Game Reviews7.7/10
Need for Speed: Unbound Review: A Confident Racer With a Thin Spine
Need for Speed: Unbound review — Criterion's cel-shaded racer, its Lakeshore City setting, weekly risk cycle, and why it's the series' last game.
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Tag: racing games
Game Reviews7.7/10
The FIA Put Its Name on a Racing Game and the Racing Game Couldn’t Keep Up
Gran Turismo Sport bet everything on FIA-certified online racing, then shut its servers in 2024. A look at what it got right and what it lost.
Game Reviews7.8/10
Grid Review: Six Disciplines, One Career Path, and a 7.8 That Holds Up
Grid, Codemasters' 2019 racer, is delisted and its online services shut down on 19 December 2025. A review of its six disciplines, commentary and 7.8 score.
Game Reviews7.6/10
Ridge Racer Unbounded: A Competent Bet That Cost the Series Its Home-Console Future
Ridge Racer Unbounded (2012) let players smash tracks apart. A look at Bugbear's destruction racer, its 7.6/10 score, and why it ended the series on consoles.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Dirt Showdown at 7.5: A 2012 Arcade Spin-Off Whose Online Servers Are Now Gone
Dirt Showdown, Codemasters' 2012 arcade racing spin-off, lost its online servers in March 2026. Here's what still works and what's gone.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Colin McRae: Dirt Review — The Pyramid, the Points and the Repair Clock
Colin McRae: Dirt launched in 2007 with 46 cars, a 60-minute repair clock and a 100-player mode that was really solo hot-lapping.
Game Reviews8/10
Burnout Dominator: The Burnout Without Criterion Still Drives Beautifully
Burnout Dominator review: EA UK's 2007 PS2 and PSP racer brings back Burnout chains and the blue boost meter, but drops Crash Mode. Score: 8/10.
Game Reviews8/10
Daytona USA Is Still the Purest Arcade Racer Sega Ever Built
Daytona USA review: Sega's 1994 arcade racer still feels fast, loud and fair — one car, three tracks and physics that hold up today.
Game Reviews8.3/10
F1 22 Review: Codemasters Mostly Sticks the Landing on 2022’s Regulation Shake-Up
F1 22 review: Codemasters' 2022 Formula One game nails new cars and tracks, but F1 Life drags. Score 8.3/10, delisted in 2024.
Game Reviews8.8/10
Devon Butler returns in F1 23’s story mode, then gets written out
F1 23 review: Braking Point 2 brings back Devon Butler, whose tinnitus diagnosis ends his season as Callie Mayer takes his seat. Score: 8.8/10.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Driver: San Francisco: The Coma Dream That Saved a Franchise
Driver: San Francisco review — how Ubisoft Reflections turned a coma dream and the Shift mechanic into the best game in the series, with 140 cars and 208 miles.
Game Reviews8/10
Midnight Club: Los Angeles at 18: The Biggest, and Still the One That Holds Up
Midnight Club: Los Angeles launched late in 2008 as the biggest game in the series, with 43 cars, a seamless LA map and a City Champ career.