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Posted June 17, 2021
Summer is a great time for vacations and trips to the pool, but for some people, summer means it’s time to hop in the car, head to the track, and do some racing!

If you are a fan of high speeds and tight corners but don’t want to put your car through the strenuous act of actually racing it, then racing games are a great way to feed the adrenaline junkie inside of you. Also, it is generally frowned upon to blow up the other racers, but in video games, that is a totally acceptable thing to do!

At GOG.COM, we have some awesome new racing games being added to the platform, as well as some fan-favorites that we wanted to highlight today to help celebrate these titles reaching the finish line.

Looking for a new racing game, but don’t know where to start? Maybe one of these games will check all of your boxes.



Street Racer

Street Racer is a classic racing title from the 90s that features kart racing mechanics that were extremely popular at the time. Pick one of the unique characters, snag power-ups, and drift your way to the finish line!

GRIP

When you think of racing, you typically think of a flat track, right? Well, in GRIP, your car can go on the walls and ceilings and you’ll need to master that mechanic if you hope to cross the finish line first! And if you can’t beat them outright, just blast them away with fun weapons in order to take the lead.



Urban Trial Freestyle

Are you more interested in two-wheel vehicles? Prefer precision over speed? Urban Trial Freestyle might be for you! You’ll need to customize your bike with parts if you hope to beat all of this game’s courses as you drive, jump, and backflip your way through platforming-like levels.

Urban Trial Playground

Another installment in the Urban Trial series, this one takes players from the dark city of Freestyle and places them in sunny California. In this one, you’ll again need to master physics to get through the courses, and customizing your bike will be necessary if you want to find the perfect lines!



Mashed

Pure racing games are great, but if you find yourself needing more, why not throw some guns into the mix? In Mashed, you can do just that across 13 different environments. So lock, load, and strap in!

And here are some cool racing games already present in our catalog:

STAR WARS Episode I: Racer

Prefer your racing games a little more… otherworldly? Star]https://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_episode_i_racer">Star[/url] Wars Episode 1: Racer lets you pilot a podracer across many different iconic landscapes from the Star Wars universe. There are over 20 tracks and podracers to choose from, so you’ll have plenty of options as you go for the gold.



Driver: Parallel Lines

If racing isn’t for you, but you are still looking to drive a variety of cars at high speed, Driver]https://www.gog.com/game/driver_parallel_lines">Driver[/url]: Parallel Lines is definitely worth checking out. With over 80 customizable cars, this open-world driving game lets you explore New York City as you wheel and shoot your way through a variety of missions.

So, there you have it, a quick look at some of the new racing titles coming to GOG.COM, as well as a highlight for some of the games already available (Star Wars Episode I: Racer and Driver: Parallel Lines)!

If you have been looking for a racing game to get the blood pumping, any of these titles should help with that!

What do you think? What are some of your favorite racing games? Plan on checking any of these out? Let us know down in the comments!
Posted June 17, 2021
Not a great fan of Racing games but I have good memories of papyrus games, Nascar series, Indycar Racing, and specially Grand Prix Legends, the hardest racing game ever. Impossible to control with keyboard only or even joystick in realistic difficulties.
Posted June 17, 2021
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cryware: "Mashed: originally released in Europe for PS2, Xbox & Windows in June 2004.
Mashed: Fully Loaded: An updated version with additional features, released in Europe. A.K.A 'Drive to Survive' internationally, was released in Europe in March 2005 and in North America in December 2006"
Thanks. Didn't know there was an updated version/release.
This version just released on GOG is also sold on Steam.

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Johnny_GT: These are some i still hope to show up on GOG:

- Screamer Rally
- Network-Q RAC Rally Championship
- Rally Championship 2000
- Rally Trophy
- World Circuit (Grand Prix)
- Coln McRae Rally 2.0
- Big Scale Racing
Forget it. Not gonna happen because of cars, sponsor logos, music etc. license.
What could come from these rally game are the game, that are using fictive cars, like Xpand Rally series, nail'd, maybe Island Racer (2016), Rally Point series, Woden GP, Star Drift//Star Drift Evolution (2020), and such similar games.

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jalister: The racing games I would like to see on GOG. I have all three on Xbox 360 and PS3. The PC versions have issue with SecuROM or GFWL.

Split/Second (with all DLC)
Blur
Fuel
Maybe, Split/second and Fuel could come one day. The first game depends on Disney good will and the second, well... now that Codemasters is under EA. Not sure about is. When was the last time we got an EA game?

But on you list is also Blur which has licensed/real cars. So... I think you already know the answer for that one.
Posted June 17, 2021
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trusteft: Playing computer games since the early 1980s. The vast majority, VAST, were being played with keyboard. Including racing. Rarely you would find one owning an analog joystick for racing games as there was very limited support for them in such games. There was more support for using a mouse for racing games than analog joystick.
I now tend to play modern driving games with analog gamepad. If the game is properly made, there is no reason for not using a keyboard if that's what you want.
Reminds me of when I showed my uncle Deus Ex back then, and he was like: "oh god, why do you have to aim with the mouse??".

On a different note: did GOG just copy other some old box text or so for Street Racer? Quick shoutout to all the owners of a Pentium machine being in for a treat. ;D

"Speeds of up to 30 frames per second on the DX266 and up to 60 frames per second on Pentium machines offer exceptional detail, even in four-player mode. There are also 10 different fast starts for players to explore and built-in fast laps on each track for drivers to beat."
Post edited June 17, 2021 by Robette
Posted June 17, 2021
One of these days its gonna be a big batch of Star Trek games, I tell you! One day...
Posted June 17, 2021
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Maxvorstadt: Nice to see those games here, but sadly one needs a controller for most of these games. When will developers learn, that controllers and PC gaming are not compatible?
Well, at least many goggers will have fun with those games.
That's objectively false. There are plenty of controllers made specifically for PCs. The 8BitDo SN30 pro+, for example, has 4 modes: Switch, XInput, DInput, and macOS. The Mac mode is entirely unnecessary as DInput works out of the box anyway and XInput works with 3rd-party drivers, but the fact that they made the effort of doing it at all should tell you something. That's one of the good things about PC gaming, where you have the freedom to use the control method best suited to particular games...gamepads, keyboard, mouse, and more esoteric controllers like flight sticks and so on (which technically exist for consoles but are very rare). Being stuck on keyboard+mouse only isn't any better than being stuck on gamepads only, actually it's worse because you have a choice and consoles mostly don't.
Posted June 17, 2021
I still play racing games with keyboard :D
Posted June 17, 2021
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trusteft: Playing computer games since the early 1980s. The vast majority, VAST, were being played with keyboard. Including racing. Rarely you would find one owning an analog joystick for racing games as there was very limited support for them in such games. There was more support for using a mouse for racing games than analog joystick.
I now tend to play modern driving games with analog gamepad. If the game is properly made, there is no reason for not using a keyboard if that's what you want.
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Robette: Reminds me of when I showed my uncle Deus Ex back then, and he was like: "oh god, why do you have to aim with the mouse??".
How is that? Did I say that? Did I say something which doesn't make any sense? Or perhaps I said that one should use keyboard?
Posted June 17, 2021
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cryware: GOG team, please clarify. Mashed -or- Mashed: Fully Loaded?
Mashed: Partially Loaded.
Posted June 17, 2021
So what is the reason it's Mashed from 2004 and not from 2005 fully loaded version on gog?
Posted June 17, 2021
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wildapple21: But on you list is also Blur which has licensed/real cars. So... I think you already know the answer for that one.
I get so into the racing, power ups and combat that I completely didn't take much notice that they are licensed cars. Shame. I wish arcade racers would stay away from licensed cars.
Posted June 17, 2021
GOG, why don't you want to add Street Racing Syndicate to the catalog?

SRS is probably the only old street racing game with licensed cars that is still can be purchased officially (it's available on Steam and there is also a DRM-Free version available on Zoom Platform).

Other games from the current publisher of SRS are already available on GOG (Expendable, Normality, Soulbringer, etc.), so I think it shouldn't be difficult to bring this game here.

Please vote for this game if you'd like to see it here (let's pretend the community wishlist actually works):
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/srs_street_racing_syndicate
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/street_racing_syndicate
Posted June 17, 2021
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Maxvorstadt: Nice to see those games here, but sadly one needs a controller for most of these games. When will developers learn, that controllers and PC gaming are not compatible?
Well, at least many goggers will have fun with those games.
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eric5h5: That's objectively false. There are plenty of controllers made specifically for PCs. The 8BitDo SN30 pro+, for example, has 4 modes: Switch, XInput, DInput, and macOS. The Mac mode is entirely unnecessary as DInput works out of the box anyway and XInput works with 3rd-party drivers, but the fact that they made the effort of doing it at all should tell you something. That's one of the good things about PC gaming, where you have the freedom to use the control method best suited to particular games...gamepads, keyboard, mouse, and more esoteric controllers like flight sticks and so on (which technically exist for consoles but are very rare). Being stuck on keyboard+mouse only isn't any better than being stuck on gamepads only, actually it's worse because you have a choice and consoles mostly don't.
I wouldn't say the choice was that great as most control schemes are aping the rotten xbox360 pad with xinput limitations.
Something which was already outdated the moment it was released. Cursing the PC with rubbish controls.
Sure you could program proper controller support but then the same could be said of hacking a console to do that.
Post edited June 17, 2021 by GOGuser736
Posted June 17, 2021
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trusteft: Playing computer games since the early 1980s. The vast majority, VAST, were being played with keyboard. Including racing. Rarely you would find one owning an analog joystick for racing games as there was very limited support for them in such games.
Whaaaat? I have been PC gaming since the early 90s (before that I had a Commodore Amiga A500), and there was a wide support for analog joysticks in PC racing games, as well as flight simulators, space combat games (Wing Commander 1-2, X-Wing) etc.

I always used an analog joystick with most PC racing games.

I think this was my first PC joystick (CH Flightstick), or at least one of the very firsts, which I used for many years:

[url=https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143733780001?hash=item2177336e21:g:kzoAAOSwNqBfXOvt]https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143733780001?hash=item2177336e21:g:kzoAAOSwNqBfXOvt[/url]

Later I had (and actually still have, they still work fine!) e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SideWinder#3D_Pro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SideWinder#Precision_2

I still have the MS SideWinder 3D Pro and the Precision 2, and they both still seem to work fine. Naturally I can use 3D Pro only on my old retro-gaming PC which has a suitable port on a sound card for it, but Precision 2 is an USB joystick.

The even older PC analog joysticks, before my PC gaming time, were CH Producs Mach 2 etc.
Post edited June 17, 2021 by timppu
Posted June 17, 2021
Hello!

Thank you very much dear GOG.com team and Supersonic Software/Strategy First!

"Mashed" is one of those 'miniature'/top-down arcade racing games, which I have plenty of memories of, and am really glad that it is finally available here!

(I guess it is the original version, because that one was already DRM-free on disc, at least in Europe. We installed it on different computers from the same disc in order to play it in multiplayer. The newer "Fully Loaded" version had a nasty copy protection system...)

Unfortunately, todays event did not include the return of some of the racing games which were unlisted from GOG's catalogue in the past.


As for other racing game candidates to be resurrected here on GOG.com:

- "Wipeout XL / 2097" would be great.
I am playing my Playstation copy of it right now, because of our 1996 time travel forum idea from ciemnogrodzianin.

- "Richard Burns Rally", "Grand Prix 3 & 4" and "Grand Prix Legends" are my favourite racing simulations on the PC.

- "Colin McRae Rally" is another candidate that I would like to see here.

Other than these, I continue wishing for more 4x4 Offroad simulations, such as "Cabela's 4x4 Offroad Adventure" (especially no. 1 and 3), the formerly rejected "Offroad Mania" and "Spintires" / "MudRunner" / "SnowRunner" (although the latter one is definitely beyond my current computer's specifications) .

There were also a newer take on the actual MicroMachines formular, but I forgot the name of it...

Kind regards,
foxgog
Posted June 17, 2021
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Breja: One day...
He said.
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