Posts By Justin Towell
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2.1KAtari 50Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration – All of its racing games reviewed
Justin Towell finds a few old gems in the retro racing quagmire.
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6.9KCruis'n BlastRaw Thrills: Industry legend Eugene Jarvis on what makes a great arcade racer
Eugene Jarvis has been President of Raw Thrills for over 22 years, so when it comes to making enjoyable arcade – literal...
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2.5KFeatureNeed For Speed Unbound review: One more time, in 4K60
We get called a ‘s*** driver’ by the police radio, add neon to our cars and escape overly long police chases. It's...
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9.1KFeatureHorizon Chase 2 review: Ultra-deluxe arcade racing on Apple Arcade
Justin Towell nitro boosts over the Bay Bridge with a ‘woo-hoo', as Horizon Chase 2 delivers driving thrills on iOS devices –...
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3.9KFeatureNickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway review – Hyperactive kart racing fun
Justin Towell enjoys the most frantic kart racer in years, in what turns out to be one of the most surprisingly fully-featured...
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2.5KFeatureSmurfs Kart review: Honest family thrills
We test Garfield Kart’s biggest rival, and aren’t left feeling blue. A full review of Smurfs Kart on Nintendo Switch.
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1.7KFeatureMini Motorways Switch review: the road’s the star, not the car
Justin Towell casts his eye over Dinosaur Polo Club's Nintendo Switch port of road building strategy game Mini Motorways.
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11.0KFeatureDiddy Kong Racing retrospective: Nostalgia goggles or a Rare treat?
25 years after its launch, and with the Switch Online Expansion Pass offering up N64 games, does Diddy Kong Racing deserve a...
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7.6KCruis'n BlastN64 racing games we’d like to see on Switch Online’s Expansion Pack
With Mario Karo 64 and F-Zero X now on the Nintendo Switch, via Online + Expansion Pass, these are the N64 games...
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3.5KFeatureSplash Cars review: An odd port of a mobile paint-splasher
Splash Cars really could have been brilliant if it had been designed with the Switch in mind.
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2.1KFeatureRetro Pixel Racers review: Challenging, but not in a good way
Give yourself your own John McEnroe moment. “I CROSSED THE LINE!”
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16.1KFeatureThe best racing games on Game Boy Advance
Here are the seven greatest racing games for the Game Boy Advance, a portable console that is seeing a resurgence in popularity.
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18.2KFeatureWhat modern racers should learn from GRID Autosport
GRID Autosport represents the last flourish of ‘old’ GRID, and came at a strange time for Codemasters. By 2011, its racing games...
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9.3KFeatureRevisiting the original Forza Horizon – how it stacks up against FH5
It’s been some nine years since the Forza Motorsport series got its first off-road spin-off. I’m not sure why, but I never...
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8.0KFeatureFormula Retro Racing’s one moment of arcade racing perfection
I’ve just had one of the best arcade racing experiences of the past 20 years and I really didn’t expect it. Formula...
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12.4KFeatureGear.Club Unlimited 2 – Ultimate Edition review
This is dreadful. There’s so much wrong with Gear.Club Unlimited 2 – Ultimate Edition, it’s hard to know where to start, so...
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7.1KGamesGear.Club Unlimited 2 Switch review
With the ‘Ultimate’ version now out now on Xbox and PlayStation, Switch owners receive a ‘Definitive Edition’ of Gear.Club Unlimited 2, which...
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7.0KFeatureRidge Racer on Vita 10 years on. Was it really that bad?
How can Ridge Racer on PS Vita be 10 years old? A full decade. It is noteworthy for being the last Ridge...
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9.3Kart of rallyHere’s why so many rally games going top-down
We’ve been lucky enough to have several great new rally games recently, not least art of rally and Rush Rally Origins. But...
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6.6KFeatureIs an Evercade any good for racing games?
Officially and legally emulating retro games is a great idea and Evercade is one of the coolest ways to do it. Released...
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3.4KFeatureHands-on with RiMS Racing on Nintendo Switch
I think it’s time publishers were realistic about these Switch ports of titles that are already struggling even with PS5’s power and...
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8.1KCruis'n BlastCruis’n Blast Nintendo Switch review
I think I’m over-stimulated. In Cruis’n Blast, everything’s shinier than everything else. It’s all ‘everything all of the time’ with no respite....
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9.1KFeatureRush Rally Origins review
If you’re looking for pure driving gameplay on Nintendo Switch, look no further. This is rally driving distilled into short-burst arcade stages...
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3.2Kart of rallyart of rally’s console release highlights the current gulf in hardware abilities
If the rather excellent Absolute Drift: Zen Edition on Nintendo Switch made you excited for a handheld port of its successor, art...
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15.6KFeatureWhy the original Race Driver: GRID remains one of the best racers you can(not) buy
Every time I review a new racing game, I compare it to Race Driver: GRID in my head. And you know what?...
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8.7KFeatureNeed for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed, 10 years on
Need For Speed Shift 2: Unleashed is the latest game to turn 10 years old, and highlights the decade’s shift in racing...
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3.7KFeatureRad Mobile: How the Sega Astro City Mini revives a forgotten Sega Arcade racer
Imagine being a Beatles fan and knowing you’d never listened to Polythene Pam. People have told you it’s not their best song...
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12.5KCarX Drift Racing OnlineCarX Drift Racing Online Nintendo Switch review
This is the most baffling game I’ve played in years. CarX Drift Racing Online is objectively as full-featured a driving game as...
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7.4KFeatureWhen Sega ruled the racing world
It’s pretty impossible for anyone under the age of 25 to understand exactly what made gaming so different in the 1980s and...
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6.1KFeatureWhy the world needs a Ridge Racer revival
It’s 1993 and you see a red race car hurtling through a tunnel, before climbing from a suspension bridge through a rocky...
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10.4KF1 GamesCodemasters racing games that time forgot
Codemasters has become the undisputed kings of console racers in recent years, thanks to DiRT Rally, GRID and, of course, the superlative...
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13.7KFeatureFrame rates in racing games: Do we need 120fps?
I was amazed last week when my nephew announced he was sorry for people who had to play Rocket League at 60...
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3.2K80's OVERDRIVEWhy retro-flavoured racing has found its home on Nintendo Switch
From F-Zero’s Mode 7 scaling on SNES to PlayStation’s Ridge Racer conversion, chances are you were once wowed by a classic racing...
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16.4KFeatureThe best way to play 10 classic racing games
There are some undisputed classics in the racing genre, yet you can’t play them all on a PS5 or Xbox Series X....
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1.4KFeatureThe importance of learning how to crash
It sounds like madness, but one of the absolute most important things you can do in a racing game is learn how...
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9.7KFeatureThe five best fictional racetracks of all time
It’s hard to say what makes a great racetrack. Indeed, a simple oval can be better than another very similar oval, perhaps...
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4.5KFeatureWhat modern racing games should learn from Sega’s past
I reviewed Codemasters’ Dirt 2 for GamesRadar back in 2008 and awarded it 8/10. Looking at it now, even if you dislike...
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6.2KBurnoutSeven great racing games on Nintendo Switch
The Switch has done so many things right in its life, but while platformers, RPGs and so many indie games keep their...
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4.8KBurnoutBurnout Paradise for Nintendo Switch review
The grass is green and the girls are… well, there aren’t any. But by all means take me home again. They don’t...
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8.3KFeatureWhy bother with manual gears?
When you start out playing racing games, the ‘Manual Gears’ option looks pretty scary and frankly, you can’t imagine anyone deliberately choosing...
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10.5KFeatureDamage Inc – the problem with crashes in racing games
Nobody wants to see anyone get hurt in real life motorsport crashes, but a nice explosion of carbon fibre, cascading sparks from...
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3.1KFeatureThese racing games vanished and deserve far better
Project Gotham Racing: Last seen 2007 on Xbox 360 This was a massive missed opportunity. Project Gotham Racing had four incarnations after...
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3.5KFeatureAbsolute Drift: Zen Edition Nintendo Switch review
You seem to be crashing a lot, Grasshopper There are several moments where Absolute Drift looks and feels like an isometrically-viewed rally...
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5.5KFeatureNeed for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered review
Back once again with the barricade master When one of the best developers of action-packed racing games has a go at one...
