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Video game 2021

Forza Horizon 5

The Horizon Festival arrives in Mexico and gives the player a new automotive adventure across deserts, jungles, historic cities, beaches, canyons and volcanoes. By taking part in races, challenges, Expeditions and Horizon Stories, the player gradually expands the festival, opens new outposts and builds a huge vehicle collection. The main progression leads to the Hall of Fame, but the adventure continues freely throu…

• Action
• Racing
• Open world

Video game 2026

Forza Horizon 6

Arriving in Japan as an ordinary tourist, the player dreams of joining the Horizon Festival and making a name for themselves among car enthusiasts. After passing the qualifications required to enter the Festival, they take part in increasingly demanding competitions, earn new wristbands and freely explore the country's different regions. Every race, discovery and encounter enriches their Collection Journal and contr…

• Action
• Sports
• Racing

Video game 2023

Forza Motorsport

Forza Motorsport places the player at the heart of circuit racing, without a traditional narrative campaign. Through the Builders Cup and later the Champions Cup, players discover cars from different categories, learn to master their behavior and adapt their performance before facing AI-controlled drivers or other players. Sprint races, endurance events, multiclass competitions and time trials form a progression foc…

• Sports
• Racing
• Simulation

Video game 1997

Grand Theft Auto

In a criminal world inspired by major American cities, the player takes the role of a lawbreaker attempting to earn a place among different organizations. Progress begins in Liberty City, where contacts provide missions through telephones scattered across the streets. Vehicle theft, deliveries, attacks, escapes and contract killings provide money and access to new employers. Each mission nevertheless leaves con…

• Action
• Adventure
• Racing

Video game 1999

Grand Theft Auto 2

Grand Theft Auto 2 places the player in Anywhere City, a retrofuturistic metropolis dominated by several criminal organizations. To progress through this world, they must complete jobs for different gangs, earn their respect and accumulate enough money to gain access to new districts. Each organization has its own activities, territory and rivals. Working for one gang improves the player's reputation with that …

• Action
• FPS
• Racing

Video game 2001

Grand Theft Auto III

During a robbery in Liberty City, Claude is betrayed by his partner Catalina, who shoots him before escaping with the money. Arrested and sentenced, he avoids reaching prison when the convoy transporting him is attacked. Taking advantage of the chaos alongside another prisoner, 8-Ball, Claude disappears into the streets of Portland. With no resources and still determined to find Catalina, he begins working for diff…

• Action
• Adventure
• FPS

Video game 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV

Niko Bellic leaves Eastern Europe to join his cousin Roman in Liberty City. For months, Roman has described a life of money, luxury cars and success. When Niko arrives, however, he finds a run-down apartment, a struggling taxi business and, above all, the debts his cousin has accumulated with local criminals. Niko has not come simply to enjoy a new life. A former soldier scarred by war and by the loss of almost his…

• Action
• Adventure
• FPS

Video game 2013

Grand Theft Auto V

Los Santos promises sun, money, and success to everyone who thinks they can pay the price. Behind its villas, highways, and beaches, however, live three men who each maintain a very different relationship with this dream. Michael De Santa is a former bank robber settled in a comfortable retirement that does not make him particularly happy. Franklin Clinton is trying to leave behind the small-time hustles and dead-e…

• Action
• Adventure
• Comedy

Video game 2026

Grand Theft Auto VI

Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos are both looking for a way to improve their lives in the state of Leonida. But when a seemingly easy score goes wrong, they find themselves caught at the center of a sprawling criminal conspiracy that extends far beyond Vice City. Forced to rely on each other to survive, Jason and Lucia sink deeper into a world where traffickers, robbers, nightlife figures and personal ambitions collide…

• Action
• Adventure
• Comedy

Video game 2004

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

After spending five years in Liberty City, Carl “CJ” Johnson returns to Los Santos when he learns of his mother’s death. He reunites with his brother Sweet, his sister Kendl and his old friends Big Smoke and Ryder, but discovers that Grove Street Families, the gang they belong to, has lost much of its influence to the Ballas and other organizations now controlling the streets. Almost immediately after arriving, CJ …

• Action
• Adventure
• FPS

Video game 2002

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

After spending fifteen years in prison, Tommy Vercetti is released and returns to the Forelli crime family. His former boss Sonny Forelli, however, prefers to keep him away from Liberty City and sends him to Vice City to take part in a major drug deal intended to expand the organization’s activities in the south. The meeting immediately turns into a disaster. Armed men attack the exchange, several participants are …

• Action
• Adventure
• Comedy

Video game 2006

Just Cause

Rico Rodriguez is an undercover operative working for a secret organization known as the Agency. He is sent to San Esperito, a fictional Caribbean island nation ruled by President Salvador Mendoza. His mission is to help overthrow the dictator, who is suspected of stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. To weaken his grip on power, Rico joins several forces already opposed to the regime. Alongside other agent…

• Action
• Adventure
• FPS

Video game 2010

Just Cause 2

Rico Rodriguez, an Agency operative, is sent to Panau, an island nation in Southeast Asia ruled by dictator Pandak “Baby” Panay. His friend and mentor Tom Sheldon has disappeared with classified intelligence and a substantial amount of money belonging to the organization. Rico infiltrates the archipelago to find Sheldon while destabilizing the regime. To advance his investigation, he must create enough chaos to w…

• Action
• Adventure
• FPS

Video game 2023

LEGO 2K Drive

In Bricklandia, a young driver sets out on an adventure to become a true racing legend. Traveling across several regions, they take on a colorful cast of rivals and gradually earn the victories needed to climb the competitive ranks. The ultimate goal is to win the prestigious Sky Trophy, but first they must prove themselves against many opponents before facing Shadow Z, a feared driver and major rival in the competi…

• Action
• Adventure
• Racing

Video game 2002

Mafia

Mafia takes place in the 1930s, from the fall of 1930 through the end of 1938, during the final years of Prohibition. The story is set in Lost Heaven, a fictional American city inspired in particular by New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. The player takes the role of Thomas “Tommy” Angelo, a taxi driver simply trying to make a living on the streets of Lost Heaven. An unexpected encounter, however, draws him again…

• Action
• Adventure
• FPS

Video game 2010

Mafia II

In 1943, Vito Scaletta, a Sicilian immigrant, is arrested following a robbery. Rather than serve a prison sentence, he chooses to enlist in the United States Army. When he returns to Empire Bay on leave in 1945, Vito reunites with his childhood friend Joe Barbaro, who is now involved with the city’s crime families. He also discovers that his late father left the family deeply in debt to a loan shark. To repay …

• Action
• Adventure
• Fantasy

Video game 2016

Mafia III

In 1968, Lincoln Clay, a young Vietnam War veteran, returns to New Bordeaux and to the surrogate family that raised him. He agrees to help the local Black Mob deal with its troubles, bringing him into the orbit of the powerful Marcano crime family that controls the city. When the organization betrays and murders the people closest to him before leaving him for dead, Lincoln survives and sets out for revenge. W…

• Action
• Adventure
• Drama

Video game 2014

Mario Kart 8

Mario Kart 8 is a kart racing game in which players control characters from the Mario universe and other Nintendo franchises. Drivers compete on themed courses while using items collected from item boxes to gain an advantage or hinder their opponents. The game introduces anti-gravity sections that allow vehicles to drive on walls and ceilings, where certain collisions provide speed boosts. Races can feature up…

• Action
• Fantasy
• Racing

Video game 2025

Mario Kart World

Mario Kart World is a kart racing game for Nintendo Switch 2 that brings together characters from the Mario universe within an open world. Courses are no longer selected only from a menu: they are connected within a single environment that players can freely explore between races. Races can feature up to 24 drivers and introduce new movement possibilities, including off-road driving, traveling across water, ra…

• Adventure
• Fantasy
• Racing

Video game 2019

Need for Speed Heat

A new racer arrives in Palm City, a city where sanctioned competitions dominate the streets by day and illegal racing takes over at night. After meeting Ana and Lucas Rivera, the player becomes involved in the local racing scene and sets out to earn a place among the elite racers of the League. This rise is threatened by Lieutenant Frank Mercer and the High-Speed Task Force, a corrupt police unit that uses the fight…

• Action
• Adventure
• Sports

Video game 2022

Need for Speed Unbound

After Rydell's garage is robbed, two once-inseparable friends go their separate ways and a particularly valuable car disappears. Two years later, the player returns to Lakeshore's street-racing scene with a new goal: rebuild the garage, earn enough money to enter the weekly qualifiers and reach The Grand. Between rivalries, bets, police pursuits and a reunion with Yaz, this climb to the top is meant to recover the l…

• Action
• Racing

Video game 2017

Need for Speed: Payback

In Fortune Valley, Tyler Morgan and his crew, consisting of off-road racer Sean MacAllister, Jessica Miller and mechanic Ravindra Chaudhry, are part of the underground street racing scene. When a job arranged by Lina Navarro ends in betrayal, Tyler and his companions join forces with Marcus Weir, known as the Gambler, to take revenge on the House, a cartel controlling the region's underground activities. Their objec…

• Action
• Sports
• Racing

Video game 2026

Star Wars: Galactic Racer

Following the fall of the Empire, the galaxy struggles to rebuild while the lawless territories of the Outer Rim become the setting for a new form of competition. The Galactic League emerges: an underground, unsanctioned circuit of high-stakes races operating beyond official regulations. Bankrolled by criminal syndicates, the organization attracts pilots willing to risk their lives for victory, fortune and glory, in…

• Action
• Adventure
• Science fiction

Video game 2014

The Crew

After being wrongly accused of murdering his brother Dayton, Alex Taylor spends five years in prison before being approached by FBI agent Zoe Winters. She offers him a chance to infiltrate the 510s, a powerful street-racing gang whose leader is connected to Dayton's death. To reach the highest ranks of the organization, Alex crosses the United States, takes part in races and missions across several regions and gradu…

• Action
• Adventure
• Racing

Video game 2018

The Crew 2

In a condensed version of the United States transformed into a vast motorsports playground, the player sets out to make a name for themselves within Motornation. By winning events on roads, off-road terrain, water and in the air, they gain followers, join different racing families and gradually build a collection of cars, motorcycles, boats and planes in order to reach the highest levels of the American motorsports …

• Action
• Racing
• Open world

Video game 2023

The Crew Motorfest

Set across the Hawaiian archipelago, Motorfest is a massive festival dedicated to car culture. The player builds a collection of vehicles and takes part in themed campaigns exploring different disciplines, eras and aspects of motoring. Between road racing, off-road events, drifting, motorsport, free exploration and multiplayer competition, the experience continues to expand through seasonal content across O‘ahu, Mau…

• Action
• Adventure
• Racing