games are typically video or computer games where the primary focus of play concerns
ry, attempting to destroy vehicles controlled by the CPU or by opposing players. The genre normally features a variety of different vehicles available for play, each with its own strengths, weaknesses, and special attack abilities. Players may also unlock hidden vehicles by completing certain in-game tasks. Traditionally, vehicular combat games focus on fast-paced action inside the vehicle, rarely, if ever, concerning themselves with
or other elements. Games may include racing themes, but they are generally secondary to the action.
Vehicular combat games normally follow a simple play pattern; the player must defeat increasing numbers of increasingly skilled enemies, often in increasingly complex battlefields, before facing off against a final, super-powerful, boss character. Vehicular combat games differ from traditional
s both in the combat aspect and in the general lack of any set path for players to follow, instead allowing them to explore each level at their leisure.
The complexity and strategy required to complete games vary, from the careful resource maintenance and intense story-driven plotlines of the
(WWE) Crush Hour. Often the primary plot will involve a contest or competition of some sort, encouraging the various characters to fight and destroy one another to obtain a reward. The Twisted Metal series is especially well known for the black humor found in its ending sequences.
| Year | Name |
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187 Ride or Die187 Ride or Die is a video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, developed and published by Ubisoft. In order to become "top dog" of the game the player must race and defeat opponents through a variety of different stages all set in Los Angeles's infamous South Central region.The game's title comes...
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| 2006 |
Auto Assault Auto Assault was a massively multiplayer online game , developed by NetDevil and published by NCsoft. It combined vehicular combat with role-playing elements, allowing the player to explore a post-apocalyptic future in customizable cars, motorcycles, semis, and tanks...
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| 1985 |
AutoduelAutoduel is a 1985 computer role-playing game published by Origin Systems for the Atari 400 and Atari 800 , Commodore 64, Apple II, Apple Macintosh, and MS-DOS. It was released in 1987 for the Atari ST and in 1988 for the Amiga...
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| 2002 |
Bandits: Phoenix RisingBandits: Phoenix Rising is a futuristic, racing action game, set in a post apocalyptic wasteland.The player follows the pair Rewdalf and Fennec as they try to survive and make big bucks at the same time....
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BattleWheels |
| 2010 |
Blood Drive Blood Drive is a vehicular combat video game for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, developed by Sidhe, published by Activision, and released worldwide in November 2010.-Plot:...
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| 2010 |
Blur Blur is an arcade racing video game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Activision in North America and Europe...
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| 1982 |
Bump 'n' JumpBump 'n' Jump, known in Japan as , is a 1982 Japanese arcade game created by Data East Corporation for its DECO Cassette System. The game was also published by Bally Midway....
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| 2001–2008 |
Burnout Burnout is a series of high-speed racing games for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo GameCube game consoles. Also, for the very first time, a PC version of the latest installment in the series, Burnout Paradise, has been released...
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Car Combat (Retro StudiosRetro Studios is an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas. The company was founded in October 1998 by the video game veteran Jeff Spangenberg after leaving Acclaim Entertainment, as an independent studio making games exclusively for Nintendo Company, Ltd.On May 2, 2002, Nintendo...
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| 1997 |
CarmageddonCarmageddon is the first of a series of graphically violent vehicular combat video games produced by Stainless Games, published by Interplay and SCi...
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| 2005 |
Crash Tag Team RacingCrash Tag Team Racing is a racing video game published by Sierra Entertainment and developed by Vancouver-based Radical Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox and PlayStation Portable. A Nintendo DS version, which was to be developed by Sensory Sweep Studios rather than...
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| 2001, 2002 |
Cel Damage Cel Damage is a video game for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube. It was developed by Pseudo Interactive and published by Electronic Arts. It was released as Cel Damage Overdrive for the PlayStation 2....
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| 2002 |
Command & Conquer: RenegadeCommand & Conquer: Renegade is a first and third person shooter video game developed by Westwood Studios and is part of the Command & Conquer series. It is the only C&C game that uses the first person view...
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| 1993 |
Crash 'n Burn |
| 2006 |
CrashdayCrashday is a destruction derby/racing/car stunts game co-developed by Replay Studios, Moonbyte Games and published by Atari. It was released in February 2006.Version 1.2 - -Gameplay:The game combines various styles of preceding racing games...
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| 1976 |
Crashing Race |
| 2007 |
Darkwind: War on Wheels Darkwind: War on Wheels is an independently developed 3D turn based racing and vehicle combat massively multiplayer online game for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux...
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Dead in the Water |
| 1976, 1990 |
Death RaceDeath Race is a controversial arcade game, released by Exidy in 1976. While not the first violent video game to appear, it was the first video game to inspire a great deal of protest and controversy in the United States.-Overview:...
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| 1996, 2009 |
Death Rally Death Rally is a top-down perspective racing video game developed by Remedy, published by Apogee and distributed by GT Interactive. It was released on September 6, 1996...
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| 1989 |
Deathtrack Death Track or Death Track Racing was a first person futuristic driving computer game produced for the PC by Dynamix and published by Activision in 1989...
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| 1995, 96 |
Destruction DerbyDestruction Derby is a 1995 video game developed by Reflections and published by Psygnosis, the former of which would later develop the successful Driver series. It was released for PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and MS-DOS...
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D.I.P.R.I.P. |
| 2005 |
Fired UpFired Up is a vehicular combat game available on the PlayStation Portable which supports up to eight players. The game features a demo of Wipeout Pure. The game features three places and five playable drivers. Fired up features game sharing and downloadable levels...
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| 2004, 2006, 2007 |
FlatOutFlatOut is a racing video game developed by Finnish Bugbear Entertainment and published by Empire Interactive and Vivendi Universal Games in 2004 and 2005. Gameplay in Flatout places emphasis on demolition derby-style races, and features a sophisticated physics engine...
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*Full Auto series |
| 2006 |
*Full AutoFull Auto is a video game for the Xbox 360 console published by Sega. Originally Developed by Pseudo Interactive for the PC, it is a vehicular combat racing game...
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| 2006, 2007 |
*Full Auto 2: BattlelinesFull Auto 2: Battlelines is the second Full Auto game and is available on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. It is developed by Pseudo Interactive on PS3 and by Deep Fried Entertainment on PSP and published by Sega.- Gameplay :...
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| 2006 |
Hard Truck: Apocalypse |
| 2009 |
Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 is a video game developed by Sidhe Interactive and published by Activision for the Wii and Nintendo DS. Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 is a children's vehicular combat game based on the Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 3D animated television series created by Mattel.- Features :*Crash...
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*Interstate series |
| 1997 |
*Interstate '76Interstate '76 is a vehicular combat video game for Windows. It was developed and published by Activision and released in March 1997.-Gameplay:...
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| 1999 |
*Interstate '82Interstate '82 is a computer game for the PC. It was developed by Activision and released in 1999.-Synopsis:The game is set in the southwest United States of America in an alternate version of the year 1982, during the Reagan Administration. The game is less complex than its predecessor,...
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| 2005 |
Jak X: Combat RacingJak X: Combat Racing , is a vehicular combat game video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 and first released in North America on October 18, 2005, then in Australia on October 26, 2005 and then in Europe on November 4, 2005...
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| 1989, 1990 |
Knight RiderKnight Rider is a 1989 video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that is very loosely based on the television show of the same name.-Mission Mode:...
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| 1999 |
Lego Racers |
| 2001, 2002 |
Lego Racers 2Lego Racers 2 is the sequel to Lego Racers, released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance in 2001.There are five large worlds, starting with the hometown, Sandy Bay. The player then moves along to Dino Island, Mars, Arctic, and finally Xalax...
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| 2012 |
Looney Tunes: Bang and Vroom! |
| 1992 |
Lucky & Wild |
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Mad Truckers, a 3D racing arcade |
| 1992–2008 |
Mario Kart is a series of go-kart-style racing video games developed by Nintendo as a series of spin-offs from its trademark Mario series of platformer adventure-style video games...
, with Nintendo's usual character line-up. |
| 2004 |
MashedMashed is a video game published by Empire Interactive for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 as well as PC. It was developed by Supersonic Software on the RenderWare engine. It is a top-down racing/vehicular combat game, similar in style to Micro Machines, Circuit Breakers and Super Sprint.Each race...
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*MegaRace series |
| 1994 |
*MegaRaceMegaRace is a video game created by Cryo Interactive, released in 1994. It features pre-rendered 3-D graphics and over twenty minutes of full motion video of fictional game show host, Lance Boyle. It was released for MS-DOS on March 28, 1994, for the Sega Mega-CD/Sega CD on July 30, 1994 and for...
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| 1996 |
*MegaRace 2MegaRace 2 is a racing/fighting game developed by Cryo Interactive in 1996, released on August 31 of that year for the PC. It was published by Mindscape and is the first sequel of the original MegaRace, which was later followed by MegaRace 3.This game also features host, Lance Boyle, played by...
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| 2010 |
ModNation RacersModNation Racers is a kart racing game developed by United Front Games for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. User generated content will be a central aspect of the game, such that it uses the same "Play, Create, Share." adage as LittleBigPlanet to convey its basis in online user-generated...
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| 1982 |
Moon Patrolis a classic arcade game by Irem that was first released in 1982. It was licensed to Williams for distribution in North America.The player controls a moon buggy, viewing it from the side, that travels over the moon's surface. While driving it, obstacles such as craters and mines must be avoided....
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| 1996 |
Necrodome Necrodome is a 1996 first-person vehicular combat game developed by Raven Software and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. It supports Windows 95 Direct Play, which allows for online multiplayer matches. Reviewers decried the game's lack of originality, but offered some praise for its...
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| 2010 |
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit can refer one of several racing video games in the Need for Speed series:* Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit by EA Canada released in 1998* Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 by EA Black Box released in 2002...
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| 2006 |
Novadrome |
| 1992, 1993 |
Outlander Outlander is an action driving video game with a post-apocalyptic theme. It was developed and published by Mindscape in 1992 for the Sega Genesis and in 1993 for the Super Nintendo.-Gameplay:...
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*Pursuit Force series |
| 2005, 2006 |
*Pursuit ForcePursuit Force is a video game for the PlayStation Portable. It puts the player in the role of a police agent who joins up to a law enforcement agency known as the Pursuit Force, to restore order to a city overrun with crime. This elite unit specialises in direct armed encounters with adversaries,...
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| 2007, 2008 |
*Pursuit Force: Extreme JusticePursuit Force: Extreme Justice is the sequel to Pursuit Force developed by Bigbig Studios. This game is available for the PlayStation Portable...
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| 1994 |
Quarantine Quarantine is a 1994 racing/first-person shooter computer game for MS-DOS and 3DO, created by Imagexcel and published by GameTek. In the game the player drives a taxicab through a post-apocalyptic city, picking up customers and killing enemies...
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*Quarantine II: Road Warrior |
| 1980 |
Rally-XRally-X is a maze driving arcade game that was released by Namco in 1980. It runs on Namco Pac-Man hardware, and was the first Namco game to feature "Special Flags", which would become a recurring object in later games .It was the first game to ever feature a "bonus round." The object is to...
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| 1981 |
*New Rally-XNew Rally-X is a maze arcade game that was released by Namco in 1981. It runs on Namco Pac-Man hardware but uses a system similar to Bosconian and, as the name suggests, is the sequel to Rally-X, released in the previous year...
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| 1999, 2000 |
Red DogRed Dog: Superior Firepower is a video game released in 1999 for the Dreamcast. It was developed by Argonaut Games PLC and Crave Entertainment.-Gameplay:...
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| 1999 |
Redline |
| 1999 |
Re-VoltRe-Volt is a radio control car racing themed video game released by Acclaim Entertainment in 1999. It made appearances on the PlayStation, PC, Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast, with a spinoff: RC Revenge for PlayStation and a enhanced port called RC Revenge Pro for PlayStation 2...
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| 1987 |
RoadBlastersRoadBlasters is an arcade game released by Atari Games in 1987. In RoadBlasters, the player must navigate a sports car through 50 different rally races, getting to the finish line before running out of fuel.-Object of the game:...
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| 2003 |
RoadKillRoadKill is a video game of the action genre released in 2003 by Midway Games. The game has been described by Midway as “the only mission-based combat driving game set in a post-apocalyptic world.” Indeed, RoadKill’s gameplay features many characteristics of famous automotive combat franchises such...
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| 1993 |
Rock n' Roll Racing Rock N' Roll Racing is a battle-racing video game developed by Silicon & Synapse and published by Interplay for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993. The background music consists of instrumental versions of several heavy metal and rock n' roll songs,...
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| 1998 |
Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012 is a vehicular combat video game. It was developed by the game studio SingleTrac using the concept and the engine of their earlier series Twisted Metal, and published by GT Interactive, for PlayStation.- Overview :...
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| 1999 |
Rollcage |
| 1998 |
S.C.A.R.SS.C.A.R.S. is a racing video game featuring cars that are shaped like animals. It was released in 30 November 1998 for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and for Windows.-Gameplay:...
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| 1999, 2000 |
San Francisco Rush 2049San Francisco Rush 2049 is a racing video game developed by Atari Games and published by Midway Games for the Arcade, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, and Dreamcast. It was released on September 7, 2000 in North America, and November 17, 2000 in Europe....
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| 2010 |
Split Second: Velocity |
| 1983 |
Spy HunterSpy Hunter is a 1983 arcade game developed and released by Bally Midway. It has also been ported to various home computers and video game systems....
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| 2003 |
Starsky & HutchStarsky & Hutch is a video game released in 2003 by Mind's Eye. The game is based on the Starsky and Hutch television series.The game follows the adventures of Starsky and Hutch, in three Seasons. The player must complete missions/episodes throughout the season...
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| 2007 |
SwypeoutSwypeout Battle Racing, or simply Swypeout, is an online personal computer game produced by Spin Master that was released in 2007. On January 1, 2009 the Swypeout Battle Racing online service was closed.- Description :...
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| 1997 |
Streets of SimCity
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| 2001 |
Toon Car |
| 1999 |
Toy CommanderToy Commander is an action game for the Dreamcast made by No Cliché and published by Sega.-Plot:...
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| 1995–2012 |
*Twisted MetalTwisted Metal is a series of vehicular combat video games published by Sony Computer Entertainment, and developed by various companies during its tenure. The series began on the PlayStation in 1995 and currently features seven games, with an eighth installment currently in production...
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| 1995 |
*Twisted Metal |
| 1996 |
*Twisted Metal 2Twisted Metal 2 is the second and most successful game in the vehicular combat Twisted Metal series...
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| 1999 |
*Twisted Metal IIITwisted Metal III is a vehicular combat video game developed and published by 989 Studios for the PlayStation...
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| 1999 |
*Twisted Metal 4Twisted Metal 4 is a vehicular combat video game developed by 989 Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation...
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| 2001 |
*Twisted Metal: BlackTwisted Metal: Black is a vehicle combat video game developed by Incognito Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It is the fifth installment to the Twisted Metal series and was released June 18, 2001...
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| 2005 |
*Twisted Metal: Head-OnTwisted Metal: Head-On is a video game developed by Incognito Entertainment and released by Sony on March 24, 2005 for the PlayStation Portable and February 5, 2008 for the PlayStation 2...
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| 2012 |
*Twisted Metal (working title) |
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VCL Presents: Motor Mayhem |
| 1998, 1999 |
Vigilante 8Vigilante 8 is a vehicular combat video game released on June 4, 1998 for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy Color. It is a spinoff of the PC game Interstate '76, and features several concepts carried over from that title.Vigilante 8 was developed with a team of only five people Vigilante...
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| 1999 |
*Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense |
| 2007 |
*Vigilante 8 ArcadeVigilante 8 Arcade is a vehicular combat video game developed by Isopod Labs and published by Activision. It was announced February 14, 2008 and released on November 5, 2008 for Xbox Live Arcade on the Xbox 360. Isopod Labs was formed by three former members of Luxoflux, developer of the original...
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World Wrestling EntertainmentWorld Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...
(WWE) Crush HourWWE Crush Hour is a video game released on the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube consoles by THQ. It was one of a few WWE games that were of a different genre than the regular professional wrestling games usually produced...
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| 2009 |
Wheelman |
| 2009 |
Zombie Driver Zombie Driver is a vehicular combat PC video game. Set in a zombie apocalypse setting, where a major chemical accident / secret government project turned the inhabitants of a whole city into shambling, aggressive opponents, the player must undertake various missions to rescue civilians, slaughter...
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| 2009 |
Horror Racing |
Futuristic Race
- Combat Racer
- DethKarz
DethKarz is a futuristic 3D racing game by game publisher Melbourne House. It was released for Microsoft Windows in 1998. A Nintendo 64 port was planned but never released.-Cars:The game contains four different teams, each with individual characteristics...
- F-Zero series
- Fatal Inertia
Fatal Inertia is a futuristic hovercar racing game from Koei. Originally an exclusive for the PlayStation 3, it was released for the Xbox 360 in 2007 and then released on the PlayStation 3 on May 29, 2008 in Japan, June 19, 2008 in North America and July 15, 2008 in Europe as a download on the...
- Hi-Octane
Hi-Octane is a racing/vehicular combat video game released in 1995 for the PC, PlayStation and Sega Saturn developed by Bullfrog and based upon their earlier Magic Carpet game code....
- HoverRace
HoverRace is a game created by GrokkSoft in 1996 as shareware. GrokkSoft claimed it was the first internet-based online multiplayer game. The source code was released to the public in 2006 and HoverRace.com maintains a version which is still under active development.- Gameplay :HoverRace allows...
- Mad Crasher
- Mag-Force Racing
- POD
POD - Planet of Death is a futuristic racing game for Windows released by Ubisoft in 1997. The game is set in the distant future on the planet Io. A mining accident unleashes a virus from within the planet on its inhabitants, causing widespread panic. After most of the population escapes the...
series
- Quantum Redshift
Quantum Redshift is a futuristic racing game for the Xbox console, developed by Curly Monsters and published by Microsoft Game Studios in 2002. Created by Wipeout designer Nick Burcombe, the game puts the player in the shoes of 16 different characters, paired off in rivalries, whose stories unfold...
- Quarantine
Quarantine is a 1994 racing/first-person shooter computer game for MS-DOS and 3DO, created by Imagexcel and published by GameTek. In the game the player drives a taxicab through a post-apocalyptic city, picking up customers and killing enemies...
- Rush
Rush is a series of racing game video games developed by American based company Atari Games and published by Atari Games and Midway Games for the Home Consoles. The series debuted worldwide in 1996. Initially, the series was exclusive to the fifth generation consoles and was brought back later in...
series
- Seicross
Seicross, known in Japan as , is an arcade game developed and released in Japan and North America by Nichibutsu. Despite the original arcade being titled Sector Zone, Nichibutsu later ported it to the Famicom as...
- Wipeout series
Boat & submarine
- AquaNox
AquaNox is a series of submarine-based shooter/simulation games set in the distant future. The collection includes AquaNox, AquaNox 2: Revelation and AquaNox: The Angel's Tears...
series
- Blood Wake
Blood Wake is a naval combat video game that was released in 2001 on the Xbox as part of Microsoft's initial wave of Xbox launch titles. The game was developed by Stormfront Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios....
- Critical Depth
Critical Depth is a vehicular combat game made for the PlayStation, developed by the game studio SingleTrac and published by GT Interactive. It was released on November 22, 1997.-Overview:...
- Dead In The Water
- Silent Hunter
Silent Hunter is a World War II submarine combat simulation for MS-DOS, developed by Aeon Electronic Entertainment and published by Strategic Simulations in 1996. The game takes place in the Pacific War during World War II, the player commanding a submarine of the United States Navy. Most...
series
- Tiger Shark
- Silent Service
Silent Service is a 1985 submarine simulator computer game. It was designed by Sid Meier and published by MicroProse for various 8-bit home computers, and in 1987 for 16-bit systems like the Commodore Amiga...
and Silent Service IISilent Service II is a submarine simulation game released in 1990 for DOS and ported in 1991 to Amiga. It is a World War II video game sequel to Silent Service....
- Wave Race
is a 1992 personal watercraft racing video game developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Game Boy. It is the first game in the Wave Race series...
series
Tank
- Alien Front Online
Alien Front Online is a Dreamcast video game originally released for the console in 2001.In the game, players use armored vehicles to fight battles staged in arenas. Players could choose which side they wished to fight for, the aliens or the humans, and could also choose one of three different...
, the primary good forces are tanks and the secondary alien forces are played as mechsA mech , is a science fiction term for a large walking bipedal tank or robot, including ones on treads and animal shapes.-Characteristics:...
- Arcticfox
Arcticfox is a computer game developed by Dynamix and published in by Electronic Arts. It was published in Europe by Ariolasoft.It was first developed for the Amiga, but was quickly ported to other popular platforms of the era such as the Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, PC and Apple IIe...
- Battlefield series
- BattleTanx
BattleTanx is an action game for the Nintendo 64, produced by 3DO. The game is followed by a sequel titled BattleTanx: Global Assault.-Plot:...
series
- Battlezone and Battlezone II: Combat Commander
Battlezone II: Combat Commander, often abbreviated to BZII or BZ2, is a 1999 computer game released by Pandemic Studios as a sequel to Activision's 1998 Battlezone. Like Activision's Battlezone, Battlezone II is a hybrid tank shooter, first-person shooter and real-time strategy game...
, although most of the tanks have anti-gravity engines instead of treads
- Cyber Sled
Cyber Sled is an early two-player 3D third-person shooter vehicle combat arcade video game released by Namco in 1993.-Game play:Game play involves maneuvering a hovercraft style tank through a futuristic arena and fighting to eliminate an opponent...
- M1 Tank Platoon
M1 Tank Platoon is a tactical simulation of tank warfare, released by MicroProse Software in 1989, for the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC compatible home computers. It featured solid-filled polygon graphics that could render expansive terrain, and gameplay that was a mixture of first-person...
- M1 Tank Platoon II
M1 Tank Platoon II is a M-1 tank simulation released by MicroProse Software in 1998 for Windows 95/98/Me. It is the sequel to M1 Tank Platoon....
- Metal Drift
- Metal Max
is a series of post-apocalyptic, vehicle combat, role-playing video games dating back to 1991. They have been developed by Crea-Tech and released for the NES, Super NES, PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS platforms. As the trademark dispute, series use to release games until get trademark rights...
series, a tank combat and role-playing video gameRole-playing video games are a video game genre with origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, using much of the same terminology, settings and game mechanics. The player in RPGs controls one character, or several adventuring party members, fulfilling one or many quests...
combination
- Panzer Front
Panzer Front is a World War II tank simulation game first released in Japan by Enterbrain for the PlayStation and Dreamcast game consoles in 2000.-Gameplay:...
- Panzer Elite
Panzer Elite Action: Fields of Glory is a video game, developed by ZootFly and published by JoWooD Productions. It was released in Europe in 2006, yet has not yet been given a North American release date...
- Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 is a tactical first-person shooter computer game based on its predecessor Red Orchestra Mod. After winning the Make Something Unreal contest, the team behind the original Red Orchestra started the game studio Tripwire Interactive...
- Recoil
RECOIL is a 1999 tank-based Windows computer game. It involves the player driving a stolen experimental tank known as the "BFT" through various missions. There is heavy influence on the wide array of weapons to be collected throughout the game...
- Spectre VR
- Steel Beasts
Steel Beasts is the name for a family of tank simulators created by eSim Games for Microsoft Windows.Its subject is contemporary combined arms tactics at a company scale....
- Steel Fury
Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942 is a World War 2 tank simulation computer game, set during the Kharkov offensive of 1942. It is made by the Ukrainian game developer team Graviteam and Russian developer Discus Games...
- Steel Reign
- Tanarus (video game)
Tanarus was a free 3D multiplayer online tank first-person shooter that was commercially released on November 30, 1997. It was developed under the direction of John Smedley at Verant Interactive and published by Sony Online Entertainment . Originally titled Armorgeddon, Verant was forced to change...
- Tank Universal
Tank Universal is a computer game developed by Dialogue Design and published by Meridian4. It currently features a 20-level single player campaign as well as a skirmish mode. Its graphical style has been described as "Tron-like," while its gameplay takes inspiration from the classic Atari title...
- Team Yankee
Team Yankee is a video game adapaptation of the 1987 Harold Coyle's World War III novel Team Yankee that was developed by Oxford Digital Enterprises for the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS systems....
- Tread Marks
Tread Marks is a 3D, third-person perspective, multiplayer-focused tank combat and racing computer game developed by Longbow Digital Arts. The game won the 2000 Independent Games Festival grand prize, later renamed to the Seumas McNally award in honor of the game's lead programmer who died on 21...
- Wild Metal
- World of Tanks
World of Tanks is a freemium 3D team-based multiplayer online game featuring historically accurate fighting vehicles from the 1930s to the 1950s. World of Tanks is a PvP-focused project that promises action and strategy based gameplay. In the release version, World of Tanks includes more than 90...
- Uprising
-In music:* Uprising * Uprising , album by Concord Dawn* Uprising , album by Entombed* Uprising , album by Universal Poplab...
, a tank combat and real-time strategyReal-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....
combination
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Motorcycle
- Extreme-G
Extreme-G is a motorcycle racing game for the Nintendo 64. It was the first game of the Extreme-G series. It was developed by Probe Entertainment and published by Acclaim Entertainment.-Plot:...
series
- Final Fantasy VII
is a role-playing video game developed by Square and published by Sony Computer Entertainment as the seventh installment in the Final Fantasy series. It was originally released in 1997 for the Sony PlayStation and was re-released in 1998 for Microsoft Windows-based personal computers and in 2009...
(G Bike)
- Mach Rider
is a futuristic driving video game created by Nintendo. It was first released on October 18, 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, as one of the 18 initial launch games. A month later, on November 21, the title was released in Japan. On March 15, 1987 it was released in Europe and Australia...
- Mad Crasher
- Road Rash
Road Rash is the name of a motorcycle-racing video game series by Electronic Arts, in which the player participates in violent illegal street races. The game was originally released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, but was ported to several other systems. Six different games were released from...
series
- Seicross
Seicross, known in Japan as , is an arcade game developed and released in Japan and North America by Nichibutsu. Despite the original arcade being titled Sector Zone, Nichibutsu later ported it to the Famicom as...
Space vehicle
- Astron Belt
Astron Belt is an early laserdisc video game and third-person space combat rail shooter, released in 1983 by Sega in Japan and licensed to Bally Midway for release in the United States. Developed in 1982, it is commonly cited as the first laserdisc game...
- Colony Wars
Colony Wars is a trilogy of video games developed and produced by Psygnosis for the PlayStation. The three games in the series are Colony Wars , Colony Wars: Vengeance , and Colony Wars: Red Sun . The style of gameplay is a 3D science fiction space shoot 'em up.-Games:-Prologue:Colony Wars takes...
series
- Freespace series
- Freelancer
Freelancer is a space trading and combat simulation video game developed by Digital Anvil and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game was initially announced by Chris Roberts in 1999, and following many production schedule mishaps and a buyout of Digital Anvil by Microsoft, it was eventually...
- Lunar Rescue
Lunar Rescue is an arcade game released by Taito in 1979. It contains elements that resemble both Taito's own Space Invaders as well as Atari's Lunar Lander released that same year....
- Moon Patrol
is a classic arcade game by Irem that was first released in 1982. It was licensed to Williams for distribution in North America.The player controls a moon buggy, viewing it from the side, that travels over the moon's surface. While driving it, obstacles such as craters and mines must be avoided....
- Project Sylpheed
, also known as Project Sylpheed: Arc of Deception in North America, is a space simulation game for the Xbox 360 console. It was developed by SETA and published by Square Enix and Microsoft...
- Space Encounters
The Carpenters...Space Encounters is a television special featuring the American pop duo The Carpenters. It was first shown on ABC on May 17, 1978.-Synopsis:...
- Space Seeker
- Space Tactics
- Star Trek
Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator is a space combat simulation arcade game based on the original Star Trek television program, and released by Sega in 1982. It is a vector game, with both a two-dimensional display and a three-dimensional first-person perspective...
- Star Wars: Arcade
- Star Wars: Demolition
Star Wars: Demolition is a vehicular combat game set in the Star Wars universe. The game was released on both PlayStation and Dreamcast consoles. The game was released on PlayStation on November 12, 2000 and on November 19, 2000 for Dreamcast....
- Star Wars: X-Wing
Star Wars: X-Wing is the first LucasArts DOS computer game set in the Star Wars universe, as well as the lead title in the X-Wing computer game series. It simulates the experience of combat in the A-wing, X-wing, and Y-wing starfighters of the Rebel Alliance...
- Star Wars: Rebel Assault
Star Wars: Rebel Assault was the first CD ROM-only game published by LucasArts, set in the Star Wars universe. It was released for the PC followed by subsequent releases on the Sega CD, Mac and 3DO platforms.-Summary:...
series
- Star Wars: Starfighter
Star Wars: Starfighter is an action game, developed and published by LucasArts, that takes place right before the Battle of Naboo. The player unites alongside three starfighter pilots and is allowed to take control of several different spacecraft to help stop the invasion that threatens Naboo.Ten...
series
- Tac/Scan
Tac/Scan is a 1982 space combat shooter video game originally released as an arcade game, and later ported to the Atari 2600. It was also included as an unlockable game in the PlayStation 2 version of Sega Genesis Collection...
- X
X is a science fiction space trading and combat simulator series created by German Developer Egosoft. The series is set in the X Universe where several races populate a number of worlds connected by jumpgates...
- Starlancer
Starlancer is a space-based science fiction flight simulator computer game, created by Erin Roberts, under the auspices of Digital Anvil.-Overview:It is the year 2160...
- Star Trek: Bridge Commander
Star Trek: Bridge Commander is a space combat simulation game for the PC, published by Activision and Totally Games in 2002, based in the Star Trek universe....
- Wing Commander (franchise)
Wing Commander is a video game media franchise consisting of space combat simulation computer games from Origin Systems, Inc., an animated television series, a feature film, a collectible card game, a series of novels, and action figures...
Multi-vehicular
(List of games in which players use more than one vehicle during gameplay)
- Battlefield series
- Command & Conquer: Renegade
Command & Conquer: Renegade is a first and third person shooter video game developed by Westwood Studios and is part of the Command & Conquer series. It is the only C&C game that uses the first person view...
- Extreme Assault
Extreme Assault was a personal computer game developed by Blue Byte Software. It was released in 1997. The games revolves around the player assuming control of the fictitious Sioux AH-23 helicopter to battle space aliens....
- Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto is a multi-award-winning British video game series created in the United Kingdom by Dave Jones, then later by brothers Dan Houser and Sam Houser, and game designer Zachary Clarke. It is primarily developed by Edinburgh based Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games...
series
- Halo
Halo is a multi-million dollar science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant...
series
- Operation Flashpoint
Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, sometimes shortened to Operation Flashpoint, and abbreviated OFP, is a tactical shooter and battlefield simulator video game developed by Bohemia Interactive Studio and published by Codemasters. The game uses the same engine, Real Virtuality, as the military...
series
- Armed Assault
ArmA: Armed Assault , also known as ARMA: Combat Operations in North America, is a tactical military first- and third-person shooter which was developed by a 40 member team at Bohemia Interactive , an independent game developer based in the Czech Republic.ARMA is the spiritual successor to...
series
- Saints Row
Saints Row is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ. It is the first title in the Saints Row series and is succeeded by Saints Row 2. A PlayStation 3 port was cancelled after protracted development time...
- Tribes series
- Unreal Tournament 2004
Unreal Tournament 2004, also known as UT2K4 and UT2004, is a futuristic first-person shooter computer game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes...
- Unreal Tournament 3
- Darkwind: War on Wheels
Darkwind: War on Wheels is an independently developed 3D turn based racing and vehicle combat massively multiplayer online game for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux...
- Homefront
Homefront is a first-person shooter video game developed by now defunct Kaos Studios and published by THQ, in which players play as members of a resistance movement fighting against a near-future Korean military occupation of the United States. The story was written by John Milius, who co-wrote...
(2011)
- Battlestations: Pacific
Battlestations: Pacific is an action and real-time tactics video game published by Eidos Interactive and developed by Eidos Hungary. It is also the sequel to the 2007 video game Battlestations: Midway. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on May 12, 2009 in North America, and on May...
(2009)
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- Red Faction
Red Faction is a series of science fiction shooter video games developed by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ. Originating in 2001, the Red Faction games have spanned PC, Mac and many consoles, including the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.-Gameplay:The series...
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battles influenced by the characters, karts and weapons used in the mode. The Mario Kart series demonstrates this kind of mode in its previous installments.