Stunt Time

In my search for car / racing / vehicle stunts (there's so much stuff out there, it's crazy), I've stumble upon a few Chevy Sonic Stunts. Here they had a campaign in which people could click to push a car attached to a bungee cord off a makeshift platform. I like the idea of having the player have to mash buttons or something in order to either make something happen (charge?) or to avoid a disaster (pulling away from something that caught you that will throw you to your doom!)



That's just neat. Might be interesting to have some sort of bungee jump styled action that actually releases the player (cable snaps?? grabbed by an invisible entity??) as they get closer to the track from a very high point.

Speaking of being released-- the fast and furious has some examples of crazy drifting-- but what I really like is how about 18 seconds in they barely bust out from a garage. Close calls are always exciting.

Snowboard Kids is a racing game that makes use of a lot of shortcuts that are often a little harder to navigate than the regular path BUT the type of "ground" is one in which your snowboard will move faster in).  48 into the race, the player takes one of the many shortcuts in the Night Highway.

Not a racing game but some of these stunts are pretty crazy. There's a lot of air time in these videos-- so much it's rather insane. 2:47 into the video, they go through a neat loop ramp on top of a building. The loop also seems to be suspended in mid-air????

Megaman X4-- while not technically a racing game, I do remember that you had to ride on some sort of fancy motorcycle thing to get to the boss. There are numerous times in which the player must jump over bombs and shoot down crates in order to get by. The path also tends to split into an upper and lower area-- with the lower area usually consisting of said bombs and crates blocking the path and the upper level is mostly ramps you have to jump onto in order to avoid said bombs and crates.