Top Best PS1 Racing Games

One of the best racing games on PS1. The game is located on 2 discs. On the 1st disc, you can race on the tracks in arcade racing mode. You choose a free car, type of gearbox, driving style, and track for the race. The number of available tracks depends on the number of licenses. There are 2 game modes: for 1 player and 2 players. There are 3 types of driving: racing on tracks (the goal is to come first to the finish line), time trial (on the 2nd lap you race with a ghost car that imitates the movements of your car on the previous lap), and off-road racing.

The 2nd disc is the most interesting part of the game, which is one of the best racing games on PS1. There are a huge number of cars (about 500 models). The game has 5 licenses. To get them, you need to pass 10 exam races for each license.

Features: stunning realism and physics of movement, excellent graphics (very well-drawn cars, tracks, and landscape), cool music, many tracks, and a great selection of cars.

This is the best racing game on PS1 on motorcycles. Many old-timers remember it for its fun gameplay. What are the motorcycle fights worth? And the graphics? For those times, they were simply magnificent. And the tracks? No circles, just a race from point A to point B. Ride in villages, deserts, and cities and enjoy the surroundings. And all this to the tune of cheerful rock and metal. You ride on a flat road, almost without turns. All this so that you can properly beat up your opponents. At first, you can hit enemies with your hand or foot, and then all sorts of weapons are available to you, such as metal chains and even stun guns.

As you progress through the story campaign, the race becomes more and more difficult, and closer to the end it is no longer possible to win honestly. In Road Rash: Jailbreak, you can play together on one motorcycle. Then the motorcycle will have a sidecar, the second player will play the character who sits in the sidecar and who can greatly help you enter the turn at a higher speed. All this makes the game fun, and mischievous, with which it is pleasant to spend time both alone and with a friend.

Features: interesting and varied gameplay with the ability to combine fights and races, cool music, beautiful graphics, and long tracks.

One of the best racing games on PS1 on snowmobiles. Fun, driving races on snowy roads with rock music brings pleasure to this day. There are a huge number of turns of varying steepness on the tracks. The tracks are mostly snowy, but sometimes there are icy ones. Sliding simulation is at its best, which can be said about inertia and turns. On the ramps, you can do tricks for which you get extra points, but keep in mind that if the trick is unsuccessful, you will lose precious time and may not have time to come first.

In career mode, for the points you get for tricks, you need to upgrade your snowmobile. It is interesting that on the maps you can cut your way and even find secret roads. And for the fact that you knocked down road signs, you were awarded extra points. And if you hit a hare, you immediately received 7500 points.

Features: a unique game about snowmobiles on PS1, the presence of secret roads, the ability to perform tricks, excellent physics of movement, and cool music.

No top list of the best racing games on PS 1 is complete without this legendary kart. The game takes place in the Crash Bandicoot Universe. The plot is as follows: Crash and his friends are preparing for a race, but Nitros Oxide, who considers himself the best racer in the galaxy, arrives on Earth. The villain announces an ultimatum: if he wins the race against the best racer on Earth, he will enslave the planet, but if he does not, he will fly away.

Crash Team Racing is unique in that it can be played by up to 4 people on one screen (which was incredible in the late 90s).

The game has many of characters from the Crash Bandicoot universe. You can play for both good and evil (for example, for Crash or Neo Cortex).

During the race, you can accelerate, brake, shoot weapons at enemies, go backward, and even jump. Along the way, you pick up boxes, the contents of which can speed you up, protect you from enemy attacks, enhance your weapons, etc. The game has 5 modes: Time Trial, Adventure, Arcade, Battle, Versus. Crash Team Racing has a major drawback – the music. It lacks the drive and rhythm that suits the race.

Features: the ability to play up to 4 players on one screen, an interesting Adventure mode, well-made graphics, and an incredible feeling of the car. Definitely one of the best racing games on PS1, evoking nostalgia.

And our top of the best racing games on PS1 is completed by Colin McRae Rally 2.0. On the back of the CD case, it was written that Colin McRae personally took part in the creation of the game. You drive on tracks in 8 countries, passing 10 stages in each.

Distinctive features – the tracks are not closed, and the dynamic characteristics of the car are determined by its condition, which steadily deteriorates not only from collisions with scenery but also from ordinary unevenness of the ground. Most modes allow the simultaneous participation of two players (the screen is divided in half) or alternately from one to four (after each track, a new contender takes the driver’s seat). There are rally modes:

1. Championship
2. Single game
3. Single stage
4. For time
5. Duel

The game has about 10 cars that are configured at the discretion of the player, and also have a degree of damage. At the end of each stage, you must allocate time for repairing the most necessary units. Thus, the more intact your car is at the finish, the less time it will take to repair.

The best car in the game is considered to be the Subaru Impreza, but in fact, each of the cars is worthy of attention. The graphics in the game were quite nice for a 32-bit console. The controls in the game are also not very difficult, so your nerves were not spent much on completing this game.

Features: excellent physics, a fine balance between simulation and arcade, a huge number of tracks, the ability to control the car from the first person.