Best Race Game of 2009

[Bram Hengeveld]

Nominated:

• Need for Speed SHIFT (Slightly Mad Studios)
• RACE On (SimBin)
• Forza Motorsport 3 (Turn 10)
• RACE Pro (SimBin)
• Formula 1 2009 (Codemasters)
• Colin McRae: DiRT 2 (Codemasters)
• Supercar Challenge (System 3)

All games must be released in 2009
Poll closes on Sunday December 28th 2009

 

[David Zafiu]

I can say that from far the best games 2009 are:
1st - PC/Race ON
2nd - PC/NFS Shift

 

[Pedro van Baelen]

Forza Motorsport 3 / Xbox 360

why this game will hook me on my xbox for at least a year

 

[Austin Jordan]

Race On/PC
don't have it, but dying 2 get it.

 

[Simon Kaminski]

NFS Shift / PC

Great Game, and modding begins .. great

 

[Richard Kay]

Race On purely for the Formula Masters.

 

[StoProGratis]

Race On

Shift and Forza are far away from racing simulation I don't know what those games are doing on racedept.

 

[Chris Tranmer]

Race On

Shift and Forza are far away from racing simulation I don't know what those games are doing on racedept.

Shift I can agree with man bur Forza has all the elements of a sim for me. It adds realism and fun and also eases beginners into the game too.

Have you even played it?

Race On seems to be getting quite a few votes but I havn't tried it out yet so I cant comment on that.

Its close for me between Race Pro and Forza because I have a lot of fun on both of them but for I think Forza wins because of the sheer content in the game. So...

Forza 3 / Xbox 360

 

[Derek Day]

PC/NFS Shift

 

[Tinker]

PC: NFS SHIFT with mod's
360: Forza 3

 

[Kevin Hopkins]

RaceOn/PC.. One of the best Simulators with a variety of cars and tracks and great online play.

 

[Jon Turner]

Race On, if only it had night racing it would be the danglies of a dog

Forza is great for a bit of fun with a sim edge, didnt get on with Shift too arcadey, not tried any mods on it yet though.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Race On

Shift and Forza are far away from racing simulation I don't know what those games are doing on racedept.

So we must act like a bunch of elitists and ban all non simulation games?

If so, not much games will be left to play i fear as not one game up to date is a simulation of the real thing

 

[Konrad Stanczak]

- Wii : Formula 1 2009
Absolutely best racing you can get on that platform. And its F1!

 

[Billy Davies]

Race Pro.

I really wanted to say Race On, but at the end of the day it's just an add-on, there's nothing new or groundbreaking in it.

Race Pro however, is the first real Sim to be released on Console imo and despite all of the bugs and glitches , it is far and away better than any other race game on that platform - Best release this year by a mile.

 

[Günthar Rowe]

Not released, so I guess it can't yet count, but what the hell.... Real-Time Racing for the simple idea ...

 

[maxbago]

Absolutely Race On. It's not really a new game, but the bundle is very complete, very customizable and it doesn't require extreme PCs.
NfS Shift is very good, finally a good NfS after NfSU2 and Most Wanted, and it's graphically awesome (only GRID can compete), but it's buggy and not so good in my opinion.
I can't FM3 and other games because I don't own them

 

[Omer Said]

Must be Real Time Racing as it has a revolunationary concept which lets you race against the real racers. / PC

 

[Jayblue]

I will go with NFS:Shift / PC. It is a good blend of frantic racing action and semi sim driving physics and a nice alternative to Simbins offerings. Although as Dirt 2 is coming to my door on Thursday i may edit this post depending on how good it is (on PC of course)

 

[Mike Coleman]

PC: Race On