It's unfortunate that there's a lack of support for the NVIDIA Shield TV, since it should be perfectly suited for running a game like GRID, but them's the breaks. It's simply better with a physical controller, and if you need to find one for mobile gaming we've got you covered.
While the game does offer nice flexibility for touchscreen controls, you'll want to take advantage of the support for Bluetooth controller. GRID Autosport also lets you choose how you want to race with scalable difficulty allowing for an easier and more arcade-style experience for casual gamers or ramped-up difficulty for fans yearning for a pure racing simulation. There are over 100 cars to drive and an equal number of tracks to race across a wide range of disciplines - from open-wheel and touring circuits to street drag races and more arcade-style demolition races. The physics engine is dynamic and you'll see real-time damage on your vehicle as you swap paint with opponents in the corners. The game offers some of the best-rendered graphics and textures that I've seen from a mobile game.
GRID Autosport brings console-quality racing to Android with no compromises in terms of graphics or gameplay. The free version you download from the Play Store includes ads that you can watch to extend a run - or you can pay a one-time in-app purchase to remove ads and get permanent in-game bonuses. Each car you unlock has its own speeds and handling, but you can master each one as you unlock them and race across the three terrains - deserts, snow, and jungle - each with five cities to tour through.
Completing the ambiance is your anonymous sidekick, who reminds you every time you pass a gas station and comment on every near miss.Īlthough endless runners are often casual games, the touch controls require your full attention with quick inputs used to drive your car through tight spots.
You'll need to become a skilled driver to collect all the bottle caps as you go, which are spent on unlocking your choice of 29 uniquely cool vehicles. Immediately, you are drawn in by the great art style that uses procedurally generated maps to plot out the curbside attractions and towns you must pass through on your outlaw tour. But if there's one thing this entire list proves, it's that reality is overrated anyway.This game stands out from other racing games with the way it blends high-speed car chases with the best elements from the endless runner genre. Instead it's the sort of automotive adventures that you fantasise about but would never be able to achieve in real life because dry stone walls are actually remarkably solid and landing a 1000ft jump in a Bugatti Chiron would launch a very expensive pair of front shocks into a low earth orbit. Most importantly, while it features real cars it doesn't spend time wringing its hands over being realistic. It's basically like tearing across the intro to Emmerdale in a McLaren Senna. Forza Horizon 4 was that intoxicating cocktail refined, but also introduced seasonal weather transitions and was set in a compressed, greatest hits of the British countryside. The Horizon series forcibly injected fun back into the Forza franchise back in 2012, taking the series' comprehensive car list and giving you an open world sandbox to enjoy them in. Here it is then, our pick for the best driving game of the decade and the one that most accurately captures our love of cars. On the bus, in the park, under the table during overly long family dinners.
Plus the more recent Nintendo Switch version, which allows you to pop out the controllers for instant two player battles, means you can claim Mario Kart bragging rights anywhere you like. The game's winning formula has been often imitated but never bettered and in particular Mario Kart 8's swooping, vertiginous circuits are surprisingly spectacular for a game whose engines top out at 200cc. In spite of the Italian plumber's questionable credentials, Mario Kart offers up some of the best racing action around, it's just that rather than on a Sunday afternoon it usually happens after closing time at the local pub in the idyllic setting of the Circuit de Dave's Living Room. Though admittedly he does at least have a Nigel Mansell moustache for added downforce. Nor are his overalls plastered with sponsor logos.
He's not an athletic, precision sportsperson who lives entirely on a diet of chicken and brown rice. As racing icons go, Mario doesn't exactly fit the mould.