Top ten racing games I'd rather play than Gran Turismo 5:

Gran Turismo 5 is out! And according to the Quick Look, it's just as much a smooth-jazz-listening simulation as it is a competent car simulation with decent graphics. However, it's far from the only racing game on the block; indeed, there are plenty of racers with more amazing hooks than "awkward menu design" and "damage is off by default"; though reviewers are quick to praise the mechanics that make GT5's ingame cars 'more enjoyable to drive' than any simulation to date, I remain staunch in my patronage of other racing sims that value fun "racing" over fun "driving". Allow me to illustrate my point with these, the racing games I'd rather play than GT5: