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enWed, 14 Aug 2024 16:33:59 +0000The 11 best racing games on PChttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/best-racing-gamesBrendan CaldwellWed, 14 Aug 2024 16:33:59 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/best-racing-gamesNight-RunnersDescendersMultiplayer CompetitiveRacing ArcadeBeamNG.driveNo More RobotsXbox OnePlayground GamesBird view / IsometricNadeoStar Wars Episode 1: RacerVirtual RealityRacing SimulationElectronic ArtsTrackmaniaIndieNintendo SwitchFirst personXbox Game StudiosGripSportsCriterion GamesBugbear EntertainmentPCThird personTHQ NordicBeamNGForza Horizon 4RacingBurnout Paradise RemasteredHorizon Chase TurboSingle PlayerECTSAspyrMultiplayer CooperativeAction AdventureSide viewBallisticNGWreckfestNintendoNeognosisSimulationXbox Series X/SArcadeWired ProductionsLucasArtsRageSquidPS4

Vroom vroom. That is the sound of 11 rivals revving their engines as they blink the sweat out of their eyes and exhale years of self-doubt from their lungs. Today is their day. We have lined up these racing games on a starting grid and are interested to see how things shake out. Will the realism-obsessed driving sims take the lead with their sublime physics engines? Might the futuristic combat racers simply destroy the opposition with explosive rockets? Or perhaps a nippy arcade crowd-pleaser will soar to the finish line, propelled by the sound of roaring cheers. It's all to play for here at our incredibly messed-up grand prix with a worrying lack of rules or regulation. Start your engines, everyone, these are the 11 best racing games on PC. 3! 2! 1! ...

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BeamNG.drive update adds new maps and cars to the smashing car playgroundhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/beamngdrive-update-adds-new-maps-and-cars-to-the-smashing-car-playgroundGraham SmithThu, 01 Jul 2021 21:18:36 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/beamngdrive-update-adds-new-maps-and-cars-to-the-smashing-car-playgroundBeamNG.drive

BeamNG.drive is, in a way, the Dwarf Fortress of car games. It's a six years and counting early access project determined to simulate every element of wheeled vehicles, where the fun of playing with it feels like a side effect more than a deliberate intention.

But it is fun, and it's just received a massive update that includes new maps, new vehicles, revamped graphics, a traffic light system, and "an improved oil simulation". Heck yeah.

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Premature Evaluation: BeamNG.drivehttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/beamng-drive-early-access-reviewSteve HogartyTue, 17 Mar 2020 17:00:20 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/beamng-drive-early-access-reviewPremature EvaluationFeatureRacingBeamNG.driveReviewsSimulationSteamBeam.ng

Don’t ask me to explain in any more detail, but I’m almost completely certain I understand what “soft-body physics” means having watched precisely one YouTube video about it while high in bed one afternoon, my own soft body draped inelegantly across the pillows and speckled in Quorn nugget crumbs, like some forgotten Renaissance masterpiece. Car simulator BeamNG.drive deals in the physics of soft bodies, objects that, unlike the impossibly perfect “rigid bodies” of pure Newtonian physics, can compress and crumple and deform and twist. This is how physics behaves in the real world, bucko, and if you don’t like how that looks, the early 2000s are calling and they want their standards back.

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Digital deals so far this weekhttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/digital-deals-so-far-this-weekJamie WallaceWed, 08 Nov 2017 12:00:11 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/digital-deals-so-far-this-weekTrackmania TurbogogAssetto CorsaHumble BundleSpintiresBeamNG.driveDirt RallyDirt 4Road RedemptionThe CrewNiohCities: Skylines

We've hit the mid-point of the week and the see-saw of time is about to tip forward and hurtle us towards the weekend at an alarming rate. Perhaps more ominously, we will also be hurtling towards the litany of PC gaming Black Friday deals that are headed our way in a fortnight's time.

Before then, however, the deals aren't slowing down one bit and there's another big batch of digital deals to check out right here, right now. Everything from this week's release of Nioh to Cities Skylines and even the absolute gem that is Jagged Alliance 2 is represented across a variety of sites, so consider this a convenient mid-week digital deals roundup if you like. Let's get to it, shall we?

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Have You Played... BeamNG.drive?https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/have-you-played-beamng-driveGraham SmithWed, 12 Jul 2017 14:30:48 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/have-you-played-beamng-driveBeamNG.driveRacingFeatureHave You Played

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.

BeamNG.drive [official site] has the best crumple-car physics of any game ever.

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How Do BeamNG.drive's Physics Compare To Reality?https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/beamng-drive-top-gearGraham SmithFri, 05 Feb 2016 18:18:00 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/beamng-drive-top-gearBeamNG.driveVideoRacingBeam.ng

I like careful, reflective journeys in as much as Alec does, but my other great vehicular passion is tossing cars down mountains and slamming them into brick walls. There's no greater game for that than BeamNG.drive [official site], which although still in alpha has the best physics and damage model of any driving game I've ever played. To prove the point, YouTube channel DragCarTV recreated common crash testing scenarios in the game and then put the footage side by side with real crashes to see how they matched up.

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BeamNG.drive Makes Car Crashes Fun And Frighteninghttps://www.rockpapershotgun.com/beamng-driveGraham SmithFri, 26 Jun 2015 20:00:10 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/beamng-driveFeatureRacingBeamNG.driveSupporters onlyBeam.ng

Bending, twisting, crumpling, crunching metal. That's what BeamNG.drive [official site] offers in its current incarnation. What started as a physics prototype that rendered cars with soft body physics has gained the .drive suffix to its name and is on its way towards becoming an ambitious, robust driving simulator, with umpteen cars, tracks and an an open world mode.

For now, the joys of BeamNG are what they always were: crashing two or more objects together and watching them split apart in glorious detail. What the additions so far have brought is something unexpected: the fear of crashing two or more objects together.

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