Slip into a Kinetica racing suit, a vividly imagined high-tech vehicle worn like robotic clothing that allows you to hug the sides of cliffs and inverse inclines. Perform dazzling tricks while battling your competitors, picking up boosts and improving your abilities with risky maneuvers and stunts. Hug the slipstreams of other racers to conserve energy and gain speed. With over 12 mind-bending tracks and a hot techno soundtrack, you can hone your skills in this hyper-fast, difficult, and exhilarating racer.
Jump in the cab of your favorite 18-wheeler and take to the highways of America at ridiculous speeds! Beginning as one of five characters (there are over 40 total), you must help prevent the evil Tornado gang from monopolizing the trucking industry and beating up people's grandfathers. This newest incarnation of Sega's 18-Wheeler games features rip-roaring arcade-style gameplay, fully customizable rigs, new story modes, over 25 mini-games, much improved graphics, and plenty of memorable if not tacky caricatures of good ol' American guys and gals. 10-4, little buddy?
Smoke the roads in Los Angeles with Midway's L.A. Rush! Race through the streets of Beverly Hills, Compton, Hollywood, LAX, Santa Monica, and Downtown. Choose from more than 50 licensed street and concept cars. Race in a variety of modes including a unique mission-based Story mode. All street racers are designed by the legendary chop shop West Coast Customs. Stylize and tune up your rides with engine tweaks and visual upgrades. Race to win back your stolen cars. Earn street cred and respect. Exact revenge by stealing your enemies' rides. Feel the rush of being a street racing maverick!
Taking its name from the epic race in Le Mans, France, Le Mans 24 Hours literally lets you race a 24-hour simulated Le Mans track. For the less hardcore, there are a number of racing modes, including Quick Race, Championship, Time Trial, and Multiplayer. You can choose from 70 real-world vehicles and race 12 real tracks around the world including the legendary Le Mans. Game control is excellent, each car having a unique feel and capabilities. While the graphics are less advanced than some flashier games', the level of gameplay invites the racer looking for a serious ride.
Another fine American tradition finds its way to the PlayStation 2. In Lowrider you will be able to cruise the streets in a lowrider car, customize it, race with it, and sweeten its design. Drive 18 different vehicles and use 18 categories of car upgrades. Custom paint your car with a custom paint tool. Install major hydraulics and big sound systems. Compete against a friend in tournaments, including Hop, Bed-Dance and Unlimited. Lowride the streets of San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
In Micro Machines V4, the cars are still miniature and the environments are still huge. It's the mayhem that's gotten bigger! Drive hundreds of inch-long racers through a real-size world where the obstacles are made of common household items. For the first time in the Micro Machines series, you'll be able to zoom past - way past - the game's patented improvised house and garden tracks. Race on the roof, in the sewer, in museums, and even down on the farm. As any experienced driver will tell ya', you can't say you've really seen a road hazard until you've driven through a chicken coop.
The second installment of this popular renegade racing title takes place in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Paris. Players can choose from 32 performance vehicles. In their sleak rides they will wreak havoc in the streets, escape the police and race to the finish line. The cities are laid out like vast playgrounds filled with shortcuts, jumps, crashes and general mayhem. Populated with realistic AI inhabitants, the streets behave unexpectedly, raising the level of realism and challenging gameplay.
Rockstar Games has teamed up with DUB Magazine to bring the bling back to the streets in a new version of Midnight Club that looks as good as it drives. Gameplay delivers the insanely quick, open-city racing through the streets (and airspace) of San Diego, Atlanta, and Detroit that fans of the series have come to expect. DUB Magazine, the authority on automotive aesthetics, adds the most complete car customization system ever seen in a video game. Trick out licensed SUVs, muscle cars, import tuners, choppers, and luxury cars from top to bottom with rims, trims, upgrades, and more chrome than oughta be legal. Take on up to 7 friends online and get ready to wreck some righteous looking rides!
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition was popular enough become one of PlayStation 2's Greatest Hits. That acclaimed street-racing experience has been overhauled and upgraded with more than 20 new, officially licensed vehicles, a bigger and better soundtrack, and a whole new city full of streets to conquer. Choose your ride from the Midnight Club garage of racers, including new models from Cadillac, Lamborghini, Dodge, and more. Customize just about every aspect of your car's look and performance. In addition to Atlanta, Detroit, and San Diego, you can now race through Tokyo. Additional game modes, including multiplayer, await online. DUB Edition Remix is fully compatible with the original.
Join an illicit club of midnight street racers and race for pink slips. Challenge other members at head-to-head racing through authentic international city streets, then drive over sidewalks, through parks, even through store displays to get the edge. The more you win, the more vehicles you own until you build up an arsenal of more than 17 souped-up street machines. Game features include two play modes and more than 75 possible races complete with traffic, buildings, pedestrians, and cops.
It's old school racing and blasting courtesy of Midway with the company's third offering from its vault of Arcade Treasures. Eight classic racing games have you putting the pedal to the metal as you bounce over rough terrain and screech through hairpin turns! Are you good enough to beat the clock and grab all the power-ups? Try your hand at Super Off-Road, S.T.U.N. Runner, San Francisco Rush 2049, San Francisco Rush The Rock: Alcatraz Edition, Race Drivin', Off Road Thunder: Mud, Sweat, 'n Gears, Hydro Thunder, and Badlands. These additions to Midway's collection of arcade games ported to next-generation consoles prove that the oldies are still goodies.
The ultimate in Monster Trucks fantasies has arrived! Drive the ultimate 4x4 machines and tear through 30 Monster events including insane stadium circuits, dangerous exhibition arenas and seat-of-your-pants off-road challenges. Monster you way through Alcatraz Island, Central Park, the Louisiana Swamps, the Arizona desert and Cape Canaveral! Soup up your beast with speed, traction and other power-ups. Tame and ride 20 Monsters including Grave Digger, El Toro Loco, Bulldozer, Wolverine, Spiderman and Hulk. Dust the competition on your friends as you ride up mountains, twist through swamps and plow through muddy rivers. Ride'em bronco!