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A view point or camera angle that's fixed on the vehicles front bumper.
A professional racing circuit built on city streets. Not to be confused with illegal street racing.
Dashboard view puts the player in the helmet of the driver. Usually in cars or other vehicles. Most commonly in next-gen racing games and shooting games which have vehicles
The 2000 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on May 11-13.
A translucent "ghost" representation of a prior performance in a racing game.
A freestyle racing event focused on drifting. You must slide around cones and other objects in order to accrue a high score.
Honda manufactures vehicles such as the Civic, S2000 and the NSX. Honda is featured in racing game franchises such as Gran Turismo, Forza and the Need for speed series.
In-Game Advertising is the placement of advertisements for real-world products within the game, sponsored by companies external to the developer.
An instantreplay is a gameplay element typically associated with sports games, and widely made popular with the Madden Franchise. Instant replays allow players to go back and view gameplay footage, occasionally from varying points of view.
A lap is one circuit around a race track. This is featured in many, but not all racing games.
Games that obtained permission to feature real-life licensed car brands.
These games are based off of established licenses, such as movies, comics, or TV shows. Examples are the James Bond 007 and Spider-Man franchises.
Mazda is a motor company based in Japan. It was founded in 1920 by Jujiro Matsuda.
Mitsubishi Motors makes Vehicles, The Evo series of Lancer are quite popular, and feature in most Racing game franchises, most notably Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport, Midnight Club and the Need for Speed series.
Options menus give you the option to change anything the game lets you change. Whether you want subtitles or not, sound effects or not, the game to be harder or not, anything you want that the game lets you change, you can change in the options menu.
Oversteer is a phenomenon that can occur in an automobile which is attempting to turn. The car is said to oversteer when the rear wheels do not track behind the front wheels but instead slide out toward the outside of the turn. Oversteer occurs predominantly in rear-wheel drive vehicles.
Penalties are most commonly found in sports game. Penalties usually result in a loss of yards, free kick or a free shot against the team/player that was penalized. In special cases, the offending player(s) may be ejected from the game.
Third-party developers and publishers occasionally engage in the practice of releasing a title or piece of DLC on only one platform for any number of reasons. Sometimes these are permanent while others are only platform exclusive for a certain window of time.
Early and smaller PS2 games were produced on CD-ROM rather than DVD-ROM. They are easily recognized by the iconic, deep blue color of the underside of the disc.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
Games where pressure sensitive buttons play an important part.
Product placement is the act of using branded products in high visibility settings inside movies and games in exchange for special consideration, financial purchases or otherwise. In recent years, it has become more apparent.
Realism is where a game attempts to accurately mimic real life through gameplay mechanics and visuals. For example, realistic shooters, such as Operation Flashpoint, Full Spectrum Warrior, or Brothers in Arms, typically focus upon squad tactics, i.e. suppressive fire and flanking.
Rev Matching is done when performing a downshift with a manual transmission to match the engines revs to the new gear being shifted into. Rev Matching is often also referred to as ''heel-toe'' shifting (Using the toes to brake while increasing rev with the same foot using the heel).
Sometimes, you want to play games with a real person who's sitting right next to you. These games have you covered.
In auto racing, standing starts have the cars or go-karts stationary in the starting grid as the race begins. To commence racing in a standing start, a set of red lights is needed before the green one goes off to start the race.
Players compete against the clock to secure the fastest time possible. This is often added to racing games for extra replay value and typically requires a higher degree of skill.
Toyota has its cars featured in racing games.
A key component of an automobile.
A term for a car handling condition in which during cornering the circular path of the vehicle's motion is of a greater radius than the circle indicated by the direction its wheels are pointed. Understeer occurs predominantly in front-wheel drive vehicles when the front tires lose traction.
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