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Realised I don't have a racing game for my Xbox.
What decent ones are available?
Burnout 3 and Need for Speed Underground 2/3/whatever spring to mind.
Can you recommend a decent racy game for me?

Yeah, my pleasure.

Burnout 3 it was, and what a genius suggestion.
I've finally found a racing game that suits my style of play.

So many times in Gran Turismo and Toca I'd lose for being a maniac that edges other cars off the track and tried to smash into them to force them off the road. And what would happen? I'd careen off the track and sit there whilst the AI cars won time and time again.
Not with this beauty though, I'm rewarded for driving insanely? Good.

Personally I don't want ultra realistic, if I want that? I'll get in my car and go for a drive.
Nope, what I wanted was a game where I could smash into my opponents and turbo them into the side of motorhomes at +100mph, a game that let me have horrendous smashes and, magically, be put right back onto the road afterwards.
I'm sure PGR2 etc are equally excellent games, and I appreciate the suggestions from people.

But Burnout 3 suits my reckless hatedriving perfectly.
And rather than some watery nu-punk crap, I'm destroying the others with Blade/Slayer/Rage Against The Machine/Johnny Cash/Skinnyman & Oh Fortuna egging me on.
And I've already won a muscle car thing, a pickup and an "assassin coupe"

Best racing game ever.

Of all of the racers on the Xbox, I'd pick PGR2. I wrote a review about it if you care. It has real cars and real cities, and is about racing. It also has great Xbox Live support if you ever decide to venture online. That includes downloadable content as well.

Burnout 3 is more about crashing spectacularly than racing. It doesn't have real cars or real cities. It does have a highly irritating pop punk soundtrack though. It has rather poor online support and isn't as good as PGR2 in split screen multiplayer.

PGR2 is also cheaper now. The fact it requires skill is the main thing for me though. Even my sister can manage Burnout 3, and she's a 21 year old horse mad ditz who can't drive.

I'd go for Burnout 3 or PGR2! Nearly done PGR2 all on golds which has lasted me like 70 hours and that's not counting online! Burnout 3 took me 50 hours dead on to complete 100% (I took my time with it).

Yeah!
And I know where you live, punk.

You'll post doggy-do through my letterbox?

(Christ, I'm reduced to typing baby words because of the SR Nazis. That's it, pocketmonkey shalt live once more!)

Right then, Burnout 3 it is.
It better not be rubbish or...er...

Yo Mr S! How's it hanging?

Yah, Burnout 3 is awesome. There's nothing like steering your flaming carcass of a car into the pathway of an oncoming vehicle and taking him down posthumously.

Burnout 3 was unbelievabable - so many things happening at once, and the slowdown on the crashes was insane. Things is, you can either have straight races, but if you crash you go down to hell in a blaze of glory (you can also steer your remains in front of other drivers for revenge)