Best XBox 360 racing games (not sims)

[IHateMyJob2004]

What are the best Xbox 360 racing games. I have Forza 2,3 and 4. That's kinda what I am interested in. It requires some tuning but not much. It's in between a sim and an arcade style racing game.

Are there other good racing games that are either arcade style or arcade/sim hybrid?

 

[purbeast0]

burnout paradise hands down. by far the best racer on xbox360 imo.

need for speed most wanted (the launch title, not the new one) and burnout revenge were also very very good, but those are like year 1 360 titles so the graphics aren't that great, but they are still really fun. i played burnout revenge within the past 2-3 months and it is still a blast. the crash mode in it is a lot of fun to this day.

many of the NFS titles in general are pretty fun, but they are all so similar. hot pursuit was my favorite nfs game other than the nfs:mw launch title.

of recent, forza horizon is really good too. this is more what you seem to be looking for. it's more of a hybrid style. the burnout and nfs series are flat out arcade racers where you can make hairpin turns going nearly 200mph. horizon is between forza and an arcade racer, and it's open world.

 

[codyray10]

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (arcade)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (arcade)
Need for Speed: Shift 1/2 (more sim type)
Midnight Club 3: DUB edition (arcade, my personal fav)
Dirt series (never really played much, more of a sim type)

 

[zerocool84]

Forza Horizon is awesome. Definitely a top notch arcade racer. Also I really liked Need for Speed Most Wanted 2013 version.

 

[ronbo613]

Horizon is a fun driving game. If you are an experienced video racer, you might go through the game pretty quickly though. Online multiplayer public lobbies are pretty much a demolition derby.
It's a nice break from games like Forza 4, you can just drive around and have fun.

 

[Tweak155]

Second Burnout: Paradise. It's one of the only older games I'll go back and play on a relatively frequent basis.

 

[jrphoenix]

another vote for Forza Horizon. I'm playing it now and loving it. More arcade than regular Forza but, familiar to Forza fans!

 

[CrackRabbit]

Project Gotham Racing 4 (PGR4) very fun, and rides the line between sim and arcade nicely.
Both Burnout games fall on the arcade side but are tons of fun. I prefer Revenge to Paradise, but both hold their own.

 

[amitrano]

I think the Dirt 2 is the first. Beautiful and realistic but it 's little hard.

 

[Lil Frier]

I really liked Most Wanted (the first one) and Carbon from the NFS series, with ProStreet being the last game of the franchise that I played (because of my disdain for EA). Rivals actually looks good as well.

Outside of NFS, I liked the first GRiD, though I got bored of it before I finished the game myself.

 

[MetalMat]

Need for Speed Most Wanted was awesome. I'm not sure how it aged but it was the sole reason I wanted an XBOX 360 after I played it at a friends house.

 

[futurefields]

Grid 1

 

[Soundmanred]

Second Burnout: Paradise. It's one of the only older games I'll go back and play on a relatively frequent basis.

Same.
I 100% it (minus the online stuff) at least one a year.
I bought an Xbox360 just to play the expansion when I heard it wasn't going to make it to PC.

 

[purbeast0]

Same.
I 100% it (minus the online stuff) at least one a year.
I bought an Xbox360 just to play the expansion when I heard it wasn't going to make it to PC.

i 101%'d it!

 

[Soundmanred]

i 101%'d it!

:awe:
I've finished the bike stuff one time, that's it. It's boring compared to the cars, so I don't mess with it.

 

[TreVader]

PGR4 is hands down the best racing game on Xbox360. I'm really sad they didn't make PGR5

 

[purbeast0]

:awe:
I've finished the bike stuff one time, that's it. It's boring compared to the cars, so I don't mess with it.

this is without the bikes!

 

[Lil Frier]

PGR4 is hands down the best racing game on Xbox360. I'm really sad they didn't make PGR5

I agree that PGR was great. I also agree with the disappointment about not having a sequel. My only complaint about PGR was how locked-down it was. You couldn't do any tuning (not that I actually could), and even the paint schemes were locked-down, meaning there was nothing to play with outside of the races.

 

[indy2878]

Dirt 3 is good if you're into high powered rally cars.

 

[amitrano]

I think Dirt 2 is better than 3.
I'm biased

 

[Scarpozzi]

Anything Forza is gold. They really kind of stole a lot of concepts from Gran Turismo to build the game and it gave the developers plenty of easy content to acheive. Driving, graphics, track selection, and car selection/mods are all pretty solid.

 

[Lil Frier]

Until the newest game, where they cut out a BUNCH of cars and tracks, making a game I got bored of due to redundancy even more redundant. That's my problem with racing games, they're just too redundant.

 

[Broburger]

Ridge Racer 6
Forza Horizon
Hydro Thunder Hurricane