If you’ve finished reading the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue car list posted a couple of days ago it’s now time for new cars for the Xbox 360 owners.

The downloadable pack released on March 19 includes 13 cars and will cost 400 Microsoft points.

The cars are:
2008 Audi S5
2007 Audi TT Coupe S-Line
1971 BMW 3.0 CSL E09
2008 BMW E92 M3
1989 Ferrari F40 Competizione
1996 Ferrari F50 GT
2007 Ferrari 430 Scuderia
2007 Lamborghini Murcielago LP640
2007 Maserati GranTurismo
2006 Maserati MC12 Corsa
2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X GSR
2008 Porsche 911 GT2 (997)
2007 Peugeot #1 Peugeot 207 Super 2000

The upcoming Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will feature a total of 71 cars from the world’s most iconic manufacturers.

Slipstreaming.net brings you the list:

Lexus IS F ‘07
Nissan Skyline GT-R V-spec II Nur ‘02
Nissan Fairlady Z Version S ‘07
Nissan Skyline Sedan 350GT Type SP ‘06
Nissan Skyline Coupe Concept ‘07
Nissan Skyline Coupe 370GT Type SP ‘07
Nissan Skyline Coupe (V36) Tuned Car
Nissan GT-R Proto ‘05
Nissan GT-R ‘07
Honda Integra TYPE R ‘04
Honda NSX Type R ‘02
Acura NSX ‘91
Mazda Atenza Sport (2007 Tokyo Motor Show reference exhibit)
Mazda RX-8 Type S ‘03
Mazda RX-7 Spirit R Type A (FD)
Mazda RX-7 (FD) Special Tuned Car
Subaru Impreza WRX STI (18inch BBS Wheel Option) ‘07
Subaru Impreza Sedan WRX STI spec C Type RA ‘05
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX GSR ‘05
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X GSR Premium Package ‘07
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX GSR Tuned Car
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X GSR Tuned Car
Suzuki Cappuccino ‘95
Suzuki Swift Sport ‘07
Suzuki Cervo SR ‘07
Suzuki Cappuccino Tuned Car
Suzuki Swift Sport Tuned Car
Daihatsu Copen Active Top ‘02
Daihatsu OFC-1 ‘07
Chevrolet Corvette Z06 ‘06
Chevrolet Corvette Z06 (C6) Tuned Car
Dodge Viper GTS ‘02
Dodge Viper SRT10 Coupe ‘06
Dodge Viper SRT10 Coupe Tuned Car
Ford Mustang V8 GT Coupe Premium ‘07
Ford GT ‘05
Ford Focus ST ‘06
Ford GT Tuned Car
Audi R8 4.2 FSI R tronic ‘07
Audi TT Coupe 3.2 quattro ‘07
BMW Z4 ‘03
BMW 135i Coupe ‘07
BMW M3 Coupe ‘07
BMW 135tii ‘08
Mini Cooper-S ‘06
Mercedes-Benz SL 55 AMG ‘02
Volkswagen Golf GTI ‘01
Volkswagen Golf V GTI ‘05
Alfa Romeo 147 TI 2.0 TWIN SPARK ‘06
Alfa Romeo Brera Sky Window 3.2 JTS Q4 ‘06
Ferrari 599 ‘06
Ferrari F430 ‘06
Ferrari 512BB ‘76
Ferrari F40 ‘92
Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione ‘91
Citroen C4 Coupe 2.0VTS ‘06
Renault Clio Renault Sport V6 24V ‘00
Clio Renault Sport V6 24V Tuned Car
Aston Martin DB9 Coupe ‘06
Jaguar XK Coupe ‘06
Lotus Elise 111R ‘04
Lotus Elise ‘96
Lotus Elise 111R Tuned Car
Lotus Elise Tuned Car
TVR Tuscan Speed 6 ‘00
TVR Tamora ‘02
Art Morrison Corvette’60
Amuse/Opera Performance Gran Turismo 350Z RS
Amuse S2000 GT1 Turbo
Mine’s BNR34 Skyline GT-R N1 base ‘06
Blitz Dunlop ER34 ‘07

Review originally written 2007-04-10

Now when Schumacher is out of the picture and the Formula 1 season is more open than in many years Sony gives us the opportunity to recreate last year’s battle between Renault and Ferrari. Every fan of Geoff Crammond’s Grand Prix series have cried for years about the fact that Sony owns the rights to the F1 games, but things could be much worse. Sony is far from behaving as badly with the F1 licence as the PC gamers often make it sound like and gives all F1 addicts a big challenge when all the driving aids are switched off.

Regardless of whether you want to do a quick arcade race or setup the car carefully for that ultimate flying lap around Silverstone F1 Championship Edition is a game for everyone with at least a small percentage of racing in the blood.

EA’s demo of Burnout Paradise is now available for download at the Playstation Store and on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

Discover jumps, billboards and smashable targets all over Motor City, Big Surf Beach and Ocean View in search of the fastest Burnout Route in the Hunter Cavalry car. Also, attempt your shot at a race and check out the all-new Stunt Run mode. If you’re online, invite up to three friends into your game and connect with them instantly using the EasyDrive online system. Once online, players can work cooperatively to complete three FreeBurn challenges or simply smash each other up and grab their Burnout Mugshots with the PLAYSTATION®Eye and Xbox LIVE™ Vision cameras.

The development team at Criterion pushes the boundaries to make each Burnout game stands on its own – reinventing the franchise with every iteration. The Paradise experience is all about freedom and exploration. The game has been designed to embrace speed, freedom, social online play and spectacular crashing, but now with all new modes, a completely open world and events at every intersection.

So make action your middle name and take to the streets of Paradise City.

When the coin-ops were starting to die out during the nineties there was one game that resisted: SEGA Rally. Even to this day it’s not impossible to still find the cabinets around, insert your money, grab the steering wheel and show once and for all who’s the king of the forest.

The launch of this new game creates a nostalgic warmth, but also a fair bit of nervousness. Any sort of ideas you might have that the original arcade game hasn’t been honoured at once feel unjustified when you start to steer the insanely sliding rally cars in the same crazy pace you did years ago. Just like before this isn’t rally against the clock but head-to-head and metal-against-metal. With thirty tracks in five different setting there is entertainment to be had for a long time. The biggest new addition to the concept are the deformable terrain. The cars leave tyre tracks in the roads and since the courses are driven for several laps the roads get incredibly bumpy and in its places really hard to drive during the last lap. A feature that works really good and means that no laps will be the same.

SEGA Rally in its 2007 clothes is a perfect game when you’re in the mood for some crazy non-serious driving.

SEGA Rally (or SEGA Rally Revo as it’s called in North America) arrived today in the mail box and I booted it up for some quick races.

It’s all very clear just by looking at the title screen that SEGA are staying true to the classic original. It’s all very arcadey, almost to the point where you want to insert coins. Today’s debut boot of the game resulted in two quick races:

1. Safari.
I chose the Peugeot 306 and the first Safari stage. It’s apparantly the easiest of the stages. The first thing I realises was that the car was incredibly edgy and was twitching left right as soon as you were even considering moving the analog stick. My first two laps were a bit like a drunken driver but I became faster and faster while bouncing on the deformed tracks and splashing through water. Ended up third after a pretty damn splendid last lap.

2. Arctic
Snow. You can’t really beat it when it comes to rallying. And in SEGA Rally you even get to plough it, leaving deep tyre tracks in the road which makes every lap a bit different and a bit more shaky. After the three icy laps I got third here as well after a much more stable race.

The nervous steering does take some getting used to, but once I started going forward instead of just counter-steering wildly I started to feel that this could be the arcade racer (or rallier) that I’ve been looking for.

Stay tuned for a small, but proper, review.

Codemaster’s are bringing their Race Driver brand over to handhelds with the Create & Race game developed exclusively for Nintendo DS. The game, which is set for release in late September, makes use of both the Stylus and the DS wi-fi capability. With the stylus the player can create tracks and personalize their cars and then challenge the world through wi-fi.

Racing into stores in late September exclusively for Nintendo DS, Race Driver™: Create & Race™ is the ultimate in handheld racing. With up to 4-player, Single-Card Play sharing, even the most extreme petrol head will have never-ending hours of intense racing ahead of them. Catch the latest video and the full car & track listings over at www.codemasters.com/createandrace.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will launch the Speed Racer videogame based on the upcoming film written and directed by the Wachowski brothers. Speed Racer is a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, of a Silver Pictures production. The game will be available in 2008 on the Wii and Nintendo DS systems as the Speed Racer film hits cinemas. It will be released on the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system with the DVD launch.

In the Wii and PlayStation2 system games, developed by Sidhe Interactive and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, players will be able to take on the role of the characters from the film, getting behind the wheels of each character’s signature vehicles to experience firsthand the film’s high adrenaline, combative racing style. The car-fu style of action within the game will closely represent the action style being designed by the Wachowski brothers for the film itself as they lend direction and assets to the development team directly from their Berlin set. John Gaeta, a long time Wachowski collaborator and Co-VFX Supervisor on the Speed Racer film, is working with Sidhe and WBIE to assist in maintaining a close film-to-game aesthetic connection.

“Speed Racer is an exceptionally creative property and teamed with the Wachowski brothers’ vision it makes for action-packed racing gameplay,” said Samantha Ryan, senior vice president, development and production, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “The game will capture the intensity of the racing in the film to give gamers and movie fans a chance to take the wheel after the experience the film.”

10tacle Studios deliver goose bumps this autumn by bringing to life the powerful engine of the new BMW M3. The racing specialists of developer Blimey!Games demonstrate for the first time the impressive power of the 420 hp Bolide with their new Freeware game “BMW M3 Challenge” for PCs.

The authentic driving experience is once more based on the award-winning technology of the internationally acclaimed “GT Legends” and developed together with the close co-operation of the BMW engineers. It was closely calibrated to match the brand new model launched this year. Road performance, sound and optics, as well as the detailed distance conversion of the Nürburgring, one of Europe’s most challenging race tracks, provide the player with a realistic test drive of the newest sports car under race conditions.

“We are very excited to be working as a premium partner with one of the world’s most successful car companies to realise this project. Our Blimey!Games team once again proves its impressive efficiency in the field of motor sports simulations with their newest BMW M3 Challenge game,” says Michele Pes, chairman of 10TACLE STUDIOS AG. The launch of the new game will take place at the IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt. Visitors to the trade show will get a taste of the first laps in the BMW M3 simulator. The joyride will afterwards be available on four game modes at home. Players can compare their own driving abilities with those of other drivers in the extensive online mode. Up to 16 cars will be waiting at the starting line when the traffic light turns green at this winter’s BMW M3 Challenge online competition. BMW will award prizes to the best international drivers.

The full game has Playstation 3 launch date of September 14th for PAL regions but you can already get your hands on the wheel and try out DIRT by downloading the demo from the Playstation Store.

The demo features three modes:

• Crossover: Compete against Colin McRae himself on a twisty tarmac super special stage in a Subaru Impreza.
• C.O.R.R.: Ten V8 650hp buggies at the same raceway!
• Rally: The start of the Cuconi B rally stage in Sardinia.

Already a 700,000+ best seller on other formats, Colin McRae: DIRT is a thrill ride through a massive range of off-road racing experiences on gravel, mud and dirt, right across the globe. Race in challenging, heavyweight 850bhp cars through high speed blind corners and along perilous cliff edges in the Hill Climb events, including the world famous Pikes Peak International through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

Multiple car races take players across grueling desert terrain in Rally Raid competitions, while Rally Cross switches between dirt and road racing. There’s also Crossover circuits and events from the CORR (Championship Off-Road Racing) series in the U.S., which combines powerful buggies with exciting dirt tracks and tabletop jumps, drop-offs and moguls for an intoxicating mix. DIRT also offers a dedicated mode for rally championships and an online race mode for up to 100 players.