Sounds nice, provided you’re in the Nintendo ecosystem

I haven’t, can’t say I’ve ever heard of it!

(I’ve got Mario Kart 8 on the WiiU, that’s about it!)

I just remembered another one - the original Car and Driver game (way before Need for Speed 1) was a vector 3D affair that ran at full speed on a 386.

One of the courses was the San Dimas Mall parking lot - I worked out that I could use the “drop camera” command in one spot, and then it became a radio control car simulator since the ‘dropped’ camera followed the car being driven :-)

Oh yeah, that was often the easiest way to progress.

I used to be a bit of a Carmageddon nut, I think I have original copies of all the games (1 with the Splat Pack expansion was the best for exploration) … but my old PC can’t run the latest version at more than 1fps unfortunately :-/

Carmageddon was really good for it, too.

In modern gaming I’ve clocked up about 400 hours on Snowrunner, half of the game is intentionally exploring with trucks (albeit a lot slower, lol)

Going back a while - Monster Truck Madness 2 was a great game of exploration if you just drove off in a random direction rather than doing that silly racing stuff :-)

The maps were big, and there was no time limit, so you could just go and do your own thing … a favourite made-up mini-game was sliding around a frozen lake on the winter map.

Or in my case, old driving games

No mention of Snowrunner, for shame!

(which I’ll be going back to after I’ve finished Dirt 4, which is also awesome)

Yeah, I was surprised to be honest!

Before doing track days at Cadwell Park I used to fire up Project Cars and do a couple of laps just to remind myself of the order and camber of the corners (it’s a very complex track), but that didn’t feel realistic at all … Dirt 4 does, even though the stages aren’t real, which is ironic