2005 is back baby as a car racing game becomes this year’s most acclaimed title (opens in new tab)

For the longest time now, car racing games haven't really been in the spotlight. There used to be a period in video games where these sorts of titles were everything your friend group talked about. The genre sort of faded alongside the 2000s and their signature underground racing scenes, of which today only fragments remain. But in 2005, and a couple of years before and after it, we had so many good racing titles that I can't even begin to name them all. We had two Need for Speed: Underground...