Despite intense competition in the genre in recent years, Codemasters has managed to more than hold its own with its impressive roster of racer titles. Its most recent releases, Race Driver: GRiD and Colin McRae: DiRT 2, have both been very well-received, and have been state of the art not just in terms of gameplay but in their core technology too.
Last week, DiRT 2, powered by the latest iteration of Codemasters' proprietary EGO engine, debuted on PC. The developer has been working closely with key partners including Microsoft, Intel and AMD in creating the first top-tier PC release to support the new Windows 7 DirectX 11 API, and the result is the finest version of the game yet. The return of DiRT seemed like as good an excuse as any to talk tech with Codemasters: to discuss the evolution of the excellent EGO engine, the performance on HD consoles and what we can expect from them in future, along with the developers' plans to leverage the power of the many-core processing architecture we expect to see in next-gen systems.
Former Playground Games veterans Gavin Raeburn, Jon Davis-Hunt and Marco Conti reflect on Forza Horizon’s origins and how it “beat every other driving franchise out there.”
Former Playground Games veterans Gavin Raeburn, Jon Davis-Hunt and Marco Conti reflect on Forza Horizon’s origins and how it “beat every other driving franchise out there.”
ASidCast: "There are times when you’ve got a lot of free time and very few games that you’d wanna play. This is a list of great games that one must play regardless of how old they get, and not playing these would just be a sin for racing fans. Most of these games revolutionized their genre and probably created their own genre in the process, while some were just too advanced for their time. If in any case you missed these, then you better search for these games and play them for a fun dose of gaming history or as a new experience entirely. "
Bad list, but to each their own.
No Forza Horizon, Driveclub, Assetto Corsa, or Grid Autosport?
And if you can throw in Trials when its not a racing game, why is there no Rocket League?
what shocked me was two games I loved during the ps2 era
JUICED and Street Racing Syndicate, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit
Then you have Forza 3, GT5, and the others you named above... smh
edit: and crazy taxi and trails aren't even racers lOl
Bought Grid 1 on pc for 2.50 last week, playing that at 4k60fps will make you feel nuts for ever spending 100's on racing games.
Says the guy who payed 100's on his 4k rig to play a racing game /s.
JK, Im sure its amazing in 4k... Its amazing in 1080p too so I can only imagine. You should try Grid Autosport, I actually liked that better than Grid.
I'll get it in a couple of years for 2.50. After I beat grid 2 and about 5 other racers I have.
@nowitski2004: I chose Project CARS over Assetto Corsa as a personal opinion,and Grid 1 over Autosport because the first one was great 'for it's time', autosport was good but just not that great.
Rocket League would actually be the next game if could make a longer list,really sorry on that.
@C-H-E-F: Juiced and SRS,are you serious? These are the games that defines the genre?
Hot Pursuit 2010 was Burnout Paradise with licensed carswith cops and wasn't even a better game world.
Crazy Taxi wins on the mobile platform,there are very few racing games on mobile with a open world. And the few there are,arent as good as Crazy Taxi. And racing against the clock makes does it a racing game.
Glad I have these games for the PC, 60fps is a must for a racer.
"In the games industry we're always looking to push the immersive experience. These technologies are just the next wave of doing that. Besides, we've got a few more years yet of filling the GPU with full radiosity calculations and ray-tracing still to come."
This is whats really going to make gaming a life-like experience, we already have the polygons, and textures (Crysis Mods come to mind)it just comes down to proper lighting IMO.