Car Driving Games

Racing Games

If you want to play speed racing games then there is plenty of opportunity to do so on the internet. There are free downloadable games on many of the game sites; all you have to do is download a plug-in. Before you download this from any site you should check out the site抯 credentials. Most sites are above board but occasionally plug-ins from an unknown source can mess up your computer. Having said that, most available downloads are acceptable and there are plenty of these speed racing car games around.

Some sites offer free downloads, and once you become an expert in one of the games, then you can go onto the next level and get another download. Car racing games attract people of all ages, shapes and sizes, because everyone likes the idea of speed, even if it is only from the safety of their computer. Every day car racing games are becoming more sophisticated and it is possible to get games where you can customise your car or trade it in for another. It is almost as if the car racing game industry is doing its best to get as close as possible to the real life experience of buying and driving fast cars.

Car racing games actually predate computers and they first started to appear as arcade games in amusement arcades in the 1970s. By the mid to late nineteen eighties we got the first computer and games console racing car games. Sega抯 Outrun game produced in 1986 is seen by many as the forerunner of most of the car racing games that we see today because it had outstanding graphics for its time. By the mid nineteen nineties car racing games had really taken off and games manufacturers were keen to emulate the 3D graphics and realistic feel that had been the preserve of the arcade games.

In modern car racing games it is not just the vehicle and the speed that is important. Games producers now bring in cities so players can for example experience driving through the simulated streets of New York or Chicago. Backgrounds and surrounding areas now have an increasing importance in the car racing games world. You get races taking place on windy roads, on racing circuits and on highways. Games producers go all out to try and make the experience of car racing games as realistic as possible. Games racing aficionados can抰 wait to be the first to have the latest car racing game. Some of the races take place on the roads, and some off the road. With off road car racing games players can also experience the dust flying up and around as they play their game, which adds to the excitement that comes from spills and the thrills of such games.

Some of the racing games are futuristic where players race in an imaginary world that doesn抰 have the same physical constraints that exist in the real world ?and one wonders where the car racing games will go next.