The best ps2 racing games

Fully customizable vehicle bodies with tons of interchangeable parts and colors! Race head-to-head against a friend or compete in over 30 mini-games.

Choose your car. Paint it, polish it, and personalize it. Build it up with new components, giant spoilers and reinforced fenders. Supercharge it. Fill it with nitrous.

You're at the back of the pack, grid position sixteen. Fifteen cars ahead of you, polished until they gleam. Your primary objective is to take first place. Your secondary objective? Run everyone else off the road. Crunch them into the barrier. Rip, shred and tear sheet metal from their frames, leaving burning engine blocks and melted tires in your wake. The last driver with four wheels wins. Then do it again Cause extreme crashes and dodge on-track wreckage as you engage in high speed, high danger driving through the back streets of Miami, San Francisco, LA and New York.

Compete in multiplayer destruction with or against 16 total players online featuring a variety of modes like last-man-standing, bomb tag and more. Replay the mayhem with multi-angle player-controlled cameras set up throughout the courses. Need for Speed Underground 2 challenges gamers to immerse themselves in the tuner culture, exploring an expansive, free-roaming city divided into five distinct neighborhoods.

Gamers encounter rival racers who initiate events, tip players off to the hottest racing spots, and show them where to buy the most sought-after licensed aftermarket upgrades.

The game features new game modes, deep new performance customization and tuning, and more than 30 licensed cars. The game also delivers twice the visual customization upgrades as the original game, providing a staggering 70 billion possible car combinations for total automotive self-expression. In the Hot Wheels Stunt Track Challenge videogames, players are thrust into competition on a hot new extreme game show -- on which they must complete perilous stunts and win intense races.

The goal is to beat opponents and impress the audience with fearless maneuvers, in order to advance into other 'episodes' and win better cars. At the end of the season, the driver with the most courage and best stunt skills will cruise away in a gold-plated car as the Hot Wheels Champion. Before each race, players can enter the garage to customize their cars with unique colors, wheels and decals. ATV Offroad Fury 3 provides intense, free-roaming offroad racing gameplay, packed with additional courses, larger environments, extra modes, mini-games, more ATVs, online gameplay via the Network Adaptor and future support for the internal Hard Disk Drive.

Through both on- and offline gameplay, players tear it up anywhere and blaze their own trail, choosing from more than 24 highly detailed ATVs? With visually stunning backgrounds featuring water and mud effects and fully interactive objects and instances such as ramps, tires, cones and trees, ATV Offroad Fury 3 includes new short track, one-day events and Olympic championships. Playable from both first- and third-person perspectives, ATV Offroad Fury 3 features two main modes of play containing race, freestyle, career, mini-games and multiplayer games.

Other modes will include a training course and waypoint editor. In ATV Offroad Fury 3, players will have the ability to race in more than 30 unique environments with six distinct terrain types including snow, dirt, mud, ice, water and grass, as well as compete in eight exciting mini-games including king of the hill, treasure hunt, tag, hockey, soccer, basketball and pre-load? Supporting up to six players online with voice-chat capabilities via the USB Headset, ATV Offroad Fury 3, includes a new comprehensive online scoreboard system that records event data for players and clans within all race types.

Burnout 3 takes the hit series even further, now featuring a unique "crash and burn" racing concept and a one-of-a-kind special effects engine that delivers spectacular visuals. The intensity heats up as players race, and often crash, their way through oncoming traffic in an attempt to claim the top spot.

Boasting multiple single-player, multiplayer and online crash and race modes, Burnout 3 offers players the opportunity to race through busy city streets and be rewarded for taking risks that result in heart-pounding action and electrifying crashes. Develop your racing skills and intimidate your rivals on the track with all-new controls.

Off the track, force the action with post-race confrontations, and settle disputes by racing America? Fans react to the drama, idolizing both NASCAR heroes and villains, while owners and sponsors recognize talent and reward success. It's up to you to show 'em what you've got.

SRS is the first game to deliver authentic street racing action, featuring realistic cars, genuine aftermarket parts, and true-to-life driving physics. Live a life immersed in the underground world of real street racing. Customize and tune realistic vehicles with detailed auto upgrades including dozens of licensed aftermarket parts that physically appear on cars.

Progress through the Philadelphia, Miami and Los Angeles street racing scenes. Outrun and outsmart the cops in high-speed late night chases. Race for money, pink slips or even the girlfriends of rival street racers! Experience real high-speed illegal street racing with true racing physics and authentic damage that affect both looks and performance. Compete in both illegal and official sanctioned racing events.

Get ready for fast, futuristic racing as you strap yourself into a supersonic flying craft and take on the competition. On the track and through the streets, race against a variety of characters, each with their own personality, racing style, and friends or foes. Fly around the track at breathtaking speeds of 1, miles per hour in single player and multiplayer action, including split screen, and system link. Unique competitors - From decommissioned war droids to spoiled rich kids, interplanetary playboys to robot political activists, each opponent has their own attitude and style.

Take it to the streets - Take your supersonic blade off the track and challenge an opponent to a one-on-one illegal race on city streets filled with ramps, tunnels, obstacles, and more. Develop your driving skills, learn new tricks, and continue to shave seconds off your best times as your experience evolves.

Realistic damage - Panels buckle or are wrenched off, hydraulics will malfunction, smoke will plume from the blades, and you'll have to avoid debris that falls off other craft. This is the only game that lets you race virtually every Corvette made in street and track settings. Over 80 incredibly rendered production Corvette models from '53 to 'plus awesome show cars. Upgrade your 'Vette's engine and suspensionfeel the effect of real car physics. Race on various tracks and an obstacle filled Route 66 from Chicago to LA.

The choice is yours Variable camera anglesand era-specific HUDsenhance your race experience. Heritage mode allows you to "test drive" any stock production 'Vette. Get the jump out of the gate and grab the holeshot. Take the inside line as you battle for 1st place against 7 other riders pushing your bike's power and handling to the limit! Launch into a gravity-defying inverted before crossing the finish line to the roar of the crowd. Earn more cold hard cash from contest wins and sponsorships.

Use the money to modify your rider's attributes, purchase equipment upgrades or buy access to freeride environments complete with new goals and objectives. Accept the MTX: Mototrax challenge: beat the pros and become the ultimate MX athlete in the fastest, most complete motocross game offering a thrilling career mode to boost your fame, fortune and adrenaline!

Rainbow Studios, the masters of off road racing games, returns to their heritage to bring the definitive next generation MX game to life. Challenge yourself in the ultimate off-road playground, a never before seen freeworld mode filled with treacherous terrain, mini games, and machine races.

Go bar to bar against the top champions in the world through the season long Supercross and Outdoor National series in an extensive career mode. Prepare yourself for mud, dirt, high speeds, and serious attitude. R: Racing Evolution is an extraordinary action-racing experience featuring authentic licensed cars and daring, real-world tracks. Combining awesome graphical quality and high performance driving physics with a spectacular story line, R: Racing Evolution chronicles the intense competition and deep rivalries found only within the professional racing circuit.

New exciting features such as the Interactive Driver AI System and in-game radio communications bring players closer to racing action than ever before! Whether you're grinding through mud pits in Louisiana, crunching up cliffs in California, or smashing up trees to make the ride a little bumpier for the guy behind you, keep your eyes on the prize: the cash you earn on the circuit goes to buy new trucks and build up your ultimate Monster machine.

Tear through 30 Monster events, including brutal stadium circuits, merciless exhibition arenas, and the hairiest off-road circuits your tires have ever seen. Soup up your truck with speed, traction, and other power-ups to give your opponents a run for their money.

Smoke the competition as you blaze through well-known U. Master your tricks in Training mode as you taste all of the thrills, spills, twists, and rolls of Monster Truck racing. Then show them what you?

Massive upgrade to the physics engine, special effects, graphical editors, weather conditions, courses, textures, lighting, menus, options, car tuning features, and rival characters.

Over rivals to challenge on the highways. An awesome level of car tuning options allows you to adjust just about every car body part and car performance aspect. Modify your car with custom parts from such manufacturers as Hart, Riverside and Yokohama. Enter the world of urban street racing and high performance tuner cars with the latest title in the hit Need for Speed series: Need for Speed Underground.

Take on today's most popular tuner cars from Mitsubishi Motors, Subaru, Toyota and many more, building the ultimate street machine by earning cash to pay for custom body kits and a host of licensed car performance mods.

But just creating a custom street racing machine will not get you to the top; it takes a certain amount of attitude and razor sharp driving skills to compete in the tough world of urban racing. A number of diverse events set in gritty, nighttime environments make up the heart of street competition.

Players become complete street racers by perfecting skills in each event by nailing the perfect shift in drag racing and by putting their street cred on the line, racing through the city streets at all hours of the night. Prove you belong in the elite street racing circles, work your way up the underground rankings and take on the best of the best in each discipline.

Crash hits the track in his most fast-paced adventure yet - Crash Nitro Kart! Kidnapped by the ruthless Emperor Velo and forced to race in his galactic coliseum, Crash must race his way to victory in order to save the Earth from destruction - but it won't be easy, as he must compete against foes both old and new before a final showdown with Velo himself! Crash Nitro Kart leads the pack by mixing awesome next-gen graphics and gameplay with the playability and fun of classic kart-racing games.

Features official teams, driver, circuits and trucks with action so realistic you can almost smell the diesel fumes! Super Trucks offers competitive challenges with a unique A. If you live and breathe racing gaming this will offer you a quick fueled adrenaline rush that all race fans have been waiting for. Features special 35th anniversary Hot Wheels cars! The anticipated sequel to Ford Racing has finally been created. To sustain its reputation, Ford Racing 2 has new and improved cars, added tracks and challenges, and more thrills than ever.

With such a big selection of Ford vehicles - ranging from the '49 Ford to the latest Mustang GT Concept - picking out a car will be a lot harder than you might expect. Ford Racing 2 is ready to put you in the driver's seat and bring you for a ride you'll never want to forget. Are you daring enough to put yourself in that seat? From MPH super-speedways to hairpin turns on 11 fantasy tracks, tuning your car and finding the line is no longer enough.

Now you? Out-smart and out-drive them as you battle three-wide from green to checkers. Online or on your own, racing just became a contact sport. In the future racing is faster - much faster.

More dangerous - much more dangerous. And it's totally merciless, which means anything goes. Run by the XGRA the Extreme Gravity Racing Association , this motorized bloodsport throws teams of futuristic bikes and daredevil riders against one another through dangerous tracks that crisscross vast and treacherous landscapes pushing all to their limits And beyond!

Never before has such a vibrant and interactive animated world been delivered to a flying videogame until Freaky Flyers, the first and only, fast and furious, fully-open 3-D airplane racing adventure, which drops you into the cockpits with the most unique and engaging cast of characters to ever explore, adventure and dogfight in the videogame skies.

Inspired by the spectacle and excitement of theme parks and thrill rides, SplashDown Rides Gone Wild has you blasting through huge, imaginative locales with amazing sights and startling events around every corner. Splashdown's famously beautiful water has evolved as well: bigger waves, swift currents, and treacherous downhill rivers.

There are also plenty of tricky, technical indoor stadium courses, plus a freestyle stunt mode, an all-new technical time trials mode for hardcore racers, and more. Race the fastest, most futuristic vehicles in the universe to the ultimate finish line! A heart-pounding, interstellar racing championship.

Players will fight off enemy attacks at every turn in super-slick O. Kids can victoriously pilot their way through the collection of outrageous races by becoming their favorite Butt-Ugly hero or an evil alien bent on destruction. User Score: 1. Downhill Domination is based on the extreme sport of downhill mountain bike racing and puts players in control of a customizable mountain bike to race down vertical mountainsides and urban environments while performing stunts at speeds in excess of 60 miles per hour.

Playable in first- and third-person perspectives, players will be able to select from one of 14 riders, including five pro-riders in an intense race to gain corporate sponsorship and a chance at the coveted Downhill Domination Championship. Freestyle Metal X unleashes anarchy with the freedom to do what you want, when you want. Be anti-establishment: break windows, run over people, ride where you normally can't ride With an unlimited stunt system and a lawless energy, Freestyle Metal X dares riders to push the envelope with psychotic tricks in limitless, freestyle environments full of challenges and side events.

The music that played before you inserted a game into the disc tray is ingrained in the minds of everyone who had a PlayStation 2. Driving and racing games had a great line-up on the platform. Some of the trademark games for the PlayStation 2 were the most influential driving games ever made.

Gran Turismo, Need for Speed, and Burnout had terrific success on the console and continued to ride that success into the next generations of consoles. The updated graphics, physics, and sound made racing games more immersive for players and created a more realistic experience. Damage to your vehicle was often a major selling point, with updated physics engines allowing for more impactful and authentic looking crashes. This is the first entry in the Gran Turismo series to hit the PlayStation 2.

The game boasts updated graphics and sound to further immerse players in the high-speed action that Gran Turismo is known for. There are over real cars to take to the track and race against AI opponents or against your friends in the multiplayer mode.

The game is, as before, split up into Arcade and Simulation modes which offer different ways to experience the full throttle racing that Gran Turismo 3 has to offer. Drop into the races in Arcade or customize your race with Simulation. There are plenty of returning courses that have been updated for the PlayStation 2 as well as new tracks to experience. If you are looking for one of the highest rated racing games of all time, then this is a must-play.

The third entry into the Burnout series boasts even more aggressive action and better visuals. Return to boosting through courses and obliterating opponents with the signature Takedowns which make a return for this entry. Burnout 3 also features a new mode called Road Rage.

This mode requires players to get as many takedowns as possible within the time limit in order to complete the level. A large part of this comes down to the power slide mechanic. This is similar to the hop-slide found in many Mario Kart games, though it throws another button and some timing into the mix, making effectively boosting your way through corners more satisfying than it has any right to be.

Then there are the other game modes. The mode where you play as the police taking out speeders is fun, letting you execute PIT maneuevers as well as deploy items like spike strips and barricades. MotorStorm was born on the PlayStation 3, so what exactly is a MotorStorm game doing on the older generation of the console? Basically, no one—including Sony—expected how well the PS2 would continue to sell, which is why this game was released for the PS2 as well as the PlayStation Portable in Even more surprisingly, it plays well.

The icy environments actually factor into the gameplay, letting you cool your overheating boost by driving into snow or water. Looking over this list, you might notice that few of these games resemble what we see in modern racing games. Like Midnight Club and many of the other titles below, Underground is based on the premise of illegal street racing.

The seventh title in the series was also the first to include a career mode. Previous Need for Speed games focused on fancy sports cars as opposed to imported cars too. Race through Olympic City and become the best racer around. Underground was so popular that it spawned a sequel too… I wonder if it will appear further down this list?

This game has some absolutely epic levels on it, so much so that it made me want to go and try ATV rallying in the Tunisia desert… which I did… badly. This game is incredibly detailed, so much so that driving into water cleans ATVs off after they become dirty. Be careful though; staying in water too long teleports you out of there Lakitu Bros style.

Players can be thrown off their vehicles or become injured if other riders land on them. The multiplayer mode is probably my favourite part of the game. Burnout Revenge takes the 7th spot in this list of the best PS2 racing games.

The main feature of pumping up the boost bar returns, with players pulling off epic moves and stunning smashes in order to fill up the tank. What could be better than seeing your epic crashes in slow motion? Players can utilise signature moves a little like wrestlers in WWE, pulling off special smashes that become trademark moves.

You can also blow your vehicle up and get creative in the Road Rage mode. Like its competitor, players could customise cars, bet against outcomes, and speed around corners faster then the Flash in need of a toilet break.

And get this; there are over 7-trillion different designs that you can come up with thanks to the vast customisation options…. Take part in drag races not the RuPaul kind , traditional races, and skill modes, stopping for a multiplayer match with your mates every once in a while.

Race to win cars, organise events, and gain respect as you work your way to the top. Dropping on both the GameCube and the PS2, this space-age super bike game sees players competing to become a futuristic racing champion.

Players can pick from one of six teams, each team comprising of two riders. And guess what? The races are anything but fair or civilised.