CAR CONTROL

MOTORSTORM
Sony / PlayStation 3

Unapologetically over-the-top, MotorStorm is an off-road racer that has you taking ATVs, monster trucks and dirt bikes onto some seriously bumpy courses. But what makes the game so much fun
isn’t the gorgeous graphics or crazy jumps but the responsive controls and feeling that you’re really going fast…off that cliff.

-Greg Edwards

BURNOUT DOMINATOR
EA Games / PlayStation 2, PSP

With excellent play
controls, challenging
tracks and spectacular crashes, Dominator—like every Burnout game—is an
effortlessly fun arcade-style racer. But it’s also a return to form: It removes the car-checking added in 2005’s Revenge, thus restoring the weave-in-and-out-of-traffic-at-breakneck-speeds motif that’s made this racing series great. Now, if only you could really drive like this…

-Paul Semel

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