best vehicle combat in games

[HotFezz8]

im going through my games looking at the best shooters etc. but i don't think i've played a game where the vehicle combat has been anything other than ok (mercenaries 2 being the best example).

so escapists, what game has the best vehicle combat?

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Mechwarrior Series is built around operating giant walking tanks, and especially the 2nd and 3rd get the feel just right, as if you are driving a vastly complicated machine that actually requires a full keyboard (My joystick doesn't have enough buttons)

 

[Rewdalf]

Aw man.
Interstate '76 and Interstate '82 were the best.
They're really old though, and I don't know if you can find 'em.
I reccomend torrenting them. Best vehicle combat I've had the pleasure of experiencing...

 

[Treeinthewoods]

I'm gonna expose my self to haters here, but the vehicle control in Halo has always been awesome for me. One of my buddies and I have a race to the Warthog any time it's available and our longest kill streak is 38 before some jerk touched us with a Spartan laser.

 

[Infinatex]

Pfft.. Mario Kart obviously!

 

[gigastar]

I'm gonna expose my self to haters here, but the vehicle control in Halo has always been awesome for me. One of my buddies and I have a race to the Warthog any time it's available and our longest kill streak is 38 before some jerk touched us with a Spartan laser.

Well you asked for it,
Have you ever, EVER played a game with vehicle combat other than Halo? (End of flaming, I dont want admins to start throwing ban hammers)

Now I find the best vehicle combat is in flight simulators, most notably for me bieng the Ace Combat series.

Just erecting a flame shield, AIRCRAFT DO COUNT AS VEHICLES.


Now with that out of the way, the best vehicle combat in ground vehicles has to have the right balance of speed and manuverability. Speed so its faster than, say, walking, and manuverability because you dont want to spend a whole minuite backing up your tank just because it trpped on a rock you, on foot, could cross without even jumping, but no so much you cant accurately control turning.

It also needs the right camera control and movement controls. But almost everything everywhere defaults to a 3rd person view with 1st person movement controls, which is ok.

When it comes to those respects, if it does what I outlined in that last paragraph then its more or less even.

I dont want to get started on spacecraft, after playing the X series I just know theres too much to accurately evaluate.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I love the Halo series (well, I've played up to Halo 3). The vehicles are imaginative, drive pretty good, fire endlessly, and are fun to hijack.

 

[Treeinthewoods]

I'm gonna expose my self to haters here, but the vehicle control in Halo has always been awesome for me. One of my buddies and I have a race to the Warthog any time it's available and our longest kill streak is 38 before some jerk touched us with a Spartan laser.

Well you asked for it,
Have you ever, EVER played a game with vehicle combat other than Halo? (End of flaming, I dont want admins to start throwing ban hammers)

Now I find the best vehicle combat is in flight simulators, most notably for me bieng the Ace Combat series.

Just erecting a flame shield, AIRCRAFT DO COUNT AS VEHICLES.


Now with that out of the way, the best vehicle combat in ground vehicles has to have the right balance of speed and manuverability. Speed so its faster than, say, walking, and manuverability because you dont want to spend a whole minuite backing up your tank just because it trpped on a rock you, on foot, could cross without even jumping, but no so much you cant accurately control turning.

It also needs the right camera control and movement controls. But almost everything everywhere defaults to a 3rd person view with 1st person movement controls, which is ok.

When it comes to those respects, if it does what I outlined in that last paragraph then its more or less even.

I dont want to get started on spacecraft, after playing the X series I just know theres too much to accurately evaluate.

I've played Half Life series, Mercenaries 2, Borderlands, Bad Company, Call of Duty and pretty much every other shooter with vehicles you could shake a stick at. Halo is the mose fluid and fun of any of them (IMHO of course).

I do agree with Ace Combat but I was thinking more of games that have vehicles as an aspect of combat, not games where vehicle combat is the only thing you do. Ace Combat had darn well better have some great vehicle combat because if it doesn't the entire game is screwed. Far Cry 2 has really terrible vehicle combat but the other aspects made it at least possible to play the game without using vehicles for much other then hauling ass through checkpoints.

Halo lets me do whichever I please (until some lame-o gets a laser and a clear shot while I mow down his friends).

 

[Manoose47]

I'll let you know as soon as iplay a game that actually has good vehicle combat, i'm not including simulators here, just games along the lines of halo or Call of duty, or Unreal tournament, vehicle combat is always an after thought and it shows, Remember in Battlefield 2142 how weedy some of the super mech like vehicles were? FAIL

 

[Squidden]

I'm gonna expose my self to haters here, but the vehicle control in Halo has always been awesome for me. One of my buddies and I have a race to the Warthog any time it's available and our longest kill streak is 38 before some jerk touched us with a Spartan laser.

Agreed. Me and one of my Real Life friends were playing Halo: Reach on Spire (I think, if not it was the desert-ish one with a huge tower) and we had a strategy of covering our teammates with a Falcon. I was the gunner, he was the driver. We got hit with an EMP type thing (I'm not a massive fan of Halo so I really don't know what it was called) but it shut down our Falcon's controls. We were falling straight down into a river below when, instantly, the controls came back on and he made an awesome save which brought us right back to the top of the tower. It was amazing.

Plus, I imagined the look on the enemy's face that caused us to almost crash. Him shooting us, seeing us fall, being confident that he got us and then us rising back like a phoenix from the ashes.

 

[jaketaz]

I don't even understand how this is a real question. The answer is obviously Twisted Metal Black.

 

[Hello My Name Is]

I don't even understand how this is a real question. The answer is obviously Twisted Metal Black.

Ninja'd

 

[mornal]

It's obviously Mass Effect 1.

 

[smearyllama]

Twisted Metal Series
/thread.

Yes, I know Black has already been mentioned, but they're all so awesome.

 

[Aethren]

Anyone remember Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge? I quite enjoyed the flying mechanics in that one.

Also, the Twisted Metal series for land-based vehicles, no contest.

Sid Meier's: Pirates! for ship combat.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

Star wars Battlefront 2. Very well designed vehicles, and a wide variety.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Mechwarrior Series is built around operating giant walking tanks, and especially the 2nd and 3rd get the feel just right, as if you are driving a vastly complicated machine that actually requires a full keyboard (My joystick doesn't have enough buttons)

You win an internet for bringing this up. You know they released MW4:Mercs for free?

I downloaded drivers for a PS3 controller and after messing round with the driver software's assignments, assigned X as my joystick shift, and nearly doubled the functions of my controller. I once did the same for both low triggers (Shift, Alt, and Alt-Shift being the combos) on Freespace 2 and ended up fitting almost every command you could want onto a single controller. Which begs the question: WHY DON'T CONSOLE DEVELOPERS DO THIS?!

'Course I got mercs for free!
anyways, I need to attach my xbox controller now, they work out of the box with PC's even!