ABSTRACT

There are a lot of games with cars. It depends whose figures you use over what term and in what parts of the world, but games with cars could be said to account for roughly 20% of the games people play-a huge proportion. It’s possible to slice and dice this body of games up in a variety of ways: simulations and arcade games, games with characters (Driver), games with car tuning (Gran Turismo), games on roads (Formula One), games off-road (WRC: Rally Evolved), games in cities (Crazy Taxi), conventional racers (Ridge Racer), underground racing (Juiced), “no-rules” racing (MotorStorm), sandbox games with cars-or you could call them RPGs with cars-(Grand Theft Auto), and so on. Many games fall into more than one category-it just really depends where you decide to put your knife in to divide up this pretty vast cake.