Retrospective

Auto Modellista is a stylised street racer from gaming giants Capcom. Released in 2002, we revisited it to see if its unique art direction was enough to challenge the might of Gran Turismo.

The BTCC is the UK’s most popular motorsport series but fans had to wait until 1997 for an officially licenced videogame – and it was glorious. This is the story of the Sony PlayStation’s TOCA Touring Car Championship.

2002’s Total Immersion Racing contained some of motorsport’s most recognisable and successful cars. However, it also featured some less well-known examples that are well worth talking about today.

We take a look back at Reflections Interactive’s Stuntman 20 years from the day it was released in Europe.

Live for Speed is a masterful sim based on solid driving physics. First released publicly in 2002, we ask the question: is it still relevant?

25 years after release, we look at Mario Kart 64’s impact on future Mario Kart games, and why it was so enjoyable to play in the nineties.

2002 was a much simpler time. The gaming sphere was still in its relatively early stages of 3D graphical gaming. While the fifth gen of gaming consoles introduced 3D graphics on systems like the Nintendo 64 and the PlayStation, the sixth introduced gamers to systems like the Gamecube and the PlayStation 2. Back in 2002,…Continue reading “How Dirt to Daytona paved the way for future NASCAR console games”»

We look back on Core Design’s Amiga racing game, Jaguar XJ220, and determine whether it was an essential 1992 purchase.

Back in the early 2000s, it was just about at that point in time and history that many avid fans remember a ton of racing video games so fondly. Even for dirt oval racing fans, Ratbag Games had brought the World of Outlaws to life with their 2002 release of World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars…Continue reading “WATCH: The best dirt oval game ever? | World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars 2002”»