FlatOut 2

The simplicity of this game is still unrivaled. Even people that never played it can get behind the keyboard and start competing in a matter of minutes. If you have a friend that says "I suck at computer games", he can still have fun playing this. That's why still the game of choice for my lan parties. The successors, Flatout: Ultimate Carnage, and Flatout 3 have some stupid account requirements to play online, that make it insanely hard to do a quick setup and just play with friends. I guess there aren't many games that fill such need for mindless car destruction. Plenty of people were still playing multiplayer when the GameSpy servers were taken off less than one year ago! BTW You can still play multiplayer online, just use GameRanger to create a room and start it. You'll find people to play with you too ;)

This game raised the bar in many aspects of racing gaming: - diverse, largely destructible environments: no "brick wall post boxes" on the roadside! - diverse, largely destructible cars: stock cars, racing cars, off-roads, busses, trucks… all of them shreadable down to the chassis frame! - wide courses with occasional alternative routes (often shorter but harder to tackle) - very high fun factor, especially in multiplayer, hilarious ragdoll physics: force a frient off the road and see his driver flying past your car! - party game modes based on shooting your driver out of the car, thus playing bowling, darts etc. - fast but nonetheless beautiful graphics The only thing FO2 lacks like so many other racing games is AI opponents in multiplayer. Apart from that, I would call it the perfect fun racer.

... ever made. Oh, the countless hours of pure joy I have spent with this game. Plenty of mods available to make it even more awsome than it already is (get customcar and the singleraceoptions mods). 50 lap Crash Alley anyone? :)

The graphics are very nice and the physics of the cars, driving, wrecking, racing are excellent. And don't forget about the stunts and demolition derbies!! Ah, so many hours of fun where do I begin? This is really one of the best racing and demolition games I've seen in a very long time.