All three games, WipEout HD, WipEout HD Fury, and WipEout 2048, look the best they ever have and, of course, 60 fps. This is another remastered collection that never got a proper PS4 title, but again takes full advantage of the new hardware. As we said, racing comes in many forms, including jet-powered hovercrafts. We’re really going off the rails (or road, as it were) with WipEout Omega Collection. It might have a few extra years on it, but Burnout Paradise Remastered still runs like new. This game feels a little bit more like an arcade racer mixed with an open-world RPG with how you can take on races and challenges, find collectibles (which you typically drive through rather than collect), and unlock new cars every time you level up your license. It isn’t nearly as photo-realistic as the sims on this list and wasn’t trying to be even at the time of release, but at least now it runs at a rock-solid 60 fps while you race around the open world.

Even non-racing fans can find the pure bliss of boosting into an opponent, shunting them into oncoming traffic as time slows down so you can watch the sparks fly, hood crumple, and tires pop, while you drift around a corner at 120 mph. In lieu of a new worthy arcade racing title that hits as hard as this classic series, we can still fall back on Burnout Paradise Remastered.

One of the biggest regrets of the last console generation is that we never got a true new installment in the Burnout franchise on the PS4.

The best racing games for the Nintendo Switch.

Racing as a genre is broader than some people may think, so we’ve included a little bit of everything to help you find a game that matches your speed. The number to choose from is a little overwhelming, but we’ve culled the pack down to only the fastest, brightest, and, most importantly, most fun racing games the system has to offer. All of Sony’s marketing and promotion shifted during this generation to its big first-party exclusives like The Last of Us Part 2, God of War, and Ghost of Tsushima, with little to no love being shown to the racing fans.Įven though Sony itself wasn’t pushing the genre, the PS4 has some of the best racing games ever developed, ready for you to set a new course record on. The PlayStation 4 was the biggest success Sony had since the PS2, but at the same time, seemed to have far fewer pure racing games released on the system. Each console has had a great mix of exclusive and third-party racing titles that looked and played fantastic on the hardware. The PlayStation brand of consoles has always had a strong tie to the racing genre.

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