History Main / DrivingGame

The two most common forms of driving games are {{Racing Game}}s and VehicularCombat games, but not all racing games and vehicular combat games will be driving games. Check out those pages for more on them specifically. For other driving games that don't neatly fit there look below.

In RealLife, driving is a monotonous chore for most people; the destination is more important than the trip. No one else drives the right way (that is, the way you want them to). Gas is too expensive and so is the price the repair shop demanded when you showed them your broken tire rod. A mere two feet of water can carry your vehicle away and a thin sheet of ice is treacherous, to say nothing of mud. Video games, on the other hand, have AcceptableBreaksFromReality, so driving is a much different experience.

* ''VideoGame/JustCause''
** ''Just Cause 2''

* ''VideoGame/Jalopy''

** ''OutRun 2006'', however, does features opposition as well as mini-games such as hitting cars or avoiding meteorites.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''

* Most ''DukesOfHazzard'' games

* Sega's classic ''OutRun''. Their earlier ''Hang-On'' is the same thing [-WITH MOTORBIKES!-], and is OlderThanTheNES.

* ''VideoGame/BeamNG.drive""

* ''VideoGame/Roundabout''

* While racing is still the main attraction, ''VideoGame/{{Excite}} Truck'' and ''Exite Bots'' made how you reached the finish line just as important as what place you crossed it in. They also featured many other driving challenges.

** Even worse, you can't just start up and walk away, as the bus has a slight lean to the right, and will therefore careen off the road if not monitored. This program was even used as a ''fund-raising mechanism'' as WebVideo/DesertBusForHope. The drivers ended up on the road for ''five days''. Then they did it again. [[http://desertbus.org/ And again ]].
* Some games such as the ''VideoGame/MidtownMadness'' and ''Midnight Club'' series (not to mention ''[[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Burnout Paradise]]'') take the racing out of closed circuits and into an actual city, where races are frequently given an "open world" layout that can be run on any number of different routes.

** It's worth a mention that OutRun is one of the few true "Driving games", meaning that the only goal is to drive a car. Although going fast is mostly encouraged as it lengthens the game time, there is no opposition save for the clock.

* BanjoKazooie: Nuts and Bolts
* BlasterMaster:Blasting Again
* VideoGame/BodyHarvest
* VideoGame/{{Driver}}
** VideoGame/DriverSanFrancisco
* Most DukesOfHazzard games
* VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}}
* VideoGame/CrashNScore
* VideoGame/CrazyBus
* VideoGame/CrazyTaxi
* VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto
* VideoGame/HiWay
* VideoGame/JustCause
* MetalDrift
* PursuitForce

* VideoGame/RallyX
* VideoGame/{{Redline}}
* {{Rigs Of Rods}}
* VideoGame/SpyHunter
* VideoGame/TheSimpsonsRoadRage
** TheSimpsonsHitAndRun
* {{VideoGame/Stuntman}}
* {{VideoGame/Turbo}}
* VideoGame/ZombieDriver
* Zombies Vs Ambulances

* Sega's classic ''OutRun''. Their earlier ''Hang-On'' is the same thing [-WITH MOTORBIKES!-], and is OlderThanTheNes.

* While racing is still the main attraction, ''{{Excite}} Truck'' and ''Exite Bots'' made how you reached the finish line just as important as what place you crossed it in. They also featured many other driving challenges.

** Even worse, you can't just start up and walk away, as the bus has a slight left lean, and will therefore careen off the road if not monitored. This program was even used as a ''fund-raising mechanism'' as WebVideo/DesertBusForHope. The drivers ended up on the road for ''five days''. Then they did it again. [[http://desertbus.org/ And again ]].

** Even worse, you can't just start up and walk away, as the bus has a slight left lean, and will therefore careen off the road if not monitored. This program was even used as a ''fund-raising mechanism'' as DesertBusForHope. The drivers ended up on the road for ''five days''. Then they did it again. [[http://desertbus.org/ And again ]].

* VideoGame/{{Hi-Way}}

The two most common forms of driving games are {{Racing Game}}s and VehicularCombat games, but not all racing games and vehicular combat games will be driving games. Check out those pages for more on them specifically. For other driving games that don't neatly fit there look below.

* {{Stuntman}}