The BEST Year for Racing Games... Ever

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Has there been a better year for racing video games sim racing titles? Let us know your best-ever-year in the comments below... but we happen to think it was 20 years ago in 2024.

A lot has happened in the preceding two decades, and there's no doubt that 'sim racing' has never been better than it is now. BUT - this one year had an all-time-classic rally sim, yearly sports franchises, not one but two epic driving games by EA and a bunch of hidden gems.

There was more too, so also let us know which was your favourite at the time.

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[CameronMcMillan]

Love this. As somebody who didn't grow up in a motorsport family, GT4 was the first thing that gave me enough of an insight into racing and cars that i felt like i could actually appreciate what was happening on-track in the real world; it absolutely helped to get me into racing games and motorsport in general in a massive way.

[Reds-Retros]

Crazy to think that all of this happened just 10 years after the PS1 originally launched, the leaps in technology here compared to what was out just 10 years prior are absolutely insane. My how times have changed.

[SimRacingSatan]

Its unbelievable that RBR still is the most realistic rally game we had... Great video my bro!

[berkkarsi]

*2004 -* The best year for racing games
*2024 -* The worst year for racing games

[ltrace]

Oh and also Gran Turismo 4 received a huge Spec II mod with prize car randomizer, new game mode, overhauled sounds, many new events added to various halls, and much much more. Definitely worth checking it out!

[AlanFormula]

Gran Turismo 4 and TOCA RACE DRIVER 2 even 20 years after release are still fantastic.

[andreasmoller]

Gt4 was the best in 2004 easily in my eyes

[simmerdowntom]

As Blink 182 said in 2004... I miss you... what a year!

[hometoswift]

2004 was so the year of media, for video games, movies and music as well. What a time it was. I so agree with you as well 2004 was the best time for racing games as well.

[kentonbrewer]

Thank you guys for a year compilation video like this! I absolutely love the representation shown in this video of all different disciplines of racing and different subgenres of racing games!

F1, IndyCar, WRC, NASCAR, you've covered it all and for that I'm so thankful!

I also love that you've covered everything from the pick up and play crasher of Burnout 3 to the trickiest, most difficult sim of RBR and everything in between!

[thedude]

Lol, you nearly had me at the end. Yelling out “what about GT4!!?” as you where saying goodbye haha. Great video mate, love your stuff!

[CameronGreenwoodCramp]

2004 was a great year for movies, too.

The Incredibles, Spider-Man 2, Shrek 2, The Day After Tomorrow.

:)

[andrewpillinger]

Toca Race Driver 2 is still my favourite game of all time. I loved that era of V8 Supercars and DTM because of that game and still play it. I recently decided to speedrun the career and finished it in just under 6 hours. I wish TRD2 received the tier 1 legendary success that games like GT4 and NFSU2 receive. Same deal with F1 04, it seems to be the forgotten one of the Studio Liverpool era F1 games, 05 and 2006 CE being the best, but I still like 04. Just goes to show how much choice we had back in the 6th gen era of gaming.

[buzzbam]

Traxxion you've been killing it lately, super happy y'all got picked back up

[Shipley_]

GT4, NFSU2, B3T, CMR05, RBR are my top 5 from 2004. Would love a full GT4 video 😁

[PedroReiis]

I played so much of WRC4, it got me into rally for the next decade!

[aeiouxs]

Really enjoying your content guys - been sim racing since the 80's and you're covering the world of Racing/Sim Racing brilliantly.

[Ruthless_DMark]

Been doing a GT4 play through, man that game rules.

[MrPens]

GT4 is why I’m a car guy. That game was incredible! I bought it used from GameStop in 2009 for 20 bucks. What a steal tbh! As much of an INDYCAR fan that I was, I found it incredible that all the cars on the road that I saw were in a racing video game. I revisited it a few times, deleting my saves and restarting. It makes me want to do it again!

[maxbucknell]

I absolutely love playing TOCA 2 (AKA V8 Supercars 2 in Australia)