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[A Black Falcon]

- Burnout
- F-Zero
- Mario Kart
- Gran Turismo

Rush, Moto Racer, and maybe NFS are better than Burnout; F-Zero is best in its class; DKR is just as good as Mario Kart 64 (haven't played the SNES game), and GT... haven't played it. My list is far better. :)

The XG games and Pod are pretty average racers. There are so many better racers on the PSX, PS2, and X-Box.

Pod is great because of variety (after you download them all it has over 50 tracks!), graphics (not how good they are but how they are unique), and gameplay. It's a quite different take on the subgenre, with no weapons and the challenge of the gameplay being figuring your way around the often quite confusing tracks... it certainly has flaws but the variety and very different philosophy of track design shine through.

As for the DC game, I haven't played it and have heard that most Pod fans didn't like it at all. Weapons and six tracks? And you call that Pod? Who are you trying to fool?

As for XG, I think XG2 is great, XGRA is almost great (it's great if you ignore the lack of difficulty and badly flawed weapons), XG good (though noticably an early N64 game), and XG3 decent...

Haha, the PC. [sarcasm]What a great racing platform.[/sarcasm]

Actually yes, the PC is a pretty good platform for racing games. It's by FAR the best platform for simulation racing games (and that's by a wide margin), but as far as arcadish ones it does okay. Psygnosis, before being consumed by Sony, released the first two Wipeouts, both Rollcage games, etc, and there are many others... Pod, Megarace, Screamer, etc. It's not exactly a wasteland for the genre, and I have quite a few PC racing games.

-Death Rally
-Death Track Racing (Rollcage Stage II)
-Drome Racers
-Moto Racer 2
-Need for Speed: High Stakes
-Motocross Madness 2
-Pod
-Rally Championship
-Screamer 2
-Test Drive Off Road
-Driver (if it counts)
-Extreme-G 2
-Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament

Yeah, a short and pitiful list.