Sometimes, you start playing a game and realise that reinforcements wouldn't be a bad idea. It's an experience that will be endured by anyone who tries to tackle Colin McRae Rally 04 without the appropriate equipment. ...

This scribe was taught harsh lessons in his youth about how 'hate' was a very strong word, only to be used in the most extreme of circumstances. I hate Crazy Taxi 3. But then hate, in ...

Arguably console gaming's finest rallying experience ever, the Colin McRae franchise is now settled into a cycle of heading for the dedicated games machines first, with a PC version some six months down the line. And, ...

Riddle us this - what's the difference between "F1 Career Challenge" and "F1 Challenge". Not much of a riddle we know, no doubt a certain fictional green-suited fop is spinning 'neath his enigmatic epitaph, but it's ...

We suspect that many people stuck in heavy rush hour traffic jams have had the fantasy of stepping on the accelerator, veering onto the pavement and pelting past the queued masses, sending sandwich boards and lampposts ...

We loved Gran Turismo and all its little Gran Turismo offspring, but there occasionally came a point in the evening, usually after the fifth pint, when it all turned silly and people started driving the wrong ...

Power meetings. Power lunches. Power creeps in the shadows and corners of today's world like a small, creepy thing that shuffles its feet softly yet makes its presence felt everywhere. Power can be fun too of ...

Game producing, much like film making, can boil down to clichés. Just as an Arnie action film must have at least a dozen excruciatingly crafted unsubtle one-liners and several explosions the size of a city, a ...

The world of off-road stadium racing is the subject matter for this particular racing game - and we're not talking about zooming into Old Trafford or Wembley for a speedy spin. No, this is the fast-paced ...

It's been a long wait of nearly four years since Geoff Crammond's remarkable Grand Prix 2 was released. Widely regarded as, far and away, the best Formula One racing simulation on any platform, GP2's legions of ...

The second edition of Microsoft's daredevil biking game is much faster than its predecessor, and is aimed at biking addicts who enjoy the speed and excitement of stunt racing without the associated risk of multiple fractures. ...

Detachable steering wheels, fireproof suits, split lap times, slip-streaming and champagne wasted by the bucket-load. Welcome to the world of Formula One racing, and with Microprose's latest heavyweight F1 sim, you can almost smell the burning ...

Ignoring the company's various games consoles, Sega will be known to serious gamers for what has been one of the most enduring arcade games of all time - Sega Rally. Pitting Lancia's Delta Integrale against Toyota's ...

Set in the legendary city of Chicago, Midtown Madness is a good effort by Microsoft to enter the 'fun racer' driving game market. Apparently, 65km of the city's streets have been faithfully replicated in the game, ...

Formula One racing may now be only marginally more exciting than watching petrol evaporate, but there's one area of motorsport that regularly provides thrills, spills and close racing. Touring Cars is it, and much of that ...

Most driving games expect you to race around a circuit several times, staying on the track, avoiding other cars and generally behaving properly. Not Carmageddon II. Just like its predecessor, this game gives the driver total ...

I love the smell of petrol in the morning. But, since the motor-racing season is all but over, it's lucky that there are games like this to keep the thrill alive during the cold, dark, Winter ...

Fun as it doubtless is to drive a full-sized racing car around a full-sized race track, it's not the only form of motorsport known to man. Now that Michael Schumacher's got a few months off, perhaps ...

Ah, adolescence. A time of too much alcohol, not enough sex and, eventually, a driving licence. If you've just passed the big one-seven, and you now have a driving licence to go with that bad skin ...