest of the post will be just a summary of the 3 games I know.
Motorstorm Apocalypse
The 4th and final instalment in the Motorstorm franchise, which are post-apocalyptic off road arcade racers, this one set itself appart by having very action heavy tracks, where mid race there are events that act as hazards sometimes it’s stuff like helicopters opening fire at you, other times it’s more interesting stuff like buildings collapsing and you having to dodge the debree mid race, sometimes the track layout is altered, admittedly I haven’t played Pacific Rift, that might have done this too? But at least 1 and Arctic Edge definitely don’t do this.
FUEL
Another post apocalyptic off-road racer, this one set itself apart by taking place on a massive open world map, at the time only second to Daggerfall, the tech behind this one is pretty impressive and the developer Asobo kept refining it, you might have seen it on their other games The Crew and Microsoft Flight Simulator (The newest one), besides that the game is more chill, due to the open world the action events aren’t as drastic and environment changing as the other 2 games I’m talking about, but you do race in Hurricanes and forest fires and stuff like that, it’s fun but it’s so big that I kinda lost interest long before I was close to unlocking everything, also thanks to the DRM it’s a pain in the ass to get working on PC these days.
Split/Second
Finally, I saved the best for last, so Split/Second is kind off a standard arcade racer in the vein of something like burnout with the exception that you have power ups, what makes it special is that the power ups themselves aren’t stuff you shoot out of your car or boosts, instead they are things that you activate in the track, stuff like booby traps that drop things on other drivers, opening a shortcut (which can serve as a trap if other drivers follow you and don’t make it in time) or just something absolutely insane like causing a plane to crash in the track changing the whole layout due to the debris of the accident, or blowing up a building, stuff like that, it’s crazy, I love this game and it’s a shame that as far as I know there’s nothing else like it.
But anyways that’s it, if you know of similar stuff please post it, I’d love to hear about it and possibly check it out.
